365 Books: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson

I picked this book up at the Walla Walla annual book fair which, I am sure, is called something else entirely, something involving the word Whitman. You can look it up; it's held in the ballroom at the Marcus Whitman hotel which, until recently, was the the tallest building in Walla Walla. The book fair …

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365 Books: The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

This book sucked me in. I had just finished reading The Midnight Library for some reason I can't remember, and discovered this book, which is, oddly enough, more about a library than a book. The book starts with a young girl who lives in the middle of a dusty nowhere, a tiny community of people …

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365 Books: Monsters of the Sea by Richard Ellis

How do you choose the next book you're going to read? I often reach for something adjacent to what I've just finished reading. For example, if I'm reading a book about H.H. Holmes, I might reach next for a book about the Chicago World's Fair, about Chicago architecture, or about serial killers of the turn …

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365 Books: Twelve Days of Terror by Richard G. Fernicola, M.D.

One summer, my mother took us to Florida to visit my grandparents and my father stayed home to work. To offset the stress, he exercised. His usual M.O. was to jog until he was exhausted, drink a beer to "recalcitrate" (not a medical term although he used it that way), then swim laps in the …

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