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My run on well done non-fiction has ended. I wouldn‘t call this poorly written, just inconsistent. And often details where rehashed rather than providing anything new.

Found this one just a little bit ... weird. The writing was weirdly unsuited to subject matter - too casual, chatty, colloquial. The investigative aspect was weirdly lacking - it was just the same facts and insights rehashed several times over. It was padded out with weirdly irrelevant and inappropriate personal anecdotes that brought nothing to the table. The author seemed more than a little obsessed with the perpetrator...cont. in comments ⬇️⬇️

It happened AGAIN! I picked this book from my TBR list using an online random number generator. And within a few pages a link to the last book I read pops up! The screaming eagle was the emblem of Easy Company and the last book I read was Band of Brothers! This happens to me so many times! It's a little freaky but kinda cool too!

Finished Band of Brothers (review to follow) and am now starting this one which also happens to be non-fiction. Two in a row is unusual for me!

#bridgeovertroubledwater #marchintothe70s @Cinfhen @Lizpixie
A detailed look into the events surrounding a mother, Amanda Stott Smith, who drove to the middle of the Sellwood bridge in Portland OR and dropped in her 4 yo and 7 yo

This #truecrime story was compelling and easy to read, but I did find the telling of the story to be a bit disjointed. #nonfiction

Started on this one last night. I had gotten it as a Kindle First Read several months ago and am just getting to it. I have been really neglecting my ebook catalogue lately. There's just so many, I get overwhelmed and don't know where to start! 😧#ebook #kindle #toomanybookstoolittletime

I‘m pretty obsessed with the Chris Watts case right now (the CO man who just killed his family) so this was a fitting read. True crime about Amanda Stott-Smith, a woman who threw her two young children off a bridge in 2009. One lived, one died.

What would make a mother do something so incomprehensible? Rommelmann did a great job exploring how Amanda got to that point. It read almost like a documentary, with a non linear format.

On the road reading while @HotdogZanzabaar listens to his podcast. I love reading on long car trips. Anyone with me?? I always feel so bad for the people that get carsick and can‘t read in the car.

True-crime lovers, this one's for you. On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to a bridge in Portland, OR, and dropped her two children — 4-year old Eldon and 7-year old Trinity — into the rushing river below; Eldon drowned, his sister miraculously lived. Amanda was soon arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 35 years in prison. For journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the case wasn't as cut and dried as it seemed, however; what made Amanda do it? Why?

It is easy to say a mother killing her children is a monstrous and heinous act, but what leads up to that point? Was it preventable, is it 100% her fault, what was life like for the children and the mother who commits this crime? To The Bridge examines Amanda's life, her children's, Trinity, Eldon, and Gavin, and her husband's, Jason, lives before she threw 2 of her kids off of a bridge causing one to die.

Not sure how I feel about this one! It's engagingly written and morbidly fascinating. However, I don't love that it follows the author's experience learning about the story instead of telling the story in chronological order; I don't feel like we're getting any answers; and it seems like the author was sometimes pretty persistent about talking to the family when they just wanted her to go away.

Trying out Kindle Unlimited

An exploration of the dynamics and events that led to an Oregon mom dropping her 7 year old daughter and 4 year old son over the bridge into the Williamette river. About 500 kids per year are killed by a parent (those are just the reported ones). This book was hard to put down.

Solid, objective, and well researched account of Amanda Stott-Smith and her murder of her children in 2009. While it's a tough, heartbreaking read, it's also fascinating. While she is clearly responsible for a heinous, incomprehensible crime, many people in this situation share the blame along with Amanda. And just as with the Andrea Yates case, I believe Amanda's husband should be prosecuted as well. 4/5 ⭐️ #nonfiction #truecrime

This was a hard month to decide on just one for Amazon First Reads! I had to take the true crime story though!

It's Amazon First Reads day! I snagged the tagged/pictured book. Looks like a great true crime read. Do you participate in Amazon First Reads?