79) What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan – Biography/Sport/Mental Health. 4.25/5
This is one of most recommended books to parents with children in sports. It was absolutely heart wrenching, but a powerful message that needs to be heard.
16/30 - The Titanic: Disaster of the Century by Wyn Craig Wade 3.75/5 - decided to read it after reading another non fiction about the Titanic Disaster. The author chose to concentrate on the senate hearings after the disaster and there was some very interesting details that I did not know about.
From Goodreads:
On that fatal night in 1912 the world s largest moving object disappeared beneath the waters of the North Atlantic in less than three hours. Why was the ship sailing through waters well known to be a mass of floating ice ? Why were there too few lifeboats? Why were a third of the survivors crew members? Based on the sensational evidence of the U.S. Senate hearings, eyewitness accounts, and the results of the 1985 Woods Hole expedition that photographed the ship, this electrifying account vividly recreates the vessel s last desperate hours afloat and fully addresses the questions that have continued to haunt the tragedy of the Titanic.
17/30 - Death of a Gossip and a Cad by MC Beaton 3.5/5 -
From Goodreads:
Death of a Gossip — When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling feathers. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane’s shrills – until her strangled body is fished out of the river. Now Hamish must angle through the choppy waters of the tattler’s life to find the murderer.
Death of a Cad — When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted – except Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, a guest at Priscilla’s engagement party, has been found murdered – shot while on a grouse hunt. With many titled party guests as suspects, each with a reason for killing the man, Hamish must smooth ruffled feathers as he investigates.
I like Hamish much better in these first 2 books.
Both of these are audible reads. I am still working on my physical book for this month. It has been a crazy month for me with school and home so when I get in bed to read I am often asleep in 10 minutes so not much progress.