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One Day by Gene Weingarten
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it was ok
bookshelves: history, read-2020-non-fiction

This was a strange book. It isn't really what it seems to be, which is a chronicle of one randomly picked day, Dec 28, 1986 in the US. Some chapters made sense, such as the murder on that day of Cara Knott by an on-duty CHP officer, I remember that one, but mostly this date is just a jumping off point for stories about randomly picked people. Sometimes the connection was simply that the person in question wrote a diary entry for that date. Or one guy's father was killed on the day, but the chapter was about him, and he hadn't even been born yet. Some of these tales were pretty dull or icky and I couldn't even figure out why they were included.
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February 12, 2020 – Shelved
February 12, 2020 – Shelved as: history
February 12, 2020 – Finished Reading
November 6, 2022 – Shelved as: read-2020-non-fiction

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JimZ I agree with you when you say this and I was perturbed by it: but mostly this date is just a jumping off point for stories about randomly picked people


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