"Murder on Potrero Hill" by ML Hamilton was quite the read. Yes, I've been busy reading on night shift. It really made me angry. People who don't know about law enforcement shouldn't write about it. First of all, it isn't always the husband/wife. It could be anyone. So every time they said, "It's always the husband," I got extremely angry and almost had to close the book. It wasn't correct. They literally ruined a man's life because they refused to believe that he wasn't involved. In one day, before they had any evidence, they froze his bank accounts, got him fired, shut down his bus pass, and basically gave him no means of life. What jerks. That doesn't happen. Not without probably cause and legitimate evidence. They may monitor you, but they aren't going to cut you out of society. It was still a decent book though.
I just recently finished "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. I had no idea what this novel was going to be about going into it; all I knew was that our 10th grade English class study it. Right off the bat I noticed that our narrator was not your average Joe. The narrator is death. When I realized this I said to myself, "Oh this is going to be good." The novel is all about the Holocaust and it is shown from a German point of view. Leisel Meminger's mother gives her away to a foster German family. On the trip to this new family, Leisel's brother dies. So right from the start death is there. I'm not going to give you a synopsis of it, because I think you should read it for yourself. Just know that a German family hides a Jew in their basement for a while, and death is around every corner. That last line of the novel really got me though..."I am haunted by humans."
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