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My 2020 goal is to clear as many older TC books from my shelf as I can. Anyone else have a book related goal?
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I read somewhere that when we write the date on important documents we should write out all 4 digits in the year as unscrupulous people could alter documents if you just write, for instance, 1/2/20 they could add numbers at the end to make it 1/2/2018 or 1/2/2019. I haven't figured out yet what they could do with that but I guess you never know what some people will do.
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "My goal is to pay off my huge library fine so I can check out books."Wow! How huge?
Koren wrote: "I read somewhere that when we write the date on important documents we should write out all 4 digits in the year as unscrupulous people could alter documents if you just write, for instance, 1/2/20..."We actually got a notice from our rights department that we need to write out the full date on our notes. I fail to understand why, because we keep all our notes on our computer system which automatically fills in the entire date. There is no way you CAN put in a partial date like 1/1/20. And if I put a note in the system and sign it, I'm the only person on the planet who can go back in and alter it anyway. What am I going to do, lie and say I saw the client last year instead of this year? When I'm the one who gets in trouble by not writing my notes with 24 hours of the meeting?
But to answer Koren's question, I have a similar goal of reading up and deciding whether to keep some of the books stacked on the floor, and not just the TC ones, either.
I was scrolling thru Reddit and found a photo of a guy sitting at a card table, showing off his collection of apples collected from his rare apple trees. I could not help but notice a round, red beauty that was closest to the camera. The label said "Manson Beauty." "Ah, but which one?" I thought. "Sadie? Ouisch? Katie? Sandy? Brenda?" 
The Craig and Bentley case just got its own shelf.
Fishface wrote: "The Craig and Bentley case just got its owns shelf."I found 3 more. I added one, that you already had on other shelves: My Son's Execution.
But it won't let me add this one: Trial of Craig and Bentley edited by H. Montgomery Hyde and published in 1954. Here is a link to it on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
The third one isn't strictly 'just' about Craig and Bentley, so, I'll leave it up to your esteemed wisdom as to whether it belongs on this shelf, or not. Hanged - and Innocent? by R.T. Paget and Sydney Silverman published in 1953. Here is a link to it on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I was going to add My Son's Execution to the shelf last night but fate intervened. I thought I already added Mr. Hyde's book (chuckle)...TY for being more detail oriented than I am!
Fishface wrote: "I was going to add My Son's Execution to the shelf last night but fate intervened. I thought I already added Mr. Hyde's book (chuckle)...TY for being more detsil oriented than I am!"I seriously doubt that I'm more detail oriented than you! ... lol I just like helping out, 'cause you work so hard for this group. It is much appreciated.
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Wow! How huge?"
Over $20
Diane in Australia wrote: "Fishface wrote: "I was going to add My Son's Execution to the shelf last night but fate intervened. I thought I already added Mr. Hyde's book (chuckle)...TY for being more detsil or..."Well so are you!!!
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Well so are you!!! "
Group hug!
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Group hug!"
Adnan Syed now has his own shelf, as does the Chessboard Killer.
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Why would someone kill a chessboard?
I kid! I kid! Don't break out the pitchforks! :::runs:::,.
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Hari wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "My goal is to pay off my huge library fine so I can check out books."Wow! How huge?"
Over $20"
Oh, that could be a lot worse.
*side-eye at the coworker who has lost borrowing privileges at 4 different libraries because she always loses the books*
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Wow! How huge?"
Over $20"
Oh, that could be a lot worse.
*side-..."
OK then.
To my astounderment, I discovered that we do not have a Sweeney Todd shelf. I thought for sure we did. We have one now. I'm also happy to announce that searching for books for that also added 2 new titles to the Children's True Crime shelf.
Super cool way to find new books to read. Type in an author you like and the site creates a map of similar ones.https://www.literature-map.com/
I just added Peter Breggin's Medication Madness: True Stories of Mayhem, Murder & Suicide Caused by Psychiatric Drugs to the TC shelves because it turns out to be a collection of case histories of people who do radically out-of-character things under the influence of meds, including crimes. The book starts right out with a guy I can only describe as Joe Normal being put on Paxil, and a few dosage changes later finding himself pinned to the ground by 3 bystanders because he ran a policeman down with his car in order to take the officer's gun and kill himself with it. It didn't occur to him until after they discontinued the Paxil that he was hurting anyone -- all he could think about was that he needed to die, NOW.
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I was really excited to find out there is a Target easier to get to than the one in Harlem. Before I could get there, I found out there was a fire in the basement.
I was reading a review, and an idea for a discussion popped into my head ... imagine that. ;)What have you found inserted in the pages of used books you have purchased? Also, have you seen any interesting notations?
The review I read said, "This book contains graphic descriptions of horrific crimes, photos of dead bodies at crime scenes, plus a lot of information that would be quite useful to killers wanting to fool those hunting them.
That being said, I find it slightly disturbing that my copy of this book, which has been so well-read that it is falling to pieces, has come through inter-library loan from my local prison. My county doesn't have any other copies of this book.
Some helpful notations have been added by a previous reader. In particular, every time he (or she) considers that the police have had a lucky break in a case, "LUCK" is noted in the margin. Thank you, mystery reader, that significantly clarifies matters. I'm not sure what the distinction is between the double-lines-down-the-side and the crosses-in-the-margin, and maybe I don't want to know. Many pages appear to have been attacked by pasta sauce, but I feel that this does not reflect any kind of scholarly annotation.
Now, would I get reading experiences of this kind if I bought all my books pristine, or downloaded them onto my hygienic Kindle? I think not.
PS. This book's interesting antecedence fails to beat the book I once bought second-hand, called "How Brains Work". This contained, like pressed flowers between its pages, about 20 sheets of tinfoil that had apparently been used to smoke drugs off - blackened underneath, with residues of presumably heroin on the top."
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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What have you found inserted in the pages of used books you have purchased? Also, have you seen any in..."
WOW
I have never found anything nearly that interesting in any book!
Fishface wrote: "I have never found anything nearly that interesting in any book!"Same here, Fishface. I think the most interesting thing I've found was two photos of a couple at their high school prom ... in 1973 and 1974. I just found these this year. :)
By the way, what the heck was the book this reviewer was writing about?
Fishface wrote: "By the way, what the heck was the book this reviewer was writing about?"Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
Fishface wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Hari wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "My goal is to pay off my huge library fine so I can check out books."Wow! How huge?"
Over $20"
Oh, that could be a lot worse.
*side-..."
Maybe we could start a GoFundMe account.
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Diane in Australia wrote: "Fishface wrote: "By the way, what the heck was the book this reviewer was writing about?"Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI"
A book on profiling? Well it's shoe-leather-consuming investigation that solves those crimes, not profiles. But luck does play a role...
Nathaneal Bar-Jonah now has a shelf to himself. In fact, the 3 books on him are a trilogy, written about the same preevert by the same author.
The Greineder case now has its own shelf.
So - do we need a new thread for "Books You Read During Social Distancing"? 'The Stand' seems to be having a resurgence, but in my case, the disease is not Captain Trips, it's Captain No-Trips, as my vacation to Spain has been nixed in no uncertain terms. Getting my money back, now that's a different story. I'm probably going to end up being out quite a chunk of change since I can't even get in contact with some of my reservation services.
Weather is nice enough to hike tomorrow, but after that it looks like more snow. Already getting Computer Eyeball Strain.
There MUST be books appropriate to social distancing.
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'The Stand' seems to be having a resurgence, but in my case, the disease is not Captain Trips, it's Captain No-Trips, a..."
You asked, I answered.
Live now, a youtuber is interviewing retired FBI agent and author Jerri Williams and viewers are invited to ask questions as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjYW6...From Eric Hunley's description for the interview: "Jerri Williams is a retired FBI Agent, author, and she is also the host of the excellent FBI Retired Case File Review podcast. Williams served 26 years as a Special Agent with the FBI, during her career her investigations were mainly focused on economic crimes. In her most famous case she investigated were a $350 million Ponzi scheme that targeted nonprofit organizations and high-profile philanthropists. The Ponzi scheme used an international advanced-fee scam, and a business-to-business telemarketing fraud that also included a long-term undercover operation.
The international advance fee scam case she conducted resulted in a 14 year prison sentence and also led to the forfeiture of the subject’s residence. Her major investigation of this business to business telemarketing fraud, resulted in 16 search warrants, 25 convictions, and also led to numerous multi-year prison terms. Jerri has also received numerous awards throughout her career, that include four United States Attorney Awards for Distinguished Service. She was appointed as the spokesperson for the Philadelphia Division of the FBI, near the end of her career."
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K.A. wrote: "Oh nooo...Fishie! What's going to become of our Peeps?https://www.thekitchn.com/peeps-shuts..."
I already have some on hand. And -- never fear -- Peeps are immortal.
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