Cannonball Read 17

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39 years old. New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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More than Okay, Boomer

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

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Hearts in Atlantis is Stephen King’s look at the Baby Boomers. Starting in 1960 and ending at the dawn of the new millennium, the five stories collected here feature an interlocking cast of characters dealing with the drastic changes taking place in America over those tumultuous decades. But if you’re worried about yet another paean to the peace-and-love generation, a gee-whiz, Forest Gump-ian account of seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and burning draft cards, rest assured: King has no interest in singing the praises […]

Welcome to the Machine

The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds by Joe Posnanski

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I like reading Joe Posnanski’s writing about baseball because he understands that baseball, fundamentally, is about stories. And he seems to know every baseball story there is. And every player has a story, from the Hall of Famers to the guys who only got a cup of coffee. The Machine, an account of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, aka “The Big Red Machine”, is full of entertaining stories, both about the players on the Reds, their manager, players on other teams, and even stories that just […]

Denis Villeneuve is a Genius

Dune by Frank Herbert

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I’m not a big reader of science-fiction, generally. I haven’t read many of the classic sci-fi novels that it seems like everyone who was a nerd in high school has read. (I was definitely a nerd, just of a different sort.) So Dune is a bit of a departure for me. But I loved both of Denis Villeneuve’s movies, especially Part Two. Therefore, I decided I would try to get caught up on the books before the next film in the series. The problem with […]

Half a Lifetime

Cher: Part One by Cher

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The first half of Cher’s autobiography covers, fittingly, roughly the first half of her life so far. Born to an absentee Armenian father and a wannabe actress mother, Cherilyn Sarkisian seems to have been destined for an outrageous, implausible life from the start. Her mother, a knockout beauty, had terrible luck with the men in her life, marrying miscreants, drunks and other losers over and over again, yo-yo-ing young Cher and her sister from squalor to splendor and back again, depending on the economic status […]

Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold-Hearted

Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. Macdonald

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Travis McGee was surprised to find his old football teammate stressed and gloomy on his first visit in many years. McGee suspects unhappiness in marriage, but really the cause of the problem is financial in origin. Business at Bannon’s marina hotel has been in steep decline since the county shut down the nearest highway. Bannon’s wife, Janine, suggest cutting their losses and selling, but the only offer is suspiciously low and just happens to be coming from a relative of one of the county commissioners. […]

Don’t Criticize What You Can’t Understand

Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald

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I really enjoyed A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothee Chalamet. I had a huge Bob Dylan phase as a young man and still listen to him frequently, but I wouldn’t call myself a true Dylanologist. Still, the made me intrigued about the infamous performance at the Newport Folk Festival where Dylan went electric. The movie is an adaptation of Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties. Wald covers the event itself in great detail, […]



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