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Aftrr taking my whole house apart looking for my copy of Ted Bundy: The Killer Next Door, I gave up and sent for another. It arrived yesterday. Unto the breach!!!Of course I know this means the missing volume will turn up shortly.
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I'm reading, like 4 books, none of them true crime, but I have a request at my library system for "Dancing with the Devil", written by Andrew Bagley's parents, Zachary Bagley's grandparents. I saw the documentary about this case so I know the basic events. Soooooo sad...
Killer Triggers: Murder Comes Down to Sex, Drugs, or Money by Joe KendaThis is his second book and I love it so far. As I read it, I hear his voice in the words! Oh, it is a review book and will be out in March 2021.
Enthralled with Mignonette. I foolishly assumed it was based on the sunken-yacht case -- the boat was called "Mignonette" -- but this has zero to do with that story. All Shearing's novels were based on famous crimes but I will have to look this one up in Blood and Ink: An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature to finger out what the true story was.
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This is his second book and I love it so far. As I read it, I hear his voice in the words! Oh, it is a review book and will ..."
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I've just started "The Pale-Faces Lie", David Crow.
The Fallen Girls by Kathryn Casey3 stars
Gotta say it...I'm a huge fan of this author's true crime, not so much the fiction crime books. If this was written more like a true crime I think I would have liked it more. I would have liked to have explored the backgrounds of the characters more and how they thought. The premise was interesting. An ex-Mormon fundamentalist comes back to the community to solve the mystery of her missing sister. She has been ostracized by the community which makes her job quite a bit harder. I thought the outcome was somewhat predictable.
Hari wrote: "I've just started "The Pale-Faces Lie", David Crow."I have this. Did you like it?
Plunged right into Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, a library book, after being very impressed with the author when I heard an interview with her on NPR. She's a history professor but doesn't blather at all. I knew her book would be good if her writing is as clear and concise as her conversation, and it really, really is. It traces the current-day white power movement to the Vietnam War, of all things, and explains why the characterization of every racist atrocity as a unique incident caused by a "lone wolf" with psychological issues is dead wrong.
It took so long for my ERHBC order to come I'd forgotten all about it. Just got See How Much You Love Me: A Troubled Teen, His Devoted Parents, and a Cold-Blooded Killing, The Mile End Murder, Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad and The Last Stone.
I found a book, by chance, browsing at my local library (YES they allow BROWSING, for, like 20 min...) titled "Buying In", by Laura Hemphill. It appears to be about a female Wall Street analyst weathering the financial crisis of 2009 (the book begins in 2007). So, I'm hoping, it will give me insights into what actually happened before and during the banking crash, in a palatable way, perhaps understandable to a financially challenged reader, with some sex thrown in.More to come, because I'm currently wading through a 625 +/- page book by Ken Kesey so have not started "Buying In" yet.
Hari wrote: "I found a book, by chance, browsing at my local library (YES they allow BROWSING, for, like 20 min...) titled "Buying In", by Laura Hemphill. It appears to be about a female Wall Street analyst wea..."If you're open to a movie about it, THE BIG SHORT made it pretty clear to me. Come to think of it, that's also based on a book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.
Fishface wrote: "Hari wrote: "I found a book, by chance, browsing at my local library (YES they allow BROWSING, for, like 20 min...) titled "Buying In", by Laura Hemphill. It appears to be about a female Wall Stree..."Excellent! I've seen it, but need to see it again for better understanding. Thanks.
Hari wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Hari wrote: "I found a book, by chance, browsing at my local library (YES they allow BROWSING, for, like 20 min...) titled "Buying In", by Laura Hemphill. It appears to be about a ..."Negative perspiration Hari!
Fishface wrote: "Hari wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Hari wrote: "I found a book, by chance, browsing at my local library (YES they allow BROWSING, for, like 20 min...) titled "Buying In", by Laura Hemphill. It appears t..."What?! Negative perspiration?! Recompute!
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Almost square in the middle of Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities.
I am a few pages into The Nilsen File: Re-Opened. I am not sure whether to consider this a new book or an updated edition of The Nilsen File. It seems very different even 23 pages in but then I have not read the first book in years.
Loved The Nilsen File: Re-opened: Includes Nilsen’s own words smuggled from his prison cell and moved on from there to Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad. I am learning a lot about the case from this book. I thought I was following along with the case pretty well but I missed nearly everything that happened, as it turns out.
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