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Newtown: An American Tragedy | Matthew Lysiak

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Bk3 of July. I read this True Crime NF as an ebook on Scribd. About the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012, the author(who is a journalist)does well to treat this with the sensitivity it deserves. Told mostly from the children & their families POV it brings them to life with their fave things & dreams of the future while also trying to understand why the perpetrator did what he did. Well told. #BookspinBingo #NonFictionBingo2021 #PennyPerPage #Pageathon

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CarolynM I'm sorry, that's so hard😢 I hope it won't be long until your family can be together. 3y

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Reviewsbylola

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This was a reread for me, on audio this time. It had me feeling #weak. I made the mistake of also watching the documentary midway through and I eventually had to turn it off. It literally made me feel sick. This book is a very comprehensive take on the Sandy Hook massacre. Towards the end, Lysiak also starts a dialogue on the state of mental healthcare in our country, and what effects Lanza‘s autism and SPD had on his mental state. #heatofjuly

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LeahBergen Ooph. 🙁 6y

Reviewsbylola I really killed myself with the documentary @LeahBergen It‘s just awful, those poor little children. 6y

Mdargusch Ugh. ☹️😢😭 6y

minkyb So awful. Hard to think about it. I applaud you for being able to do this. 6y

emilyhaldi You‘re a masochist 6y

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You are not your disease.

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Newtown: An American Tragedy | Matthew Lysiak

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True.

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Newtown: An American Tragedy | Matthew Lysiak

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Stay informed and know what to do. It‘s important.

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Newtown: An American Tragedy | Matthew Lysiak

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Hoped that if I let it marinate a few days, I could write a more impartial review. It didn't work. I'm still heartbroken and infuriated. If Nancy Lanza had her parental rights terminated early in Adam's life, this tragedy could have been avoided. When you know your son has an obsession with death based on years of graphic drawings and writings, an obsession with serial killers to the extent of creating a well researched database of a top 500... 👇

cathysaid entered into a spreadsheet that extends seven feet long and three feet wide when printed, and he plays violent video games for 14 hours everyday, as a mother you don't ignore it. You don't go on spa vacations several times a month, leaving the mentally disturbed child home alone. You don't ignore the fact that he refuses to leave the house and ends up weighing 80 pounds. And you certainly don't BUY HIM GUNS TO FUEL HIS OBSESSION! 6y

Tamra @cathysaid oh wow. Just awful! 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage I give you props for reading what sounds like a horribly difficult book. Wowza. 6y

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cathysaid I was hoping for a bit more insight into the mental health struggles that led to the event but there wasn't much of that. @BarbaraTheBibliophage 6y

Leelee.reads Sounds like the mom had mental health issues, too, right? I mean, to be that disconnected from the reality of your son‘s situation and to supply access to guns? Makes you wonder if I‘m a different household, if things may have gone differently. Sounds like the kid desperately needed intervention, and instead he was ignored. Makes me sad and angry. 6y

cathysaid @Leelee.reads It seems like she was sporadically concerned, but generally lived in denial of the seriousness of the situation. He had issues far beyond Aspergers but that seemed to be her only focus. It's like she gave up. 6y

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cathysaid

Newtown: An American Tragedy | Matthew Lysiak

#FirstSentence of my current read. As the root cause of these tragedies (often mental illness) intrigues me, I am drawn to such books written by reporters. This book is heartbreaking and infuriating...and I'm only halfway through it.

Pictured is the new Sandy Hook Elementary building and the hanging represents the 25 students and teachers that were killed.

#nonfiction #truecrime

Reviewsbylola This book was so good but so difficult to read. 💔 6y

cathysaid @Reviewsbylola I'm just past the chapters describing the carnage in the classrooms 😓 I suspect it will become slightly less heartbreaking and much more infuriating. 6y

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cathysaid

Newtown: An American Tragedy | Matthew Lysiak

I'm not crying by page thirteen. Nope. Nothing to see here. 😭

MicheleinPhilly Ugh. I don't think I could do this one. I still haven't been able to bring myself to read

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Reviewsbylola

Newtown: An American Tragedy | Matthew Lysiak

#17booklove #nonfictionlove A sampling of the nonfiction books I loved that I also held on to. Some of these have been read multiple times, and are about to fall apart.

bio_chem06 @Reviewsbylola Random fact: Laura Hillenbrand suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. I just loved her books so much, I went into an Internet spiral about her, haha! 7y

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Reviewsbylola I love her books. I did not know that fact about her! @bio_chem06 7y

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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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CallMeIshmael

Newtown: An American Tragedy | Matthew Lysiak

Today is the anniversary of something that still haunts me everyday when I drop this little girl off to school....everyday I think about it and I cannot fathom what those parents went through and still go through #neverforget

britt_brooke 💕💕💕 7y

Smrloomis I was thinking of this today, too. 😢 7y

Reviewsbylola Fantastic book but ugh, I completely agree. Those poor children. 😢 7y

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