![]() ![]() I know…my book budget is a little…insane. They weren’t gifted by authors or publishers in exchange for a review. Oh, and while I don’t review books professionally, I should probably mention that I buy all my books. I should really pick a top ten reads of the year–but maybe another day–this has taken forever. I really need to transfer this list to Goodreads, but that sounds like such a process it intimidates me. Yeah, I don’t know how I managed to read this many books either. And there were about four months of this year that I didn’t read a single book. As you can see, I like most of what I read, but that’s typically because I read based on recommendations or after checking out a lot of reviews.īelieve it or not, I also wrote four books this year and revised several. ![]() I actually do have some reviews on a personal document, so if you ask me my opinion on a specific book, I can probably tell you more. I’m posting the list, but only showing the ratings on books over four stars–and I missed ratings on a few of the early books, so anything without a rating could be something I read early in the year or something I moodily decided I didn’t like this year. I tend to have comfort genres and while, most years, I try for more variety–this year I let myself get away with just reading what I felt like reading. ![]() Luckily, I also read fast…and never sleep. When I say I’m an avid reader, I’m not kidding. ![]()
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He discovered countless cases of children being recruited as soldiers in the conflict, who experienced unthinkable acts of torture and abuse. Through his work helping the operation, Rusty dived into a deeper side of the South American drug war. Rusty later relocated to Colombia to finish Marching Powder and somehow stumbled into working for a US contractor who was helping to train counter-terrorism soldiers dealing with the Colombian Conflict. The book is an absolute eyeopener into a world of corruption, heavy drug use and an unorthodox prison eco-system that is not seen anywhere else in the world. ![]() For those who haven’t read it, Rusty voluntarily stayed in San Pedro Prison in Bolivia for several months with convicted drug trafficker, Thomas McFadden. 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