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bio_chem06
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Pickpick

I 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.

CSeydel It‘s absolutely easy for me to believe mental disorders are linked to pollution. We know lead pollution has major cognitive effects. We know exposure to certain pesticides is linked to Parkinson‘s disease. What else do people think cause mental illnesses? Gods wrath? 3d
CSeydel We know the guy who committed the San Ysidro McDonalds murders was likely a victim of occupational cadmium poisoning. For every one we know about I‘m sure there are dozens of other, less sensational examples. 3d
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reading_rainbow
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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.

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reading_rainbow
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Pickpick

This book was pretty heavy. I found the parts with the smelters to be the most interesting but found the murder details to the victims to be too sickening. Some say the bridge parts were boring but that bridge was a killer! Those bridges were perfect examples of greed and inaction by those in charge, choosing profit over the countless lives it took. This book is equally daunting as it is fascinating but i literally need months to recover from it

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Michael_Gee
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Sick day 🖤

RaeLovesToRead Get well soon and haiiii floofy 🥰🥰 2w
BookmarkTavern Hope you feel better soon! ❤️‍🩹 2w
Reggie Hope you feel better. Also, have you seen the latest episode of Titans? THE DRAMA! lol 2w
Michael_Gee @Reggie Oh my gosh, Reggie, this has been my favorite season of Dragula so far. And that episode you were referring to: THE DRAMA!! Omg yes. I am enjoying listening to the Boulet‘s podcast recap, too. 3d
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Not really my lucky day when I pulled this 480pg book off the library shelf because it and I didn't get along. At all. I even tried using one of my Ever& credits for the audio and that was worst than just reading it with the narrator speaking at the slowest pace to ever be spoken and not being able to pronounce local names correctly. Beyond that the book wasn't good (IMO) too many threads - the author kept throwing herself and her abusive 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures Father's story in, then you would hear a bit about the regions industrial side, then smack really graphic details about the murders committed... All of which she presented in a maybe it happened this way maybe it didn't (literally maybe he cut her head off and buried it near by OR maybe he brought it home in a duffle.... Anyways back to mining) it was disjointed and filled with bunk. I am particularly annoyed she seems to be relating high lead👇 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures (3/3) levels in the area from manufacturing to be the reason there were 3 (maybe more?) serial killers in this area around the same time and I just want to know what she think about how Flint Michigan kids are not all psychotic killers? All in all I don't recommend 2/5 ⭐ the writing was better then the narrator, if it had been just a book about the area maybe she could have made something here. 3w
Suet624 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 one less book to read. 3w
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Amiable I was also disappointed in this book. I wanted it to be so much better than it was. 😖 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Amiable there is a man on Good reads going to the mat to defend the book and her (no proof given) theory about toxins. It is really fascinating. 3w
Amiable @ChaoticMissAdventures I was shocked that this made NPR‘s list of best nonfiction reads for the summer. I read a lot of nonfiction—this would not make any “best of” list that I was compiling. 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Amiable apparently she won a Pulitzer for a past book so I am sure there was a lot of expectations. Makes you wonder if they actually read the book. 3w
Amiable @ChaoticMissAdventures She did! That was her book about Laura Ingalls Wilder—which was excellent. That‘s why I picked up this one. 3w
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I was going to listen to the audio of this because the physical has become a super drag, but the narrator is saying local names wrong and nothing is more nails on the chalkboard then people who don't know how to say Willamette.
(Wuh-la-muht not Will-a-met, it is a first nations word.)

SamAnne Agree. While I loved the book, the audio for Boys in the Boat drove me nuts. Lazy narrating. Couldnt pronounce Spokane, Pend Oreille, etc etc. 3w
BarbaraBB That‘s so lazy indeed 3w
Hooked_on_books I listened to the audio and wasn‘t a fan of this book. My favorite description of how to pronounce Willamette is “it‘s Willamette, dammit!” And they rhyme. It works so well! 3w
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BkClubCare TY - I will now not mispronounce. I hope. 3w
Deblovestoread Big pet peeve! Using Google to find Chemeketa anything tips me over the edge. Also hate WillamettE 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Hooked_on_books that is so funny, I am going to start using this!! 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @BkClubCare it is fine if someone not from here pronounces it wrong, and gets corrected, but a narrator of the audio book all about the area? Drives me almost as crazy and a certain president who mispronounces Oregon each time he talks about how we are all antifa. 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Deblovestoread I don't even know how they get there.... lol 3w
CSeydel @Hooked_on_books That‘s how I learned it! First time I mispronounced it in front of a classmate who hailed from Oregon … 3d
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Pogue
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Pickpick

This was not what I expected. I enjoyed the book and the focus on environmental factors. Plus other than the way the narrator pronounced Rainer she got all the place names correct. #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew #TBR #Recommend @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1mo
BookwormAHN 💜🐈‍⬛💜 1mo
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Soscha
The Anatomy Of Motive | John Douglas
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Pickpick

This one was a fun picture to create but go with me here. The favorite criminal profiler I follow is Pat Brown. Pat Brown doesn‘t have ever in synch opinions with John Douglas so here they are in fisticuffs in front of the FBI building.

This does appear to be a criminal profiler thing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

The book here is older case reviews. Pat used to teach Profiling at Excelsior which would interesting to follow along, I await her reading suggestions.

Soscha This is what Pat Brown taught at Excelsior: Forensic pathology
Psychopathology
Serial homicide
Criminal profiling
Crime scene analysis
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Soscha The problem was, she said, the police that took the classes were awesome but the general audience resented the workload & made her stay there impossible. I‘m pretty sure this was the only profiling course in the country. 2mo
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Whoa! Thanks for sharing this information 1mo
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DrasticallyJill
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Serge and Coleman are back! Surviving COVID quarantine with buzzard hijinks and a bong shaped like an Iguana. A killer with the trove of trivia of Florida. The high on life and high on anything dynamic duo once more find the best way to take down the boredom while also…basically taking down the baddies. Tim Dorsey, a great author-and yes, we do have some justice served to the toilet paper scalpers. And more!