Just a girl and her books
BAD BLOOD | John Carreyrou 05.21.2018 | Knopf Publishing Group Rating: 5/5 stars Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes started to make her name known in Silicon Valley at the young age of nineteen. While a student at Stanford she began to promote her idea of a way to revolutionize blood testing. Instead of tubes … Continue reading Book Review: Bad Blood
HUNTING CHARLES MANSON | Lis Wiehl 06.05.2018 | Thomas Nelson Rating: 3/5 stars You’ve likely heard the name Charles Manson, but are you familiar with why he’s so notorious? Lis Wiehl has put together a compilation of archival research and personal interviews, including a glimpse into the Manson Family parole hearings, to provide a factual … Continue reading Book Review: Hunting Charles Manson
THE STRANGER BESIDE ME | Ann Rule 11.06.2018 (first published 08.01.1980) | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars Ann Rule met Ted Bundy in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic where they formed a friendship that would span the rest of Bundy’s life. Rule had no idea that Bundy was hiding a dark secret when they … Continue reading Book Review: The Stranger Beside Me
CHASE DARKNESS WITH ME: HOW ONE TRUE-CRIME WRITER STARTED SOLVING MURDERS | Billy Jensen 04.11.2019 | Audible Studios Rating: 4/5 stars Have you ever read a true crime story or watched something a true crime TV show and thought, I could solve that? Do you enjoy trying to spot the clues that may have been … Continue reading Book Review: Chase Darkness with Me
I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK | Michelle McNamara 02.27.2018 | Harper Rating: 5/5 stars For more than ten years Northern California was haunted by an unknown, violent predator who committed fifty sexual assaults in the area. He then moved south in California and his reign of terror expanded to murder. This man became known … Continue reading Book Review: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
