Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

Jennifer’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

That makes sense, Bonnie.

Ugh. That’s one reason I rarely do buddy reads. I was in a group where we didn’t do buddy reads per se but we did a thing where you were paired up with someone for a month and you chose a book for that person, and she chose one for you. The book that was chosen for me was ***loved*** by the chooser, and I flat couldn’t finish it.

I'm glad you like them! It's fun revisiting them, and it's interesting after several months have gone by to see which ones still stick with me and what sticks with me about them. Looking forward to your thoughts.

If only you had a book bag for it, Jackie... :)

Precisely!

There's a lot of humor in it that's howlingly funny which you probably couldn't get away with now.

I'm about to, after I finish watching Dahmer, which I have mixed feelings on. Plus Jim just got me started on 30 Rock - I can't believe I'd never seen that before!

I've got one too, Jackie: .

Good grief, I haven't posted here since June. Here goes!

-- Erickson is solid, and I find Josephine interesting anyway. Liked this.
Solid immersion journalism.
I'm looking for inspiration. This guy's story was interesting.
I loved this! I need to watch the movie.
A good study of corruption and fear, for one thing.
I listened to this on the way to Virginia in the car, and really liked it. It covers the last few years of Eddie's life, and I found their family dynamic wonderful.
Ok, this was fascinating and there was a lot here I didn't know.
**THIS BOOK ENRAGED ME!
-- What a great history! One thing about being of my generation is that so many of these movies came out when I was so young that they totally changed movie-making but I was never aware of it, because I only lived in the "already changed" time.
- I like the Ephrons. I just do.
- Another issue that should enrage people more than it does.
- I was interested in this because I lived in Ohio when it happened: I was about six, and I have a very vague memory of it. Good overview.
- In the words of Eric Cartman, "well he's a bad ass cowboy living in the wild Wild West."
- I learned a lot about eviction and poverty in big cities that I had no idea went on.
- average true crime
- This guys work is always fascinating.
-Not sure I agree with his premise but he makes an interesting argument.
- A reflection on a role decades after he began playing it, and how it changed him. A fond remembrance!
-timely and interesting.
Seriously dull true crime. Sorry, but it was.
Olson writes a good true crime. Right up there with Ann Rule.
--WOW. If he's correct about the zodiac killer this is pretty interesting for us cold case buffs.
- Thorough history, and includes a lot of facets outside the courtroom that you wouldn't think of unless you knew to consider them.
- I like Shilts. I expected this to be more dated than it was, but it was dated only in the sense that I have a hard time identifying with the social pressures Harvey contended with because so much has changed.
- Timely: I didn't know about the Netflix series even existing until after I read this.
- Interesting defense of Gaetan Dugas.
It was ok. These podcast-like audible originals often aren't for me.
- I really enjoyed this. I like old Hollywood histories and this one was very good!
I should start by saying that Galsworthy is probably my favorite author, and that The Man of Property, which is one of my favorite books, is loosely based on his own marriage. So I fully expected to love this book. I didn't. It was sycophantic, assumed the reader knew a lot more about Galsworthy and Ada's stories than this reader did (maybe in the 50s when it was published more people would have but I doubt it), spent a lot of time examining its own navel philosophically, too much time on literary evaluation without sufficient context..... basically it read like "I'm going to tell you about these famous people I knew and I'm going to do it in such a way that my main point becomes that *I* knew them and *YOU* didn't." This book is rare for a reason.
Fascinating.
OH UGH! Interesting but every time Gehrig's name was mentioned I couldn't help thinking of the horrifying thing that was coming to him.
This was way better than I expected, and thoroughly entertaining.
WOW there were a lot of moving parts to this story. If you have any interest in this event, this book is for you.
I liked this, but I have a soft spot for Bogie, because he got married in the middle of nowhere Ohio about 15 miles from where I grew up.
- I really feel for people who are forced to hide their real selves. That being said, Hudson is hard for me to like.
Meh in terms of Holocaust survivor stories, but it did starkly draw the picture of a world where literally killing people for no reason was *UNTHINKABLE* - i.e. you didn't believe it when it happened in front of you because you literally couldn't think that could happen, kind of like those stories you hear where native Americans didn't see the ships coming because they couldn't fathom that such a thing could exist. I had never had that line drawn for me before reading this book.
- Interesting but UGH she was such a mess.
A bit dry but if you're interested in the subject matter, i.e. how does a failed society that is also now a destroyed society rebuild itself? it's a good overview.
- There was much here I did not know about these women.
-There wasn't much here I didn't already know about these men.
-Sort of ugh. Read like someone's college thesis in places.
The second she started speaking in absolutes, she lost me. And then I felt like I'd been yelled at for hours for something I didn't do. Skip it.
This was fascinating and way better than I expected, although it suffered from the same "podcasty" feel of other audible originals and those don't work for me really well.
- I devoured this. But "dealing with emergencies" is heavily my professional life so I have a big interest.
- Timely background given how much his granddaughter has been in the news of late.
Average true crime by a generally good true crime author, but the fact that I think this woman should have been slapped on every page might have colored my opinion.
You know what? I'm just going to say it. Every single thing I read about the Windsors leads me inexorably to this conclusion: they were Just. White. Trash.
This was interesting albeit too long. James Dean died during the filming of this movie.

Re these next five: I'm not a fan of this guy at all but these are actually pretty good books. Not sure I'd read anything Reagan-era or newer, because I think the objectivity might suffer. But these below were entertaining and seemed to be well-researched.

I read the last book in the trilogy a couple weeks ago, Vikki, and it did not disappoint!

I've not read him before, but I have around here waiting for my attention.

@Joy - I finally finished this morning. Very good -- not at all what I expected!!

The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.

The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…

Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed.

With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker’s unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Yes, the amount of dust I had to scrape off to read the title was disgraceful.

OK, your picks are one about a game, one about an athlete, and one about an issue:

I'll pick for you sir. Give me a sec. I wondered where you were!

Excellent picks, Beth! Thank you.

I have Bed and Breakfast on my list, and that cover is so pretty I'm tempted to move it up.

I have Netflix, prime, and PBS passport. I have Apple TV so I can get things that way also. I recently wanted to get Turner Classic Movies, which I used to watch all the time, but they **STILL** are not available unless you have a cable or satellite account so no love.