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Acquisitions ~ And WHAT ARE YOU READING? Anything goes ~ 2017
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "I was able to get a Kindle copy for $4 "
In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980 arrived in the mail today. The sections are shorter than I wanted, but oh, the glory of reading about all these cases! There are several serial killers I never heard of before, or have heard of but never found more than a sentence or two about. And photos, photos, photos!
I started reading Anyone's Son by Roberta Roesch with Harry De La Roche, Jr. It is very interesting.
Oh, I found that one quite gripping!I am utterly absorbed in The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City. About young parents who killed all three of their kids.
Stumbled across a new Jeff Guinn at the library called The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. I've never read such a good book on the Jonestown Massacre. It goes back generations to help the reader understand the many, many influences and chains of circumstance that went into those 914 deaths.I am starting to wonder, though, what's up with Guinn. He only seems to choose TC cases that have already been covered at considerable length, to put it mildly. There are nearly 50 books on Jonestown just on our TC shelf. Doubtless there are even more to be had out there. There is a similar number of books available already on the Manson Family and Bonnie and Clyde. But there's Jeff Guinn putting in his 2 cents...he's not writing about anyone who isn't a household name.
I started reading Nightmare In Napa by Paul LaRosa. Interesting...
I have just gotten home from the library with "And the Sea will Tell" by Vincent Bugliosi, and am about to open It. Hope it's good. The story itself is compelling. 555 pages not counting the appendix...(I also got "Tell Me How This Ends Well" by David Samuel Levinson. Isn't that a great title?)
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Tell Me How This Ends Well"
I am not having much luck finding an August challenge book.
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My copy of The Trials of Israel Lipski: A True Story of a Victorian Murder in the East End of London just came in at the library.
Fishface, did you review The Road to Jonestown? It sounds like something I'd be interested in - want to get your opinion.
I'm still reading it. It's slow going because I'm working with Who Died on November 18, 1978 in the Jonestown, Guyana Mass Murder-Suicides open in my lap, trying to attach names to faces. Leo Ryan is about to get on a plane to Guyana so there's isn't a lot of the book left at this point.Two-word review: It's excellent.
I got an advance copy of DEATH IN THE AIR Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City at Book Expo this year and it is SO good!
Odette wrote: "I got an advance copy of DEATH IN THE AIR Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City at Book Expo this year and it is S..."Who's the killer? Or don't you know yet at this point in the book?
Fishface wrote: "Odette wrote: "I got an advance copy of DEATH IN THE AIR Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City at Book Expo this y..."NO...I have not heard of it Fishface but I want to get it now. This book looks like an 'edge of your seat' book.
I started reading Smoldering Embers by Joy Wellman, Lisa McVey and Susan Replogle. It is interesting....
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Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Rita wrote: "I started reading Smoldering Embers by Joy Wellman, Lisa McVey and Susan Replogle. It is interesting....""Arte your comments not getting thru, Bella, or what? I keep seeing you quoting ppl but there is no comment attached...
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Arte your comments not getting thru, B..."
I do that to create a link to a book if the person posting doesn't link it.
Gosh Bella, actually I don't know what you mean about linking it? I've never heard of it.
You've never heard of the book or you don't know how to link it?In order to link a book, when you're typing a post like I am now, you'll see 'add book/author' just above the typing block. If you click on that you can search for a book and then add the link to the book in your comment. You may know that; I just wasn't sure from your comment!
K.A. wrote: "You've never heard of the book or you don't know how to link it?In order to link a book, when you're typing a post like I am now, you'll see 'add book/author' just above the typing block. If you ..."
Oh yes of course I do know K.A. I just didn't hear it said like this. I just tried once again to go to add book/author and clicked on cover put in the info and BINGO....not available. This is what is going on with my computer and perhaps it could be the problem. It worked with a couple of other reviews that I did. Thanks for your post K.A. I appreciate it!!!1
I have issues finding books via the add book/author link too, I must admit - even my own books sometimes. It's not a very good search function and I find it frustrating.
K.A. wrote: "I have issues finding books via the add book/author link too, I must admit - even my own books sometimes. It's not a very good search function and I find it frustrating."K.A., I am glad you said that. I find goodreads extremely frustrating and I wish we could go back to Shelfari. Well, for now at least I can take away a little less guilt for not succeeding. Thanks K.A.
I don't think we're the only ones. I sometimes drop in on the Goodreads Feedback group and there are ongoing discussions about search functions and other difficulties!
K.A. wrote: "I don't think we're the only ones. I sometimes drop in on the Goodreads Feedback group and there are ongoing discussions about search functions and other difficulties!"Yes, I have heard a few of the complaints. Who is the boss here and why aren't these questions dealt with or am I not understanding the way it works...probably not. Thanks K.A.
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In order to link a book, when you're typing a post like I am now, you'll see 'add book/author' just above the typing b..."
You type the name into the search field and when the book comes up click on the add button not on the cover.
Of course I may have misunderstood what you typed.
I know you have done it before.
Rita wrote: "Yes, I have heard a few of the complaints. Who is the boss here and why aren't these questions dealt with or am I not understanding the way it works...probably not. Thanks K.A. "
Rita, I keep referring you back to this group where you can connect to the bosses -- the programmers and webmasters:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
K.A. wrote: "I have issues finding books via the add book/author link too, I must admit - even my own books sometimes. It's not a very good search function and I find it frustrating."I haven't had too much trouble finding a book in the 'add book/author function. Sometimes if you get one word wrong or spelled wrong it wont find it. For instance, I tried False Prophet and about 50 books popped up but not the one I wanted. The actual title is THE False Prophet and that made a difference. When I put the author's name in along with the book title then I got the right one.
I know the titles of my own books, though.
Finally reading Life: The Man Who Kidnapped Barbara Mackle. Boy, is this guy flowery! At one point, where he could have just said "I'd never seen a dead person before," he says "I had never witnessed mortal clay with the spirit departed..." I crap you negative, the whole book reads like this.
Larger vocabulary does not a better book make.
I'll say. It's hilarious when he finally quotes a real conversation he has with someone, and he outs himself as not talking like that at all. "'Yeah, my a$$ is grass,' quoth I sorrowfully with great lamentation..."
I just started reading Saint of Circumstance by Sheila Weller. I read another book of her's and she is amazing.
Koren wrote: "K.A. wrote: "I have issues finding books via the add book/author link too, I must admit - even my own books sometimes. It's not a very good search function and I find it frustrating."I haven't ha..."
Koren, that is what I found out too.
I am reading blood on the buld fields by judith cranswick my first time reading this author and i am not far in the book. I am enjoying the book but the story is just getting started really although a murder has happened but i am not sure if it will be the only one in the book but i will keep reading and find out.Blood on the Bulbfields
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Bought this yesterday at Barnes and Noble. It looks super interesting: Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
I'm a few pages into the utterly absorbing Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder. It's every bit as good as her other book on a crime, The Dead Girl.
I'm reading The Revolution of Robert Kennedy. Its about the last 5 years of his life. I'm also reading Past Mortems by Carla Valentine. Its a memoir of British "Death Professional" (although that sounds like she's a serial killer).
Erin wrote: "I'm reading The Revolution of Robert Kennedy. Its about the last 5 years of his life. I'm also reading Past Mortems by Carla Valentine. Its a memoir of British "Death Professional" (although that..."
OK, if she's not a serial killer (or "series killer" as they call them across the pond), what IS a death professional?
Fishface wrote: "Erin wrote: "I'm reading The Revolution of Robert Kennedy. Its about the last 5 years of his life. I'm also reading Past Mortems by Carla Valentine. Its a memoir of British "Death Professional" (..."
I've never heard of "death professional" (which doesn't seem to be part of current lingo). I wonder if it's somebody who deals in death, but not out of some patently obvious psychological compulsion. Say, for money. The Roman widows I'm currently writing about constantly get lumped in with serial killers, but the most famous may never have killed anyone: she just sold the poison to other, wannabee widows.
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Obsessed with True Crime
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I'm amazed to see this post. I adore that book. "
I remember your recommendation. Don't know what it was, just couldn't get into it.