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About jeverett15

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35 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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So Many Stories of Where She’s Been

Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

April 13, 2021 by jeverett15 2 Comments

If you’re not familiar with Brandi Carlile, go search “Grammy 2019 The Joke.” I’ll wait. Okay, so the first time I encountered Brandi Carlile’s music was at a John Prine concert where she was advertised as a special guest. At that point all I knew about her was that she wasn’t Belinda Carlisle. But after listening to her titanic singing voice on a couple of my favorite Prine songs I quickly resolved to seek out her stuff. My timing was pretty good as it seems […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Brandi Carlile

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Brandi Carlile ·
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Magic Touch

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

April 9, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

AKA The Book that Inspired the Movie that Inspired the SNL Skit “Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic.” Johnny Smith is a young teacher in a nascent relationship when his taxicab is struck head on by a drag-racing teen. He spends the next 55 months in a coma while his hospital bills reach insurmountable heights, his mother falls into a religious mania, and his girlfriend moves on with another man. When he finally wakes up and catches up on Watergate and the rest of the history he […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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There’s No There There

Your Turn, Mr. Moto by John P. Marquand

March 29, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

My father has a fascination with antiquated mystery novels of the so-called Golden Age, like Ellery Queen and especially Earl Der Biggers’s Charlie Chan series. So when I saw that Otto Penzler was bringing out a paperback edition of the first Mr. Moto novel I bought it immediately as a gift, knowing that he’d probably pass it right back for me to read as soon as he was done with it. Though I’ve never seen any of the Mr. Moto movies starring Peter Lorre I […]

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jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: John P. Marquand ·
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Motor City Showdown

City Primeval by Elmore Leonard

March 23, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Justified is one of my favorite TV shows of all-time, so when I read recently that the producers of that show are in talks to bring the character of Raylan Givens back in a new series, I quickly snapped up the book in question. At first, City Primeval seems like odd choice, since Raylan does not appear in it, but TV writers are clever and I’m sure they’ll figure something out. Otherwise, the novel is Leonard in top form and thus perfect fodder for television. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elmore Leonard

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elmore Leonard ·
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So You Think You Can Teach?

Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman

March 11, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Young, well-educated, and good-looking Sylvia Barrett is a first-year English teacher at Calvin Coolidge High, an underfunded inner city public school. She hopes to impart her love of literature on her students but is hampered by her inexperience, the students’ indifference, and the bewildering bureaucracy imposed on her by the administration. Intending to share some words of wisdom with her class on the first day, she instead finds herself unable to so much as get through taking attendance before the dismissal bell rings. Sylvia perseveres […]

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jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bel Kaufman ·
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