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The Libby/Kindle thing was a no-go, guess my Kindle is just too old for it.

Are you sure about that? When I download using Libby, I am presented with a choice of formats. Some books are not available in Kindle format, you might have hit one of those.

You can download FREE Kindle apps for computers, tablets, and smartphones, if you do not have a compatible Kindle device.

Pretty sure, I've tried a few different books.
Mine is the really old original Kindle with the physical keyboard on the bottom.

Very Good Copy by Eddie Shleyner.

I'm flying through it. Though I've never written much for marketing, other than trying to come up with business cards long ago, the topic is really drawing me in. It's chok full of learnins so far.

I've been reading a lot lately.
Marine,The Life of Chesty Puller

Baa Baa Black Sheep: The True Story of the "Bad Boy" Hero of the Pacific Theatre and His Famous BlackSheep Squadron by Gregory Boyington

Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado

And along the genre of One Second After,

Downward Cycle: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (Catalyst Book 1)

And working now on Kingdoms of Sorrow: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (Catalyst Book 2)

The Invisible Spy is a very good story about the British response to Nazi spys in the US.

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises

I just finished The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma. I had it on my Amazon Wish List for years and finally grabbed it.
Very quick read and quite thought provoking for me at least. Looking forward to putting some of the ideas into action for myself.

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I just finished The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma. I had it on my Amazon Wish List for years and finally grabbed it.
Very quick read and quite thought provoking for me at least. Looking forward to putting some of the ideas into action for myself.

Just ordered it- looks like my kind of book-

I just finished the latest in the Gabrial Allon series, "An Inside Job". Totally enjoyable, except for the inclusion of the left's climate change. Didn't ruin the book for me, kinda was needed for the plot. Daniel Silva's wife is a CNN news person, I guess it runs in the family. The added humor to circumstances always puts a smile on my face, a lot of his past characters are in the book.

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I just finished The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma. I had it on my Amazon Wish List for years and finally grabbed it.
Very quick read and quite thought provoking for me at least. Looking forward to putting some of the ideas into action for myself.

Just ordered it- looks like my kind of book-

I did too, and I’m about a third of the way through it. Also reading the Bible. Currently, 1 verse from Proverbs/day, and the New Testament.

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I just finished the latest in the Gabrial Allon series, "An Inside Job". Totally enjoyable, except for the inclusion of the left's climate change. Didn't ruin the book for me, kinda was needed for the plot. Daniel Silva's wife is a CNN news person, I guess it runs in the family. The added humor to circumstances always puts a smile on my face, a lot of his past characters are in the book.

I've bought and read all in the series up until about 2020 or when it started to show obvious left leaning bias (hearsay). I may pick it up again although sad to hear CNN in the family. The writing is a little more cerebral and sophisticated than others in the genre.

I'm finishing up the Sigma Force series by Rollins. Maybe after that, I'll finish off the Allon series. I wonder if there is anything new w/ the John Rain (Eisler) series - that was an interesting read as well.

Currently re-reading Shogun. Still a great book.

Been a minute since I really sat and read, so I picked up a Kindle and all The Expanse novels. Just about done with the second book. Feels good to just hang out and read again.

I'm about to start 'We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.'

Finally got the next installment of Bosch The Narrows
Had it on hold since May, and was unaware that the closest branch of our library was closed for relocation. Had to go to the next closest [5mi vs 1].

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I just finished The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma. I had it on my Amazon Wish List for years and finally grabbed it.
Very quick read and quite thought provoking for me at least. Looking forward to putting some of the ideas into action for myself.

Just ordered it- looks like my kind of book-

I did too, and I’m about a third of the way through it.

Got roughly half way through it and it was starting to feel like I was reading Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits… for Buddhists. I haven’t picked it up again for a few days now.

Just started Bonhoeffer,
Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
by Eric Metaxait is a 2020 update of the original book written in 2010

Interesting how many books, and especially series I’ve never heard of and still don’t know anything about.

I just finished The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A. and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll. It’s the latest in the series about the region that started with Ghost Wars and Directorate S. This was the most interesting to me because it’s about what led up to the Second Gulf War with emphasis on the whys of the decision to invade which were primarily the belief that Iraq still had weapons of “mass destruction.”

The book makes clear that although no such weapons were found, there were reasons to believe they existed and it’s wasn’t just a clueless official or two in the Department of Defense who were convinced of the supposed threat. For example, even at the end of the fighting a senior CIA interviewed the head of what had been the Iraqi nuclear weapon program prior to the first war. That individual stoutly denied that Iraq had any such program later and even passed a polygraph exam concerning the question. Nevertheless when the CIA official returned to the headquarters, he was mocked by co-workers for having become convinced that the Iraqi scientist was telling the truth with his denials. Another interesting point was that Saddam himself believed that the US wouldn’t invade because he was convinced the CIA knew Iraq didn’t have any of the prohibited weapons and therefore the threats and even the war preparations were just some sort of posturing.

Another book I’m almost finished rereading is This Kind of War about the Korean conflict. What surprised me is how much was striking me as things I didn’t really know/understand before despite having read it before.

In any event, all four of the books were very depressing reads.

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Finally got the next installment of Bosch The Narrows
Had it on hold since May, and was unaware that the closest branch of our library was closed for relocation. Had to go to the next closest [5mi vs 1].

Finished The Narrows and now about halfway through The Closers
Just put Echo Park on hold at our new, closer, library today.

Looking through my own library of books I’ve collected over the years. Ran across The Plainsmen, a collection of short stories by Jack Schaefer. It’s a hardcover book that I apparently picked up at a book sale somewhere, a price of “$2.25” was written in pencil inside the cover. I’m quite sure I had never read it. A reminder, Jack Schaefer was the author of seminal books of the West, Shane, and Monte Walsh. I enjoyed it as much as I enjoy reading the short stories of Hemingway.

"The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light" by Craig Childs. I've read a lot of his books, this one comes close to his best. I think a lot of us look up at night, some see almost nothing. In this book Childs and his friend bicycle out of Las Vegas looking for a true dark sky. I was not aware of the Bortle Scale, now I am and it intrigues me, Vegas was a 9 at the end they were in a 1, I live in a 4. A really good, short read!