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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #175: HOOK, LINE & SINISTER: MYSTERIES TO REEL YOU IN Edited by T. Jefferson Parker“All royalties from sales of this book will go to help support two charitable groups, Casting for Recovery, which helps women...
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HARRY WILD, Season 3 [BBC America]“Literature professor Harriet “Harry” Wild (Jane Seymour) is adjusting to retirement when she’s mugged. While...
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TIME: “IF HE WINS”Trump’s destructive Agenda for a second Presidential term includes “payback” for his enemies and a gutting of the...
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CAHOKIA JAZZ and THE CHILD THAT BOOKS BUILT: A LIFE IN READING By Francis SuffordThe Child That Books Built (2002) isn’t just a merry walk down memory lane. Francis Spufford was just three years old when...
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OUTER RANGE, SEASON 2 [AMAZON Prime Video]The first season of Outer Range showed up in April 2022. At first, Outer Range seemed concerned about the Abbotts, Royal and Cecilia...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #793: THE ONE By Matthew Hughes“Luff Imbry is probably my favorite creation. Modeled on Kaspar Gutman, the ‘Fat Man’ Sydney Greenstreet played in The...
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SENOR PROM [2-CD Set]It’s prom season so I thought this 2-CD set of classic songs would bring back a lot of memories. Love “All I Have to Do...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #174: FUTURE CRIME By Ben Bova“Writers Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova filed a lawsuit against Paramount Television, ex-Paramount exec Terry Keegan, and ABC-TV,...
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BOB DYLAN IN HIS OWN WORDS: Interviews & Contributions [DVD]“This film is not sanctioned by the Artist.” That warning should alert you to the fact that these nine videotaped interviews...
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REVOLUTIONS IN AMERICAN MUSIC: THREE DECADES THAT CHANGED A COUNTRY AND ITS SONGS By Michael BroylesMichael Broyles believes three decades in American History profoundly changed American Music. The three key decades are the 1840s, the...
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DOCTOR WHO [Disney+]Yes, the 15th Doctor has morphed from a woman to a Black man. The new Doctor Who is Ncuti Gatwa (you might remember him from Sex...
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JON BATISTE CONCERTLast night Diane and I drove over to the State University of New York at Buffalo’s Center for the Arts to hear...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #792: DICKINSON: SELECTED POEMS AND COMMENTARIES By Helen Vendler“I feel not a whit sad at the fact of death, but massively sad at leaving friends behind, among who you count dearly. I have...
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BOB DYLAN: THE 30th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT CELEBRATIONAn impressive group of singers showed up for this celebration of Bob Dylan. “ The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration is a...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #173: PLAYBOY’S STORIES OF THE SINISTER & STRANGEPlayboy’s Stories of the Sinister & Strange (1969) joins the dozen or so Playboy Press paperbacks I’ve collected over...
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STAR WARS: TALES OF THE EMPIRE [Disney+]I’ve only watched one episode of Star Wars: Tales of the Empire but what becomes apparent is violence and death are a big part of...
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HOLMES, MARPLE & POE By James Patterson and Brian SittsI’ve read all the Sherlock Holmes stories, the same with Edgar Allan Poe, and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mysteries. So I...
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STARBUCKS K-CUP VARIETY PACKSRoast Collection: Variety Pack Cup Coffee Pods: Veranda Blend, Breakfast Blend, House Blend, Caffee Verona CLASSIC...
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THE FALL GUYThe Fall Guy, loosely based on the 1980s TV series that starred Lee Majors, is a mash-up of a Rom-Com with an Action Movie. Director...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #791: THE VENGEANCE OF THE WITCH-FINDER By John Bellairs (Completed by Brad Strickland)I read several books by John Bellairs to my kids before they became teenagers. Bellairs books featured youngsters not afraid to take...
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COVERS and THE COVERS RECORD By Cat PowerCat Power (aka, Charlyn Marie “ Chan ” Marshall ) produced two very different albums of cover songs. Back in 2000, she...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #172: HOUND OF DEATH By Agatha ChristieA few weeks ago I posted about Agatha Christie’s short story collections (you can read those reviews here and here ). Jerry...
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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES [Netflix]Dead Boy Detectives is an 8-episode series on Netflix. Introduced in the pages of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman , a...
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THE SECRET LIVES OF BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIANS: TRUE STORIES OF THE MAGIC OF READING By James Patterson and Matt Eversmann“A grandmother visits with her grandson. ‘He’s seven, she says to me. “We’ve been reading a lot of...
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NFL DRAFT RESULTSThe off-season for the Buffalo Bills, after losing in the NFL Playoffs for the third year in a row, features upheaval and change. Wide...
