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Fuzz - 10/2/2021

 Hello Animal Lovers, Book 46: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (9.5/10) Premise: What do humans do when animals invade their houses, swarm their airports, or jaywalk? Mary Roach is one of my favorite authors, and for good reason. She investigates things that most people rarely think about. What happens to our bodies after we die? What happens to Humans when they go to war? The Science of Tattoos.... And a host of other topics.  This books dives into how humans cohabitate with nature that we don't necessarily want around. Not bed bugs and cockroaches, but bears in cities, moose on the roads, monkeys swarming cities, and rats in the Vatican.  Usually on location Mary talks about spending a few days living the life of the people who are dealing with these problems and working with them or talking about them about how this will progress in the future.  Without a play by play it's pretty hard to summarize this book since she jumps from topic to topic and animal to animal...
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Missoula - 10/2/2021

 Hello Sports Fans,  Book 45: Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (9/10) Premise: The story of several rape victims and rape culture in a small college town with a avid following for the local college football team.  This is Jon Krakauer again (see Under the Banner of Heaven if you need a reminder). This time he's writing about the rape culture in a small town in Montana. And I'm going to keep this short. This story talks a lot about rape. It talks about how the victims are shamed. How people don't believe them. How many of them just want to forget about it and never report the crime. The easiest way to disprove a rape case with only 2 witness's (the victim and the perpetrator) is to destroy the victims character.  If you end up reading this book (it's difficult but worth it), you'll follow several young woman in Missoula who have been raped. You'll hear first hand (from audio recording, transcripts, and interviews) what they went through...
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In Order to Live - 10/02/2021

 Hello Freedom Lovers,  Book 44: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (7/10) Premise: One girls life going from growing up in North Korea, Escaping to China, Mongolia, South Korea, and her eventually the United States.  Starting out we have Yeonmi, a young North Korean girl who loves her country, and is instep with it's ideals. Slowly until her early teenage years she starts to distrust it more and more as her father gets in legal trouble and is taken away, and her mother has to leave them for long periods of time.  Following rumors her older sister, and then Yeonmi and her mother escape to China. Being sold from person to person, she soon realizes that the ones who helped her escape our really just human trafficers who are selling her and her mother as wives to Chinese men who cannot find wives. While the food is plentiful and the country is much better than what she left she is in no way happy with her situation.  Working as a online chat...
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A Tangled Web - 10/02/2021

 Hello Internet Sleuths, Book 43: A Tangled Web (8/10) Premise: A woman uses new technology to terrorize a man and every woman he was dating.  2012, many technologies are still rapidly changing, while we're past the .com boom, technology is emerging fast. Apps like Instagram, snapchat, and vine are just taking off. Smart phones are becoming much more popular, but flip phones are still a very common sight. Even today, people have extremely widely different amounts of tech knowledge, but with it emerging so quickly and becoming available for free many people struggled or just didn't bother keeping up.  That brings us to our story. A true story. A shorter review because it's a simple story, but the details make it a thrilling read. Cari, single mother, goes on a few dates with Dave. Cari disappears, Dave didn't want anything serious so while he's concerned. He isn't stressing over the fact that a women he's been on a few dates with has gone missing.  Enter Liz....
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Under the Banner of Heaven - 9/1/21

 Hello Faithful Readers,  Book 43: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Premise: The history and modern life of the Mormon church. This book does focus mostly on extremists, but does talk about Mormon towns and their lives.  When you think Mormon you may think Utah, young boys in white shirts and black ties trying to talk to you about their faith, or maybe even polygamy. But there is an undercurrent that we often don't hear about. Isolation, child brides, murder and more, all in the name of god. This book does focus heavily on the more extremist offshoots. But these offshoots may become more and more common since Mormonism is the fastest growing religion in North America. Author Jon Krakauer (Known for Into Thin Air and Into the Wild ) holds to punches when writing about the Mormon church.* The book revolves around a double murder committed by two Mormon extremists who use "god told us to do it" as their reasoning and excuse.  It deep dived into some ...
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Verity - 9/1/21

 Hello Aware Humans,  Book 42 Verity - (7/10) Premise: A small time writer gets the chance of a life time to help "Co-Author" a famous book series after the original author gets into an accident and is considered brain dead.  This is a romance novel touted as a thriller and while it's not my normal genre of choice I will admit it was a bit of a page turner.  Minor Spoilers ahead:  Lowen Ashleigh runs into Jeremey Crawford just before a meeting, cue meet cute. It turns out Jermey wants to hire Lowen to finish writings his famous wives books. His wife was in an accident and while alive does not respond to any stimulations.  Jeremey has been through a lot recently, he lost both his twin daughters and now his wife. It is just his son and himself. Lowen goes up to his house (after agreeing to finish the books) and stays for a few days. Eventually the few days turns into more while she researches the book and starts falling for Jeremy.  However Lowen doesn't...
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Blow - 9/1/21

 Hello Coyotes,  Book 41: Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with Medelin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All (5/10) Premise: Small town boy with big asperations joins the drug trade but gets too greedy  This story follows George Jung's journey from upper middle class highschooler in a small town to the large trial which ended his smuggling career. It starts out small, George flies Marijuana from Mexico to the United States to make money, a lot of money. But along the way he meets people who tell him that the Cocaine business would make him rich beyond his wildest dreams.  George is all in. He flies, or gets piolets to fly from Mexico or other places to the United States carrying large amount of Cocaine. He deals with small farmers, takes over a resort, works with Pablo Escabar and more. In the end when George is caught he doesn't want to go down alone and brings other pieces toppling down with him.  This book is definitely interesting if you want to learn ...
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