What I Liked In a world where people are obsessed with true crime reading a book that centers on forensics was very intriguing to me. I really liked that it was a grouping of short stories. Each one featured a different case that Oscar Heinrich covered. Despite being individual in their own right, the author […]
Goodreads Updates Susan Orlean’s voice droned though out the book, and I almost felt as if she was bored and just going through the motions. I did speed up the pace on my audiobook which did help, but I still felt like I was being read a book by my high school English teacher. Yes, […]
Reviews Done Quick I picked up Into The Wild while at my family’s cabin in Northern Wisconsin. From a landscape perspective it seemed like a perfect match. All I can say is thank goodness it is short. As usual, Jon Krakauer’s writing was spot on, it was his subject matter that was the problem, Christopher […]
After finishing Missoula by Jon Krakauer I found it difficult to collect my thoughts. Thus, I decided to write short and sweet to keep my mind from jumping from thought to thought. The subject and its writing is powerful with chilling testimony and a heartbreaking story. Missoula by Jon Krakauer is a book that must […]
This book made me angry, I found there to be six victims in this story not three, and a vast miscarriage of justice. The West Memphis Three as they have been dubbed were guilty the minute they walked into the courtroom due to a biased jury and judge. Misskelley, who clearly has some learning disabilities […]
To better understand these motives Jon Krakauer, the author flip-flops between the heinous, unbelievable actions of 1984 and the creation of the Mormon religion and its prophet, Joseph Smith. Discovering the golden plates and the start of the religion was very interesting but the disturbing subject of polygamy and how Fundamentalists behave then and now […]
Like most historic events or tragedies, you can remember where you were and what you were doing. I was fourteen at the time so don’t remember exactly that but have a very vivid memory just a few weeks afterward. I was in 8th grade and a boy a class behind mine brought two walkie talkies […]