Since I last posted about my reading adventures, I've read four more books. Here they are:
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Book # 29 -
Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield - The author is a music journalist, and I've seen him on several VH1 shows where they are talking about loving the '80s or other compilation type music shows. I like music. I like books. I made mix tapes. I have experienced love, life, and loss. This was a book for me. Many, many of the music references are from the indie rock world (not exactly my world of music), but the author and I are close to the same age. He makes a few hair band references and chronicles musical genres/decades that I can easily follow. He has a few other published books that I've added to my "to read" list.
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Book # 30 -
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn - I preferred this book to the author's much more popular
Gone Girl. It was dark and disturbing, but I still found myself relating to the main character.
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Book # 31 -
The Mourning Hours by Paula Treick DeBoard - This book was recommended on www.goodreads.com because of my reading lists and ratings of other books. I'm glad it was. It was another heart-wrenching, tumultous family crime type book (like the previous one), and I liked it even more than the previous one. Never heard of the author; never heard of the book; but it was a good one.
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Life After Death by Damien Echols - Damien Echols spent 18 years on death row for a heinous crime that he most likely did not commit. This book does not go into detail about that crime. You can google West Memphis 3 to find enough articles about that. This book is insight to a person's psyche who lives over half his life on death row. I'm a supporter of strong punishment for people who commit unspeakable, heinous crimes. But, I also know that there are people on death row who don't belong there. Huge dilemma, I know. I find Damien Echols fascinating, and I think he appreciates his freedom and the little things in life a whole lot more than most of us.
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