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Tustin Library
was my place as a kid
The summer reading programs were big.
I was easily bribed,
if you read something like, I don't know, 10 or 20 books that summer
you would get some sort of
toy or gadget or something.
So I would always read so that I could score something.
But then the stories start to get into your blood
and pretty soon, you find yourself rewading just for the
pleasure of reading itself. I bring my son to the library. I live in Fallbrook, California
and our swank, brand new, beautiful,
awesome library is just about to open.
I've never been inside it
but the roof is made of succulents, which I think is really cool.
The entire slanted roof is one giant succulent garden.
I will say that I have gotten an awful lot of help from
librarians in general
and reference librarians, in specific, because they're great detectives, they're great researchers
and they can be like bulldogs. I'll ask them a question and
they'll end up with more information than I even thought was out there.
So, hats off to all librarians, but especially the reference detectives, they're awesome.
[On budget cuts] I can't think of
any place that returns
so much on the dollar.
As a citizen,
I pay my pennies and my dollars in taxes, and all
and libraries get built
and yet the amount of enjoyment and research and use and that I get out
of libraries, and my family, is far greater than that. I think it's a
great value and we need to have them. They need to be big and strong.
I'm really glad that a little town like Fallbrook, where I live, people there worked really,
really, really hard and they raised a bunch of money
and it was matched by the state and by the county on certain levels,
to build this big beautiful library. We're going to be very proud of it and
it's going to be well used. I think those are dollars well spent for this society, I really do.
My latest project is called "The Border Lords."
It's a hair-raising, harrowing tale
dealing with the cartel and drug wars in Mexico.
The hero of the book is a young American ATF agent
who is working along the border
between the United States and Mexico.
His job is to intercept
and interfere with the illegal flow of guns going south.
He's ATF and so that's his job,
and that leads him into drugs, guns, money, drama.
It's a violent story, but it's a smart story.
There's a big fat romance
running right through the middle of it, so that's fun,
and it's very
it's very tightly packed and atmospheric book.
atmospheric