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40 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 Check Out Anytime You Like, But You Can Never Leave

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

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Let me state a couple of my biases upfront because they cut against this book and I think you should know how much salt to take my opinion with. First, I listened to this one as an audiobook. As a relatively new listener to audiobooks, I’m still calibrating the precise impact the format has on my enjoyment of a novel, but in general it seems harder for me to invest in fiction when I listen to it as opposed to reading it. Second, I had […]

War Movies

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann

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Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director is a highly fictionalized account of the Austrian filmmaker G.W. Pabst, a cinematic innovator who made incredible movies in Germany during the Weimar Republic, struck out in Hollywood, and found himself trapped in Germany at the outbreak of World War II. Pabst was coerced into making movies under the Nazi regime, trying to maintain his artistry and avoid compromising his humanity as much as possible. Kehlmann takes a panoramic approach to telling his version of Pabst’s story. In addition to chapters […]

Love is in the Cards

Heart the Lover by Lily King

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I don’t remember a ton about Writers and Lovers, Lily King’s prior novel featuring the protagonist Casey Peabody. Heart the Lover starts before the events of Writers and Lovers and ends after, making it sort of a prequel and sequel in one. At the start, Casey is a university student, majoring in English and working her way through college after giving up her scholarship by quitting the golf team. She meets two brainy, literary boys in Sam and Yash, best friends who live together in […]

Don’t Let ‘Em Tell You that the Book is Always Better than the Movie

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

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The shadow of the Best Picture-winning movie adaptation looms large over this novel, as does the specter of McMurtry’s much better novels, like Lonesome Dove. Terms of Endearment is the story of Aurora Greenway, a widow nearing 50 who derives most of her enjoyment in life from three pursuits: driving her various suitors to distraction with her confounding, contradictory personality, meddling in her maid Rosie’s marraige to a brutal truck driver, and picking away at her daughter Emma’s insecurities. Emma is recently married to a […]

Indie Scene

Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion by Chris DeVille

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This was kind of an odd pick for me. I’m old enough to have lived through the Indie Rock “explosion” referred to in Chris DeVille’s title, but I wasn’t really all that involved or invested in the scene at that time. So it’s kind of odd to hear (I listened to the audiobook) the author refer to stuff that occurred in my lifetime as though it was of great cultural importance when it had very little impact on me. Sometimes it is interesting, as when […]

Oxford Bomber

Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron

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The first novel from Mick Herron, better known as the author of the Slow Horses series, has recently been adapted for television by Apple. The series stars one of my favorites, Emma Thompson, as private detective Zoe Bloom. This book is marketed as the first entry in “the Zoe Bloom series.” But for all that, there’s precious little Zoe Bloom in it. Our focus is primarily on Sarah Tucker, an Oxford housewife (of the reluctant variety.) Sarah is begrudgingly hosting a dinner party for one […]



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