Happy Go Lucky.
by David Sedaris.
In this new volume the noted humorist sets his sights on common human foibles, like necrophilia and living in Arkansas. His light-hearted literary banter goes well with a bite of camembert and a sip of needled kombucha. In fact, savvy readers who know the Sedaris cannon will forgo reading the book altogether and simply pop it in the oven at 350 for an hour and then serve it with sauteed beet greens.
Nightwork.
by Nora Roberts.
In her latest opus the noted novelist spins a tale of intrigue, murder, romance, and eczema.
Master thief Harry Booth has a daughter he has never met, and a bar tab he's never paid. Things get weird when the IRS agent sent to arrest him is that same daughter. They meet up at the bar where his name is chalked on the wall, and the figure of two billion dollars next to it causes mayhem and supply chain gaps.
Ms. Roberts needs to find a new plot structure that doesn't do to cliches what Dr. Frankenstein did to stray body parts.
Killing the Killers
by Bill O'Reilly.
Are terrorists already embedded in our elementary schools as janitors? Will sharia law overtake our country state by state, until we're all forced to eat halva and like it? Is the hajib just another type of baggie for humans?
O'Reilly doesn't answer any of those questions. In fact, the whole book is just a long monotonous narrative of his last fishing trip to Lake of the Woods. Where he got skunked, by the way.
The reader will also get skunked if they pay full price for a hardback copy of this drek. Pick it up at Goodwill for a quarter in about another month . . .
Here's the Deal.
by Kellyanne Conway.
She was a seminal figure in the Trump administration.
Reason enough to use her book as mulch or processed as an additive to Metamucil.
Under The Banner Of Heaven.
by Jon Krakauer.
A good example of fictional nonfiction. Nobody gets the Mormon angle right, so why do they still bother to try?
The group is always painted as extremist or moony. This time around is no different. We wish someone would do to Mormons what Jessamyn West did to Quakers in 'The Friendly Persuasion.' Now THAT would be worth reading . . .
Educated.
by Tara Westover.
Isolationist rednecks try to wreck their daughter's life with their simplistic and lunatic delusions. But she goes to college and writes a best seller that makes her rich and liberal and she probably winds up with an addiction problem and existential despair at the state of the world. So who's better off and happier, the ignorant lunatic fringe or the well educated cynics? You won't find out by reading this book, but it's a pleasant way to pass a Sunday afternoon in your Laz-e-Boy when the cable TV is out.
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