holli

I found a copy of The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy at the thrift store today, andit *keeps making me cry*. And my roomate is watching Schindler's List in the next room.

Current Mood: teary

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veejane.livejournal.com

Oh, the Stewart O'Nan book? I read it a couple of years ago, and it's pretty striking.

One of the things that took me a while to realize is that the photo he keeps describing, the one of the piled bodies that was so shocking and horrifying? Isn't in the book. He doesn't explain why not, just leaves it out. I expect he is obliquely admitting that it was so bad he doesn't think his audience could take it.

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holli.livejournal.com

I noticed that! But he *did* include the picture of Little Miss 1565, and I think I agree with him that it isn't Eleanor Cook. Not that I, you know, have any kind of expert opinion at all.