Rated 4.5 or 5 out of 5.
I feel badly calling a true crime book forgettable. There’s an implication that the victim, in this case, Brigitte Scholl, was forgettable, which seems a heartless assertion. But, really, The Scholl Case is not much more than a newspaper article run long. It’s interesting in a mildly benign way, somewhat infuriating in that Brigitte Scholl is definitely presented more in a bitches be crazy style than her husband Heinrich, who frequents sex-workers, cheats on his wife, abandons a child born out of wedlock — so it’s hardly like he’s an upstanding gentleman either. But while Brigitte’s flaws are hammered home almost to the point of inanity, Heinrich’s get side aside with a shrug. Oh well the book seems to say Product of his upbringing. Because, clearly, Brigitte just sprung up fully formed in the GDR fully formed with no outside influences whatsoever *rolls eyes*.
So there’s no grand reveal here. No new evidence. Even Reich-Osang’s interactions with Heinrich are bland, polite letters and visits where nothing much happens. The Scholl Case is refreshingly un-lurid for a true crime book, but that makes it seem more academic than anything else, and, in a sense, a bit purposeless.
The Scholl Case by Anja Reich-Osang went on sale December 29, 2016.
I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I did it!, mainly by sticking to graphic novels and poetry. I learning nothing, other than reading a book a day is tiring, especially at five o’clock in the darkened evening when you realize you haven’t even started reading something yet. But I persevered through pre-Christmas and a week of having a gastro-virus. So yay me I suppose. Yay finishing this arbitrary goal I set myself stupidly thinking that I am somewhat of a professional reader who needs to have these sorts of goals set out for myself.
Upcoming year, I likely will have no goals other than continuing to read books because that is my hobby and I start to go squirrelly without being able to read (and also being able to write fiction, but that’s a whole other set of issues).
-
The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by Joseph Conrad
-
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
-
The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
-
Lumberjanes Volume 1 by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen and Noelle Stevenson
-
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-
Wonderland by Tommy Kovac
-
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
-
Inspired! by Maria Bukhonina
-
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
-
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
-
Bossypants by Tina Fey
-
The Green Road by Anne Enright
-
Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota
-
Wimbledon Green by Seth
-
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
-
Trespass by Rose Tremain
-
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
-
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace
-
Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer
-
Red Colored Elegy by Saiichi Hayashi
-
Oddly Normal Book One by Otis Frampton
-
Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen
-
The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
-
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez
-
Ms Marvel No Normal by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
-
The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by Joseph Conrad
-
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
-
The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
-
Lumberjanes Volume 1 by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen and Noelle Stevenson
-
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-
Wonderland by Tommy Kovac
-
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
-
Inspired! by Maria Bukhonina
-
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
-
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
-
Bossypants by Tina Fey
-
The Green Road by Anne Enright
-
Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota
-
Wimbledon Green by Seth
-
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
-
Trespass by Rose Tremain
-
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
-
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace
-
Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer
-
Red Colored Elegy by Saiichi Hayashi
-
Oddly Normal Book One by Otis Frampton
-
Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen
-
The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
-
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
-
The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by Joseph Conrad
-
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
-
The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
-
Lumberjanes Volume 1 by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen and Noelle Stevenson
-
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-
Wonderland by Tommy Kovac
-
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
-
Inspired! by Maria Bukhonina
-
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
-
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
-
Bossypants by Tina Fey
-
The Green Road by Anne Enright
-
Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota
-
Wimbledon Green by Seth
-
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
-
Trespass by Rose Tremain
-
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
-
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace
-
Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer
-
Red Colored Elegy by Saiichi Hayashi
-
Oddly Normal Book One by Otis Frampton
-
Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen
-
The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
-
The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by Joseph Conrad
-
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
-
The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
-
Lumberjanes Volume 1 by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen and Noelle Stevenson
-
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-
Wonderland by Tommy Kovac
-
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
-
Inspired! by Maria Bukhonina
-
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
-
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
-
Bossypants by Tina Fey
-
The Green Road by Anne Enright
-
Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota
-
Wimbledon Green by Seth
-
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
-
Trespass by Rose Tremain
-
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
-
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace
-
Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer
-
Red Colored Elegy by Saiichi Hayashi
-
Oddly Normal Book One by Otis Frampton
-
Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
-
The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by Joseph Conrad
-
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
-
The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
-
Lumberjanes Volume 1 by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen and Noelle Stevenson
-
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-
Wonderland by Tommy Kovac
-
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
-
Inspired! by Maria Bukhonina
-
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
-
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
-
Bossypants by Tina Fey
-
The Green Road by Anne Enright
-
Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota
-
Wimbledon Green by Seth
-
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
-
Trespass by Rose Tremain
-
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
-
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace
-
Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer
-
Red Colored Elegy by Saiichi Hayashi
-
Oddly Normal Book One by Otis Frampton
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
-
The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by Joseph Conrad
-
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
-
The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
-
Lumberjanes Volume 1 by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen and Noelle Stevenson
-
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-
Wonderland by Tommy Kovac
-
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
-
Inspired! by Maria Bukhonina
-
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
-
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
-
Bossypants by Tina Fey
-
The Green Road by Anne Enright
-
Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota
-
Wimbledon Green by Seth
-
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
-
Trespass by Rose Tremain
-
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
-
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace
-
Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer
-
Red Colored Elegy by Saiichi Hayashi
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.