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“No one could possess a shred of doubt that Olalla’s most famous institution was the sanitarium up on the heights.”

Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olson

June 30, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I added Starvation Heights to my list of books to read back in 2017 but it wasn’t until my current run of true crime reads that it made its way in front of my eyeballs. Part of me, a not insignificant part of me, wishes that I had picked this book up seven years ago and read it then, I think I might have enjoyed it more if I had. Or if I had not read it immediately following The League of Lady Poisoners.   The […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Gregg Olson, historic true crime, medical death, Starvation Heights, true crime

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:23 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Gregg Olson, historic true crime, medical death, Starvation Heights, true crime ·
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Libraries are amazing

The Girl in his Shadow by Audrey Blake

September 12, 2022 by wicherwill 3 Comments

What a fantastic example of how libraries are amazing, and how nostalgic I am for those halcyon days when I’d go with my parents (or at school) and get recommendations and check out 15 books at once to see what I enjoy. As an American who’s lived in privileged communities with substantive funding, I never knew what I had vis-à-vis public libraries until I moved overseas and was able to compare. I say all this because this book was the “book club read” for my […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Audrey Blake, medical death

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:106 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Audrey Blake, medical death ·
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