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In a world in which conversations about immigration and walls and race are so divisive, this book felt like an exciting piece of modern history. It‘s insight to life on the border and among Mexico‘s drug cartels thrilled at times and dragged at others. Maybe not unlike the lives the book chronicled. I definitely came away with greater perspective about the subject (win) but there were definitely sections that dragged as well.

I put the ebook on hold at the library. I couldn't handle the narrator on this one. I felt like he decided Humphrey Bogart would be the perfect voice to channel for this book. . . He was wrong. I'll read this one myself.

I can't resist doing a #riotgram for #whereIread at work, since my job is primarily reading. My office is long and narrow, which is kind of weird, but it worked great to create a reading corner! When I'm not staring at a computer screen, this is where I am. I believe the technical name for this carpet is "non-profit brown." @bookriot @Powells

Interesting look at the drug wars on the US/Mexico border. Good mix of context material and direct stories of several American teenagers moving up in the cartels. This is an incredibly violent world and it was clear that there are no easy answers to these problems. #nonfictionnovember2016

Interesting analogy 🤔

(Also) currently reading -- you know books are like potato chips: I can't have just one! ☺️🤓

A Texas cop's dispirited realization that policing the border as a DEA task member was less about implementing policy than it was about posturing, "a symbol of state authority."

#Readathon hour 12 and I feel like it is just starting for me. New book, hot chocolate, and Pandora dance pop radio in the living room until it is the bird's bedtime.

Seemed appropriate for today #bannedbooks https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/the-banning-of-books-in-prisons-it...

Anyone read this or anything by slater?