November Reads

I read one book. 

You read that right, I read ONE book in the whole month of November. I struggled through parts of this book too. 😲

Welp. I have hit a proverbial wall and I cannot find anything to read that truly interests me. I have gone through a handful of books(The couple next door, The Flight Attendant, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Romancing the Undercover Millionaire,Finding Freedom and Spinster) that looked good, I started to read them and then I would lose interest in it within 20 pages. Its disappointing to me because I used to read all the time and I started to read again in the summer and it made me so happy. I used to read anything and everything and now I am just so picky. 

On to the ONE book I read:

Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War by Dakota Meyer

You know I love a good military book and this was pretty awesome. I only read the synopsis of this book and it just sounded good. What I wasn't expecting from this book was to know Dakota Meyer from the news when her received the Medal of Honor. His one request before the ceremony was to have a beer with  then President Obama, which was granted. This true story was told in such a way that it felt like you were almost there, right along side of Sergeant Meyer. The book read like a Marine wrote it; it was rough and right to the point, not much fluff in it and that is exactly how I like military books to be written. I don't want a cleaned up version of the story, I want the nitty gritty version. I want to feel like I was there. Meyer accomplished that. The story he tells is quite fascinating and it kept me on the edge of my seat for most of the book. 

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There we go, my last book review for the year. I am going to give myself grace and take a break from reading until the new year. Maybe then I will have some more oomph. 

If you have any book recommendations for a reluctant reader, please pass them on. 

[[apparently reading during lunch and ignoring others is considered "rude"]]

-gabrielle

PS. Check out my previous book reviews: 1//2//3//4//5//6//7//8//9//10//11//12//13