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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Minnesota Mean

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

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When Jimmy Quinn’s body is discovered in a local river with a huge shotgun blast in his chest on Memorial Day 1958, there’s certainly no shortage of suspects. Sheriff Brody Dean is sorely tempted to write the whole thing off as a hunting accident, but fate intervenes. Local gossip soon coalesces into one persistent rumor, that Quinn’s Dakota Sioux farmhand, Noah Bluestone, is the man responsible for his death. A town pariah for both his own status as a Native American and for his interracial […]

Endless Endgame

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

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Peter and Ivan Koubek are brothers dealing with the recent death of their father. Peter and Ivan aren’t really close because of a ten-year age-gap between them and their vastly different personalities. Peter is a lawyer who works for a big firm but also handles crusades like discrimination cases. He is gregarious, a gifted public speaker, and popular with women. Ivan is a 22-year-old former childhood chess prodigy trying to get his game back in form and finally attain the grandmaster status predicted for him […]

Extra, Extra Innings

Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry

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On the Saturday before Easter in April, 1981, the Rochester Red Wings, Triple-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, took on the Pawtucket Red Sox, Triple-A affiliate of guess who, in an early-season game of little to no importance. Like all minor league games, it featured a few future star players, a few players who used to be big leaguers, and a lot of guys who never really made it. There were less than 2,000 fans present at the start, which was delayed by a power […]

The Dodgers Beat the Yankees? Where Have I Heard That Before?

Split Season 1981 by Jeff Katz

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As you may have heard, the Dodgers and Yankees recently met in the World Series, with the Dodgers ultimately prevailing. If you watched the games, you probably also heard that it was the first matchup between those two teams in the Fall Classic since 1981, when, coincidentally, the Dodgers also came out on top. Finally, you also likely heard about the recent passing of Fernando Valenzuela, who was the biggest star in baseball in 1981, winning both the Rookie of the Year and Cy Young […]

The King’s Daughter

From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

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I don’t want to be the bad guy here, considering how much pain and death is involved, but this is a book that doesn’t really have a lot to offer. It’s admittedly been cobbled together from Lisa Marie’s notes, with her daughter Riley Keough plugging in the gaps and even including audio tapes of her mother’s recollections where there were no notes to use. I listened to this on audiobook, with Keough narrating her parts, Lisa Marie occasionally appearing on tape, and Julia Roberts reading […]

Justice on Four Wheels

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

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It’s fairly normal to get book recommendations from TikTok these days, I suppose, but maybe not quite in the way that I did. Sensing some primal need in me for courtroom drama, my algorithm has been steadily feeding me clips from Netflix’s TV adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer for weeks. In every clip I’ve seen thus far, the protagonist gets his client off with some slick legal trick, exasperating judge and prosecutor alike. It’s not exactly reinventing the wheel, premise-wise, but the execution seemed especially […]



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