It’s Friday! What I Am Reading. – February 19, 2010

Every Friday on the Nest Book Club board, we have a post titled What Are You Reading. In this post we add an image of the cover(s) of the book(s) we are reading and give a short summary of how we are liking it. I decided I would continue that Friday ritual here on the blog, so welcome to the first Life is Short. Read Fast edition of It's Friday! What I Am Reading.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson. This is a nonfiction book about the Chicago World's Fair, but it is also about so much more. Following the travels and life of a killer that was at large during this very exciting time shows the deeper changes occurring in Chicago. Women could go missing and it was not necessarily surprising and this created the perfect environment for a monster masquerading as a Doctor, pharmacists, business owner and gentlemen to do his dirty work. The majority of this book is written in a very traditional non-fiction manor, without much flow to the story but the portions regarding the sinister man are riveting! It may be that I find the subject of serial killers fascinating but the chapters about him keep me reading the rest of the book. I am hoping to finish the book sometime the beginning of next week. This is one of the books on the Rory Gilmore Book Club and I probably wouldn't have picked it up on my own.