Love and Death in the Sunshine State

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

pan

Part way through this book - a journalist asks the author - “what's your angle?“ and don't think we ever get to find out the answer to this. Wood begins to delve into a case of a woman's disappearance in Florida - but he gets sidetracked into is own story, his family, his love affairs and his graduate school assignments. I found the book confusingly fictional, frustrated at Woods flowery language and the distance he maintains from the story.

Chelsea.Poole Yikes. This was on my tbr list at one time but I have heard similar comments you made here so I've avoided so far. 5y

Hooked_on_books Good to know. I definitely won‘t give this one a try. 5y

Mitch @Chelsea.Poole it really wasn‘t for me! 5y

Mitch @Hooked_on_books sadly - not a good one! 5y

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jenniferw88

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

so-so

#truecrime completed for #NFNov @rsteve388 @Clwojick

4 🌟

10pts +5 for completion of book = 15 +1 for participation = 16pts in total

rsteve388 Awesome thanks for the count! 16 pts is right 5y

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jenniferw88

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

#squirrelquote @squirrelbrain lots of mentions of squirrels in the second chapter of this book! 🤣🤣🤣

Also another point for #NFNov @Clwojick @rsteve388 so that takes me to 10!

squirrelbrain Oh yes, us squirrels certainly get ‘a look‘ in our eyes from time to time! 🤣😁🐿 5y

rsteve388 1 pt! 5y

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jenniferw88

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

Book: tagged (thanks @Ddzmini !)
TV: Teletubbies
Songs: You Are My Sunshine/Bring Me Sunshine

#manicmonday @JoScho

JoScho 🌞💙🌞 6y

Ddzmini Thank you 😋📖 6y

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saguarosally

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

I never realized Alexa will totally read your books to you. #kindle #ebook #alexa #echodot

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BookishMarginalia

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

Hey, Dear Littens! It‘s been too long!

LiteraryinPA Hi, Gloria! How‘s your school year going? 6y

DGRachel 👋🏻😍 6y

BookishMarginalia @LiteraryinLititz Hi, Allison! It‘s going well, just wish I were reading more and posting more! How‘s your year shaping up? 6y

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MicheleinPhilly 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼I hope you guys have fully settled into your new home and are doing well! 6y

BookishMarginalia @DGRachel Hi right back! 💜 6y

BookishMarginalia @MicheleinPhilly We‘re still waiting for our boxes of books that we shipped to be delivered, but otherwise we‘re all settled in. Still getting used to the new routines! 6y

MicheleinPhilly Excellent! Hope the boxes come soon. 6y

BookishMarginalia @MicheleinPhilly Me too — it‘s been 10 weeks already! 6y

JSW Hi there! Good to see you. Hope you‘re well. 😘❤️ 6y

CouronneDhiver Good to see you! 🤩 6y

riversong153 You‘re sitting perfectly! 6y

TheWordJar Hellooooo! Good to see you again! 6y

Lola Ah....I was JUST thinking about you this morning and wondering how you‘ve been. So glad to see you! Xo 6y

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gradcat I remember this case! Didn‘t realize there was a book written about it, though. 6y

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KoriBReadin

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

“I stood looking down toward the city and imagined myself, acclaimed yet charming, almost heroically, humble.” 🙄-

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Biensoul

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

so-so

Meh. I was hoping to get my #summeroftruecrime off to a great start after seeing this in the NYT Book Review summer picks section, but feel that for the most part, this is way overdone on the writing to the point where I‘m reading some guy‘s senior writing thesis, and not at all interested in the real crime or the people surrounding it.

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Biensoul

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

I hearby declare 2018 as the SUMMER OF TRUE CRIME! #summeroftruecrime #murderino

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Reviewsbylola

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

bailed

This was such a promising book. Written as a true crime memoir, I was super into it initially. The author had just visited a small hotel in FL when the owner went missing. The hotel was set on fire 10 days later. His interest instantly piqued, Wood drove back to the area and began digging to get to the story of what really happened. Unfortunately he inserted way too much of his personal life into it. Once he spent half a chapter writing about ⤵️

Reviewsbylola An out of state booty call, I was done. I went ahead and googled Sabine‘s name, found out what happened to her, and now I‘m moving on. 👍🏻 7y

Reviewsbylola @kaye you were right to bail. 7y

Kaye I‘m glad I didn‘t stick with it. Some books just don‘t start out with a zing or an interest for me, so I toss them. The older I get, the more I toss. I don‘t have time to Read cruddy books. Thanks for the tag ✨✨✨ 7y

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Mdargusch That‘s a shame. 7y

emilyhaldi Lol, sometimes you just want to share the details on your latest booty call! 7y

L_auren @emilyhaldi 😂 7y

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TheFunkyBookworm

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

Day 9: State in the Title
Looking forward to reading this true crime story of a murder on beautiful Anna Maria Island. Also excited to attend a book signing/reading by the author (Cutter Wood- what a name!) at an independent bookstore here in Tampa! ☀️📖🔪
#ReadingResolutions @Jess7

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ptkpepe98

Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime | Cutter Wood

bailed

It is rare for me to give up on a book. I just couldn't continue this, though. If you read the synopsis, it does indicate you'll read about the author's personal journey as well as the crime. Yet, I just flipped through 15 pages to see if the crime was mentioned again. It wasn't, and I didn't sign up to read a memoir. It's not for me. So this is a DNF and my unbiased review of the eARC.

#NetGalley #LoveandDeathintheSunshineState

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