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Finished: Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile by Nate Jackson. I gave it 4/5, pretty self aware and honest accounting of all sides and facets of being a professional athlete. Some good humor spread throughout, but also some thought provoking lines and passages about the seedy side of what they/we ask/demand of athletes to do to their bodies.
Finished: The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins. I gave it 4/5 also, and would have probably gone up to 4.5 if GR allowed such a rating. A quick read that had more interconnecting plot points and characters than I expected going in. My second Quarry book, I had previously read Quarry in the Middle, which is also fantastic. I have a few more on my Kindle for later consumption.
Reading: Sniper Elite: One Way Trip by Scott McEwen. I think I am around 55% done, and I am having a like/dislike relationship with this book right now. The action scenes are well done, and the author knows his stuff, so that should be expected. The lows of the book right now are when the action stops and we are dragged into political scenes. Definitely written from the perspective of the "bureaucrats are desk jockeys who don't know what's going on in the field and the armed forces are the only ones who know what really needs to be done". Hopefully I will finish it up tonight, so we will see how I feel about the ending and whether I ever continue on with the next book in the series.
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