Welcome to Litsy!

Truly interesting book centered on events of 1893, including Columbia Exposition, the first modern World‘s Fair. Book covers fashion and bicycles, architecture, baseball, famous rich people, sanitation with the building of a canal and reversing Chicago River, etc. A good read if interested!

Started a book on Chicgo which I just visited

This was a long audiobook, but I stuck with it. This is really 2 stories in 1, which seems to be a common comment after people read it. NF about the building & celebration of the World‘s Fair in Chicago 1893, but also about a serial murderer who was in Chicago at the same time. Both were interesting, especially the World‘s Fair part. Chapters go back & forth between the 2 stories. IMO, it would be a better book if it just focused on World‘s Fair.

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#COVER STORIES
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

Today‘s Prompt: MUSIC

Leeba lived in the Jewish section of Chicago, had an ear for music, and worked in a music store.

WINDY CITY BLUES is set in Chicago during the coming of the Blues Era.

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/3h6khe63

#Wardens2025 #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025

🎡Charlotte‘s 💖story. Next up, Sarah.

First entry in the Chicago Mystery, and it promises to be a great series. The primary character, Cass Raines used to be a cop. She left after being involved in a shooting caused by an incompetent cop who escalated what should have been the arrest of a teenager. Now she‘s a PI, and in this story she‘s seeking the killer of a priest who cared for her when she lost her mother. Good story, great characters. Well worth reading.

Definitely not my favorite narrative history, I'm not sure that I liked the alternating chapters. I think I would have preferred two different books- one about the Chicago World's Fair and another about the murders. I get that they tie together in settings and influx of victims but I think they could have stood alone. Anyway, I'll definitely look at the area of Chicago differently the next time I visit The Museum of Science & Industry.

I hardly ever quit books, especially when I‘m a quarter of the way through, but this serial killer dude is just too awful for me and after this week in the News, I cannot read about someone treating women like this and maintain my thin grasp on hope for humanity. Very very well done, wrong subject matter for me.