CJ Box is back with another Joe Pickett novel and like all of the other Joe Pickett novels it doesn’t disappoint!! It’s full throttle from start to end.

We start the novel with Joe Pickett on horseback looking for something or someone who had skinned and butchered an elk that a hunter had injured.  This ride into the back country is special for Joe as it’s his last one based out of Baggs, his assignment for the last year.  He’s been assigned his old post back in Saddlestring where his family has been living.  However things quickly go wrong on the trail and we are tossed into a rough and rumble ride for Joe, Joe’s family, Nate and a variety of other characters.  It all culminates with a shoot out that Joe will not soon forget and neither will we as readers!

Have you read Nowhere To Run?  I’d love to hear what you thought about it.  At the end of this one I was left thinking a bit.

There’s no doubt that part of the future of publishing is in E-Readers.  However I for one can’t see myself picking up an E-Reader in the near future.  Why you might ask?  Well there’s something I like about being able to pick up a book and read it.  Probably another reason I won’t pick up an E-Reader is the simple fact that I already spent 8+ hours in front of a computer screen and don’t need to spend my reading time doing the same.  My eyes already give me troubles.

Despite my objections to it them there’s no doubt that publishing is going electronic.  Just a little while ago I read an excerpt of Michael Balkinds Sudden death on Book Buzz.  The format was enjoyable for the 10 pages that I read, but would I read a 300+ page book in that format?  I don’t think so.

But here’s the deal.  If having the latest Kindle or iPad gets you to read then by all means pick one of those up and read.  If you think having a book makes you look like a nerd and it’s cool to have an iPad or Kindle, get it.

So where do you fall on the e-readers: gonna get one, can’t live with out it, no thanks I’ll take a hard bound book any day!

It’s obviously been a few months since I’ve posted here.  The main reason is because I’ve been distracted. There are some good distractions and some that I’d call bad or optional distractions.

For instance a lot of my “distraction” the past few months has been World of Warcraft.  I’m still playing, but things have changed and I’m making more of a concerted effort to do things that are more important.  One of those being reading.

I read somewhere recently (and I might be misquoting it), perhaps on Michael Hyatts blog, that leaders read at least one book a month and probably more.  I’m guessing that most of the books that they read are non-fiction, but I’m going to throw fiction in there as well.

Here’s a couple of other distractions that I can think of.

• TV/Movies
• Internet
• Yard Work
• Kids

Not all bad distractions, but things that might keep you from doing any sort of reading.

So what distracts you from reading?