This was a the personal account of a Jewish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, who was ordered to the bedside of an SS member in the hospital ward. The SS man wanted to confess his crimes to a Jewish person and attempt to receive forgiveness. This was a really moving account of what people are able to endure and willing to forgive. This was a pretty good read, and I would recommend it. 

 My sister and I visit cemeteries all over the place. One day, we happened upon a random cemetery that we passed by and turned around to see. In this cemetery was a tombstone of someone who had died aboard the Sultana. I mentioned that I thought I had a book about the Sultana, and came home and read it that very day. I had never heard of the Sultana, and just happened to buy this book at a second hand store a couple of months before we saw the tombstone. I learned a lot from this book, but I am disappointed that I had never heard of it for it to be such a horrible disaster. I would suggest this book for anyone who is interested in the Civil War or disasters of any type. 

 THANK GOD. We have an actual murder mystery on our hands, friends!!! We are solving a crime in this book!!! We even have a new person in the book to hate! There is plenty of chatter about relationships and sex, which is what it is, but there was a return to an actual plot of murder solving. I am so pleased, I can hardly contain myself. There were some tedious moments with the explaining in detail and talking through every single thought that I was not crazy about, but it was so much better than the last several. I hope this trend continues. 

 Merry is back for a fourth installment of this series. She is enlisted to solve the murders of a human and a lesser fae. The book is very interesting, though the time frame takes place in one day. We do learn a little bit about the characters we already were introduced to, and Merry is consumed with her other tasks. 

 I would absolutely love to see this painting in person, and I hope to do so one day. It looks beautiful. I enjoyed learning more about this work of art and the woman behind the image. This was an interesting book. 

 This book is the personal account of Ann Rule, the crime writer, who met Ted Bundy, the serial killer, while they were both working at a crisis hotline. Her crime writing career took off due to her linking herself to this high profile murderer. She sent him money, wrote him letters, and had phone conversations with him in prison. Bundy was an interesting case study. He was violent, manipulative, and horrific. He was an absolutely cold blooded killer. I understand why he got the death penalty, and why it was carried out, but I think that there could have been more learned from him for the field of criminology and psychology. I bought this book a while back, but finally picked it up to read because it was listed on The Last Podcast On The Left reading list. I learned a lot about the case and trial, so it was a good read for me. 

 I have been looking forward to this book! This book is clearly about Dave Grohl, who is mostly known for being the lead singer of Foo Fighters and the drummer for Nirvana. This book tells how he became interested in music, how he got his start as a touring member of a band, and other various life stories and incidents. I love reading about musicians and how they became interested in their career and who inspired and influenced them. I was not disappointed in this book at all. I really would like to read the book his mother wrote as well, and might get that with my next Audible credit. 

 This book details the life of Blima Weisstuch, who was living in Poland in 1941. She, like a lot of people, paid no attention to the rise of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. A lot of people really liked some of the ideals and policies he was spewing, but a lot of people thought he would go nowhere with it. They thought this fervor would fizzle out. This book is actually written by her daughter, who has an intimate understanding of what her mother went through once the Nazis took control. There were a lot of terrible things that Blima experienced and witnesses. This was a short book, and probably would be good for those just getting into this subject, or younger people. 

 I am always interested in disaster books, so I picked this one up just because. It is amazing to see the power of nature and the devastation that it can cause. This book was about a vicious tornado that wreaked havoc. It was pretty good, especially for the seventy five cents I paid for it. 

 The author of this book, Courtney Angela Brkic, joined a forensic team that was contracted by the United Nations to help with body recovery and identification of the victims of the Srebrenica massacre. She was led to this work because she was interested in the work, and also had acestral ties to the land and people. The Srebrenica massacre was perpetrated against Bosnian Muslim males by the Bosnian Serb military. Something like 8,000 were killed in this particular event. The United Nations certainly bears some of the responsibility for these deaths, because they declared the area a safe area and then offered no protection. Body identification has continued through the years, thanks to advanced in DNA. Over 6,000 of the bodies were identified as of 2013.

I have read a couple of other books about this particular genocide, most notably Endgame. I find genocide to be absolutely repulsive, and I also find it ironic that genocides are still taking place today (Uyghur's in China) even though in the post World War II climate the whole world just swore NEVER AGAIN. It happens again and again and people look the other way again and again. The book conveyed a sense of horror, learning how to do that particular job, the state of the bodies, the scars on the community. She was also able to convey a sense of longing for cultural roots and nostalgia for her personal history. I learned some good information about the genocide itself, so that was also welcome. This was a pretty good book, and certainly worth the time it took me to read it.