Tomato Nation Read-Along #17: Poll
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on January 31, 2013 – 5:19 PM3 Comments
Or, “Time to hack this pile of Christmas books down to a manageable size.” It’s a fiction/true crime/pop culture fest…with some overlaps there (Bourdain is the first and last things; Spungen is the last two things).
Poll’s open for a week; vote early and often!
Which book(s) would you like to read along with? (You can pick as many as 3.)
- And I Don't Want This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder / Deborah Spungen (biography) (16%, 51 Votes)
- Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President / Candice Millard (history) (13%, 42 Votes)
- Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture / Andy Cohen (memoir) (12%, 39 Votes)
- Bone in the Throat / Anthony Bourdain (fiction) (10%, 34 Votes)
- Killings / Calvin Trillin (true crime) (10%, 34 Votes)
- Money-Makers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters / Ben Tarnoff (true crime) (10%, 31 Votes)
- In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri / Harry N. Maclean (true crime) (9%, 29 Votes)
- Front Row Anna Wintour: What Lies Beneath the Chic Exterior of Vogue's Editor in Chief / Jerry Oppenheimer (biography) (9%, 29 Votes)
- Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation / Eric Deggans (cultural studies) (9%, 28 Votes)
- The Last Newspaper Man / Mark DiIonno (fiction) (3%, 9 Votes)
Total Voters: 152
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C’mon Sid and Nancy!! I first read this book in high school (required reading for the punk rock set) and I have many thoughts, nitpicks (though it’s her mom writing it so you have to make certain allowances, I’m sure) and wonderings.
Ooh, the Death Hag in me wants to read about Sid and Nancy! Have read snippets of this book, and I’m fascinated with them.
Sid and Nancy are one of those couples that the more I find out about them, the more I can’t believe they lived as long as they did.
Now, I am supposed to not buy any more books until I read down my own pill–I already made one exception–but this is the Nation!