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Month: March 2024
365 Books: Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh
If you drew a map of your world, what would it look like? When I was in grad school, we participated in the exercise of drawing a map of our offices.* I chose to draw a map of my floor: my office was along the route to the lunch room, a high-traffic route that meant …
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365 Books: The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
Human memory is an amazing thing. The great influenza that occurred during WWI is common knowledge now. But one of the things that historians and disease-hunters found surprising when looking back in retrospect, was how thoroughly people had blotted the memory out of their minds. This was no flash in the pan, like the Legionnaires …
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365 Books: The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
What stories do you tell yourself? This book is, more than anything else, a book about stories. There are the stories that the other 10-year-olds make up about Pia after her grandmother dies in an Advent wreath accident one nightmarish Christmas season, stories meant to hurt and drive away someone that makes them feel uncomfortable …
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365 Books: A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
What if an architect turned his mind to crime? That is precisely what Geoff Manaugh, an architect, does in this book. But he starts his story with the tale of another architect who turned his mind to crime in the 19th century. That man, George Leonidas Leslie, formed a gang that one official surmised was …
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