True Crime

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I have a weakness for true crime books, which I don't usually admit because it doesn't go with my image. It's the psychological part that I find fascinating. On Scribd, they had Paul Watkins' book about his time with the Manson family. (He left right before the murders.) I used to have that book, and found it fascinating reading. I have no doubt that I would have been susceptible to someone like Manson as a teenager. He didn't start out murderous, but had a bunch of followers who he made feel "special". Now I want to read Helter Skelter, the book about the trial of the Manson family members. We have it at work. (We have a collection of "serial killer books" for the criminal justice students. They told me about it when I interviewed there, and I was wondering about the place.) The youngest member of the Manson family recently wrote a book about her time there, and I just ordered it from the public library.

I finished Paul Watkins' book this afternoon, and then took a short nap. Now I'm working on the kitchen. It's too late to make my veggie lasagna, but I want to set it up in the crockpot so that all I'll have to do is turn it on tomorrow. I'll have both lasagna and quiche, but that's okay. I want to freeze the lasagna.

I've got the new scrubber charging.

Oh, and I bought the elephant DVD for my mom. The one that I wanted to get was $75 on Amazon. No. I tried eBay, and found it for $18 plus free shipping. Much better.