Monday, January 30, 2017

Innocent Killer; Choose Your Own Misery: the Holidays

Since I read Michael Griesbach's second book, "Indefensible", a few weeks ago, I wanted to read his first book about Steven Avery. He repeated a lot of this book in the second one, like literally complete pages, but hey, it's his own book so I guess he can do that. This one focused more on the wrongful conviction for assaulting Penny Beernsten whereas "Indefensible" was more about the murder of Teresa Halbach. I really need to finish watching "Making of a Murderer".
I read Mike MacDonald's first "Choose Your Own Misery" book, about life at the office, and found it amusing, so I checked out his Holiday version. The main character is actually looking forward to Christmas in the beginning of the book: his family all have plans and he hasn't been dating his girlfriend long enough to be at the "meet the parents" stage yet, so he and a friend have tickets for a vacation on a tropical island. At the airport, he hears that a hurricane has hit the island and his vacation is abruptly cancelled. What to do? He has a few choices: go somewhere else on a whim, go back home and spend Christmas alone, force himself on his relatives, or call his girlfriend. No matter which option he chooses, nothing good comes of it.

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