What are you reading in 2016? Anything goes.

[Fishface]

Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "I was living in the Poughkeepsie area when Kendall Francois was snatching women off the streets of Pokpsie. I remember listening to the news reports of women my size and with the same hair color di..."

I actually liked it, and I am one of Rosen's starchier critics. It was unsatisfying in some important ways. but not bad.

[Sheryl]

Thanks for weighing in -- I may have to check it out

[Lady ♥ Belleza, Gif Princesa]

Sorry Canadian members this book, Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder ruins your reputation as friendly neighbors to the north. Unless you think it's friendly to send us your killers and sexual deviants

[Sheryl]

LOL Lady Belleza

[Fishface]

If anything, we're sending them ours! Remember that conversation Michael Moore had with the Canadian police chief in BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE?

[Ann]

Clare wrote: "
[book:Bitter Almonds: The True Story of Mothers, Daughters, and the Seattle Cyanide Murders|9..." I lived in Seattle during those murders and remember them well.

[Ann]

Saysayg wrote: "I am reading: Blood Royal-A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris by Eric Jager."

That sounds interesting! Did you like it?

[Fishface]

Now reading the terribly British The Killer Bean Of Calabar And Other Stories: Poisons And Poisoners.

[Rita]

I just started reading Richie by Thomas Thompson. It is very interesting.

[Fishface]

Rita wrote: "I just started reading Richie by Thomas Thompson. It is very interesting."

That's a good one.

[Rita]

Fishface wrote: "Rita wrote: "I just started reading Richie by Thomas Thompson. It is very interesting."

That's a good one."

Yes Fishface, it sure is and the only thing that bugs me is this book and the last book I read has no pictures. DANG and DOUBLE DANG!!! I guess the author was not allowed to put them in. Plus, it is a short read.

[Clare]

Zodiac

[Fishface]

The Killer Bean Of Calabar And Other Stories: Poisons And Poisoners, Peter Macinnis
3 stars

I am going to have to take this off the TC shelf because there is hardly any TC in it; this is a science book. This was kind of a slog at times, between the author's detours into chemical formulae and the itty-bitty, pale-gray typeface. It was worth it because of the interesting stories about every kind of poison. The author even reframes many infections as poisonous. The book takes you all over the world -- Africa, China, Lapland -- and rethinks a lot of common wisdom, asking whether the Black Plague was really a global outbreak of ergot poisoning and pointing out that the French were using poison gas in the Great War before the Germans. I would have it enjoyed it much more with a page magnifier.

[Koren]

Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm by Forrest Pritchard
5 stars and a heart

Best book I have read this year. Very interesting to learn how much work it takes to farm organically. I was especially interested to read the end of the book that tells why organic food is more expensive than non-organic. You will laugh and cry when you read this book. This is a book where you want to know the author and his family and when you are done you feel like you are leaving a friend. I will definitely look for more organic food and farmer's markets.

[Fishface]

Now reading Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk. I expected not to like it that much, but it's outstanding.

[Ann]

Sheryl wrote: "I've just finished The Girls, by Emma Cline. It's a great read, very well written, and getting lots of attention, for good reason."

Handmaid is a good book! I just read it for the first time this year, too.

[Rita]

Shelley wrote: "Rita wrote: "I cannot stand short books. Glad you posted it Shelley!"

Rita: I am curious. Why don't you like short books?"

Shelley, most of the true crime books I read are so riveting and I get caught up in the victim and their families plus when the author goes back to the beginning and what they were like as children growing up, how they got along with mom and dad and the rest of the family, I find fascinating. So of course I don't want it to end. When I am getting to a particularly amazing story I deliberately close the book, even when there is 10 riveting pages left and save it for the next day! I test my resistance nerve. Sorry, I didn't mean to write a book Shelley and thanks for asking! lol

[Rita]

I just started reading Dark Heart by Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie. It looks very interesting so far.

[Shelley]

Rita wrote: "Shelley wrote: "Rita wrote: " When I am getting to a particularly amazing story I deliberately close the book, even when there is 10 riveting pages left and save it for the next day! ..."

Rita: I have done the exact same thing! Prolonging the enjoyment. :)

[Koren]

For the month of August I am going to try to clear my shelves of books that have been there quite a while but get passed over for other books that look more interesting. I'm not going to read past page 50 if I'm not into it by then it goes in the donate pile. So far I've gotten rid of a few that weren't as good as they must have looked when I picked them up at one book sale or garage sale. Of course if I paid full price they get read no matter what.

[Fishface]

Very practical approach Koren! Except what are you doing ever paying full price!?

[Rita]

Shelley wrote: "Rita wrote: "Shelley wrote: "Rita wrote: " When I am getting to a particularly amazing story I deliberately close the book, even when there is 10 riveting pages left and save it for the next day! ...."

***sigh**....Shelley what us addicts put ourselves through. Are we nuts? If we are I don't care. lol

[Fishface]

If there's a cure for this I don't want it
If there's a remedy I'll run from it

[Rita]

I started reading Winter Of Frozen Dreams by Karl Harter. So far this is a very interesting story.

[Clare]

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

[Shelley]

Started Murderous Minds: Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain: Neurological Imaging and the Manifestation of Evil by Dean A. Haycock. So far it's a 5+ star book.

[Koren]

Clare wrote: " The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town"

Hope you enjoy The Innocent Man. I know I did.

[Beth]

Have just started TRICKS by Ellen Hopkins.

[Koren]

Finished The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals by John Douglas and starting The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Shumer.

[Shelley]

Just starting Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the Btk Killer by Katherine Ramsland

Having a bit of trouble getting into it. So far there is a lot of Radar writing about his fantasies but in code to thwart the prison censors with Ramsland interpreting.

[Fishface]

I wonder why he even cares? He's already in prison until doomsday, for crying out loud.

[Shelley]

Ramsland is interested in the words straight from a serial killer and Radar is interested in the attention. Ramsland is no fool. I am sure she realizes that but a person tells us a lot even when they are lying and aggrandizing.

[Clare]

O.J. is Innocent and I Can Prove It

[Fishface]

Clare wrote: "O.J. is Innocent and I Can Prove It"

I'll be interested to see whether you feel the author has proved it! I'm reading a book claiming to clear Burton Abbott of the murder of Stephanie Bryan, but so far he's just digging the guy deeper than ever.

[Rita]

I just started reading Zebra by Clark Howard. This is very intriguing.

[Fishface]

That's a good one Rita! Such an odd way of writing the story...

[Fishface]

I have to say that the decline of the copyeditor has its entertaining moments. I'm almost to the end of A Trail of Corn: A True Mystery and some of the errors have been a riot. A few pages in, Warden Teets of San Quentin had his name misspelled in a VERY unfortunate way; someone else went to a barn-razing party; and now the convicted man's mom was just noted as having a colic in her hair.

Being a hairsplittingly precise person myself, incapable of error, I think it's a dark day in American letters when the omniscient author has less idea of the difference between "lie" and "lay" than the characters in the story.

[Shelley]

Fishface wrote: "I have to say that the decline of the copyeditor has its entertaining moments. I'm almost to the end of A Trail of Corn: A True Mystery and some of the errors have been a riot. A few..."

Yeah, it can be funny. Most of the time it's just distracting. It's when errors pull me out of the reading that it gets annoying.

So why the decline in copy editing?

[Fishface]

It costs money to hire a copyeditor, aside from the fact that competent ones are getting scarce as hen's teeth, and it costs nothing at all to use Spellcheck. Publishers ignore the fact that Spellcheck will clean miss it if you spell Warden Teets' name "Teats."

[Susan]

I think you are being a bit petty and critical. This is my first post, I suppose I'm not making a very good first impression. Sorry.

[Fishface]

I am a petty, critical person. Who has worked as a copyeditor.

[Fishface]

Started late last night on The Birds. It's quite absorbing. I did not expect it to be a post-apocalypse story, but it's from the POV of a grandfather dictating his memoir to his daughter, explaining what the world was like when he was a young man -- before the birds ended civilization.

[Lady ♥ Belleza, Gif Princesa]

Fishface wrote: "Started late last night on The Birds. It's quite absorbing. I did not expect it to be a post-apocalypse story, but it's from the POV of a grandfather dictating his memoir to his dau..."

I always knew birds were evil.

[Fishface]

[Lady ♥ Belleza, Gif Princesa]

I would have posted a similar pic but I had to do some actual work.

[Fishface]

Not me:

[Lady ♥ Belleza, Gif Princesa]

That Barbie, always getting in trouble.

[Hari]

Shelley wrote: "Fishface wrote: "I have to say that the decline of the copyeditor has its entertaining moments. I'm almost to the end of A Trail of Corn: A True Mystery and some of the errors have b..."

I wholeheartedly agree. I feel cheated when someone who fancies themselves an author can't seem to remember english lessons from grade school. Whatever has happened to re-reading and revising?

[Hari]

Susan wrote: "I think you are being a bit petty and critical. This is my first post, I suppose I'm not making a very good first impression. Sorry."

Respectfully disagree.

[Ann]

I finished Ferdinand von Schirach's Crime and Guilt. Crime and Guilt: Stories It's a collection of short stories about criminal cases from the perspective of the author, a criminal defense attorney. Even though the author claims in the book that the stories are true, he later admits in an interview with a German newspaper that they are only partially true. He had to make up most of the facts to protect the attorney-client privilege.

In other words, this book is not true crime like it says it is. That turned me off.