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bookman.bsky.social
Formerly bookfella on Twitter. Book reviewer (Booklist, the Winnipeg Free Press, others). Former radio playwright. Bookseller. Amateur smart-ass, hoping to turn pro. Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Website: reviewsbybookfella.wordpress.com.
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I had forgotten how damned good this is.

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A must-read.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I've been hand-selling @nnedi.bsky.social's miraculous Death of the Author by telling customers that it's the best novel I've read in maybe six years, with the best ending I've seen in close to ten years. And I'm not exaggerating.

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The horror!

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Inconceivable.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

To Live and Die in L.A. is a Christmas movie.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If he thinks this will make her shut up, he doesn't know AOC.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is it in a nutshell: "I thought...I didn't know...". His statements were so outrageous that many people assumed he was exaggerating, that he couldn't possibly intend to follow through. They weren't really listening.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I'm reading that new history of the Yo-Yo. It has its ups and downs.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think it's short-sighted. They know exactly what they are doing, and they want what will happen as a result.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

ELO, Roll Over Beethoven.

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Reviewing the forthcoming King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby(@blacktopkid.bsky.social), for @ala-booklist.bsky.social. I said nice things about 2023's All the Sinners Bleed in Booklist, too.

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Delighted to be reviewing the forthcoming El Dorado Drive, by @meganabbott.bsky.social, for @ala-booklist.bsky.social.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I had to pause The Hudsucker Proxy and I got Paul Newman looking like this.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

That was fun.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

What is it with people in coffee shops and restaurants watching videos on their phones with the volume on and no earphones? Do they think no one else can hear?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Cc: @da7e.bsky.social. (Sorry. Couldn't find you when I searched.)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I've been reading this interesting book by @jowrotethis.bsky.social, Dave Gonzales, and @mrgavinedwards.bsky.social. It's a business book, like Barbarians at the Gate or The Other Guy Blinked, and not a rah-rah promo for Marvel. Very well done.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

If these are the things the American president is doing in broad daylight, what horrible things is he doing in the shadows, where no one can see?

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@hutchinsondave.bsky.social caught me in a weak moment. I've been laughing for five minutes.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Read this terrific book. Do it now.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like I've missed something. Why did Mr. Leone find it necessary to issue that statement?

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American friends, can you answer a question for this Canadian? Does the Democratic Party still exist? I ask because I'm not seeing much of anything from them lately and I'd expect them to be pretty vocal these days.

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Thrilled to be reviewing the forthcoming Fever Beach, by @carlhiaasen.bsky.social, for @ala-booklist.bsky.social.

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Finally got around to watching London Has Fallen. Weird that the one thing they got right, the team-up of hero and president, is something they didn't do in Olympus Has Fallen, but Roland Emmerich did do in Olympus's competitor, White House Down. I guess they decided to lift from the better flick.

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If you enjoy @nnedi.bsky.social's Death of the Author, and you're looking for something else with the same mind-bending quality (you know what I'm obliquely referring to), may I suggest The Ferryman, by Justin Cronin? It is a spectacular and deeply affecting novel.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Well, I've finished it. I'm still trying to process the brilliant, mind-shattering conclusion. This is @nnedi.bsky.social's masterpiece.

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Parental warning: this post contains violins and Mature subject matter.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Now, I know Gerard Butler isn't known for his dramatic range or the subtleties of his performances, but he is remarkably effective here, in a role that demands nuance.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Death of the Author, by @nnedi.bsky.social, is an exhilarating, heartbreaking, charming, beautiful, wildly imaginative novel.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I have read both of these books. They are superb.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment