This book was chosen at The Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc., an organization whose mission it is to put books in the hands of those who want them.

It's time to do some serious culling of books in my "To Be Read" pile. I might live a long, healthy life, but there is no way I'll ever read all the books now in my possession. I chose this as one of the books to begin moving on.

Farewell and happy traveling, little book!

I'm releasing this book for the following BookCrossing challenges:

***The 2017 What's in a Name Release Challenge hosted by DragonGoddess . The title of this book contains the names BO and KEVIN.

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Enjoy the book!

I selected this book from the Little Free Library of Twinbrook (#7720) to travel elsewhere...

This book is being released at Panera Bread at 219 E. Middle Lane in Rockville, Maryland, during a BCinDC BookCrossing meetup.

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From today's BC-in-DC meeting, to be released.

This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for some time, waiting to be read. Somehow, with the seemingly never-ending string of school shootings in the news, I never could quite find the motivation to pick this up and start it. And when I finally did, I found the beginning so off-putting that I almost didn't continue.

Written in the form a a series of letters from Kevin's mother to his father, the book begins with an exploration of the couple's lives and relationship before they had children and the ultimate decision to have them. Honestly, I found it hard to like the narrator...she didn't strike me as a particularly sympathetic or likeable character. But I pushed on, and the book became more compelling the further into I got.

Ultimately, this is a mother's attempt to understand how her son could become a killer. Because we only really see him from his mother's perspective, it feels a bit one-sided, but this book suggests that Kevin had an inherent nasty, possibly even evil nature to him from the very beginning, one that his mother felt that his father didn't recognize or appreciate.

I'm not sure what I was expecting from this book, exactly, but it certainly wasn't what I found in the book. This is not an attempt to find a broader meaning behind school shootings generally, nor does it appear to suggest that there are any lessons in this story that could be used in the real world. Instead, this is a deeply troubling examination of the relationships between the members of this fictional family and how they led to such a tragic end. And the ending had a twist that I did not see coming (which I will not spoil), one that was both shocking and yet seemed obvious after-the-fact, and which shed an entirely different light on the entire book.

Restocking the Little Free Library.

Removed from the Little Free Library to make room for a new selection of books.

This book will be available at today's BC-in-DC meeting.

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If you have not already done so, please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home. You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, we encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. It's fun and free, and your personal information will never be shared or sold. If you decide to join, consider listing   ResQgeek (or any of the other journalers) as referring you.

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This book was left behind after the BC-in-DC meeting on Sunday

This book is available on the Book Exchange shelf in the pantry in room 9C68 of the Knox Building (USPTO employees and authorized visitors only - this area is not open to the general public).

This book was one of several dozen recently left in a cart next to the book exchange shelf.