What book do you take with you in your runner right now, that you can’t put down?

Currently reading and after that I got a book of little known facts about NYC that I bought at Strand Bookstore in Manhattan.

 

Great read

 

Well, as a 10-year 4Runner owner, I humbly and enthusiastically recommend…mine! A 20-something risks everything to chase his dream, finding love, adventure, purpose, and - eventually - himself. Just like I did.

Readers have called it “a thoroughly enjoyable read” and “entertaining whether you’re in the aviation industry or not,” and described the writing as “clever, meaty, and often poetic.”
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Drew, a twenty-something fed up with his unhinged boss and the schtick of sales work, brashly quits to chase his dream—right into the dog-eat-dog financial chaos of the 1980s airline industry. After nearly going broke, he lands a part-time gig slinging bags for a quirky little carrier. It’s half the pay, and the industry is in a fiscal nosedive, but who cares? Between loving the work and hopping free flights, he’s having a blast!

Then an in-flight tragedy becomes a life-altering fork in the road. Helping a grieving family work through the aftermath sparks an unlikely romance—and a whirlwind of carefree adventures across the country. But economic realities soon close in, and there’s no avoiding the hard truths—or the tough choices—needed to survive in an infamously volatile business.
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Paperback is $12.99 on Amazon but forum members can PM me for a signed copy and a cool custom bookmark for the same cost. Shipping is free.

 

This one goes with me everywhere I go in the 4R.

https://a.co/d/1JW5qfm

 

I just bought a Nat Geo road altas for the US after reading this thread.

 

I don't usually have a book stashed in my 4Runner but I did recently finish "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne as a side quest read while I chip away at reading "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith.

 

I’m listening to the Joe Picket audiobooks on road trips, they’re a great series to make the miles fly by.
Gotta agree with your assessment of the TV show. I was disgusted after 2 1/4 episodes and abandoned it.

 

Wealth of nations, as true today as in 1776. Two thumbs up.

 

"Under the Grandstands" by Yule Seymore Butts

 

two:


The Happiness Files
Arthur C. Brooks
-insights on work and life
-manage your life in a way that leads to truly valuable rewards




The Golden Thread
Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins
-a history of the western tradition
-Western civilization from antiquity to the modern age

 

*ebooks count

 

in my spare time

 

I am extremely well read in both philosophy and financial stuff. I have been reading Bernard lonergin lately for philosophy and Dave Ramsey for finance

 

Good choice. Ben Watson is a good man, and was a great football player for my Georgia Bulldogs!

 

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

"Carbon is not a man, nor salt nor water nor calcium. He is all these, but he is much more".

 

One of them should be the owner's manual.