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I am having a very hard time putting this book down. I love it!

What a glorious book!

Ugh, I am having such a hard time with this book! A good friend recommended it, but so far the characters are flat and uninteresting. Atwood's bleak future includes child pornography and genetically-engineered creatures that started out as pets, but have become creepy feral creatures after a plague. Putting it aside for now, but it may be a book I don't finish.

I just read the "You might say that's ok" speech that Schiff delivered to the intelligence committee immediately after the nine Republicans on that committee demanded his resignation as chairman. I was so struck by his refusal to bend his standards and his conviction to get the truth out to the American people, that I had to watch the video again. He is truly a man of principle and I am proud he's my Representative.

I love that the author of this book (formerly his assistant and coauthor) interviewed nearly 100 people from different time periods in Bourdain's life. What emerges is a complicated, but more complete, picture of what shaped his extraordinary life.

This has to be one of the best books I've read and I'm only about halfway done! Gruesome murders set in a tiny town in Mississippi are likely tied in to the very real lynching of Emmet Till in 1955. Retribution? The FBI and special investigators are black, but the town is predominantly white, with their very own KKK. The writing is exquisite, and wonderfully full of humor, despite the subject matter.

Horrifyingly great read.

This book is heartbreaking! The author has researched the five women murdered by Jack the Ripper and destroys the assumption that all five were prostitutes (and by implication, either expendable or "they had it coming"). It's a detailed and vibrant look at Victorian times in London and the lives these women tried to lead amid misfortunes and this mysogynistic time.