Acquisitions

Tonight I was planning on finishing up the reviews for books I read in 2013. I want to get them done before I finish any books in 2014. I’m hoping that will give me a fresh start and hopefully I will keep up with my reviews.

However as I’m sitting here online and looking at books ….. I’ve bought some.

Almost Eleven: The Murder of Brenda Sue Sayers [Kindle Edition] by Harrell Glenn Crowson

Almost Eleven is the documentation of the January 7, 1965 abduction, rape and murder of ten year-old Brenda Sue Sayers in the small town of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley’s biggest crime is detailed through volumes of official records and interviews with witnesses, relatives and investigators.

Serial killer Robert Eugene Pennington not only murdered Sayers, but was a suspect in killing Dorothy Minor-Hindman in Fresno and possibly fifteen other innocent victims from coast to coast including one victim attributed to the Boston Strangler.

Extensive research provides the reader with details of Pennington’s life before and after his encounter with Brenda.

Hitler’s Last Secretary: A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler [Kindle Edition] by Traudl Junge

In 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler and served him for two and a half years, right up to the bitter end. Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitler’s administration, she typed correspondence and speeches, including Hitler’s public and private last will and testament; she ate her meals and spent evenings with him; and she was close enough to hear the bomb that was intended to assassinate Hitler in the Wolf’s Lair, close enough to smell the bitter almond odor of Eva Braun’s cyanide pill. In her intimate, detailed memoir, Junge invites readers to experience day-to-day life with the most horrible dictator of the twentieth century.