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“You want to know if they’re the mittens I wore to Biden’s inauguration. That’s all anyone wants to talk about these days: mittens, mittens, mittens.”

Feel the Bern by Andrew Shaffer

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CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books from different countries #1 When Crash, a new intern working for Bernie Sanders, accompanies her boss up to a small-town festival in Vermont, the last thing she expects is to discover a dead body – or that Bernie will insist on trying to solve the mystery. A few years ago I read Hope Never Dies, a comic mystery where Obama and Biden team up in the post-2016 election season to uncover the truth behind an Amtrak conductor’s death. Now Shaffer has […]

Obama and Biden—but they fight crime.

Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer

Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer

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“Barack once told me that, at the end of the day, every one of us is just part of a long-running story. All we can do is try to get our paragraph right.” Joe Biden is lamenting the end of his bromance with former President Obama, the man himself shows up at his house, lurking in the shadows to inform him his address was found in the pocket of a body hit by an Amtrak train. With an unrelenting need for justice, Amtrak Joe sets […]

Hopefully Third Time’s The Charm ‘Cause Two Not So Much

Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer

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Maybe it’s the fact that Joe Biden is now actually running as a candidate for President, but Hope Rides Again wasn’t quite as entertaining as the first Obama-Biden mystery Hope Never Dies. I was so excited when Michelle makes an appearance but there’s so little of her, and she has virtually no personality here. Such a lost opportunity there. Obama gets a little more personality, but Biden stays the same as the first book, and Steve has even less personality. That was kind of sad […]

Hug Your Secret Service Agent

Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer

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If Hope Never Dies does not win Best Humor in the Goodreads awards for 2018, I will never again be able to regard them as real awards. The plot and a lot of characters are pretty stereotypical for a mystery or buddy-cop adventure, but it’s a lot of fun, like one of those Obama-Biden memes novelized. Not much as a serious mystery, but really entertaining. Think of the plot and main duo of any buddy-cop adventure: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker (Rush Hour), Danny Glover […]

Reunited and it feels so good

Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer

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Had a bit of a dip in productivity there! I wasted way too long trying to read a book that was just too boring (gave up, no review) and then … I GOT ENGAGED! Yeah buddy your lowercase reviewer is getting HITCHED. So yes, I am shouting it from every rooftop I can find. He’s the best. We so happy. I’ve only heard my mother say “Took you long enough” once. Everything is wonderful. Me, IRL: But anyway. Y’all didn’t come here for my personal […]

The Audacity of Exposition

Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery by Andrew Shaffer

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I don’t think the problem is that this isn’t a good book, I think it’s more that it really just isn’t my cup of tea. I kind of had a feeling this would be true, but it was at the library and it sounded like it could be fun so I gave it a go. I’m glad I did, I think this was a fun idea for the author to try, but if this ends up being a series I’ll probably stop here, because it […]



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