HeyJaredA Reader's Diary
In 2012 I bought a tiny notebook with the words “what i read” on the cover. This is everything I've read and what I got from reading it since then...
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The Housewives Underground by Kaitlyn Tiffany 3.8 Stars (opens the original)
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In 1964, a group of bored middle aged women became obsessed with trying to prove the government was hiding the truth about the assassination of John Kennedy. Some of them thought that the CIA and Mafia had worked together to kill the President. They were all paranoid enough to suspect the government tried to make them look like a bunch of crackpots through a targeted program of harassment.Their theories seemed ridiculous, but the truth was always nuttier.It’s easy to forget that JFK, in addition
Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket 1.2 stars (opens the original)
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There’s a story about Tom Hanks that I think about way more than I should. Steve Martin asked Hanks, “You were in so many dumb comedies and then all of sudden you were a leading man. How did you make the jump?’ Hanks started off in a sitcom about crossdressing, then did painfully wacky schlock. It was a long way to Saving Private Ryan. Hanks told Martin the shift came when he finally told his agent, “I don’t ever want to play the guy who has to figure out who he is again. I want to play the guy
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester 4 Stars but also maybe don’t read it. (opens the original)
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Look What You Made Me Do is an absolutely stunningly brilliant novel that I urge you not to read. I don’t say that to be cute. I’m already as cute as any grown man should be. It’s compelling, with a juicy plot and some truly insightful observations. It had twists that made me gasp so loudly, my wife came rushing in to check on me.If it were not as good as it is, I would absolutely encourage you to read Look What You Made Me Do, because books that argue that human beings are all loathsome slime a
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 3.6 stars (opens the original)
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The senator from Utah was gay. He had a wife and daughter he doted on, but after the war he’d spent a month with another soldier in Honolulu. It never happened again, but this wife always felt there was something distant about him.The senator from Michigan was sleeping with Dolly, who was famous for her soirées, but then, as Dolly put it, ‘any bitch with a million bucks can be a social success in Washington.’ The senator was a widower, so everyone knew he and Dolly were a couple, but after her p
You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue: 2 Stars. Or maybe 4. (opens the original)
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If at any time in the 1970’s you’d asked my mother who the world’s best boxer was she’d have said Muhammed Ali. Also, she would have told you that boxing was a stupid sport, with all that hitting.If you’d asked my mother to name the world’s best swimmer, she’d have said, ‘Mark Spitz’, and then told you he was Jewish, and that he was studying to be a dentist (he was!) which was good because you really couldn’t expect to make a living underwater.My mother could have also told you the names of the
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