{"id":12,"date":"2008-04-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/quick-book-review-a-death-in-belmont\/"},"modified":"2008-04-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T12:00:00","slug":"quick-book-review-a-death-in-belmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/quick-book-review-a-death-in-belmont\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Book Review: A Death In Belmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Sebastian Junger\u2019s \u201cA Death In Belmont\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081120015242\/http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/\">Harvard Book Store<\/a> a few months ago and just got time to get to it last weekend.  I was bored after finishing off three or four books that I\u2019d started and were languishing around and I couldn\u2019t find anything on my shelf that I was particularly interested in.<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought I wouldn\u2019t like the book at all.  I bought it because it had local connections, and I not read anything by the author before.  I was pleasantly surprised by the content, and very impressed with Junger\u2019s simple style.  I was kept interested from beginning to end, and finished this book over the course of two Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>The book is related to the Boston Strangler, and one murder in particular for which a different man was convicted.  It takes place in and around where I live, and I enjoy books that I have a connection to.  Also, the book is part of the author\u2019s life, as Albert DeSalvo himself had been doing a construction job on his house in 1962 when he was a small child.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend this book to anyone interested in the Strangler case, anyone who was impressed by the writing style of \u201cThe Perfect Storm\u201d, and anyone who wants an interesting look at the life of criminals, not just the Strangler.<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081120015242if_\/http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=feedmittens-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0007200056&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Sebastian Junger\u2019s \u201cA Death In Belmont\u201d at the Harvard Book Store a few months ago and just got time to get to it last weekend. I was bored after finishing off three or four books that I\u2019d started and were languishing around and I couldn\u2019t find anything on my shelf that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,7],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}