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Non Fiction End of Year Round- Up

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

December 26, 2019 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

I think it is safe to say I completely fell off the CBR wagon but as the year draws to a close, and my office currently has a total of five people in, I wanted to try and get caught up on reviews. This seemed like a perfectly reasonable task until I wrote out every book title I still needed to review and realized I was nineteen books behind while still actively reading two other books. So in lieu of complete, well thought out reviews […]

Stripping away the air of glamour to reveal gangsters who were actually pretty crap at robbing banks

October 8, 2018 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Go Down Together was bought immediately after I read and loved Jeff Guinn’s The Road to Jonestown, and was no disappointment. Prior to reading this, I knew the very basics about the pair – Depression era gangsters and snappy dressers, who went down together in a hail of bullets. After reading this, I feel I know the pair rather intimately – and was rather surprised to have some of the more popular myths about them demolished. Both hailing from incredibly poverty stricken backgrounds – the […]

Horrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure

September 25, 2018 by TheShitWizard 2 Comments

Sometimes you come across a book that is so mind-blowingly good, you immediately go out and purchase every book ever written by the author. The Road to Jonestown was such a book. A huge, fat book that’s more than worth the effort, it tells you everything you ever wanted to know and more about the Reverend Jim Jones, his followers, just how he got hundreds of otherwise intelligent people to cede control of every aspect of their lives, and the sequence of events that led […]

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