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Busy People: Police Officer | Lucy Cuthew, Lucy M. George
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Live these books that talk about what busy people do for a living. #ISpyBingoOct @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

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dabbe 🧡🍁🤎 1mo
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Just one NONFICTION book completed in September—but it likely would have been the winner anyway. This is the kind of narrative nonfiction that really grabs me.
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THIS is what narrative nonfiction should be. David Simon‘s classic account of a year in the Baltimore Police Dept.‘s homicide unit, it became the basis for the award-winning TV series “Homicide: Life in the Streets” and “The Wire.” It‘s dark, it‘s dreary, it‘s gritty —and it‘s incredibly compelling. I am in awe of Simon‘s prose —he has a gift for putting words together.

kspenmoll I had no idea that those TV shows were based on this book! Thanks! (edited) 3mo
Amiable @kspenmoll Simon wrote a second book after this one that also contributed to “The Wire” —I need to read that one next! It‘s called (edited) 3mo
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