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Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman

September 7, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

“Hey, it’s John Hodgman!” John Hodgman used to spend a considerable amount of time on TV. He’s played, in his words, all sorts of “sexless weirds” in TV and commercials alike. He spent time on The Daily Show as, among other things, a deranged billionaire. He left his Daily Show role behind as Trump rose to power, as there is nothing funny anymore about criminally insane rich people.  He isn’t spending too much time on TV at the moment; it’s been years since he was the PC of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: audio book, Boston, cbr12bingo, fame, family, frequent flyer miles, happiness, happy, Hollywood, John Hodgman, maine, read by author, Show Business, showbiz, success

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:97 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: audio book, Boston, cbr12bingo, fame, family, frequent flyer miles, happiness, happy, Hollywood, John Hodgman, maine, read by author, Show Business, showbiz, success ·
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Surprisingly Serious Truths from a Seriously Silly Guy

Vacationland by John Hodgman

February 12, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

John Hodgman is many things: Daily Show correspondent, a “PC”, podcast guest and host, internet judge, former literary agent, and generally droll New England weirdo. He wrote several books prior to  Vacationland, and all of those books were collections of “facts”. I say “facts”, as that is what he might say as well: Hodgman (with the help of Jonathan Coulton) created three full books of completely made-up facts that he presented as being VERY true. They are a weird delight, and sometimes they are correct, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: audiobook, Boston, brookline, Daily Show, family, growing up, humor, John Hodgman, john roderick, jonathan coulton, judge john hodgeman, maine, maximum fun network, New England, podcast, Show Business, summer, vacation, western mass, Yale

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: audiobook, Boston, brookline, Daily Show, family, growing up, humor, John Hodgman, john roderick, jonathan coulton, judge john hodgeman, maine, maximum fun network, New England, podcast, Show Business, summer, vacation, western mass, Yale ·
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Delightful Banter in Mid-Coastal Maine

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

January 4, 2020 by Rachel 2 Comments

Evvie Drake Starts Over is a delightful, witty, and charming book. I stayed up late at night to read it, which is the sign of a good read. My streak of reading romance novels continues, though this time I decided to read something from the modern era. Evvie Drake has lived in a small mid-coastal Maine town her whole life. She married her high school sweetheart, but the marriage is not a good one. In the opening pages, Evvie decides to leave her husband Tim. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Linda Holmes, maine, modern romance

Rachel's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Linda Holmes, maine, modern romance ·
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You can’t get there from here

Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron

June 13, 2019 by Nyx Leave a Comment

For the past few years, my husband and I have made a concerted effort to be a family that goes away for week-long summer vacation. So we save up all year and spend the beginning of July in the sleepy Maine beach town my husband grew up going to as a child and teenager. I love it but each time we go I’m struck by how no matter how much we try to explore during each visit we can only scratch the surface of all the […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: cbr11, Into the Wild, maine, mystery

Nyx's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: cbr11, Into the Wild, maine, mystery ·
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Save the Drama for your Mama

October 9, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

I really enjoyed J. Courtney Sullivan’s Saints for All Occassions so I looked for some of her previous work. Maine follows a similar pattern- middle class Irish Catholic matriarchal family on the East coast with family drama bursting at the seams. Alice Kelleher’s husband, Daniel, won the land their beloved summer home sits on in a bet decades ago; Daniel is long gone and Alice has decided to donate their home to the local church after her death. Her donation is penance for a secret she’s kept for decades, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: J. Courtney Sullivan, maine

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