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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Where Little Cable Cars Climb Halfway to the Stars

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

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In 1954 San Francisco, high school senior Lily Hu has a lot on her plate. Her busy parents, a doctor and a nurse, rely on her to look after her younger brothers until they get home from work. Her best friend Shirley is still trying to run Lily’s life, wrangling her onto dance committees and trying to set her up on dates with boys. Lily herself is more focused on doing well in her advanced mathematics class so she can get into college and get […]

I Don’t Have a Clue

The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs

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The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life is the newest effort by author and human lab-rat A.J. Jacobs. After previously attempting such feats as reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary and spending an entire year living by all of the precepts of The Bible, here Jacobs takes a crack at learning about humanity through the unlikely prism of puzzles. Are they just time-wasters or do they have something profound to say […]

The Moth Joke Writ Large

Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald

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As the subtitle proclaims, this is “Not a Memoir.” What it is, exactly, is harder to pin down. Purporting to be a book written by comedian Norm Macdonald to pay off his gambling debts, it centers on a comedian named Norm Macdonald trying to pay off his gambling debts. At times, Based on a True Story approaches the truth of it’s subject’s life, but never for long. Like its author, the book’s version of Norm was born in Canada, went into stand-up, got on SNL […]

Something is Rotten in a Made-Up Balkan State

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

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Itinerant wanderer Anthony Cade is bored out of his mind leading tour groups of old biddies in South Africa when a chance encounter with an old friend leads him into a strange new adventure. Anthony is asked to deliver a juicy manuscript written by a former political leader from the made-up state of Herzoslovakia. He is also given a sheaf of letters written between a blackmailer and a young widow and tasked with returning them to her so she won’t worry that they’re still out […]

Battle of the Network Stars

The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night by Bill Carter

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The other day James Corden announced he would be leaving his CBS late night show in a year’s time. Online the news was met with a lot of jokes and rehashing of Corden’s supposed personality flaws but it wasn’t met with a lot of interest or speculation. And while there would be a bit more hoopla if one of the trio of 11:30 hosts left their chair, it still wouldn’t hold a candle to what happened thirty years ago when Johnny Carson retired. Carson had […]

A Life’s Work

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan

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Shortly after taking up photography during a long convalescence, Edward S. Curtis of Seattle established himself as that city’s premier portrait taker. All the best families in the area wanted a Curtis family photograph, and he easily could have spent the rest of his days in ease and wealth. But the germ of an idea took root in Curtis’s mind and would not let him rest. After taking a picture of the city’s last Native resident, the so-called “Princess Angeline,” granddaughter of Chief Seattle, Curtis […]



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