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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
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hello Beehaw, it's a sleepy morning--and i did not get very much sleep. luckily i have no social priorities so this is not a big deal. currently reading a number of books after completely crashing out of doing that for the entire month of June. i think i can get about 3 in before the end of the month, we'll see

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[-] alyaza@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

just finished two books today: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer and The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change. i have concluded that i dislike most true crime and that i mostly derive amusement from such books because they display how incompetent a lot of cops are. i would recommend The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time if you would like to know about what it takes to do a scientific mission in the Arctic

[-] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I finished the book on Endurance by Alfred Lansing which was pretty amazing. TGPEoAT sound pretty cool, will definitely be checking it out :) Thank you. Have you read In Cold Blood (?) by Truman Capote which is supposed to have basically started true crime as a genre?

[-] alyaza@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Have you read In Cold Blood (?) by Truman Capote which is supposed to have basically started true crime as a genre?

no, already have a huge backlog (400+, even at a pace of 40 books a year) so i have no idea when i'd get to it either lol

[-] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Lol I know what you mean. Looking at my audiobook catalogue gives me anxiety sometimes 🤣

[-] Nyla_Smokeyface@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I've read In Cold Blood for school in high school junior year. WOW that was a good and heart-wrenching book.

[-] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

It was, but not just that I've read somewhere that the book managed to influence the jury who was hearing the case because it was so popular.

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