Sickened is the memoir of Julie Gregory, who grew up in a backwoods country trailer in southern Ohio. Her mother’s life - lived in desperate isolation - sought a means to escape by dressing in pastels and running Julie to different doctors. At first it was little things - headaches, sore throats and the medications they came with - but eventually Julie’s mother was in hot pursuit of a mysterious heart condition and the open heart surgery she was convinced would give it a name. Racing against the clock for the cure, Julie was continually x-rayed, medicated and eventually operated on, all in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother’s mind—and literally left her own child sickened

Wow this book was so hard to read. It is difficult just to grasp how that mother (and the dad) treated there children.

I had to stop the first time but this morning I picked it up and could not stop reading.
At the end you are left with questions. What happened to the other kids.
If you want to know more you can visit Julie Gregory’s wesbite.
http://www.juliegregory.com/
4.5 stars

The book tells the horrifying true story of a daughter’s discovery of her own father’s involvement in the murder of a 12 year old girl who vanished in the 1950’s in a small Scottish town. The book traces Sandra’s investigation of her own father, and the hideous discovery she uncovers of his [love of underage children] and the deplorable policing that failed to investigate the murder or pursue many allegations of [physical] abuse against Alexander, Sandra’s father.

My thoughts on the book:

Great read. Finished it in 1 day .I always hate when I finish a good book cause I have to start to decide which book to read next.

I still find it unbelievable how this story ended (won’t spoil)

8

Wow, This was a fast read. After I had registered this book I had to read it, and could not stop. Yes some things are not flattering, I know, but OMG, I have laughed so much reading this.
Especially about the part that when we excuse ourselves we say “sorry hoor” , now I realize that sounds for a Foreigner like you sorry whore. ROTFLMAO
I am very glad I bought it. it was well worth the money
(I am Dutch by the way)

Historical Fiction.

Liverpool, England, in Victorian times was no place to be a poor girl. Linny Gow knows this firsthand. When her mother dies, her father begins prostituting her at the age of 12. Linny manages to leave prostitution, and with the help of a kindly would-be doctor, she begins to pass herself off as a middle-class woman. When Linny gets the opportunity to leave England behind, she sets off for India without looking back. In India she meets the cruel Somers Ingram. Ingram recognizes her from her days in Liverpool and blackmails her into a sexless and violent marriage. Coincidences and luck, both good and bad, abound. Linny’s intelligence and pluck may be almost a cliche in historical literature, but the plot moves at a fast enough pace, and the descriptions are so vivid that the book becomes a page-turner.

I really loved this book and did not want it to end.

Very well written. Linda Holeman draws you in the story. Highly recommend

I can’t change my not worth consuming to wishy washy.

It is worth consuming but not for me.

The Moors Murders are the most brutal, senseless and cold blooded killings to have occurred in Great Britain in many years. Between November 1963 and October 1965, Ian Brady, clerk, and Myra Hindley, typist, killed at least three-and possibly as many as five- young people varying in age from ten to seventeen, for no apparent motive. On May 6, 1966 the two murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment (capital punishment has been abolished in England). Beyond Belief, an uncanny feat of re-creation of the minds, hearts, and motivations of the two killers, is the story of this case. In it Emlyn Williams has achieved superbly his objective: “The dual accuracy of history and of imaginative understanding.

The way this book was written was very annoying to me at first.
English is not my mothers’ tongue, well it is, she is English, :-) but I was raised speakin Dutch only)

here is an example (The author must have fabricated all the dialogues between Ian and Myra.)
Ian: and if were caught which will not happen, ye must imagine yerself in an airport wi’ your luggage searched, it’s full of contra band, well ye,re just to sayye dinna ken a thing aboot it. I’ll teach ye a code,what a superbb evenin.

And this go’s on continually.
Besides that I did find it interesting because I did not know anything about the Moors Murderers and the author does provide some interesting information.

I have been reading a lot lately but now I am going slow. Not because the book is not interesting but because The World Champion Ships Figure Skating is on Eurosport each day for a week. :-)

The story of Jacqueline Annette Williams, convicted in 1998 of murdering Debra Evans and her two children in Addison, Illinois, and stealing Evans’s nine-month old fetus to pass off as her own child, is told in this first and only book about the murder.

Another one of my first true crime books.
Crazy story and as usual with the late Bill G Cox, very well written

I really enjoyed this series although book 2 The Favoured Child did bore me sometimes. it was all a bit the same as in book 1 Wideacre.

Merdion is a bit different and I liked that.
The first half of the story does not take place at Wideacre. It is about Meridon who is working for her money in a circus as a trapeze act together with her gypsy sister Dandy.

This book had been on my wish list for some time. During a trip in Scotland I decided to buy it.
I started reading this in bed but that was not such a good idea cause I could not get back to sleep afterwards.
I just know something is going to happen again. Something big.In Europe or in America, I do not know, but it is scary knowing there are people who just give up there lifes to destroy others.

This is the story about the passengers of flight United 93and there family.
Because my memory is not very good I did have some trouble remembering who was who.