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A new ERHBC catalog came and I sent for:The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
See How Much You Love Me: A Troubled Teen, His Devoted Parents, and a Cold-Blooded Killing
The Valentino Affair: The Jazz Age Murder Scandal That Shocked New York Society and Gripped the World
There were several others I wanted, but prices have gone up. They even have to charge sales tax now.
New year in an old thread.I've found a book I want to read for my next challenge some time this year, and welcome anyone who wants to join me.
It's just published this week, or maybe just came out in paperback, so I don't yet know about availablity. It is titled "Tinderbox: the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge..." by Richard Keiseler.
It sounds quite topical to read given the climate around the LGBTQ community.
Another book on the UpStairs Lounge fire??? That means it gets its own shelf!!!
I couldn't find it in any format at Amazon. Sob!
Fishface wrote: "I couldn't find it in any format at Amazon. Sob!"https://www.amazon.com/Tinderbox-Unto...
TY! After experimenting I found it doesn't come up unless you search for "tinderbox the untold story." Gotta love the GR search function.*bleakly missing Shelfari*
Fishface wrote: "TY! After experimenting I found it doesn't come up unless you search for "tinderbox the untold story." Gotta love the GR sesrch function.*bleakly missing Shelfari*"
You're welcome, Fish.
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation arrived in the same mail. The mailer had been savagely ripped open but the book was completely undamaged.
Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970sThis book is beautifully written! I highly recommend it.
Now reading The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World.
Saw some cheapsters at Kindle and bought No, Pete Townshend: The Kids Aren't Alright; A Checklist for Murder; The Last Time We Saw Her; and The DC Dead Girls Club: A Vintage True Crime Story of Four Unsolved Murders in Washington DC.
Just sent for my very own hardcover copy of Cooking Price Wise, one of Vincent Price's fabled gourmet cookbooks. He once taught Johnny Carson how to poach fish in a dishwasher on his talk show, and had a promotional deal with Angostura bitters to use it in recipes so you'd see him in women's magazines sauteing hotdogs in Angostura and madness like that. I can hardly wait.
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Eagerly dove into A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America as soon as it arrived in the mail. TOTALLY fascinating book. For one thing, it's really taking me back to my undergrad years. I knew some skinheads myself in those days, but I have no way of knowing whether they were posers just wearing the look as a fashion statement, or ppl seriously into kicking the crap out of anyone they didn't think was white. The former, I suspect; Ann Arbor, where I lived at the time, is not only highly racially diverse but extremely protective of anyone who isn't a middle-class WASP. Anyone who tried to indulge in "Paki bashing" there would probably be hung up by his Doc Martens by angry hippies.Except that one guy. He was from Muskegon and listened to Oi (a skinhead-specific music genre, as black metal is specific to card-carrying Satanists). He could have been the real deal.
This is only the second book I have ever read that mentioned the Dayglo Abortions (a band of that era). The other, FYI, was Book of the Dead.
Totally absorbed in A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America. The things I am learning in here. Oy.
Now in the middle of both Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided and Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial.
I finally just decided to send for another copy of To Kill and Kill Again so I can re-read it. I was looking up some details of the WAYNE Nance case and every single thing I found out was news to me, even though I supposedly read this book, the only one on him.Oh, and my eagerly-anticipated copy of Slayer of Innocence arrived today. Pristine hardcover.
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Fishface wrote: "Oh, and my eagerly-anticipated copy of Slayer of Innocence arrived today. Pristine hardcover."
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Started Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis"Guh. That sounds smiley.
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Guh. That sounds smiley."
Accurate.
About a third of the way into The Pentagon: A History. The last thing I expected this book to be was suspenseful! I thought it would be like a 2-pound sleeping pill but it's really zinging along.
Always! I'm always reading at least 3 books.
Fishface wrote: "TY! After experimenting I found it doesn't come up unless you search for "tinderbox the untold story." Gotta love the GR search function.*bleakly missing Shelfari*"
really missing Shelfari
Just started reading Your Eyes Or Your Life: The True Story Of The Central Park Jogger Rapist -- clumsily written but very, very interesting. The story of Matias Reyes, the guy who really did nearly kill the Central Park Jogger.
I'm reading "Etched in Sand: The True Story of Five Sisters..." by Regina Calcaterra.
The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue by John Glatt4 stars
This was all over the news a couple of years ago. The husband with the Captain Kangaroo haircut and his wife who kept their 13 children prisoners in their house, chained them, beat them and starved them, didnt educate them so that even the children who were adults were afraid to escape. Even the neighbors had no idea what was going on. The craziest thing was that the father filed with the state of California as a private school, not just a home school, and no inspections were done. Eventually one of the children did escape and when the children were discovered the were emaciated, filthy and smelly. This is the worst case of child abuse I have ever read about and I hope they are all doing well now. This was a quick read, which I was glad about, because who would want to spend a lot of time reading about this case. I only have one complaint and that is that once the children were found the rest of the book is mostly repetition of what we have already been told.
Your Eyes or Your Life: The True Story of the Central Park Jogger Rapist, Richard Siracusa3 solid stars
I no longer remember just what I expected from this book, because the author -- who has represented Matias Reyes in court -- took me off in a completely different direction. He told me a lot more about the case than I would have thought he was allowed, and he went through everything to try to really clarify what happened. And it was not at all what I expected. And he may well be completely correct. This book needed much better text and copy editing before it was released, but don't let that stop you. This is a real eye-opener.
Now about halfway into Briar Patch: The Murder That Would Not Die and it appears not to be truly fictionalized. But for some reason the author decided to change the names of all kinds of central characters in the story. He transparently did this to distract attention from the fact that his own last name is Shomette, the same as the older briar patch victim, suggesting that he is a relative. But -- remember Melvin "Dave" Rees, the maniac killer called the Sex Beast in the press? He is a side story in here and for no reason his name was changed to Bernard "Dave" Breese. The names of his victims were also changed. For no reason. I just don't get it. He didn't change any other details -- locations, dates, details of his crimes, his press nickname -- so you know exactly who he is anyway.Weird.
Just started White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out. It's wonderfully written.
I'm waiting 'till after New Years to start a new book, and then I'll begin Gregg Olsen's "If You Tell". It's fairly long (over 400 pages), and thus will fit in with my plan for 2020 to read more lengthy books for next year's GoodReads reading challenge. After the Olsen book, I'm thinking Marlon James' "A Brief History of Seven Killings", which is considered fiction but is based on an attempt made on Bob Marley's life. That one weighs in at 688 pages!
I’m reading If You Tell now, it’s pretty good
Robyn wrote: "I’m reading If You Tell now, it’s pretty good"Good to know.
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Koren gave If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood 5 stars.
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Hari wrote: "I'm waiting 'till after New Years to start a new book, and then I'll begin Gregg Olsen's "If You Tell". It's fairly long (over 400 pages), and thus will fit in with my plan for 2020 to..."That makes my hopeful. Lately, I've become suspicious of long True Crime books, afraid they maybe padded with boring, unnecessary filler. Maybe not this one.
Just started yhe book that arrrived 2 days ago, Teresita, the Voice from the Grave: The Incredible But True Story of How an Occult Vision Solved the Murder of Teresita Basa. Same authors as Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers and just as well- written.
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Hari wrote: "I'm waiting 'till after New Years to start a new book, and then I'll begin Gregg Olsen's "If You Tell". It's fairly long (over 400 pages), and thus will fit in with my plan for 2020 to..."I read If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood on Kindle so I didnt get the feel of how thick the book was but it went fast and didnt seem like a long book. I think you will want to make it last and yet want to see how it all ends at the same time.
Fishface wrote: "A new ERHBC catalog came and I sent for:The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
[book:Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime|..."
All of those books sound interesting.
Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story by Ron Franscell5 stars
One of my favorite true crime authors and this book did not disappoint. Gerald would do anything for Alice, including murdering his ex-wife and kids. Amazing that this case took over 30 years to solve and if not for the determination of a couple of cops (and the low IQ of the murderers) , it would still be unsolved. My heart went out to the mother and grandmother of the victims. Hopefully, they were reunited in heaven.
Squidmas TC:Crime Archive: John Christie
Breaking Blue
And one I just sent for myself, because Christmas!
Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder
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Now I'm switching away from true crime for a while and started The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why