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Kept forgetting to post this for last months #authoramonth but what an intriguing read! Non fiction at its best for me; I loved all the historical detail so you can imagine just how things would have been. I‘m with the majority of people in finding the Marconi bits less compelling than the Crippen but brilliantly done in bringing them together. #nonfiction2023 (rolling in the deep)

I thoroughly enjoyed John Boyne‘s fictionalised story of Dr. Crippen and I wanted to read a true crime book about it. This is well researched, and easy to read, the two connected stories of Dr. Crippen‘s life and Marconi‘s life and his passion. It was rather gripping in parts, but I skimmed over some of Marconi‘s part which I got lost. My introduction to Larson, who writes such good historical non-fiction, thanks to #AuthorAMonth for May.

I expected to like this because Marconi Beach is one of my favorite places on Earth. It just never sunk in with me though and I ended up listening to end ending at 1.5 speed just so I could finish. The same thing happened to me with his Churchill book so maybe I am just not a Larson fan. #AuthorAMonth

I will always read an Erik Larson book! Devil in the White City is still my favorite, but he doesn't write bad books. This one was a little harder for me to get into, especially the details of Marconi's quest to perfect the wireless, but it was still an engaging, insightful look at history through a unique angle. This was May's #AuthorAMonth. @Soubhiville

So, I usually love Larson‘s books but I just can‘t get into this one. Maybe the start is too slow, maybe the narration since I‘m listening on #audio, maybe my mood but I‘m 32% in and I‘m just done. #authoramonth @Soubhiville

I think The Devil in the White City has my expectations for Larson really high. This was ok but I just kept thinking I‘d rather be rereading White City. I‘m also planning to read Dead Wake. I‘ll probably start it this weekend.
#AuthorAMonth #BookSpinBingo

I always like Larson‘s books. 🚤🚤🚤🚤

@DarkMina Mailed these to you today!

#Thunderstruck #ErikLarson #BookSpinBingo

In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men; Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of wireless means of communication; whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. There is fascinating detail of Edwardian London which causes the story to start out slowly.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView Thanks for the tag!

1. Sometimes the title makes me curious.

2. Doing the audio of this book soon.

Can you play? @MariSands @DarkMina @Elizabeth2 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eanderson @Butterfinger

Another Larson gem. He masterfully weaves Marconi‘s development of wireless, the murder of an English wife and police hunt to identify and apprehend the murderer into a living, breathing history worthy of a major motion picture. If you didn‘t know it was true, you wouldn‘t believe how these stories mesh together. As I wrote before, Larson writes history like a mystery novel.

#ManicMonday #LetterT @JoScho

📖 Tagged. (OverDrive wishlist)
👨 Neil DeGrasse Tyson ⬆️
🎥 Titanic
📺 That 70's Show
🎸 Three Days Grace (Adam Gontier)
🎤 Trust Fall by Spiritbox

I‘ve only given this book a medium rating because this author has written better novels, specifically ‘The Devil in the White City‘, which is brilliant. Mr. Larson has an amazing ability to weave interesting narratives from historical records, making the characters feel alive. Definitely worth reading, if not necessarily the authors best.

...the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem. An asylum for the insane, its name shrunk through popular usage to Bedlam, which eventually entered dictionaries as a lowercase word used to describe scenes of chaos and confusion.

In Victorian London Crippen, a doctor and seemingly gentle man, commits an almost perfect crime. At the same time Marconi is trying to improve his wireless communication tools to send messages for ever longer distances- and steps on a few toes along the way. Then these 2 lives intersect. Not my favorite Larson book, but still a good one and about people I knew nothing about.

This was a fantastic book and I have to be honest I learnt a lot more than I imagined I was going to not just about Macaroni but also abou Crippen. I recommend this as a book to be read by everyone👍👍

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love this! Larson is so good at what he does; both books I‘ve read by him are well-researched and written in such a way that I almost forget it‘s true events.

I am not a nonfiction kind of girl, but Erik Larson, with his nonfiction that reads like fiction, has a way of grabbing my attention and keeping it. While this book wasn‘t my favorite of his (they can‘t all be Dead Wake), it was still a good listen. I really liked the story of Dr. Crippen, but the Marconi parts bored me at times. I get that it all comes together, but Marconi seems like a jerk and I just didn‘t care. 🤷🏻‍♀️

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

I timed my #audiowalk tonight so that I could see both the sunset and the rise of the big, beautiful, waning-but-still-pretty-darn-full moon. 🌝

Walking at night means I have to stay closer to home, but I love it this time of year.

Listening to this book, which isn‘t scary, but I managed to freak myself out anyway... I walk near a lot of cornfields and they get creepy at night. 😂

The moon is in Aries, and I‘m feeling energized. 🙌🏻

Wine + fire + new book = 😊

I always hear AC/DC when I see the word thunder. I don't even love this song but Thunderstruck is such an ear worm. #Thunder #AMonthofSongs

#thunder #Amonthofsongs @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Maybe my favorite of his books- absolutely fascinating

Once again, Erik Larson hit a home run with me! The first 50ish pages kinda drag as you try to figure out the connection between two separate stories of history. Then BAM! You see the connection and cannot put the book down. He‘s proven himself as an insta-buy author for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars

Bathroom cleaned ✅
Grocery Shopping ✅
Vacuuming ✅
Starting my next book and humming AC/DC‘s ‘Thunderstruck‘ ✅✅

Sirius Black (the puppy, not the falsely accused convict) and (one of my )my current read(s) #booksandpets #day20 #riotgrams

My Christmas books my family gave me this year. Can‘t wait to dive in!! (My Mom didn‘t buy Amy Stewart‘s newest book because it was only in hardcover and I only have paperbacks and she knew the importance to me that they all match. That‘s love 💗💗💗💗) 🤓📚🎄

Not going to lie, I‘m a huge fan of pretty much anything Erik Larson, and so loved this book. If you enjoyed “Devil in the White City”, you‘ll like this one too. I‘ll admit, the Marconi story, albeit interesting, droned on a bit but the interesting tale of Dr.Crippin, made up for it. Another great read by Larson i couldn‘t put down!

Congratulations @LaurenReads on your #hundredgrand Litfluence!

I loved the tagged book, it‘s about Marconi & the invention of wireless radio & how it helped to apprehend a murderer—reads like a thriller!

Thanks for this #giveaway opportunity! 🎉🍾🥂🍰

#GetMovin #thunderstruck @Cinfhen

#GetMovin Day 13: First novel that came to mind with #Thunderstruck. Husband has also sent me a photo he took yesterday - which I thought I‘d share here with the rainbow peeking through the clouds, but thunder-shaped too.

I bailed on this once before. The only reason I picked it up was for the #readharder category of an assigned book (book club) you hated. This is 400 pages that could have been condensed in half. The two stories barely connect and there is so much needless info. #libraryreads

Dinner and a book

Just a lazy reading day to kick off a 3 day weekend.

FINALLY finished a #nonfictionbookabouttechnology for #readharder. This uses the same narrative device as The Devil in the White City — a crime juxtaposed with a historical event (the invention of wireless messaging by sea)— but it wasn‘t as good. The connection between the two was pretty flimsy and the technology part was dull. I fell asleep listening to the ending three times and had to rewind & relisten. 🤦‍♀️

Not the first book I thought of when I thought #ocean but since I can't find the other book, this will work! #sizzlinsummerbooks

I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but Larson has become one of my favorites. His books read like fiction. This wasn't my favorite of his, but still quite enjoyable.

I have been horrible about using Litsy lately, but let's hope I can turn my act around! Anyway, I recently read Thunderstruck, and I absolutely loved it. I actually prefer this book to Devil in the White City, and I was totally absorbed in both narratives. Definitely would recommend.

Not as good as The Devil in the White City, but very similar. Worth the listen!!

Hoping to get to this book in 2017. #riotgram #onewordtitle @bookriot

A friend wanted to show me the FOL book sale in Albuquerque today. And it was happened to be their giant monthly sale. Here was my haul. (Not pictured: two books for my #CupidGoesPostal, which will hopefully go out this week!)

The blanket and the hot chocolate are the best parts of this photo. #requiredreading

"But I have lived a thousand lives and I‘ve loved a thousand loves. I‘ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read." George R.R. Martin. Currently, I'm living the life of an obsessed inventor and also that of a sea captain and walking through the world of the early 1900s.

"Instead of reading, we should snuggle, mom." #dogsoflitsy

Y'all, I literally CAN'T be allowed in a used bookstore. 📚📚📚 #damnitlitsy #husbandisgonnakillme 😂

Because I will read and be fascinated by anything Erik Larson writes. Anything.

There are always #usedbooks around our house as I steward a Little Free Library. This is my LFL shelfie this morning, full of used and donated books. Book sharing makes me happy. I love knowing they are finding new homes and being enjoyed. #augustphotochallenge @TheSpinecrackersBookClub