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Book #130 was Idyll Banter by Chris Bohjalian. The back of the book reads: In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were
Read moreBook #111 was A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson. The back of the book reads: God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world’s longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the
Read moreBook #75 was The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson. The back of the book reads: From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des
Read moreBook #67 was Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper — Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell. The back of the book reads: America’s #1 bestselling crime writer solves the case that has baffled experts for more than a century. For over 100 years the Jack the Ripper murders have remained among the world’s greatest unsolved crimes, and theories have been posited which point the finger
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