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  • White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland
  • The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible
  • I’m Glad My Mom Died
  • Depart, Depart!
  • The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
  • The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
  • Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies
  • The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana
  • Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity
  • The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
  • Fire, Storm Flood: The Violence of Climate Change
  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  • The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
  • Sea of Tranquility
  • The Revivalists
  • The Fated Sky
  • The New Wilderness
  • Project Hail Mary
  • The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change
  • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  • Denial (by Jon Raymond)
  • America City
  • The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming
  • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
  • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
  • Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
  • Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
  • Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology
  • Columbine (by Dave Cullen)
  • The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
  • California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric–and What It Means for America’s Power Grid
  • I Hate You-Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
  • The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
  • Sandy Hook (by Elizabeth Williamson)
  • Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland
  • Fire and Flood (by Eugene Linden)
  • Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
  • The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
  • Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
  • Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
  • The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
  •  alyaza [they/she]   ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) OP
    4•6 months ago

    commentary for a few of these: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

    i… very much do not like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, and i feel like i only need this particular passage to illustrate why. what i can appreciate about it is really limited to keeping this serial killer from recessing into history and getting away with his crimes. as an actual book, and as actual text on page, i have a lot of issues with this one! i don’t really like how it’s written so casually; i dislike how it’s presented and the jumbled order of things; i really did not appreciate[1] the gratuitous detail of how many of the Golden State Killer’s rapes were committed, leading to such just. unbelievable paragraphs as:

    Common sense, and any cop, will tell you that the no-pants rapist is an unsophisticated teenage peeper who just graduated from misdemeanor to crudely conceived felony. The punk doing the no-pants dance suffers from poor impulse control and will be arrested swiftly.

    i think in general, the book reads like a jumble of blogs—and that would be fine if not for the fact that it’s a book and not a jumble of blogs. it’s a book that has been edited, and if this is what they salvaged in editing it, then… yeah. probably should have been kept in drafts overall. this solidified my general dislike of true crime

    1. for reasons both publicly decent and personal ↩︎