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Ray’s 2024 Year in Books
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OUR GIVEAWAY OF 10 SIGNED COPIES of the newly re-released 10th Anniversary Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island brought more than 1,000 entries — 1,072, to be exact — according to Goodreads.Here are the 10 WINNERS, selected by Goodreads: Lorraine Altschuler, Nancy Armisto, Julie Depre, Melanie Haynes, Teresa Lavender, Shane Montgomery, Cortney Mellas, Donna Palmer, Ronnie Pastecki, and Pame Read more of this blog post »
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Reread this in anticipation of reading “James.” And yes, it more than stands up. With apologies to Melville, Fitzgerald, et.al., Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” still gets the vote here as The Great American Novel. (I know, hardly a uniq ...more |
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| Read the first 100 pages . . . and then stop! A quarter of the way in or so, I thought what a great book — 5 stars — with discussions of famous old films that had some expensive missteps. Very interesting. But after that this chronological book drift ...more | |
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Went back and forth between 3 and 4 stars because it IS better than an average book — though also flawed. Could we call it a 3.5 ⭐? Interesting for sure, with his discussions of General Hospital, Full House, ER, all the Broadway plays and especially h ...more |
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Very engaging read, funny, even witty, poignant, and (intentionally) full of life lessons for those receptive. There are stumbling blocks beyond the somewhat slow pace — Ove is way too curmudgeonly, the author is way too intrigued by his ability to g ...more |
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| Great read, focusing on newspaper sports writing in the last decades of the 20th Century and into this one. Lots of behind-the-scenes. Lots of memories. Lots of laughs — actual belly laughs, too. As a sports writer at Penn State, then in Pittsburgh a ...more | |
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Better Than Lifting Things: A former Pittsburgh and Atlanta sportswriter's entertaining reflections on a 44-year career in and out of newspapers.:
"Glenn Sheeley has been a dear friend for many years, and I have missed his writing since he walked away from newspapering and ended his career at a couple of Atlanta golf clubs. That style - wit, rhythm, one knee-slapping anecdote after another, and "
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Re-read Mockingbird after seeing both the movie (yet again) and the newly redone stage version (by Aaron Sorkin, starring Richard Thomas) this year. After 64 years, this is still a classic — with a compelling narrative and beautiful writing — as oppo ...more |
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