Wow week 4 already!! The description for this week as copied from The Thousand Book Project is:
Week 4: (November 22-26) – Stranger Than Fiction with Christopher at Plucked from the Stacks: This week we’re focusing on all the great nonfiction books that *almost* don’t seem real. A sports biography involving overcoming massive obstacles, a profile on a bizarre scam, a look into the natural wonders in our world—basically, if it makes your jaw drop, you can highlight it for this week’s topic.
The book I chose for this week, and I only chose one, is one that I read quite a few years ago but it has stuck with me all this time.. and I just realized I made sort of a dad joke there. That was unintentional, honestly.
This whole event is so crazy to even consider. And terrifying! A giant tank of molasses burst open in Boston’s North End, flooding the streets with two million gallons of molasses, even causing a 15 foot wave. The horror of being caught in that flood is unimaginable. People and animals died, building were crushed in that dark tide of molasses, which reached speeds of 35 miles per hour. There is even a legend that on warm days, you can still catch a faint scent of the molasses rising from the streets.
This book was bizarre and tragic, and like I said, a book that has stayed with me for years.
Whoa, what a wild event! I can’t imagine something like that coming down the street.
Right? And you would think well, I could outrun molasses… slower than molasses and all that. But not this flood of it, sadly! It was fascinating!
Weird! I think I need to read that one. It sounds like my kind of book.
It was really good!
Definitely wild! Enjoy the rest of the month!
Thanks Laurel-Rain! Have a good Thanksgiving!!
Oh my gosh! I’ve never heard of this incident but what a crazy story and sounds like a really interesting book! Great pick for this topic.
Thanks!! I can’t believe I found a book you haven’t read!! LOL. I feel strangely proud!
Goodness, that is an apt one for the prompt this week!
It popped into my brain as soon as I read the prompt!
OMG… I’ve never heard about that! Crazy!!
Isn’t it so crazy!
Yes, almost unbelievable!
Yes!
What an excellent example of truth being stranger than fiction! Thanks for sharing
Thanks Shelleyrae!
Whoa, that molasses flood sounds terrifying!
I know right!! Floods are bad enough, but molasses too?
I’ve definitely heard about that happening but it’s still such a strange thing to think about actually happening! Sounds like it might be a bit like Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson – this storm that no one thought was possible just wiped the whole place out.
But molasses! MOLASSES!
Right!! So nuts!!!
Oo I will check that Larson book out. I have only read one of his before.
This is insane to imagine! I have to check this book out. Wow. WOW.
It was really good!! And so crazy to imagine!
wow, never heard of this before! A sticky topic, lol
🤣🤣 it sure is!!!
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This is WILD. One of those stories that I’ve read about before, but it’s still hits hard ever single time. I didn’t know about this book, but I’m definitely tracking down a copy.
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