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Acquisitions ~ And WHAT ARE YOU READING? Anything goes ~ 2017
And there's a cop in here named Joe Ball. Same as 
And there's an attorney named Paul McWilliams who makes me think of
And another attorney, and a lumber dealership owner both named WAYNE.
Rita wrote: "Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Rita's off her meds AGAIN. **throws sheet over Rita'*** panics but whips out tiny scissors....cackles grinning***"
***struggling to get away***
Still reading. I've found a police chief named Bill Gates in here
and a miniaturized Port Arthur massacre! This one in Texas, not Tasmania.
I also want to add that the people in this book, including the author, go on and on and on about how this serial killer is, and I quote, "extremely handsome." I really don't see it. To me, he is the most average looking guy ever:
I wouldn't even notice this guy on the sidewalk.
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*** panics but whips out tiny scissors....cackles grinning***"
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I wouldn't even notice this guy on the sidewalk."
I might notice him if I tripped over him.
Or if he pulled a knife on you. That would work on most people.
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In NYC? Possibly, if it was a big knife ....
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HOLY CRAP
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don't mess with le kitteh
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "And this one, don't mess with le kitteh"
Fishface wrote: "Still reading. I've found a police chief named Bill Gates in here
and a miniaturized Port Arthur massacre! This one in Texas, not Tasmania.
I also want to add that the people in this book, incl..."
The alligator looks like a young one but this cat who thinks he is a lion doesn't back down! LOVE IT!
I got the coolest thing in the mail yesterday: The Girl in the Belfry by Joseph Henry Jackson. I found it by accident and it turned out to be a whole book about the Theodore Durrant case, not fictionalized or tangentified as Graysmith did with The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco. The cover blurb says that the two co-authors -- Jackson died in the course of writing this one and it was finished by a friend -- were both acclaimed TC authors, which gives me a list of new titles, length unknown, to add to the TC shelves here. 
Just started reading Marrying The Hangman by Sheila Weller.
I just finished The Reporter Who Knew Too Much. Its about the mysterious death of Dorothy Kilgallen who was probably the most famous female journalist in the 1950's & 60's. Its long been believed she was killed because she knew too much about the Kennedy assassination.
I didn't enjoy it but other people might.
Erin wrote: "I just finished The Reporter Who Knew Too Much. Its about the mysterious death of Dorothy Kilgallen who was probably the most famous female journalist in the 1950's & 60's. Its long been believed..."
Huh. That's two out of two negative reviews so far!
The Girl in the Belfry is sooooooooo good. I never dared to hope I'd be able to read a book that went so far inside this investigation.
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Its about the mysterious death of Dorothy Kilgallen who was probably the most famous female journalist in the 1950's & 60's. Its long been believed..."
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Rita wrote: "Just started reading Marrying the Hangman: A True Story of Privilege, Marriage and Murder by Sheila Weller.""Belleza, have you read Marrying The Hangman? It is very good but don't take my word for it. ***sticks tongue out*** HA...
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Don't worry I won't HA HA >>>>
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Rita wrote: "Belleza, have you read Marrying The Hangman? It is very good but don't take my word for it. ***sticks tongue out*** HA... "Don't worry I won't HA HA >>>>"
Dang, you always have a good comeback Belleza! ***shuffles back to closet***
Just started reading Badd Newz: The Untold Story Of The Michael Vick Dog Fighting Case. This is an atrocious story. I'm glad the book is a short one.
I just got my copy of The Girl in Poison Cottage in the mail; it's ancient and crumbling with the pages falling out. I hope it's all there.
I just started reading A Killing In Amish Country by Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris. This is really, really good.
About halfway into A Perversion of Justice. It appears a perfect fit for the challenge of the month...
Currently reading The Knave of Boston: & Other Ambiguous Massachusetts Characters. I got it because it has a whole chapter on the man who was sexually assaulting Starr Faithfull from the time she was 11 or so; but it turns out to be a cavalcade of all kinds of Boston crime.EDIT: Some of this book is hilarious. It's full of snarky comments like "he was so beloved in his ward that the dead rose from their graves annually to vote for him."
I am finally sending for Fuzz through my library. When I was reading The Knave of Boston: & Other Ambiguous Massachusetts Characters by Francis Russell, I discovered that the last chapter was a detailed account of a crime I saw mentioned in Danse Macabre Stephen King. Remember the woman who was doused in gasoline and set on fire by a gang of young guys in Boston? This was apparently a bit of a hate crime -- the killers told her they didn't want white people in their neighborhood -- and a bit of a copycat deal. They apparently learned this terror technique on the ABC Movie of the Week, which that week happened to be the sorry, barely watchable movie version of Ed McBain's paperback, Fuzz.What's worse, other people have been copycatting this crime ever since. When I Googled the crime mentioned by King and Russell, I got over a dozen recent hits describing identical crimes. Art has become life, and life has turned back into art. Remember Hud in CLOVERFIELD, freaking everyone out by talking about a homeless guy he'd heard about who was set on fire? And the assault in THE FISHER KING, when Parry and his crew saved Jack Lucas from a bunch of guys who mistook him for a homeless guy and tried to set him on fire?
This is more than a paperback police procedural; it's a cultural phenomenon and it's high time I got around to it.
Koren wrote: "Just got this one in the mail and it sounds soooo interesting: One Breath Away: The Hiccup Girl - From Media Darling to Convicted Killer by M. William Phelps. Its about the Hiccup G..."Somehow I didn't see this post before now. Sounds like another Carey Stayner deal!
I just started The Evil Within by Darren Galsworthy.
Rita wrote: "I just started The Evil Within by Darren Galsworthy."Brace yourself. That's a four-hanky story, Rita!
I read this a couple of months ago and loved it. I love M. William Phelps' books.Koren wrote: "Just got this one in the mail and it sounds soooo interesting: One Breath Away: The Hiccup Girl - From Media Darling to Convicted Killer by M. William Phelps. Its about the Hiccup G..."
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Good book so far."
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Still working on Micro. If you thought Crichton's dinosaurs were a problem, wait until you try his ant colony.
Luck! Our library does not have book sales anymore, but they have a small shelf where they sell books that people donate. Today I found The Killing Kind by M. William Phelps.
Confessions of an American Doctor: A true story of greed, ego and loss of ethics by Max Kepler, M.D. 4 stars
I liked this book as a true crime because it was different. A doctor who commits an ethics violation and pays for it over and over. The first half of the book is about the crime. The second half is about all the hoops he had to go through to stay out of prison. The author of the book is the doctor, himself. I think he did a good job of telling the story from the perspective of all the players. While he has a likeable personality and you want him to come out on top, what he did was wrong and he knew it. It is scary to think that doctors could be doing what he did and getting away with it.
I started reading Deadly Relations: A True Story of Murder in a Suburban Family by Carol Donahue and Shirley Hall. Wow...just WOW!
I just finished a book I've meant to read practically forever, Fuzz. I gave it four stars. Also see the Coincidences discussion for the kicker.
Fishface wrote: "Started The Girl in Poison Cottage. The book is so fragile that each page falls out as I turn it."That's oddly metaphoric.
K.A. wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Started The Girl in Poison Cottage. The book is so fragile that each page falls out as I turn it."That's oddly metaphoric."
A fine reflection of the killer's story falling more and more to pieces with each new police interview.
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I also ordered the full size book Murder of Innocence: The Tragic Life and Final Rampage of Laurie Dann, but my CC didn't go through. SIGH
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Just got Mad Enough to Murder: Laurie Dann--Rampage Killer free for Kindle and read it. It really did only take 30 minutes to read it. I also ordered the full size book [book:Murd..."
Let me look and see if I still have my copy of that one to send you. It's by far the best book on her.
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Good to know.
Starting a new book about Bonnie and Clyde entitled 'On the road with Bonnie and Clyde' by John Gilmore
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On another note, I'm giving up on Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation. I'm half way through and struggling with it.
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Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Let me look and see if I still have my copy of that one to send you. It's by far the best book on her. "Good to know."
I no longer have it. But my recommendation stands.
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "On another note, I'm giving up on Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation. I'm half way through and struggling with it."I'm amazed to see this post. I adore that book.
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Good to know."
I no longer have it. But my recomme..."
No worries, I was able to get a Kindle copy for $4
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