Category: Humor

May 5, 2023

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman **** (of 4)

This is the third installation of an investigation by four elderly Brits living in Cooper’s Chase retirement community. The four are all a little stiffer,...

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January 17, 2023

Mercury Pictures Presents *** (of 4) by Anthony Marra

Anthony Marra starts off well enough. His lead characters Art Feldman, a 1940s B-lot movie producer and his plucky assistant, an Italian immigrant named Maria...

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August 19, 2022

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiassen *** (of 4)

Escapist fiction about an outbreak of Burmese pythons from their confines in the Everglades to the poshest of all Florida communities, Palm Beach. The book...

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July 12, 2022

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman *** (of 4)

This is the second book in the series, meaning it is the second set of murders that need to be solved by the four septuagenarians...

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May 31, 2022

Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman *** (of 4)

A lightweight, droll novel about an aging grandmother with a penchant for shoplifting, her beleaguered son who is sandwiched between gnarly teenaged children, an overachieving...

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July 17, 2017

Nemesis by Lindsay Davis *** (of 4)

The twentieth book in the series on detective Marcus Didius Falco, this one in Rome and Latium in the year 77 AD. In this mystery,...

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February 28, 2016

Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya ** (of 4)

In the first half of the book, Pasha, an intentionally depressive poet, because without depression there can be no decent poetry, arrives from Odessa to...

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June 22, 2014

Talk to the Snail by Stephen Clarke *** (of 5)

It’s a standard genre. Expat, in this case British, lives in France long enough to write an irreverent, comic, snarky account of French mannerisms. He...

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May 9, 2014

You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty by Dave Barry *** (of 4)

A series of slightly augmented columns from Barry’s newspaper gig smashed together in a very funny book. Barry muses on grammar, sex, grammar and sex,...

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April 16, 2014

Still Foolin’ ‘Em by Billie Crystal *** (of 4)

Billy Crystal is turning 65 years old and writing his memoir. It’s one-third stand-up (far and away the best part), one-third autobiography, and one-third Hollywood...

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