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My building‘s book swap finds on Sunday night.
pickContinuing on my GN journey with a true crime entry based on the Ed Gein story. I was unfamiliar with this until the recent Netflix series and oh my word. Incredibly disturbing. The book was well done, using primary sources with very little, if any, fictionalized material. The artwork was appropriate for the story. For fans of My Friend Dahmer.
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#10BeforeTheEnd this week is Peepshow
#Bookspin The Frozen River
And a couple of small nonfictions one very local about the Oregon cheese industry and one about the amazing Nina Simone
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4 weeks in
I am right on track - wishing I was a bit ahead. Going to tackle Peepshow (from the Women's Prize Long list this last year) next.
so-soEven though the story of a family on the run was quite interesting, especially how it influenced the kids. The reason for their escape seemed a bit dubios to me. In the end it is father terrorizing a family. Again the story is interesting, but the writing is a bit boring.
pickThere is a lot of detail- approx 1/3 of the pages are footnotes- in this accounting of a 500 year old crime. It is well researched & I was impressed at how much documentation survives. It starts out by following the Provost of Paris who did some fine detective work w/i the technological limits of his time. We also get a fascinating look at French politics of the time- and there are unfortunate parallels to be drawn. Once the murder is solved the
What a life? Living in Tel Aviv, on Cyprus and in Virginia. But at what cost? All within 3 years.
pickI see a lot of people hate this book. It seems people had trouble with the structure, I read it a lot like The Devil In The White City. Multiple stories across the same time line. Mental disorders being related to pollution is seems too hard for people to believe, I saw a lot of hate for that. While it is an untested theory, are we too arrogant to believe there isn‘t something to all the environmental destruction? I say try this book.
Family playing in front of Ruston home as Tacoma smelter blows lead and arsenic. It would coat everything, animals would lick it off their paws and die. The greed of men truly knows no bounds.
