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38 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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You Can Call Him Al

Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino

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I’m not a huge reader of celebrity memoirs, but when I saw Al Pacino’s was available on Spotify Premium, the idea of listening to him narrate his life appealed to me. I wouldn’t say Pacino is a particular favorite of mine, but he’s obviously been in some incredible movies over the years. Though celebrities vary widely in how perceptive they are about their own lives, one of the more interesting aspects of reading their own thoughts about their careers is that you get a sense […]

Nifty Fifty

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

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Baseball’s status as the national pastime has been called into question more and more over the last few decades, as its own popularity has declined and that of other sports have surpassed it, but there’s almost no question that baseball is the preferred sport among writers. Baseball, with its curious rhythms, obsession with mythology, and opportunities for heroism, seems to speak especially to those with love for a good story. No one loves a good baseball story as much as Joe Posnanski. He’s got a […]

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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Do you know anyone  who’s just obsessed with what they were like as a little kid? They can talk for hours about their elementary school teachers, their friends from the neighborhood, first crushes, friendship betrayals, every time their parents were unfair to them, how mean their siblings could be, etc? Aren’t they just exhausting? My Brilliant Friend is the first volume of Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, which followst two female friends throughout their entire lives. At the beginning, set in 2010, 60-something Elena Greco receives word […]

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Minnesota Mean

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

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When Jimmy Quinn’s body is discovered in a local river with a huge shotgun blast in his chest on Memorial Day 1958, there’s certainly no shortage of suspects. Sheriff Brody Dean is sorely tempted to write the whole thing off as a hunting accident, but fate intervenes. Local gossip soon coalesces into one persistent rumor, that Quinn’s Dakota Sioux farmhand, Noah Bluestone, is the man responsible for his death. A town pariah for both his own status as a Native American and for his interracial […]

Endless Endgame

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

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Peter and Ivan Koubek are brothers dealing with the recent death of their father. Peter and Ivan aren’t really close because of a ten-year age-gap between them and their vastly different personalities. Peter is a lawyer who works for a big firm but also handles crusades like discrimination cases. He is gregarious, a gifted public speaker, and popular with women. Ivan is a 22-year-old former childhood chess prodigy trying to get his game back in form and finally attain the grandmaster status predicted for him […]

Extra, Extra Innings

Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry

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On the Saturday before Easter in April, 1981, the Rochester Red Wings, Triple-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, took on the Pawtucket Red Sox, Triple-A affiliate of guess who, in an early-season game of little to no importance. Like all minor league games, it featured a few future star players, a few players who used to be big leaguers, and a lot of guys who never really made it. There were less than 2,000 fans present at the start, which was delayed by a power […]



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