Book series are live!
With one caveat...
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I am feeling…
I am on vacation and will be home in a week. We are on a road trip through Ireland with my mom and stepdad (a present for my mom’s 70th birthday). Ireland is so beautiful! I’ve never seen anything outside Dublin and ultimate frisbee fields, and I am incredibly happy to see more of one of my favorite countries in the world.
Book series are live!
We are adding a missing feature to make it easier to add books only on Amazon. Once that is in place, we will add all the pending book series to our queue (with our founding authors' book series first). We have ~6,000 book series we need to add once this is ready so we will be working on this for many months.
Check out an example of this feature here:
I am happy to see this one launched, as readers often request it. Now that we have this concept in our system, we can use it in future features!
What is going on outside of Shepherd?
My family and I are in Ireland, and I’ll be back in a week or so. We are on a road trip with my mom and stepdad, visiting friends in Dublin, and enjoying life.
What am I reading now?
I just finished…
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett - I blew through this one and loved how he told the story through a big cast of characters. This walks you through World War 1 and the lives of normal and privileged people in that period.
Night Soldiers by Alan Furst—This is our dad/son/son book club pick, and it was an okay read. However, the writing and story style are not a match for my Book DNA. I felt like it was eight short stories meshed together, and the main character never really developed or changed. I look forward to discussing it with my dad and brother soon, as I am curious if they liked it.
I am reading...
Winter of the World by Ken Follett - This is book 2 in the Century series, and you can see World War 2 coming. I am reading a heavy mix of nonfiction and fiction this year about the rise of fascism
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
by Ian Leslie - I am researching curiosity as it is one of the big foundations of Shepherd in the coming years.
Have a great weekend,
Ben
P.S. From a very pukey boat road off Dingle! Luckily, none of us puked as it was a bit rough…
