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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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What Did the President Not Know, and When Did He Forget It?

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson

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The reaction to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book about Joe Biden’s decision to run for re-election does not seem to be generating the publicity that its authors had probably hoped for. There are some easily understood reasons for that. For one thing, Joe Biden is no longer the President, so whatever damage his declining health and cognitive abilities could have posed to the republic is a thing of the past. There’s also the fact that the current president is generating enough headlines of his […]

The Ultimate Backstage Pass

The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway by William Goldman

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William Goldman is a writer I greatly enjoy no matter the format. His novels, like Marathon Man and The Princess Bride, are sharp and funny, and his non-fiction books about his experiences in Hollywood are perceptive and appealingly acid-tongued. I’ve been circling The Season, Goldman’s look at the inner workings of Broadway, for a long time. Goldman spent the 1967-68 theater season following every new play that opened on Broadway, and even a few that didn’t. He wanted to know how the industry worked, and […]

In the Still of the Night

The Moonshine War by Elmore Leonard

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John “Son” Martin, Jr made one slip-up in the Army. Drunk with a fellow soldier, he bragged about the massive store of illegal whiskey his father had distilled and hidden away on their family property. Years later, Son’s father is long gone and he’s in charge of the land and the whiskey, but his old Army buddy has an idea. Frank Long has become a federal prohibition agent, and he’s come into town threatening to shut down all the bootleggers in the county unless Son […]

Never Were There Such Devoted Sisters

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

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One year after the tragic death of their sister Nicky, the three remaining Blue siblings, lawyer Avery, boxer Bonnie, and fashion model Lucky, find themselves severely adrift in their lives and careers. Forced by their mother to finally deal with cleaning out Nicky’s things from her apartment, they come together for the first time since the funeral, only for resentments old and new to surface. Raised by a distant, unloving mother and a drunkard father, the Blue sisters could be said to have trauma-bonded in […]

Read It, Jake, It’s Chinatown

The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing, about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Empire of Pain, about the Sackler family and OxyContin, are two of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve read. And while I had a keen interest in the subject matter of the former, I had no real connection to the topic of the latter. In the aftermath of so thoroughly enjoying Empire of Pain, I decided that I would read anything Patrick Radden Keefe wrote, no matter what it was about. That, of course, meant […]

I Can Think of Three Things Wrong With This Title

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

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When a writer gets as popular as Emily Henry has, I tend to get curious enough to give them a try, whether or not the books themselves hold any appeal to me. Henry’s book are everywhere lately, and her newest has just come out, already affixed with the sticker signifying the approval of the Oprah of the 2020s, Reese Witherspoon. I didn’t expect to like Great Big Beautiful Life, but I did sort of think I’d see the appeal, at least. Instead, I suffered through […]



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