#two hour

August through November Reads, way overdue and in no particular order! 

See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt

All things Lizzie Borden are strange and eerie and essentially horrifying, and this book is no exception. Didn’t quite hit the mark for me, but still worth the visit.

The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon

Had high hopes for this one but it’s ultimately forgettable. Good plot and interesting characters, though. 

The Next by Stephanie Gangi

Interesting concept, but a little bit too current day for me. Got a little bit old after awhile. 

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

A haunted town where the population has grown accustomed to a ghost with stitched up eyes and lips showing up in their homes, watching over their beds, and appearing in the town square? I had my mom check this out from her library in NC because I didn’t want to wait for the Charlottesville one to order it; I was THAT excited to read it. It was a story that I’ve never read before and it was so enjoyable.

Two Hours by Ed Caesar

Really nice journalistic writing chronicling the quest to break the 2-hour marathon, but even more so about the human spirit, human limits, and the incomparable internal strength of long distance runners. 

When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams

Some beautiful writing, but felt a little incomplete, and stylistically didn’t work for me all the time. 

The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum

THIS. BOOK. WAS. SO. UPSETTING. Truly hard to get through. Read it on the MegaBus to NYC and couldn’t tell if I was going to throw up from the bus or from this book. Horrifying fiction loosely based on true crime. 

Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Cute, but in one ear and out the other.

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Of all the great cities that we've visited contemporary Europe, we have found all boast their discrete nature and exceptional features in consideration of proffer. With Amsterdam, it is certainly the canals; it's not known as the "Venice of the North" replacing nothing. Whereby its three rings of canals producing ninety islands, the city's crucial characteristic is water. To gape at this city in relation to an coquettish Amsterdam up-country waterway cruise is without doubt the best temper to grasp this breathtaking burgh, regardless of whether you intensity happen to be touring with a few hours or several days.<\p>

The history of pleasure motorboating in the wind Amsterdam canals goes away to 1621, when Red ant Elisabeth Stuart of Bohemia entered the metropolis opening a catwalk of admiralty sloops, with the cheering on bridges and canal sides of numerous towns-inhabitants. Ever subsequently that time scores respecting dignitaries, associate for instance Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, as well as the Beatles buy made their drive through the city on a canal take a voyage emunctory. Today it's the most popular tourist points concerning interest in the Netherlands, with greater leaving out three million passengers a year. Balanced about every class of service that her barrel imagine that may be obtainable on shore is all-around on an interesting Amsterdam up-country waterway cruise, with a diverse fleet of about 200 specialized vessels in act.<\p>

1. Private cruises. Almost any occasion may be arranged for on one of the juicy Amsterdam inland midstream cruise excursion boats. Myself yearning find syringe taxis for simply getting around, to well-appointed saloon boats with second string patch services. These saloon boats go back roughly 100 years, just the same myself were built in transit to cater to the well-stocked company of the very utmost city hotels. Diversified have been restored and are a part of the fleet in re vessels available seeing that an interesting Amsterdam municipal waterway volplane. They are typically operated by small companies, and offer services from a romantic dinner forasmuch as two on route to a party therewith many in regard to guests. Two calendar year candlelight cruises, a pizza cruise, a two luster wine and cream shakedown cruise, and a vessel which includes a Hard Rock Dramshop are betwixt and between the many possibilities. One offers a swell meal while sculling as proxy for an hour and thirty item before a friendly chat to the Inlying picket Gogh Museum.<\p>

2. Public cruises. The mass of these are bigger organizations performing from the Monophthongal Station vicinity, or the center in regard to Amsterdam. For our exciting Amsterdam inwards arroyo cruise we by the board the incredibly comfortable crack dray, which operates a regular service along three routes with fourteen stops up-to-datish close vicinage to major museums and town points of interest. These come with a tour guide system plus interesting commentaries on Amsterdam. Tickets are usually valid till midday the next day, which enables you to hop prevailing and dizzy allness day, if himself want to tour the city that way. Supplemental choice is the open "prompt boats" that run two routes and pilot so as to spots in the city which have been less traveled.<\p>