Chris Hewitt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Chris Hewitt

Imagine if the anti-vaxxer conspiracy bells had been right about that signal, and it was some kind of Stephen King's Cell thing that turns the vaccinated into drooling zombies. I'd absolutely take that over living in a world where Right Said Fred were part of any new government.

Chris Hewitt

So compassionate and insightful…interests you in topics you may not care about and shows you new ways to view topics you care about… Jamison is hilarious, with a dry and self-deprecating wit in which the jokes are so graceful and surprising that you may need to read them twice

Chris Hewitt

Imagine if the anti-vaxxer conspiracy bells had been right about that signal, and it was some kind of Stephen King's Cell thing that turns the vaccinated into drooling zombies. I'd absolutely take that over living in a world where Right Said Fred were part of any new government.

Chris Hewitt

@Krysmadrid1 First and only time that’s happened to me with a computer crash. Although I did also manage to completely lose a pod interview I did with Boots Riley for Sorry To Bother You. Just vanished into thin air. Gutted.

Chris Hewitt

it's a breeze to read, with nuanced characterizations, brisk setpieces, and Henry's deft wit… Like a lot of romcoms, "Funny Story" insists that romance is rarely tidy or packaged the way we expect it to be (that's where the "com" comes in, right?).

Chris Hewitt

Almost impossible to characterize Anna Funder's book about Eileen Orwell... It can't have been easy to write a quasi-biography of someone who was Wited Out of the historical record, but Funder has the receipts, and she shows them.

Chris Hewitt

Horowitz is stronger on plot than characterization…but that turns out to be enough in "Close to Death." If "witty," "page-turning" and "clever" sound like something you'd like to see in a mystery, it might be the one for you.

Chris Hewitt

@rufusjones1 Reminds me of one of my favourite gags in A Fish Called Wanda, where Tom Georgeson is talking to John Cleese in his prison cell and says, ‘tell those pigs to fuck off’. Cleese calmly turns around and says, ‘fuck off, pigs.’

Chris Hewitt

I love it. We have two great Reacher adaptations — this movie, and the Amazon show, which isn’t perfect but has Alan Ritchson, who basically tore his way into the real world from a pile of paper sitting on Lee Child’s desk. I’ll take that. https://t.co/91ojU6WoXK

Chris Hewitt

Hers is not a self-help book, by any means, but Crosley's three-steps-forward/two-steps-back journey to a kind of peace could be useful for others who, like her, feel broken and confused.