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BOOKS: The Street, by Mordecai Richler

A forgotten gem about life in Montreal’s Jewish ghetto during the Second World War.

BOOKS: Dr. Sleep, by Stephen King

An amazing 500+ pages, with a typo at the end

Book Cover: Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, by Jane Gallop

BOOKS: Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, by Jane Gallop

This provocative and well-written volume promises to liven up your book club

BOOKS: The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, by Raymond Smullyan

This is the most delightful collection of chess-themed logic problems one could hope to find

BOOKS: weird earth, by Donald R Prothero

The Author does a great job of convincing the reader that they are better of reading the reference material instead of the book itself.

Losing the Message in the Metaphor

While remaining relevant and prophetic for decades after its first publication, “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman falls victim to some of the very indulgences it warns against.

Iterations of Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo, Finding Nemo in Space, and Finding Nemo with Guns

Cover of "Immunity" by William E Paul

BOOKS: Immunity, by William E Paul

Textbook, Autobiography, and a History of immunological research

BOOKS AND MOVIES: POLLYANNA

It’s one of those books that will make you want to hug everybody you know.  And the movie is quite pleasant, too

Shows: Cobra Kai (Season 1 and 2)

“Cobra Kai”: Good or Bad? It’s kind of like that course on Nicholas Cage in Community1 — it’s complicated.

BOOKS: If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino

Tedious, pretentious, and unejoyable, I still somehow found this novel satisfying

BOOKS: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury

I’d been holding onto this book for quite some time.  I’m fond of Bradbury — I enjoyed the Illustrated Man, the Martian Chronicles, and Fahrenheit 451.  But it was a 2012 Fringe show (Bookworm, by Corin Raymond) that got me to give him a more careful look, and which prompted me to read Something Wicked…

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