The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (#13, Nonfiction)

Did you know that the World's Fair in Chicago was a tribute to Christopher Columbus?  Nope, me either.  Or that Columbus Day became a holiday after the fair concluded? 

I learned many things about Chicago, architecture and psychopaths in this well researched (and possibly a bit fact heavy) historic book.

There is a 100 percent chance that I started doing a lot of skimming about 150 pages in, I can only tolerate so many facts about buildings and landscape.  But, I didn't skim the sections on creepy H.H. Holmes, and how he lured and murdered numerous young women in the late 19th century.

3.5/5