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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Nuclear Family

Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum

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On the morning of the Chernobyl disaster, Russia’s leading nuclear scientist Anna Berkova is sitting in her lab working on her pet project when the force of the blast sends her and her device into the future, December 8, 1992. There, Anna finds the daughter she long ago abandoned dying on the floor. With her last breaths Molly gives her a photograph and tells her to save Raisa, her daughter and Anna’s granddaughter. In 1970s Philadelphia, Molly lives above and works in her adopted parents’ […]

They Would Walk 500 Miles

The Long Walk by Stephen King

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The premise for The Long Walk, a book written by Stephen King under his Richard Bachman pseudonym, would not be out of place on the Young Adult shelf at your local bookstore. In an vaguely dystopian America, one hundred teenage boys have entered a macabre competition. One morning they set off on a walk, and the last one still walking wins. They have to keep a constant pace of four miles per hour, no bathroom breaks, no sleep, no excuses at all. They get three […]

Funny Business

The War for Late Night by Bill Carter

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When I read Bill Carter’s The Late Shift, about the battle over succeeding Johnny Carson as the host of The Tonight Show, I was reading about events that took place when I was seven years old and not, obviously, a viewer of late night television. Though I had heard the broad strokes of the story of Leno and Letterman, there was a lot of info I was unfamiliar with. The War for Late Night, on the other hand, covers events that took place in my […]

Roam on the Range

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

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Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call are living legends. As Texas Rangers they cleared the borderlands and made the area safe for white settlers. After that work was done they settled into life as co-owners of the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium, where there days consist of breaking in wild horses and raising cattle. It’s hard work but the men are well-suited to it, especially the preternaturally driven Call. While Augustus might enjoy whiskey and afternoon naps, his talents as a Ranger and a […]

I Guess He Had to Be There

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster

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Thanks to my obsession with British panel shows I’ve become quite a fan of James Acaster. His series of Taskmaster was one of the show’s greatest, and he’s maybe the best Would I Lie to You? guest not named Bob Mortimer. I even occasionally listen to his and Ed Gamble’s Off Menu podcast even though I know almost nothing about food beyond the fact that I like to eat it. Part of Acaster’s appeal as a comedian is that he genuinely flirts with the line […]

Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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On the night of their famous end of summer party the four Riva children would seem to the outside world to have it all. Nina, the oldest, is a famous model living in a cliffside mansion bought by her tennis-star husband. Jay Riva is a champion surfer frequently on magazine covers in photos taken by his half-brother Hudson, while youngest child Kit is still in college and a promising surfer in her own right. But as they spend the day of August 27, 1983 preparing […]



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