Started really strong but petered out a bit. Perhaps that was the nature of the true-life material. Still, a fun look at the craziness of Hollywood through the eyes of a child and adolescent.
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Joel A rated The Last Colony: 3 stars
The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #3)
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his …
Joel A rated Burning lights: 3 stars
Joel A rated Nine years under: 3 stars
Nine years under by Sheri Booker
"Six Feet Under" meets The Wire in a dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming-of-age in a black funeral home …
Joel A rated Not-Quite States of America: 4 stars
Doug Mack: Not-Quite States of America (2018, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)
Not-Quite States of America by Doug Mack
Traces the author's explorations of U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands to juxtapose …
Joel A rated The middleman: 4 stars
Olen Steinhauer: The middleman (2018)
The middleman by Olen Steinhauer
"This stunning stand alone from the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist, follows the people on all sides …
Joel A rated Not Like Us: 3 stars
Joel A rated The Last Colony: 5 stars
The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #3)
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his …
Joel A rated The Library Book: 4 stars
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was …
Joel A rated Tropic of Kansas: 2 stars
Tropic of Kansas by Christopher Brown
The United States of America is no more. Broken into warring territories, its center has become a wasteland DMZ known …
Joel A rated Who Is Vera Kelly?: 4 stars
Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
In the 1960's, Vera is a CIA agent stationed in Argentina. Her assignment is to infiltrate a group of student …
Joel A rated Record of a Spaceborn Few: 5 stars
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #3)
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but …
Joel A reviewed A way of life, like any other by Darcy O'Brien (New York Review Books classics)
Review of 'A way of life, like any other' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Joel A rated The future is history: 4 stars
Joel A rated My ex-life: 5 stars
My ex-life by Stephen McCauley
"David Hedges is having an unusual midlife crisis. His boyfriend, Soren, has left him for an older man. His job …