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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (June 2021)
By Mariah Roze · 7 posts · 65 views
By Mariah Roze · 7 posts · 65 views
last updated Feb 12, 2024 09:45AM
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Michelle McNamara was an armchair detective/true crime writer who spent almost a decade trying to unmask the rapist/murderer she dubbed the 'Golden State Killer.' McNamara died in 2016, before she could finish her manuscript about the slayer, but Michelle's husband - the actor/comedian Patton Oswalt - arranged for the book to be completed from his wife's copious notes and the magazine articles she'd published.
Patton Oswalt and Michelle McNamara
According to Wikipedia, California's Golden State K ...more
This was a different sort of true crime read. True crime and memoir tide together. Earlier this year I read The Fact of a Body (Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich) which also took true crime and combined it with a memoir. I didn't realize that's what this would be when I picked it up...I read it because a book rioter instragram account I follow (bookitlikeamother) made the suggestion.
It is compelling. I read it quickly and was absorbed in with it. I was absorbed in the theme of the book enough that a ...more
It is compelling. I read it quickly and was absorbed in with it. I was absorbed in the theme of the book enough that a ...more
I was disappointed by this book. I had heard great things about it. But, it just confused me. It was not linear at all and jumped all over the place. I had no idea what was going on. Definitely not the book for me (I listened to the audio version).
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