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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Cheers to the Man Who Directed Cheers

Directed by James Burrows by James Burrows

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Whether or not you remember it, if you’ve owned a television for any part of the last fifty years you’ve definitely seen the name James Burrows on your screen. Burrows is the acknowledged master of the four-camera sitcom, a format whose heyday may be in the past but whose death has been prematurely reported for decades. Burrows got his start when the sitcom was king, and he started at the top. Leveraging a connection he had made with the star, Burrows directed his first TV […]

Hit the Road, Jack

The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub

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Jack Sawyer is a twelve-year-old on a mission. To save his dying mother he needs to travel on his own across the country, back to his native California, to retrieve a mysterious item called the Talisman. Lucky for him, Jack has inherited a gift from his father, the ability to travel into a different world, called the Territories. The Territories are strange, to say the least. Technologically they seem to be about in the Middle Ages, with a few differences like talking werewolves. Jack has […]

Reese Witherspoon, How Could You?

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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Starting at age six, Kya Clark’s family members left her behind one by one until she was living in the Carolina marshes all alone. Why did they do this? Well, because Delia Owens needed them to, I suppose. Another good question is how in the heck a child is supposed to get by on her own, to which the answer is apparently by gathering and selling mussels. Eventually, somehow, Kya grows up, learns to read, becomes an expert on the flora and fauna of the […]

Desk Job

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

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If you’ve read Stephen King, or even just followed his career, you’ve almost certainly asked the question, “how does he do it?” Bestseller after bestseller, sometimes releasing multiple novels in a calendar year, and not dimestore paperbacks neither. How does one man write so much and (in my subjective opinion) so well? On Writing is King’s attempt to answer that unanswerable question. King leads off by presenting an autobiography of sorts, covering some early childhood incidents that he feels impacted his decision to become a […]

A River in Egypt

River of the Gods by Candice Millard

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River of the Gods is Candice Millard’s fourth book. The first three, covering James Garfield’s assassination, Theodore Roosevelt’s Amazon exploration, and Winston Churchill’s activities during the Boer War, are all fantastic. With impeccable research and delightful prose, Millard makes these intriguing but lesser-known aspects of history fascinating. My admiration for each of these books is so high that I picked up her new book without really caring that the subject was not of much interest to me. River of the Gods focusing on the Victorian-era […]

Are We Out of the Woods Yet?

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

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With her mother and her brother arguing too intensely to notice her, nine-year-old Trisha MacFarland veers off the path during a family hike intending just to go to the bathroom and rejoin her family on the trail. But a wrong turn followed by another wrong turn and just like that Trisha is lost. Uncertain what do, and with only a walkman for company, Trisha begins wandering through the dense Maine forest, struggling to fight off hopelessness while listening to her beloved Red Sox on the […]



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