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Fascinating and heartbreaking. Didn‘t realize how many people go missing in forests and National Parks. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Enjoying the nice weather while listening to this audio book! 😎

Another off of my neverending TBR list #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Missing @Clwojick

The book focuses on Randy Gray‘s search for his son Jacob but Billman also writes about others who went missing in the wild, some never found.It is a compelling read but would work better as a collection of individual missing people and their stories or even focusing only on Jacob.Sensationalist are: - the ‘unexplained cases‘ hinting at people being abducted by Sasquatch or aliens? - we should all be scared when we hike, “lest you be next”.Really?

I love missing persons cases, and I love our national parks. Billman is a great journalist who made this story compelling, and especially made Randy Gray‘s hope come alive in the pages.
⭐️: 4/5

I think I found this compelling because I love wild places. I‘m drawn to the idea of long hikes a lot more than I actually go on them. It‘s not surprising that solo hikers have accidents and disappear, especially those who seek solitude off the beaten path.

This focuses most on one family‘s missing loved one, Jacob, but delves into many many others. Some are eventually found, but some of the mysteries are never solved. ⬇️

My #doublespin is fortuitous as I randomly started Blue a couple days ago, and might finish it tonight. The Cold Vanish was a gift from @Hooked_on_books for my bday last year, so I‘m happy to be getting to it half a year later 😂😅.

Thank you @TheAromaofBooks for organizing! I always look forward to the monthly spins. 💜📚

#WonderousWednesday
@Eggs 🥚
Thank you for the tag, @DarkMina 🖤

1. Litsy of course, Bookriot, Fantastic Fiction, Goodreads, Netgalley.
2. I decided not to this year, to focus on quality not quantity.
3. ❄️

Billman takes a sociological look at missing persons, specifically those that go missing when alone in nature. In doing so, he weaves some really affecting personal stories about missing persons, and uses these to make broader observations about social attitudes to this phenomenon, and the structures around search and investigation protocols in North America. I find this blend of narrative and analysis particularly engaging.

After a rough day yesterday (more in comments) I decided to sooth myself by opening some gifts a couple days early.

@Hooked_on_books I am excited about every single thing here! Fresh honey! The soap smells so nice. Every book I opened I thought “I want to read that next!”

Thank you Holly. I‘m really excited to read all of these. You‘re one of my favorite people to shop for too. I hope your storm recovery is continuing to go well.

#WonderousWednesday @Eggs ⚘ Thanks for the tag!
1. New York, California and New Orleans
2. Alone time. Love my friends and family, but I recharge being alone.
3. Tagged book. It was so good.
4. My home, my kitchen, cooking!🍳

#July. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Missing persons is one of my obsessions. So this book is like catnip to me. The author looks into what happens when someone goes missing in national parks or public wooded areas. He interviews professional trackers, dog handlers, and the families whose loved one vanished. He tells the story of one family in particular, The Grays whose son Jacob vanished during a bike trip. 👇

@Eggs Happy Wednesday 🌺

1. The tagged book, about people who vanish in national parks or woodlands. It's so in my wheelhouse!

2. A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee, Come on Netflix!
3. Everything and everyone.

#Wondrouswednesday
@Eggs 😃 Thanks for the invite
@DarkMina Thank you also 🖤
1. I'm listening to the tagged book, about people that Vanish in national park lands and wooded areas.🌲
2. 👍👍👍
3. I like them all. I get bored sticking to one genre or author.

I spent the day trying to get more organized so life feels less frantic. And listening to this book!! Loving it so far, not quite what I expected though. To be honest I'm a little OCD and organizing is pretty enjoyable and calming for me. So I had a pretty nice 4th.🎆🇺🇸

Taking advantage of a quiet morning to read a little more! One of my goals this year was to read more (any) nonfiction: I‘m glad I did because I‘ve really enjoyed the last few nonfiction books I‘ve picked up! Do you read more fiction or nonfiction?

I‘d never smelled a dead human before, then to find out dead human smells like passion fruit or at least a urinal cake. I think about the lime the townspeople spread around Miss Emily‘s house in Faulkner‘s “Rose for Emily,” and now I‘m thinking, why bother.

This book is about folks that has gone missing in parks/woods and how they aren‘t DEAD, they are MISSING and how families have to cope with that.

Every year people go missing in America‘s wilderness. The National Park service doesn‘t keep track of these cases and beyond the initial search, it‘s left up to family members to keep looking for missing loved ones. This book is about the search for Jacob Gray, who went missing in Olympic National Park. But it‘s also about other missing persons and how families deal with the loss. Well written, five stars.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The premise was really interesting, as were parts of the book. But there was a lot more psychic/alien abduction/big foot/portals to the other side talk than I was expecting, and it really bogged down the book for me. This was book set mostly outside for the #PopSugar challenge

Nonfiction, adventurous, sad, mysterious.
This book focuses on the disappearance of a young man, Jacob Grey, in Olympic National Park and his father‘s desperate search to find him. Randy Grey‘s dedication to his son‘s search is the meat of this book, in fact the author travels with him in many of the backpacking adventures to find Jacob. There are also descriptions of other disappearances in national parks across the US, and searches.

Part-travelogue, part sad story of one man‘s search to find his son in America‘s wide open spaces. I thought it would be a bit more like David Paulides‘ Missing 411 series but it was rather more personal than those books, and mainly focussed on one case. Some other - notable - cases were introduced almost as asides and I would have liked to have known more about some of them, although I accept that this would have resulted in a dilution of focus.

First, even if you don't read this book, you need to know that there are hundreds of people who get lost in the National Parks every year. Some of these people are never found, and some takes months or years of searching to find their remains. ALSO, there is not a good list or centralized database of these missing people anywhere. Once I sat with this information for a while, I was really swept away by narrative arc of this book. (Cont. ⬇️)

Hot tea and a chilling read on this cozy Sunday afternoon.

A quick trip today to the library to pick up my holds to get me through the winter break. What are you reading between now and the new year? #libraryhaul

This nonfiction account centers around the disappearance of 22 year old Jacob Gray, in the Olympic National Forest. While Jacob‘s story unwraps in real time, Billman also includes stories from the rest of the country and Canada of other missing persons- though these typically have resolutions. This is a sad but deeply fascinating read that I could hardly put down! And while Billman does touch on more outlandish topics, they are well handled.

Orbiting primarily around the disappearance of Jacob Gray in Olympic National Park, The Cold Vanish delves into those that go missing in wild places. Some are found, some are not, and no one is really keeping track of these statistics. I thought it was riveting, as the not knowing has to be so unsettling for loved ones. And a shocking number of search and rescue folks believe in bigfoot both as a thing and being involved in disappearances. 😯

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For fans of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, the critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman‘s fascinating, in-depth look at people who vanish in the wilderness without a trace and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them.

I‘m not into non-fiction and read this book mainly because I won it in a give away. I‘m glad that I did. It was a beautiful venture and a sad journey all in one. This book was full of statistics, as in many nonfiction books. The descriptive story was enough to get me past that. It‘s amazing the amount of people who disappear in the wild. It was equally amazing to read about the extent family, friends and strangers went through to find them.