Any recommendations while I’m on jury duty the next five weeks?
Any recommendations while I’m on jury duty the next five weeks?
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Any recommendations while I’m on jury duty the next five weeks?
Crime and punishment
Grisham books are typically legal based
Defending Jacob
Oh yes
Nonfiction choice: Columbine.
Buy a stack of books cheap so everyone has something to read to prevent them from loud boring discussions in those long recesses.
Ok, just gotta tell you, I am jealous. I love jury duty and to make it even better, I take a bag full of books when I serve. So much down time means lots of good reading. Haven’t been pulled in two years so I should be in next years rotation ?
I am hoping to get on a jury Monday when selection begins…..only called once before but never made it to the jury. I feel it’s my duty, plus, I have never seen that side of our justice dept. I am taking The Nightingale with me!
I never minded jury duty. It’s so interesting, plus you get a lot of time to read. I was on a first degree murder trial a couple of years ago and it was absolutely fascinating.
Nightingale is a great choice.
I always meet the most interesting people. And usually I know five or six people there already. I live the judicial process and have sat on several small cases. Nothing too exciting but had a case where a woman assaulted a man who really deserved it. That case was hysterical and even the judge was laughing. We found her guilty because there was a video of her doing it but even she was laughing.
@Nancy I have that one in my kindle pile and I am looking forward to it
Anything by Michael Connelly
Download something from Netflix, just in case your book turns out to be a dud. Trust me, I know of what I speak.? That was the most expensive data day I’ve ever had….
Fall of Giants
My last time on call, I grabbed the stack of magazines I hadn’t gotten to, and as I read them, i passed them along to other people without anything to read!
I read Stephen King’s 11/22/63 during my month of jury duty.
“Il caso Malaussène – Mi hanno mentito” Daniel Pennac
What do you like to read? We could base our suggestions on that.
I’d pick an interesting trilogy or series. Then you’ll have something to keep you going for a while. The Bill Hodges trilogy from Stephen King?
Bring a headset to block out irritating conversations
^^^yes!
GRISHAM! Maybe they will NOT WANT YOU because you are so “trial ready” lol. Good luck!!
Room by Emma Donough
Something non-police or legal, like Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore.
I served last month and one of the jurors had written a book. He brought copies for several of us to buy and I really enjoyed it. It was a journal he had written after getting home from serving in Afghanistan. Not anything I would normally buy.
Jury duty? Anything by John Grisham.
Shutter Island or anything really by Dennis Lehane.