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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