To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
“Verily, verily,” you say, “This is about the lowest one can go to reach 100 books in the year.” Well, gentle reader, I’d like to point out that Advanced French for Exceptional Cats has even less substance than this Weekly Reader book. Besides, I’ve already read TV Superstars ’82 and TV Superstars ’83. So I’m […]
I couldn’t help it; I read another children’s book about television stars in the 1980s. See also books as historical documents week here at MfBJN. Earlier this year I read TV Close-ups, and in 2005 I read the next edition of this series, TV Superstars ’83. Unlike those books, I knew pretty much all the […]
Yes, I am a grown man, but I read this Weekly Reader book some two decades after its expiration date and about two decades after I should have stopped reading Weekly Reader books–heck, I am sure by 1983 I was out of Weekly Reader books and was probably already into Agatha Christie or thereabouts, but […]
Gentle reader, you might know I am a sucker for children’s books on celebrities or sports figures. For example: TV Superstars ’81 TV Superstars ’83 TV Superstars ’83 TV Now: Stars and Shows Deion Sanders * Brett Favre So you might have expected that I would have picked this book right up right after I […]
I bought this book last fall in Clever. I’ve recently spoken with my wife in the merits of the parish model versus the congregational model, and I talked about a whole genre of books where the parish priest takes on crime in his neighborhood (maybe I’m just fond of Robert Blake’s series Hell Town). The […]
Consider this book to be the antidote to the little elementary school books about 1980s television stars that I’ve read before (TV Superstars ’82, TV Superstars ’83, TV Close-ups). In it, the author recounts suicides, crimes, breakdowns, scandals, and all sorts of shenanigans that take place in Hollywood to television stars. Oddly enough, the book […]
I picked this book up at a book fair for a quarter because it’s like TV Superstars ’83, and I already shot my credibility as a serious thinker by admitting a weird attraction to the Scholastic books covering television from the era in which these things mattered to me. Man, I remember the little one […]
So I called our portly cat The Big Kahuna this morning, and I got to thinking: Is that from the Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon beach movies such as Bikini Beach or the 1960s television show Gidget starring Sally Fields? I’ve never actually seen any of the former, and although the latter was in syndication on channel […]
Well, here is the list of books I’ve read this year: The Sea Wolf by Jack London Life Is Simple: First Cutting by Jerry Crownover Art Treasures of Seoul by Edward B. Adams The Hero by John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson Rogue Warrior: Green Team by Richard Marcinko and John Weisman Dead Street by […]
As some concede defeat in the Fifty Book Challenge, you, gentle reader, have suffered through no fewer than 96 book reviews this year (and one forthcoming). Here’s my list from 2005*: Blood on the Arch by Robert J. Randisi Three Survived by Robert Silverberg Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe edited by Byron Preiss From a Buick […]