Playing catch-up today! Today’s prompt was to write a sijo, yesterday’s was to write a sonnet. I’m not really happy with how the sonnet turned out (sonnets in general are one of my least favorite forms), but the sijo form is new to me and I really enjoyed it!
Criminal couples in literature, TV, cinema and real life are a source of fascination to many. Novelist Joel H. Morris, whose book, "All Our Yesterdays" focuses on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, has some ideas about why that might be the case. "A single immoral mind we can make sense of," he writes for CrimeReads. "But an immoral romantic couple — Bonnie and Clyde, Aileen Wuornos and Tyria Moore, the 'Lonely Hearts' murderers — unites two corrupt sensibilities working in tandem."
For a bookgroup I've been reading James Fox's #truecrime account of the murder of Josslyn Hay in #Kenya in 1941, White Mischief (1982). Frankly I didn't enjoy it, mostly because the white colonialists in the first half C20th spark no empathy at all. However, what is interesting is Fox's account of investigative #journalism before the Internet changed research forever, notably its doggedness & the time required to track down information. @bookstodon
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Ich brauchte ein wenig Ablenkung und habe die neueste Episode von diesem True Crime Podcast gehört. Es geht um Stalins Jagd auf Trotzki. Sehr spannend erzählt.
Something I want to read more in the coming year is non-fiction and/or textbooks on topics that interest me. Thinking of taking a stroll through some true crime/criminal psychology if anyone has any favorites, lemme know!
Yeah, when something catches my interest I can get a tad obsessed... I blame World of Books offering titles at little more than a couple of quid each, free postage and 4 for the price of 3 offers!! How can an addict resist!??! 🤪
Thinking about doing a Black Museum inspired creative project/s but still mulling over ideas ...
The collection of cases covered by Emily Webb's SUBURBAN TRUE CRIME go back to the 1940's, through to more recent times, covering a wide range of different murders and disappearances that have occurred in Australian suburban locations.
Recently finished reading Flawed Hero by Chris Masters - the story behind the case against Ben Roberts-Smith VC. This is one of two books on the recent defamation trial bought by BRS against various parties including Masters, and fellow journalist Nick McKenzie (his book on the same case is Crossing the Line).
Fans of crime fiction, raised on a diet of lone wolf PI's, limping the dark and rainy backstreets in pursuit of justice for the downtrodden, or retribution for wrongs that nobody else cares about, might find the tales in PROBLEM SOLVED a bit of a surprise.
Head cold from hell all week so I've been reading while sooking about being sick for the first thing in ages. First up is Problem Solved: True Stories from a Blind Private Eye