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Final Jeopardy

The Answer Is....: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek

January 4, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Appearing as a contestant on Jeopardy is the #1 item on my bucket list, so you can imagine how hard the passing of Alex Trebek hit me. Still, my natural reluctance toward celebrity memoirs was hard to overcome. Thankfully a copy of The Answer Is… was waiting under the Christmas tree this year. Trebek proves to be an engaging writer. The book is conversational in nature though there is a fair amount of biographical information up front. The first third or so is much more […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Alex Trebek, Jeopardy

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Alex Trebek, Jeopardy ·
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Our culture might be in jeopardy and I still had to make the damn pun

October 8, 2018 by octothorp 1 Comment

Bingo entry 4 – my “so shiny” book is appropriately from Ken Jennings, because he’s now in the “I’ll buy a book about ladders if they wrote it” category for me.  After having read Because I Said So, Maphead, and my favorite, Brainiac – a book about his Jeopardy experience and the popularity of trivia that includes actual trivia questions.  Be still my heart – I’ll read anything he writes, much less something as attuned to my own interests as a book about how humor […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, humor, Jeopardy, Ken Jennings

octothorp's CBR10 Review No:43 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, humor, Jeopardy, Ken Jennings ·
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