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BOB DYLAN MTV UNPLUGGED and TONY BENNETT MTV UNPLUGGEDRemember when MTV was a hot cable channel? And remember the MTV UNPLUGGED series? The show aired regularly from 1989 to 1999....
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #164: THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORES: PART XXXVII, 2023 Annual (1875-1889) Edited by David MarcumThis is the latest volume of Sherlock Holmes pastiches edited by the capable David Marcum. If you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan some of...
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ELSBETH (CBS)A spinoff of a spinoff of a spinoff. That was the Wall Street Journal’s description of the new CBS mystery series, Elsbeth....
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HOW WE AGE: THE SCIENCE OF LONGEVITY By Coleen T. MurphyMy favorite chapter in Colleen T. Murphy’s marvelous How We Age is Chapter 10: Dracula and Wolverine: How DNA Repair and Cell...
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THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS: A LISBETH SALANDER NOVEL By Karin SmirnoffI’ve read all the Lisbeth Salander novels from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo to this latest novel in the series, The Girl in...
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DUNE, PART TWODenis Villeneuve’s eye-popping Dune, Part Two features an action-packed conclusion to the best movie version of Frank...
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HUMANLY POSSIBLE: SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS OF HUMANIST FREETHINKING, INQUIRY, AND HOPE By Sarah BakewellIn her enlightening Introduction, Sarah Bakewell presents one of the risks of being a Humanist today: “…Pakistani...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #782: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MURDER MYSTERIES Edited by Michael SimsMichael Sims’s The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries (2023) is an anthology of 19th Century mystery stories. Some of the authors...
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OLDIES BUT GOODIES, VOLUME 5 and BEST OF THE BUBBLE GUM YEARSI use music as a memory jogger. I’m always surprised (and occasionally delighted!) to hear a song I haven’t heard in over...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #163: FURTHER ASSOCIATES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Edited by George MannGeorge Mann presents another anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiches. The gimmick is that each writer has to choose a minor character in...
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REACHER, SEASON TWO [AMAZON Prime Video] and BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE By Lee ChildI was a big fan of the first season of REACHER on AMAZON Prime Video (you can read my review here ). REACHER was based...
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THE HOLLOW CROWN: SHAKESPEARE ON HOW LEADERS RISE, RULE, AND FALL By Eliot A. Cohen“It has been observed that critics who write about Shakespeare reveal more about themselves than about Shakespeare, but perhaps...
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BOOK NERD By Holly MaguireHolly Maguire’s clever little book is aimed at children, but adults will find Book Nerd plenty of fun, too....
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SYSTEM COLLAPSE (The Murderbot Diaries) By Martha WellsCOVER ART BY JAIME JONES I’ve been a huge fan of Martha Wells’s Murderbot series since the first volume appeared...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #781: THE CULTURE: THE DRAWINGS By Iain M. BanksIain M. Banks died in 2013 of terminal Gallbladder cancer at the age of 59. Banks engaged in some impressive world-building when he came...
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WORDS & MUSIC JOHN MELLENCAMP’S GREATEST HITSThis CD from 2004 (hard to believe it’s 20 years ago!) collects most of the John Mellencamp (aka, “John Cougar”) hits...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #162: A TRIO OF TOLERABLE TALES By Margaret AtwoodMargaret Atwood is best known for The Handmaid’s Tale and her other 40 books. But, I stumbled across this child’s book by...
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THE PORTABLE DOOR [AMAZON Prime Video]Harry Potter for adults. That’s how I’d describe The Portable Door (2023) that’s available for free for AMAZON Prime...
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KEY CHANGES: THE TEN TIMES TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY By Howie Singer & Bill RosenblattKey Changes gives the reader a comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and engaging history of the the technologies that changed...
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MR. MONK’S LAST CASE [Peacock]Diane and I used to watch Monk , a hour-long police procedural, that aired from 2002 until 2009 on the USA Network. Each episode...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #780: 101 HORROR BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU’RE MURDERED By Sadie HartmannSadie Hartmann’s new 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered puts its emphasis on more recent horror novels, mostly...
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THE BEST OF SADE and SADE LOVERS LIVEDeb mentioned Sade in her comment last week so I found my copies of The Best of Sade (1994) and Sade Lovers Live (2004) and listened...
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Jim Gaffigan: Barely Alive TourDiane and I drove to the Sheas’s Performing Arts Theatre at 5:00 P.M. and joined 2000+ Jim Gaffigan fans for Gaffigan’s...
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OUTLIVE: THE SCIENCE & ART OF LONGEVITY By Peter Attia, MDPeter Attia’s Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity focuses on how to live better longer. A long life without quality of...
