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	Blazing Saddles 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1974 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take Five: Poems in 5/4 Time it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penny Saved by Tad Richards (Goodreads Author), Neale S. Godfrey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Place 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Opus 40: The First 20 Years it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jazz with a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940–1960 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listening to Prestige: Vol. 1 1949-1953 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That's What You're Good At: My Life With Opus 40 and Other Venues really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brain of Agent Blue by Tad Richards (Goodreads Author), Steven L. Vorillas it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949–1972 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tad Richards rated a book really liked it The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1) by Laura Dave (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I got this free from kindle unlimited at a time when I couldn’t get interested in anything. I’d started a couple of perfectly good books and put them down. I needed a page turner and this one delivered. It kept me turning the pages. Good plot, good t ...more
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Tad Richards rated a book really liked it The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The disappearance of two children of a One Percenter family, several years apart, in New York’s Adirondacks, is the subject of this novel. Liz Moore creates some arresting characters, particularly three women: a camp counselor, the director of the ca ...more
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Tad Richards rated a book really liked it Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dame Judi Dench, interviewed by colleague Brendan O’Hea, talks about all the Shakespearean roles she’s played, and she’s played a lot, from leads (Juliet, Lady MacBeth) to small parts. Insights into the plays and the characters, insights into acting ...more
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Tad Richards rated a book really liked it The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1) by Jussi Adler-Olsen	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Started this series on my daughter”s recommendation. I’ll keep reading it.
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Tad Richards rated a book liked it Normal People by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It was compelling, in a way. But it didn’t seem to add up to anything.
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Tad Richards rated a book really liked it Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Lovely and sad book about the necessity, the frailty and the resiliency of human connection
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Tad Richards rated a book really liked it Bleak House by Charles Dickens	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I find myself feeling that I ought to keep a journal of reading this, sort of like that old Henny Youngman racetrack joke, "My horse was so slow the jockey kept a diary of the trip." I'm on Chapter Eleven, and I still have no idea what this book is a ...more
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Tad Richards rated a book liked it Monogamy by Sue Miller	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It kept me reading all the way through, which is no guarantee these days. I did care about the characters, and I thought Sue Miller handled the shifting points of view really well, but I did feel like it was maybe a little too much about first world ...more
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Tad Richards rated a book it was amazing The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
What a phenomenal accomplishment this is! The organization- every milestone, every cultural phenomenon, every columnist and investigative reporter and weirdo in the rollicking history of groundbreaking newspaper. The interviewing and researching and ...more
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All About Books: * This Day in Literary History	7185	1474	Apr 27, 2022 11:10PM

“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'

I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”
― George Eliot

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“If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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“Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the inestimable greatness of the race, the harsh surface beauty of life; how can you put his finger for him on the obdurate truths before which fear and horror are powerless? The sea that morning was iridescent and dark. My wife and my sister were swimming--Diana and Helen--and I saw their uncovered heads, black and gold in the dark water. I saw them come out and I saw that they were naked, unshy, beautiful, and full of grace, and I watched the naked women walk out of the sea.”
― John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever

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“It was easy,' I said.”
― Mickey Spillane, I, the Jury

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