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Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon

The Disasters by M.K. England

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Code Name Helene This book is based on the life of Australian reporter Nancy Wake, who worked as a British spy during World War II. The novel switches between her life aiding the Resistance in 1944 and when she met her husband 8 years earlier.  Real talk, I downloaded this early one morning before I was fully awake and then promptly forgot I had it. I was surprised and pleased when I discovered it on my tablet later that day. I absolutely loved the Alice […]

cbr12bing0 – Music!

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman

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The House of Jealous Lovers! Yes, it’s an excellent track by The Rapture. It could also be the title of this oral history (the actual title, Meet Me in the Bathroom, is a song by another prominently featured band, but we’ll get to that). This collection covers the movers, shakers, and hangers-on of NYC’s rock “revival” in the early hours of the 21st century- and man oh man are they a petty, catty, and jealous bunch! The “speakers” of this history are a collection of musicians, […]

“There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?”

Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John

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Bingo Square: Repeat (Music) He’s a music legend, what else can you say? This book takes the reader through the entirety of Elton John’s life, from his early years in the London suburb of Pinner, where he is a lonely only child with a disinterested father (and parents who really shouldn’t be together anymore), to his early shows in America that rocket him to stardom, his drug addiction and getting clean and his family life that he has now. Written in a way that you […]

The reign of Henry VIII is one of the most fascinating in English history.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

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I felt like I already knew a lot of this history and it took me a second to figure out why. Well, it’s all pretty readily available, but it just simply occurred to me that between Wolf Hall, The Tudors,  A Man for All Seasons, and Beckett, so much of this material is well-trod for me. That has no bearing on how good and how enjoyable I found this history to be. To be clear, this is a writer who heavily researched this topic, but focuses on the availability of […]

On November 16, 2018, I officially ended my bid to become the next governor of Georgia.

Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams

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CBR12 Bingo – How To So obviously Stacey Abrams got robbed. She mentions this pretty early on, and if you’re unaware, the idea that her opponent in the race for governor was also the presiding election official, in a state that is gerrymandered to hell, and suppresses the crap out of the Black vote is beyond satire in its ridiculousness. The additional fact the Kemp has allowed so many people to die from Covid through corruption and ineptitude (he’s clearly an almost travesty of a […]



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