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  •  Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama 

     Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama 

    “Bob Odenkirk’s career is inexplicable,” writes Danielle Dresser of Anderson’s Bookshop where Oldenkirk will be signing copies of his new book. “And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a “Homeric” decades-long “odyssey” from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago to a dramatic career full of award…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 27, 2022
    Autobiography, Humor
    Bob Oldenkirk, Chicago, Comedy, Humor, Saturday Night Live, Second City
  • The Appeal By Janice Hallett

    The Appeal By Janice Hallett

            An ever escalating review of email, letters, and documents by two young lawyers at the behest of their supervisor, The Appeal tells the story of a small-town fundraising appeal for a little girl’s life-saving cancer treatment and all the machinations that go along with it.         “While the alpha family, leading lights of a…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 26, 2022
    Fiction, mystery
    Fiction. new books, Legal mystery, Medical mystery, mystery, The Appeal
  • CrimeReads: The Pull of Abandoned Spaces ‹ CrimeReads

    CrimeReads: The Pull of Abandoned Spaces ‹ CrimeReads. https://crimereads.com/jennifer-fawcett-abandoned-spaces/

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 25, 2022
    mystery, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller
    Fiction. new books, Mystery-Thriller, Supernatural
  • Sara Carson: Super Dog Tricks

    Sara Carson: Super Dog Tricks

                Your dog may have been working hard to convince you that old—or even oldish–dogs can’t learn new tricks, but Sara Carson, who with her Super Collies has appeared on such shows as America’s Got Talent and America’s Got Talent The Champions knows better.             Considered among the best, the Lexington, Kentucky based international trick dog trainer…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 22, 2022
    Animals, Canines
    Animal training, Animals, Canines, Sara Carson, Super Collies, Super Dog Tricks
  • CrimeReads: 10 New Books Coming Out This Week ‹ CrimeReads

    CrimeReads: 10 New Books Coming Out This Week ‹ CrimeReads. https://crimereads.com/10-new-books-coming-out-this-week-february-21-2022/

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 22, 2022
    #books, Digital, Fiction, Murder, National Book Award finalist author, Psychological Suspense, Suspense, Thriller
    #books, Fiction, Fiction. new books, mysteries, Mystery-Thriller, Psychological Suspense
  • Article: 8 Retellings with a Bite of Darkness

    8 Retellings with a Bite of Darkness https://flip.it/YNAwhk

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 20, 2022
    #books, Culture, Fiction, mystery, Thriller
    #books, audio books, Fiction, mysteries, Mystery-Thriller, Psychological Suspense
  • Luckiest Girl Alive book review|Lainey Gossip Books

    Luckiest Girl Alive book review|Lainey Gossip Books

    If You’re not following Lainey Gossip, may I suggest that you do. It’s all about pop culture including books, fashion, movies, celebrities, etc. with lots of fun videos including this one of Tom Cruise thanking people for seeing his latest movie Top Gun: Maverick while free falling from an airplane and talking on his way…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 18, 2022
    #books, #BookTok, Authors, Autobiography, Culture, Female Voices, Fiction, Gossip, Psychology, Social media, Women
    "etalk", "Listening to a Squawking Chicken", "The Social", Autobiography, Culture, Elaine Lui, fun, Gossip, Humor, Lainey Gossip, Lainey Lui, Listen to the Squawking Chicken, Memoir, Pop culture, Reece Witherspoon, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick
  • Mindy Kaling, Amazon Publishing, and Amazon Studios Announce Mindy’s Book Studio and First-Look Deal, a New Home for Dynamic Storytelling

    Mindy Kaling, Amazon Publishing, and Amazon Studios Announce Mindy’s Book Studio and First-Look Deal, a New Home for Dynamic Storytelling

    Mindy Kaling, Amazon Publishing, and Amazon Studios just announced the launch of Mindy’s Book Studio, a boutique story studio that will publish books selected by Kaling from emerging and established diverse voices. “I had the best time working on Nothing Like I Imagined, and I am so excited to continue my relationship with Amazon,” said…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 16, 2022
    Amazon, Comedian, Culture, Digital, Essays, Humor
    Amazon Publishing, Amazon Studios, Digital, Dynamic Storytelling, Humor, Insightful, Mindy Kaling, Mindy's Book Studio
  • Windy City Blues

    In her fun very readable Windy City Blues (Berkley 2017; $16), Chicago author Renee Rosen again takes another slice of the city’s history and turns it into a compelling read. Rosen, who plumbs Chicago’s history to write such books as Dollface, her novel about flappers and gangers like Al Capone, and What the Lady Wants…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 15, 2022
    Amazon, American History, Architecture, Audiobooks, Authors, Berkley, Blues, Blues Highway, Chicago, Fiction, History, Jewish, Judaism, Music, Musician, Random House
    #bestsellingbooks, #books, #netgallery, #ReneeRosen, Architecture, Authors, Blues Highway, Chess Brothers, Chicago, Civil Rights, Dollface, Fiction, fun, Jazz, Music, musicians, New Orleans, Renee Rosen, Willie Dixon, Windy City
  • Book reviews and must read recommendations | Lainey Gossip Books

    https://www.laineygossip.com/books

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 15, 2022
    Uncategorized
    #bestsellingbooks, Best Selling Author, Fiction, Fiction. new books, Humor, New York Times bestseller, Non-fiction, NYT Best Seller
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