pickI took this photo when I started this book— now the trees are all bare, sun is gone, and it‘s too cold to read outside. Been reading for awhile! A true crime from mystery author James Ellroy, whose mother, Jean Ellroy was murdered in ‘58 in El Monte, near LA. James was only 10 at the time. This book begins as a timeline of her death and quickly goes off the rails into rambling-memoir-territory darkness. The case remains unsolved. Low pick.
EvieBee I listened to 15 mins of his podcast about this and, although I‘m not at all peevish or anything, it made me really uncomfortable! 2y
SamAnne I loved this memoir. Read it many years ago and prompted me to pick up some of his fiction, which certainly is a mixed bag. But oh this one. Such sparse sentences that cut to the core. 2y
kaysworld1 @EvieBee May I ask what the podcast is called I've been getting into them recently while studying xx 2y
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Chelsea.Poole @EvieBee I can see that…there‘s such darkness here. I was made uncomfortable reading this throughout. 2y
Chelsea.Poole @SamAnne this also made me curious about his fiction. Have you read this?![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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Black DahliaEvieBee @kaysworld1 Audible has a free original series for members called James Ellroy‘s Hollywood Deathtrap. It has 8 episodes and he discusses 4 cases. His narration is stellar! This would be #truecrime (edited) 2y
EvieBee @Chelsea.Poole I really liked this one! The mystery kind of dribbled off at the end, but writing and sense of place was A+!Black Dahlia (edited) 2y
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