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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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…
Top 10 Tuesday: Books for People Who Don’t Like to Read
(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Want to make your own list? Clicking the image will take you to this week’s post. Happy listing!) Topics like this are tricky; I don’t want to force on someone a book they won’t like, but if they don’t…
Top 10 Tuesday: Favorite Books of 2011
(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Want to make your own list? Clicking the image will take you to this week’s post. Happy listing!) I read a lot of books this year, so when I saw this list coming up, I thought I’d be in…
Top 10 Tuesday: Books I Wish I Could Read for the First Time Again
(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Want to make your own list? Clicking the image will take you to this week’s post. Happy listing!) There are several books that I tend to read over and over again; although I enjoy the story each time, inevitably…