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Book 2 in #jubilantjuly @Andrew65 is in anticipation of my finishing the trilogy soon. I found this one in a library sale + it is a roller coaster of a story of the drug trade + Mexican cartels. Chon, Ben and g/f O (ophelia) are a trio of characters who end up pulled into the cartel plan to move into the drug supply taking over Ben's business. The consequent v small chapters makes for a fast moving violent thriller.

Different than what I usually read

Post 2/4. Some mystery, some historical fiction, plus Savages—violence, drugs... #lowryssturgis

#marchintothe70s #wildworld
Last yr i read The power of the dog and asked for The cartel for Xmas which i plan to read soon so i can get to the force. So when i saw this for 10p in a library sale i had to get it. Gosh the world of Don Winslow's cross border drug smuggling is a wild one - very frightening.

This is one of the few cases where I love the movie more than the book. The writing style is a bit to cool for me but translated well into a movie. One of my favourite movies actually. Maybe it‘s because I saw the movie first.

Book- Savages (tagged), Salem‘s Lot
Author- Stephen King
Movie- Seven 😳🙈
TV show- Say Yes to the Dress
Food- Sushi 🍣

#manicmonday #letterS @JoScho

A bit behind on my #JB questions. 1. Elephants & how they mourn their dead fascinate me. 2. In Full View by Lily Brett changed my life. April Fool‘s Day by Bryce Courtenay made me cry. His Australian trilogy & The Power of One & it‘s sequel Tandia were great too. 3. Blue, yellow then red. 4. I love organic earl grey tea and will have a coffee if my partner makes me one to drink in bed. 4. In a hammock in the garden. 6. Lilies and roses. @LazyDays

When your two sisters realize that they aren‘t a part of your Litsy text thread. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #youcantsitwithus

Book haul from last weekends Firefighter/Youth revolution book sale. Fifteen bucks for the lot! (Not that I have any time to read them *cries forever*)

Two best buddies, Ben, (peaceloving, humanitarian, stoner) and Chon (ex Navy Seal, killing machine, stoner) and their shared girlfriend O are happily making a decent living growing and dealing the best grass in Orange County when some very nasty people from a Mexican cartel decide to make them an offer they can't refuse. If Hunter Thompson and Elmore Leonard had collaborated on a novel it might have turned out something like this. A blast.

I can't be alone in hearing an echo of the great Hunter Thompson here ;)

That moment when you're twenty pages in to a book and you think you may have discovered a new favourite author :)

This is a helluva first chapter

Really enjoying this so far. Great book to keep you up at night when your two-week old baby is keeping you up at night 🙃

I was looking for a fun poolside read, and boy did I find it! Like Elmore Leonard or William Gibson, Don Winslow crafts prose that's so beautiful it hardly matters what the plot is. Still, this one has a great story tailormade for the big screen (too bad the movie was disappointing). If I have one complaint, it's that O is little more than a prop. Make her a fully realized character, and this gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ instead of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2.

I was looking for a fun poolside read, and boy did I find it! Like Elmore Leonard or William Gibson, Don Winslow crafts prose that's so beautiful it hardly matters what the plot is. Still, this one has a great story tailormade for the big screen (too bad the movie was disappointing). If I have one complaint, it's that O is little more than a prop. Make her a fully realized character, and this gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ instead of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2.

Poolside reading was missing something, so I added a double sized mojito. Much better... 🏊🏻⛱🍹📖😀

Chon logic

I'm on vacation and spending as much of the week as possible poolside.

Second TBT to my brief stint as a book reviewer whose first review ever wound up blurbed on the cover! I look back at that review and sometimes think "you overdid it," but I stand by my rave of this book. Love that Litsy lets me "review" in a more relaxed way - hoping one day to do it again! ?

Halfway through this death-spiral and I'm in awe of how Winslow manipulates narrative and pacing and urgency. Not much current action has taken place, but all of it is conflict and heated action. It feels, promisingly, like the second half of the book is gonna explode, shotguningly.