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Triflers need not apply

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

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I had no idea until someone mentioned it that Amazon Prime members get to buy four (I think it’s four) pre-release books for nothing throughout a year – Hell’s Princess was my first free prime e-book as well as the first kindle edition I’ve ever seen that includes moving artwork, with newspaper photos and articles that zoom in to the pertinent parts and illustrations based on some of the content. While the newspaper parts worked well for this book, I’m not sure that the illustrations added much, although it did make me hope that I can download versions of graphic […]

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4/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

Saving their story from obscurity

Code Girls by Liza Mundy

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3.5 stars. I’ve heard so much about Bletchley Park code breakers and the Native American code talkers, that it somehow never even occurred to me that there were tons of Americans actively engaged in breaking both German and Japanese codes during World War II. Like the women at Bletchley Park, the American code women were sworn to secrecy about their work and it’s only now that their work is coming to light. Liza Mundy spent an incredible amount of time and effort tracking down women still living who were cryptanalysts during the war and interviewing them about their experiences. She […]

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4/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

I now need to bathe in bleach.

Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burns

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Sweet Fucking Jeezus.  I was 15 when bodies started being brought out of 25 Cromwell Street and, like the rest of the country, I equal parts fascinated and horrified at what else was unearthed alongside the remains of the young women that had fallen victim to Fred and Rose West. Thanks to the wall to wall media coverage that accompanied the investigation, I thought I had a fair idea of the depths of depravity that the West’s were capable of. Reading Happy Like Murderers quickly disabused me of that notion. Both from nightmarish backgrounds, with families who regularly engaged in […]

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1/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

B@*!@*ds!

The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It by Owen Jones

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In The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, journalist Owen Jones takes a look at who and what exactly make up The Establishment in Britain and lays out the long con that has been played on a British public that has swallowed hook, line and sinker, the lie that the Establishment only wants the best for our country and that the blame for all of our problems lies squarely with the disabled, unemployed and immigrants, rather than the shower of greedy shits at the top who continue to line their pockets even as large swathes of Britain line […]

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12/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:61 |

A Slight Disappointment

A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley

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The British have apparently long been fascinated with crime and criminals, from the crowds that would gleefully gather to watch public executions hundreds of years ago right up to the Sunday night telly watcher, inhaling the latest series of Sherlock. In A Very British Murder, Lucy Worsley – she who’s also regularly on telly as one of its more engaging historians – looks at the British appetite for murders most foul, and how those appetites have affected and evolved our most popular forms of entertainment. Taking in penny dreadfuls, puppet shows, popular songs, gothic melodramas and detective novels, more than […]

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11/19/2017 's CBR9 Review No:59 |

Containing few cannibals and hardly any sex

The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J Maarten Troost

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Travelling is something that always brings out the very worst in me. Simply getting a bus to somewhere unfamiliar in my hometown can set off a frenzy of anxiety that can ruin not only my day but those of everyone I come into contact with, so you can probably imagine the nightmare I can make of travelling to a different country. Add in that I’m also someone who needs frequent medical interventions and it becomes blindingly obvious that the fantasy of living on a desert island will always remain just that to me – a fantasy. So it’s a good […]

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11/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:57 |

The Poor Have Always Been With Us

White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

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HALF CANNONBALL! I picked this audio book off the shelf at a library wine tasting because of it’s catchy Title. I mean, how can you see the glaring title, “White Trash,” and not be intrigued? And I haven’t listened to an audio book in a while, so it seemed like a good idea. And it was, mostly. White Trash chronologically unpacks the history of white poverty in America from the 1600s to 2012. Isenberg begins with the English penal colonies where the British government literally rounded up hundreds of poverty stricken men and orphan boys and either pressed them into the […]

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10/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

It’s Grim Up North…

Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son by Gordon Burn

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Despite being something of a true crime aficionado, until now I’ve restricted most of my reading to crimes committed far from my shores – for some reason, while the crimes of our transatlantic cousins are never not disturbing, reading about British killers makes it all a bit more real and grim for me. However, having had my interest piqued by a number of true crime podcasts, I decided it was high time I looked at those closer to home and so chose to start with Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son – an excellent book that looks at the life and crimes […]

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10/13/2017 's CBR9 Review No:55 |


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