A great book but now I will take a little break

I have been getting obsessed with the Rick Geary Treasury of Victorian Murder graphic nonfiction titles.  I do need to take a little break from them, but I will definitely go back to them soon, maybe around Halloween, which is fast approaching!  The last two Sundays I filled the pulpit up at Bradford Woods Community Church and that was my focus on off-work hours.  My reading slowed, so now I need to get back into it will full-force and and obsession of any kind is never good when trying to expand my reading experience!  

I think A Treasury of Victorian Murder MIGHT have been the first in what has become a series of individual graphic works, like the ones I have talked about here:  the assassination of Garfield and H.H. Holmes and Madeleine Smith.  I say might because I still don't understand the whole language and set up and organization of graphic works, like compendiums and collected volumes and things like that!

In any case, this volume featured there creepy stories:  the murders of brother and sister, Nick and Mary Ryan, the murderous Dr. Pritchard, and Mary Pearcey.

Uh oh...am I stuck on another series?

I think I am!  This time I used the Comixology app and bought and read another of Rick Geary's graphic nonfiction books in his Treasury of Victorian Murder series.  The Case of Madeleine Smith was interesting because Geary is simply a great storyteller and illustrator and also because I had never heard of Madeleine Smith and also because, even after reading it, I can't be totally sold on the idea that she did it.  Good stuff here.

He was the devil, you know, in the White City

When I read The Devil in the White City, I was blown away.  What a great, great book.  And the devil, referred to in that book as H.H. Holmes, mostly, was a fascinating, foul and frightening character from history.  I had never heard of him before, even though he is considered by many to be America's first serial killer. The Beast of Chicago:  an account of the life and crimes of Henry W. Mudgett, known to the world as H.H. Holmes focuses on the monster himself.

James A. Garfield

Last year I read The Destiny of the Republic and loved it.   As I mentioned back when I reviewed it, it made me want to visit his home in Mentor, Ohio.  Well, finally I did!  Below are some pictures from the trip that I made with mom and Lobster!  It was so worth it!  The tour was excellent. At the gift shop I picked up the book The Fatal Bullet:   the assassination of James A. Garfield.  It was a really, really well done graphic non-fiction and now I want to read the whole series that Rick Geary has done.