They Can't Kill Us All--#34 finished

 The rest of the title is:  Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.  This is a book by a Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery who covered Ferguson and Michael Brown's death, then followed that to Cleveland and Tamir Rice, and to other places where mostly young African American men were killed by police officers.  Lots of info on the local movements that started up with these killings and also sort of started the Black Lives Matter movement too.  Also a point he makes is that it is not just about the individual that is murdered but about how the people in area felt with their interactions with the police.  There was a great mistrust and for this reason even if shooting could be justified the people would not believe it.  

The author does have a 2nd book published in 2023 and I have it on WL on PBS.  Interested in knowing what he sees with today's political environment and especially the Trump admin forcefully removing DEI programs.  

There are 3 WL for this book on PBS but for now is a keeper for me.

Celine--#33 finished

This is another Peter Heller book but this one is not connected to the others.  Celine is a more elderly lady that is a private investigator that focuses on finding missing family.  There is some back story with her being part of an original Mayflower family and having that old money even though her mom divorced her first husband.  Celine also had a child back in high school and gave it up for adoption with her older son trying to get this story--mom Celine will not talk about it.  The main story is finding what really happened to a famous photographer about 20 years ago--he was ruled to have died from a bear attack just outside Yellowstone National Park.  She & her husband do some research and find clues that no one else pieced together--didn't really make sense to me.  Also someone was tracking them--not sure why after so long this was happening.  Spoiler, the photographer took incriminating photos of US involvement in Allende overthrow in Chile so I guess CIA still cared--I didn't really buy this but oh well.  They find photographer has been holed up in remote cabin this whole time.  Again didn't really make sense either but that is what it is.  I have enjoyed Peter Heller's books and did enjoy this one too for some reasons but the main story just seemed weak or maybe forced, oh well.

There are 4 WL for this book on PBS and again will mail it off at some point but no hurry right now.

The Madwoman and the Roomba--#32 finished

The author documents a year or so of her life and is pretty funny in many ways and also sort of crazy in many ways.  She is a professor in CA and also has radio spots on what sounds like a local NPR station where she throws in some comedy with her science.  Funny to read about just normal things confronting her and then throw in her 2nd husband inviting a Buddhist group to stay at their house.  I guess she has a couple earlier books that I didn't know about or then obviously hadn't read either.  I hadn't heard of her before picking up this book at at library sale--50 cents well spent.  Needed a lighter sort of read and this one fit the bill.

There are 3 WL for the book on PBS but since have enough credits for now will wait till later to post.  This book was also finished in March but just now getting around to logging it in.