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“We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run” (double Bingo)

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

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#CBR12 Bingo: Music   Official book description: In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began.   Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.   He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid […]

Tramps like us/ Baby we were…

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It should be no surprise that one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of any generation wrote a phenomenal memoir- if you can light a spark in people in 5 minutes then 500 pages will set them on fire. I listened to the audiobook, read by Springsteen, and my only critique is many of the tracks are so long; at one point a disk kept skipping and I couldn’t take it out to clean it without having to start over literally thirty minutes from where I left off. I was […]

“There’s something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out.”

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I have to wonder how long it would have taken the general public to figure out that Joe Hill was, in fact, Joe King, if the news hadn’t come out on its own. I feel like — and this is not necessarily a bad thing — Joe Hill exists as the world’s greatest Stephen King impersonator. Hill shares many literary strengths with his old man. They are both great at creating a community of real characters, and bringing small, New England towns to life. They both thrive when […]



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