The Rooster Nonfiction Poll
Vote for which three books you want to see in our first-ever Rooster nonfiction event.
// to happen in May. so just one month april after end of this march tob.
per here on Goodreads group tmn Andrew Womack says when events will happen:
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
Eat the Apple by Matt Young
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich // < look at.
Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job [june 2003] at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defence of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley
she is staunchly anti death penalty but when hears him speak of his crime ..
[he was 26 grew up in small town at time was renter in home of boy whose friend, 6yrld jeremy, came over and ricky invites in to wait then in wh ricky says was like a dream he picked jeremy up..]
https://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2017/05/the-fact-of-a-body-new-excerpt
something in his story uncannily familiar. //th hooks but ~ is re personal hist abuse? ~ and true crime, d n like th kind of descriptive
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4bMEiJ_rijsJ:https://www.vogue.com/article/the-fact-of-a-body-alexandria-marzano-lesnevich-interview&num=1&client=firefox-b-1&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0
“The causes, in fact, are endless,” writes Marzano-Lesnevich. “The idea of proximate cause is a solution. The job of the law is to figure out the source of the story, to assign responsibility. The proximate cause is the one the law says truly matters. The one that makes the story what it is.”
//ex train platform successive events lead to a death of someone down the platform. legal qstn who at fault. but how is there such a qstn in a case of a man physically with intent (even if dreamlike) causing a child to stop breathing.
Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job [june 2003] at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defence of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley
she is staunchly anti death penalty but when hears him speak of his crime ..
[he was 26 grew up in small town at time was renter in home of boy whose friend, 6yrld jeremy, came over and ricky invites in to wait then in wh ricky says was like a dream he picked jeremy up..]
https://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2017/05/the-fact-of-a-body-new-excerpt
something in his story uncannily familiar. //th hooks but ~ is re personal hist abuse? ~ and true crime, d n like th kind of descriptive
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4bMEiJ_rijsJ:https://www.vogue.com/article/the-fact-of-a-body-alexandria-marzano-lesnevich-interview&num=1&client=firefox-b-1&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0
“The causes, in fact, are endless,” writes Marzano-Lesnevich. “The idea of proximate cause is a solution. The job of the law is to figure out the source of the story, to assign responsibility. The proximate cause is the one the law says truly matters. The one that makes the story what it is.”
//ex train platform successive events lead to a death of someone down the platform. legal qstn who at fault. but how is there such a qstn in a case of a man physically with intent (even if dreamlike) causing a child to stop breathing.
* Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot // I like wh says in article re preferring not 'resilient' //
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay // ~
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O’Farrell // * v int in. fr 2002 I remember- after I've gone .. After you'd Gone.
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes
A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia by Sandra Allen // edited writings sent to her by uncle (who had not seen in yrs. sent to her bcs she was a writer? ~ buzzfeed)
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border by Francisco Cantú // I like the title.
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
* the three I wld vote for? the three I wld most expect to care about.
but for reading in this way, maybe the underlined.
wld guess the legal memoir may get voted. and roxane gay maybe bcs so well liked.
and mailhot maybe. all women. only the first white (or biracial?)
* the three I wld vote for? the three I wld most expect to care about.
but for reading in this way, maybe the underlined.
wld guess the legal memoir may get voted. and roxane gay maybe bcs so well liked.
and mailhot maybe. all women. only the first white (or biracial?)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGB7DzmZY9LUwvC5hVqsDT086Gz4Wgg4VJssT7wm5F0i-XhQ/viewform
(yes as I thought might, poll page no longer shows now that voting closed)
(yes as I thought might, poll page no longer shows now that voting closed)
