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Watched JERRY AND MARGE GO LARGE. A math and lottery story that's only peripherally about money. A simple, but very real delight. With Bryan Cranston, Annette Benning, and Larry Wilmore, if you need more convicing.
Harlan Coben is a master at crafting suspenseful thrillers, and he doesn’t hold back in Run Away. I loved the way he unfolds the narrative, layering family drama with dark secrets, crime, and moral complexity. The pacing is excellent—I was constantly anticipating the next revelation.
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5⭐️ KIN by Tayari Jones. 2026. Literary/historical. Two motherless friends who met as babies grow up together but then go on two separate paths: one for a life of ease and the other for hardship. The paths converge into a reckoning. Excellent read. Highly recommend. 💙📚
On my TBR! 💙📚
New post on Comedy, Tragedy 🎭
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Haven’t been here in a million years. If you find yourself in Chicago, it’s worth a trip for the excellent jazz.
There’s some truth to this!
My review of FATHER MATERIAL by Alexis Hall is on IG/SG. The final in the trilogy, we follow Luc & Oliver as they adopt a puppy & take in a 12-year old foster daughter who arrives in handcuffs. Meanwhile, Luc is trying to save CRAPP by organizing a music festival. This is my favorite of the 3!
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I would have been the Empiricist in early modern Europe, which seems accurate.
A recently retired math whiz uncovers a way to game the lottery and enlists his wife — and community — to pool the winnings and revive their small town.
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Run Away by Harlan Coben is a fast-paced thriller that follows the desperate father Simon Greene. When Simon spots his estranged, drug-addicted daughter Paige performing music in…
My review of WHISTLER by Ann Patchett is on IG/SG. Daphne runs into her stepfather at the Met. She last saw him 44 years ago when she was 9. They’re thrilled to rekindle a relationship even when Daphne finds out why her mother divorced Eddie abruptly. It’s a book about dying & acceptance. Lovely.
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Why are costumed people running to the CTA? "Catch That Train" videos add whimsy to commutes. blockclubchi.co/446Ozgg
Just occurred to me that the way for guys to dress comfortably hasn't changed one iota since at least 1984. (Except for the gun.) That's basically me today.
A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty questions, thirty types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?
www.theodramatist.com
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Creative Writing at NEIU
The celebrated Chicago jazz club’s longtime owner, Dave Jemilo, has sold it to Jason Cole and Jill Skintges, both Green Mill employees who say they plan to keep running it the same way he did.
