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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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The Man in the Arena

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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The problems with Suzanne Collins’s latest attempt to wring more money out of The Hunger Games franchise start right from the get-go. Sunrise on the Reaping is a prequel to the original trilogy, and somewhat a sequel to the series’ fourth entry, The Battle of Songbirds and Snakes. It tells the story of Haymitch Abernathy, later Katniss Everdeen’s drunken, curmudgeonly mentor, as he attempts to survive the 50th Annual Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. I should say, Haymitch tells the story, […]

Failure to Launch

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Here’s what you need to know about Atmosphere: A Love Story, the latest novel from book club powerhouse Taylor Jenkins Reid: -the main character is Joan Goodwin. She is Good, and not just in the sense that she always thinks, feels, and does the right thing. She is also a talented pianist, artist, and cook. She is also the Bestest Aunt Ever. And, oh yeah, an astronaut. One of the first female astronauts, in fact. I’m going to give Jenkins Reid the benefit of the […]

Teacher’s Pets

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

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At an Edinburgh all-girls school in the 1930s, Miss Jean Brodie teaches her young students in her own way. Flaunting the restrictive attitudes of her headmistress and defying social conventions for women of the time, Miss Jean Brodie is a force to be reckoned with. But is she a force for good? Muriel Spark’s novel has been near the top of my TBR list for a long while, but I admit I had never looked into what it was about too closely. I heard that […]

All Cops Are… Bad at Telling a Story

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King

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Ned Wilcox is struggling to deal with the death of his father, a state trooper killed by a drunk driver, when he starts showing up to his father’s old barracks to hang around and do odd jobs while hearing stories about his dad from the other troopers. Eventually, and more than a little reluctantly, they get around to telling the big story, the one about the car shut up out back in Shed B. The “car” resembles an old Buick Roadmaster, but nothing about it […]

Jeneva Conventional

Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

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I was just looking for a quick audiobook to burn off some Spotify hours since I’m paying for them whether I use them or not, and the log line for this one was just intriguing enough to get me to press play. Three estranged siblings reunite in the aftermath of their mother’s death, and while putting her affairs in order come across some VHS tapes containing some disturbing footage. The tape pertains to a missing girl (of course) from their childhood. A neighbor girl who […]

Baseball Like You’ve Never Seen It

Fifty-Nine in "84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had by Edward Achorn

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If you’re a baseball fan who also happened to be on Twitter in the pre-Elon days, the name Old Hoss Radbourn will probably be familiar to you via the brilliant parody twitter account pretending to be the great pitcher of old, humorously carping about the national pastime and how much easier contemporary players had it. The Old Hoss was, in fact, a real ballplayer named Charles Radbourn (or Radbourne, depending on the source.) He’s in the Hall of Fame, having won over three hundred games […]



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