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In June of 2016 my wife, Jen, and I took our fourteen-month-old daughter, Oona, to the Nantucket Film Festival.

The New One by Mike Birbiglia

My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers

Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter

Hey Rube by Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Nickle Brickle'Bee by Sterling Nixon

Cold Storage by David Koepp

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Mark of Zorro by Johnson McCulley

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber

The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

November 28, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The New One – 3/5 Stars This is the second Mike Birbiglia book I’ve read, after Sleepwalk with Me, and it’s good in the ways that comedians’ books are good and bad in the way that comedians’ books are bad (though this is a general issue with the form more than this specific book). Mike Birbiglia’s career is interesting in part because of the way he clearly got taken up by “Big Storytelling” around 2009 or so, and the opportunities to write movies that came […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bakari Sellers, Charles Graeber, Cold storage, Colin Dexter, crying of lot 49, David Koepp, fear and loathing in las vegas, hey rube, Hunter S Thompson, James Loewen, Johnson McCulley, last seen wearing, Lies My Teacher Told Me, mike birbiglia, Muriel Spark, my vanishing country, nickle brickle'bee, Stephen Greenblatt, Sterling Nixon, the ballad of peckham rye, the good nurse, the mark of zorro, the new one, the swerve, Thomas Pynchon

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:622 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bakari Sellers, Charles Graeber, Cold storage, Colin Dexter, crying of lot 49, David Koepp, fear and loathing in las vegas, hey rube, Hunter S Thompson, James Loewen, Johnson McCulley, last seen wearing, Lies My Teacher Told Me, mike birbiglia, Muriel Spark, my vanishing country, nickle brickle'bee, Stephen Greenblatt, Sterling Nixon, the ballad of peckham rye, the good nurse, the mark of zorro, the new one, the swerve, Thomas Pynchon ·
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Tacoma calls, it’s waiting there to get rid of us all, when the big one comes better hope the car don’t stall.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

March 18, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Weirdly, my cannonball thus far has been strongly apocalyptic, which has been… interesting in light of current events. You’d think that this would make me more anxious, but paradoxically I’m looking at the real world and thinking “eh, people are hoarding toilet paper, but every grocery store I’ve been to has been relatively full if you’re not hyper specific about what you want. No one is stealing out of each others carts or housejacking like in The Mandibles” (Lionel Shriver’s book about the financial collapse […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 12 out of five stars, Blake Crouch, Cold storage, dark matter, David Koepp, Emily St. John Mandel, go buy this book, it's the end of the world as we know it, Lionel Shriver, no but really, read this, read this book, the mandibles, you should probably read this

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 12 out of five stars, Blake Crouch, Cold storage, dark matter, David Koepp, Emily St. John Mandel, go buy this book, it's the end of the world as we know it, Lionel Shriver, no but really, read this, read this book, the mandibles, you should probably read this ·
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