The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime | 
so-soThis is nonfiction and details how the Victorians used murder as entertainment. After it describes each murder it then goes into great detail about the books, songs and plays that were inspired by the event. It is a lot of information and it becomes too much. This book feels much longer than it needs to be. 2.5 stars
so-soI FINALLY finished this. It‘s interesting if you like repetitive content. Much of it was this is the murder, this is the trial and how newspapers portrayed it, this is the extras that were written, these are the plays/performances. On to the next murder and all the same things. There were interesting bits like how famous authors interwove the themes of the murders/murders/victims into their writing.
Unless you are really into Victorian era, pass.
I défend my portfolio/thesis this week, so ready to have time to read again after the last 3 years of work.
My bedside stack that I created recently when I semi forced myself to start reading again at bedtime.
The tagged book has been there a while. I had to stop reading it because it was annoying me. Not sure if I will go back to it.
Women Talking is my current.
Anne of Manhattan is next for the buddy read.
The others called to me from my shelves.
A little #littenkitten in there too 😊
I had a $25 gift card for B&N and they had buy one get one half off.
I have the second book in ‘The Mysterious Benedict Society‘ don‘t remember how I ended up with the second one.
I‘ve wanted the tagged book for a while.
I couldn‘t pass up these bookmarks.
pickI love reading about this time period, and the argument is sort of brilliant. This book, though — you ever talk to someone you didn‘t know has a graduate degree, and then inadvertently ask them about their area of expertise that is going un-tapped. un-sung, and unused in their day-to-day life? Reading this book was quite a bit like that: filled to the brim with and extraordinary amount of detail; which is to say, amazing, but kind of exhausting.
Been ever so slowly reading this one! I wish they condensed it down it's way to long! But I love the information in it!
Rainy evenings call for reading with tea and crumpets
I had NO idea that Hare and his family (of Burke and Hare fame, i.e. the resurrectionists who decided to just create some extra dead bodies) were not imprisoned/executed and actually went free after turning king's evidence! I'm not surprised there was an attempted lynching when they were recognised.
Grasshopper mind is onto another different topic! I feared this might be a bit dry, but I basically swallowed the first ~45 pages whole, so I think me and this book will get on. I think Judith Flanders has written a few other non-fic books which I'm interested in, too, so that's a good sign.
Been in a reading slump for awhile now. Trying to pull myself out of it. #theinventionofmurder #history #crime #bookslump
bailedOk I tried. I usually have a 100 page rule before I bail. I‘m at 87 and I can‘t. I have too many books I want to read. I‘m sorry. Just can‘t. #LMBC fail for me. It was bound to happen when I join groups out of my comfort zone......
so-soThis book had a lot of detail.regarding the many murders that took place throughout Victorian London.and how it influenced novels, stage plays and entertainment overall. It was a bit too long for my liking and I found myself having to push through the book in order to finish it. Had this book been developed into two.books it might be easier to handle all the details.
#LMBC @Annie1215 Sending you the book on Monday.
#NFN2020 Folks, I have just sent out point emails for week two!
I am so excited for all of you and your mom fiction reading!
I am really struggling with this book. Over this weekend I am gonna try my best to do the first 299 pages of the book.
#NFN2020
I have started reading this for #NFN20 and #LMPBC
#NFN20 peeps it's Sunday! Record your points for the week. I'll tally your numbers tomorrow and send you an email Tues or Weds.
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Brought this to read during downtime at work, I am getting some odd looks from my coworkers ☠️
pickIf this book taught me nothing else it taught me this, the Victorians LOVED to turn gruesome murders into rhymes. “Mary Ann Cotton, She‘s Dead and rotten, She lies in her bed, With her eyes oppen. Sing, sing, what can I sing? Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with string.”
I am obsessed with this book. 30% in and I can‘t get enough.
Merry Christmas and a very Happy Holiday season to everyone. I for one am full, tired and ready to get started on some new books I received tonight. I hope everyone is in a safe space, and enjoying time with those who mean the most to you. 🎅🏼❄️🎄🎁📚💕
Stopping at page 85 for the night. This book is deeply interesting! Too bad I have to study for a final now. 🙄😑
Just bought this book yesterday. I am so excited to read this. The Victorian era was crazy with all of the medical discoveries and medicine concoctions that were found to be unsafe. So creepy and interesting to me.
There was no walking today for me because it's been like this all day long. So, a little view of my backyard as I settle inside with some mate and my audiobook with the rain as company.
#Litsywalkers
@kaye
Following @kaye idea, I went for a walk with my audiobook of choice (started the tagged one).
Today was a very hot summer day but, on your typical Buenos Aires' way it was also rainy and the humidity was just awful. 👌
While I live about 40 minutes away from city center, Buenos Aires is a HUGE city so I kind of still live in the city and my view is basically streets and buildings, so I decided to go to the park. Hence the view.
#LitsyWalkers
It‘s 2 pm and we‘re fairly snowed in. I‘m still in my pajamas, have done almost no chores, and am tucked up reading the book that @Ashley31 got me for Christmas. Life is good ❄️📚
What will most likely be my last read of 2018 and it is a great one! It‘s been my before-bed book for a while, and I took it on the long train ride home from a wonderful family vacation so I only have about 100 pages left! #currentlyreading #nonfiction #truecrime #murderino
Now that the semester is over, I can finally read something other than The Fundamentals of Nursing!
My anxiety is up, so I‘m curled up all cozy with a fireplace on my tv, an evergreen candle, a quilt, a snuggly dog by my side, and a good book.
pickI cannot give this book enough stars. It's an amazing piece of nonfiction and a must for anyone interested in the Victorian period.
I haven't highlighted a book this much since my freshman year of college
May 4: #ReadingResolutions— Cool covers; I‘m obsessed with this one... I think cool is in the eye of the beholder 😎🤓😜
#anticipatedfebruaryread for #febinbooks18
I got this from the library a couple of weeks ago and am looking forward to starting it. (Though maybe not tonight, I've been watching The Exorcist tv show all evening and I need something lighter!)
#readingchallenge #challenge #febinbooks18 #nonfiction #history #crime
These are the only #BlackandWhite books that I own. I haven't read them yet, but they're on my list to read by the end of this year.
#SpookyOctober @Jess7
@UnidragonFrag tagged me in #fivestarpredictions
So here are a few books I own that I think will warrant five stars from me.
pickA detailed and thought-provoking look at Victorian England's fascination with murder. It's a thick volume but it's a fairly easy read, switching its focus from the grisly deaths (so it reads less like a collection of true crime stories) and towards the public's collective response. Murders have been the impetus for detection, legislation, and enforcement, but also (quite interestingly) pomp and spectacle. A really good read for a rainy weekend!
I was thinking I should read more non-fiction, and then I ended up in the true crime section of the library...
'Pleasant it is, no doubt, to drink tea with your sweetheart, but most disagreeable to find her bubbling in the tea-urn.'
#RiotGrams catch up Day 12: #summerreads Pretty sure my typical sort of favourite read doesn't exactly match up with many readers' ideas of a summer read.
pickBook two in my 19th century murder history binge: I LOVED this one. 466 pages packed with every last grisly detail behind the most (and least) infamous murders of the epoch, their repercussions and effect on society, as well as the everlasting impact they had on literature. I am a sucker for alternative history on the Victorian Era, and I definitely geeked out about how much I learned from this book. On to murder book number three!
I'm a little behind on my #junebookbugs so here is yesterday's. I read a lot of mysteries which usually include death of some sort but I decided on this and the history of our obsession with #death and murder.
