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Film Critic for Newsday. Co-Host of Movie Therapy With Rafer and Kristen. “The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie.”

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Book Cover for: Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff

Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Nordhoff
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Books read, 2021, cont’d: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Moviegoer by Percy Walker Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson

Paperback, 1989

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics, Dylan Jones

Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics

Dylan Jones
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Ants guitarist Marco Perroni says (in Dylan Jones’ “Sweet Dreams”) that Adam’s stripe came from David Bowie: https://t.co/XAbfSXVQxd

Hardcover, 2020

$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh
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Books read, 2021, cont’d: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Moviegoer by Percy Walker Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson

Paperback, 2015

$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick

Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

Peter Guralnick
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@lawrencelibrary Careless Love, Peter Guralnick.

Paperback, 2000

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: White Noise, Don Delillo

White Noise

Don Delillo
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Meager list of books read in 2021, but some very good ones: Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis White Noise* by Don DeLillo Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis * Did not realize I had already read until halfway through

Paperback, 1986

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Sacred Fount: Novel, Henry James

The Sacred Fount: Novel

Henry James
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@DonaldClarke63 Amazing novel that I only just read a year ago. Maybe not the GOAT, but a close second to Henry James or even Dickens in a way. Have not read “Mill.”

Paperback, 1995

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, David Michaelis

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

David Michaelis
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Meager list of books read in 2021, but some very good ones: Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis White Noise* by Don DeLillo Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis * Did not realize I had already read until halfway through

Paperback, 2013

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: David Bowie: The Oral History, Dylan Jones

David Bowie: The Oral History

Dylan Jones
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Ants guitarist Marco Perroni says (in Dylan Jones’ “Sweet Dreams”) that Adam’s stripe came from David Bowie: https://t.co/XAbfSXVQxd

Paperback, 2018

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Madness of Crowds, Louise Penny

The Madness of Crowds

Louise Penny
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Books read, 2021, end: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny Best book of year, classic division: “To the Finland Station.” Best book of year, contemporary division: “The Vanishing Half.”

Paperback, 2022

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Plot

Jean Hanff Korelitz
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Books read, 2021, end: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny Best book of year, classic division: “To the Finland Station.” Best book of year, contemporary division: “The Vanishing Half.”

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book