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34 years old. Lifelong New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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They Might Just Make It After All

The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

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I’m a sucker for books about plucky young women trying to make it in New York and in that sub-genre Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything is a must-read. Jaffe follows a group of women in the early 1950s who are all at the start of their professional careers and working at a second-rate publishing company in Manhattan. Though all around the same age the ladies are at vastly different stages of their lives, with differing goals and visions of success. Some want to make […]

Lurid Color

Nightmare in Pink by John D. Macdonald

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I’ve been haphazardly making my way through John D. Macdonald’s Travis McGee series, which explains how I am just now arriving at the second McGee story. While I found the first McGee book, The Deep Blue Good-By, extremely affecting and well-written, this follow-up is much different. Nightmare in Pink is a lurid romp with an absolutely outrageous plot. Whereas McGee is usually something of a noble figure in this book he is more of an anti-hero. Usually Macdonald’s plot are complex and intertwined while the […]

Task Task Task

Taskmaster: 220 Extraordinary Tasks for Ordinary People by Alex Horne

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Taskmaster is a game show from the UK in which five comedians compete against each other in contests, or “tasks”, set for them by the show’s hosts, Taskmaster Greg Davies and his assistant, (Little) Alex Horne. Though he portrays the servile assistant on telly, Horne is actually the creator of the show and the mastermind of most of the tasks. In this book he briefly gives the history of the show and some behind the scenes secrets, but the main point is the tasks themselves. […]

The Weird Sisters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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The two characters at the heart of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, sisters Mary Katharine and Constance Blackwood, live alone with their doddering Uncle Julian in the aftermath of the deaths of the rest of their family. It’s a limited existence but for the fact that the outside world can’t let them alone. Though the older sister Constance was acquitted at trial, the town is convinced she killed her relatives and that, along with lingering class resentment for the wealthy Blackwoods, […]

McGee the Magnificent

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper by John D. MacDonald

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This installment of the Travis McGee series starts with him joining several associates on a literal salvaging operation. It’s an apt metaphor for McGee’s normal exploits. For the unfamiliar, McGee is not quite a private eye, but he can be hired to find anything. His fee? Half of whatever he recovers. It’s a lifestyle that allows for plenty of relaxation aboard McGee’s houseboat, the Busted Flush, plenty of drinking, and plenty of time with the lovely ladies who can’t seem to stop throwing themselves at […]



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