Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

To catch a killer…

Whoever Fights Monsters by Robert K Ressler

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I don’t know how I’d never heard of this book before. First hearing about it on My Favourite Murder, I’d already read and loved Mindhunter, by Robert K Ressler’s sometime partner John Douglas. Having loved that, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Whoever Fights Monsters was even better. Robert K Ressler was the FBI agent who pretty much started the whole profiling ball rolling, when he took it upon himself to start interviewing some of the worst serial murderers the American justice system has ever caught and incarcerated. If you’ve heard of them, he’s interviewed them – including Charles […]

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8/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:49 |

Why I’ll never help anyone with a broken limb

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

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I was about 8 or 9 years old when I first stumbled upon a book of my dad’s – an encyclopaedia of serial killers. Up until that point, I’d known that people died, whether that be through accident, illness, war or whatever, but it was this book that informed me that sometimes people died because someone enjoyed hurting them. Given that I’ve been reading about murder ever since, I’m amazed that thirty years later I’d still somehow never got around to reading The Stranger Beside Me – a giant in the true crime genre thanks to the unusual circumstances that […]

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7/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

History AND true crime? Yes please.

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold

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I’ve gotten somewhat behind with my reviewing after taking a week out in incredibly sunny Crete, so please forgive my brain dump whilst I catch up. First up for my holiday reads was Underworld London, combining my fascinations with true crime and history into one entertaining and informative book in the company of Catharine Arnold, someone who I’ve already read much of and enjoyed. Underworld London takes a look at crime and punishment throughout London’s history, from the medieval executions for pretty much anything (with over 170 capital offences recorded at one point, you could be hung or burnt at […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

A strange anti-depressant, but it worked for me!

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas, Mark Olshaker

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I’ve fallen down something of a true crime rabbit hole recently. Having watched Mommy Dead and Dearest, The Keepers, The Staircase and more episodes of Forensic Files than I’d have thought imaginable, I picked this up one sleepless night and didn’t stop to put it down until I’d finished just over a day later. I’ve since noticed that a series based on this book will soon be coming to Netflix – October now can’t come soon enough for me. John Douglas was not only an FBI agent, but the man credited with making psychological profiling what it is today and […]

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6/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

I’ll be staying at home, thanks…

The Lost City of Z by David Grann

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Ever since reading The Worst Journey in the World, an account written by one of the survivors of Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole, I’ve been fascinated by explorers. Until now, I’ve read exclusively about explorers of the Antarctic. The Lost City of Z takes us to the other extreme – the Amazonian jungle. While the polar explorers are faced with a bleak, desolate and treacherous landscape, freezing temperatures, rationing and storms, those who enter the jungle are faced with dangers that are slightly more numerous – including terrible heat, poisonous flora and fauna, potentially hostile indigenous people […]

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5/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

A frightening man, a so-so book

Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wentzl, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana, L Kelly

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I spent the best part of the Bank Holiday weekend reading about creepy real life encounters, when I came across a post on a serial killer who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill). Although I’ve read rather a lot of true crime books, I hadn’t really come across BTK before and so headed to the kindle store to rectify that. And although this did give me all of the facts, I kind of wish I’d had someone else relay them to me. BTK – or Dennis Rader – first struck in 1974, killing four members of the Otero family – […]

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4/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

Mary Roach is a never ending delight, but this was not my book.

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

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You guys, I love Mary Roach books. I think she is a delightful author and I really enjoy her perspective on the world. Her Packing for Mars is one of my comfort books; I have read it several times, and I recommend her books to everyone. I did not love this book like I have loved her others, and I have struggled a bit to write this review. This book is entered around war, and the science surrounding trying to keep soldier safe, healthy and sane, for the most part. Some of the science is of course very interesting, but […]

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4/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

The town, not the planet

Dispatches From Pluto by Richard Grant

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  In Dispatches from Pluto, British-born travel writer Richard Grant takes a trip to meet a friend in the Mississippi Delta, and ends up buying her father’s old plantation house. Moving his girlfriend and dog from a tiny Manhattan apartment, they throw themselves into Delta life – battling the snakes, armadillos and sometimes alligators that inhabit their garden, wrangling weeds that grow faster than they can yank them, hunting food for the table, discovering how hard it can be to heat a creaky old house in winter, and getting to know their new neighbours. As well as telling the story […]

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1/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

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