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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Babyluv, This is One Smucking Annoying Book

Lisey's Story by Stephen King

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You ever meet someone who’s obsessed with what they were like as a child? How precocious they were, with their imaginary friends, invented games and little word substitutions? Don’t you just hate that? Lisey’s Story, which is apparently, and inexplicably, Stephen King’s personal favorite among his works, is like that. The book has major “isn’t it funny how I used to mispronounce spaghetti” vibes. For Pete’s sake, the 50-year title character says “smucking” instead of the f-word. Let’s turn our attention to Lisey. She’s a […]

Jerry World

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

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Fresh off leaving grad school in London, 23-year-old Joanna Rakoff returns to the U.S. and stumbles into a job as an assistant at one of New York’s oldest literary agencies. She gets the job despite not really knowing anything about the agency, the publishing industry, or even how to type. Hey, it was the ’90s. Freshly installed at her desk, Joanna struggles to relate to her boss, who barks instructions before retreating behind the closed door of her office to make phone calls and smoke […]

No Lazy Dogs Were Jumped Over

The Quick Red Fox by John D. Macdonald

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A beautiful movie star desperately needs Travis McGee’s help and is willing to take him to bed to get it, but McGee is more intrigued by her coolly efficient personal assistant. When McGee agrees to hunt down the shutterbug blackmailing starlet Lysa Dean over some dirty photos, he is surprised to find that the assistant is part of the deal. As the two of them crisscross the country tracking down potential suspects, McGee discovers hidden depths in the strangely alluring woman he’s been partnered with. […]

McGee #3

A Purple Place for Dying by John D. Macdonald

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Travis McGee isn’t sure he wants to take on his newest prospective client, despite the fact that his “retirement fund” is running low. Something about Mona Yeoman annoys him, however much he might sympathize with the fact that she’s stuck in a loveless marriage to a rich man who has robbed her of her father’s estate. However, his mind is made up for him when a sniper’s bullet cuts Mona’s life short and Travis finds himself on the wrong side of the local police after […]

A Life, Well, Lived

Stoner by John Williams

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Right from the start author John Williams (who did not write the Raiders of the Lost Ark theme) lets you know that Stoner is not going to be a wild thrill ride. In perfunctory sentences he notes the year of William Stoner’s birth, his attendance at the University of Missouri and subsequent career as a professor there, and his death. He goes on to note how few people remember Stoner well. Those first few sentences are a story unto themselves but of course they’re not […]

Brother, Can You Spare a Nickel?

American Buffalo by David Mamet

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The planned Broadway revival of American Buffalo starring Sam Rockwell and Laurence Fishburne was one of my first Covid cancellations. When I got the tickets as a gift for Christmas 2019 they came with a copy of the play. I have to confess I don’t particularly like reading plays. There’s so much beyond the dialogue that goes into making a play and it’s hard to get a sense of all that from the page. That’s especially true for a play like American Buffalo, which features […]



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