Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American FrontierSusan JonusasNon-fiction, hardback A deep look into the mysterious Bender family, whose claim to fame involved murdering at least 11 people and burying them in their Kansas homestead orchard. Many sensational reports have been written about the “bloody Benders” and…
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Top Ten Tuesday: My Spring TBR List
(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish.) Looking at my main TBR list is a little overwhelming, so at the beginning of each year I like to make a separate, much shorter list of books to tackle. Here’s some of the books from that list I’d…
Review: My Planet
My obsession with Mary Roach is well documented, so I was surprised to learn that she once wrote articles for Reader’s Digest. Fortunately the editors of this classic American magazine are geniuses, and recently published all of Roach’s columns in My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places. Not only are the essays further evidence…
2013 End of Year Book Survey
I’m in the middle of Christmas visiting and moving, so my reading has dropped down to practically zero. The only upside to this is that I have brain space to think about this year’s reading overall. Best Books in 2013 1. Best book you read In 2013? Like I could pick just one. The Little…
Review: Gulp
My obsession with all things Mary Roach is well known, so of course I was glad to get my hands on a copy of her most recent masterpiece, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. This book marks the author’s return to the taboo aspects of the human body; but instead of talking about decomposition (Stiff)…