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Books and Movies 2024

9th January 2025, 07:34 pm

Books and Movies 2024

January

This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew [William Nealy] by Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (Jason, Daniela, and Charlie Dennen)
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Mumblin’ Deaf Ro (Ronan Hession)
The Golden Ocean by Patrick O’Brian  (Peter, Audible, from Randy’s log)
Skimmed Keep Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter (Ocean City Free Library discard)
February
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (Audible)
Made in Italy (Netflix, father and son)
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, announced this week [Feb 21, 2024] the 2024 winners of the Mathical Book Prize, which recognizes outstanding fiction and nonfiction for youth ages 2-18….Finally, young adults (Grades 9-12) may be riveted by A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults): My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz (Random House Children’s Books), tracing the formative years of a brilliant Black physicist.
On bridge at age 6: “First, I watched their eyes as they scanned their cards. Then I watched how they arranged and played their cards. If I held an ace of clubs, I could usually figure out who had the king. If I held five hearts, I could usually figure out where the other eight hearts were hiding. On good days, I felt like the comic-book hero Ultra Boy with his Penetra-Vision, which was even more powerful than Superman’s x-ray vision.” Kindle and Audible.
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir of Friendship  Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Nina Totenberg (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)
Father’s violin. Friends (Cokey, Linda, esp. for Floyd). 2nd husband David.
March
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder  Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
David Grann (Author, Narrator), Dion Graham (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)
Brooklyn Nine-nine (funny Netflix series on police detectives)
My Runaway Summer by Larry Schardt (local author)
Love and Loyalty: An Immigrant Italian Mom Raising Her Family of Twelve in the Shadow of a Mafia Crime by Josephine B. Pasaquarello (local author)
April
The Good Times by Russell Baker
The Swan’s Nest about Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, by Laura McNeil, narrated by Nina De Gramont (Audible).
Killing Defense at Bridge by H. W. Kelsey, recommended on Sorry Partner by Luc Tijssen
Just for the Summer Kindle Edition by Abby Jimenez (Author and reader))
The Chamber by John Grisham (Audible from Paul and Mary)
An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin (about husband Dick, read just the sample)
May
American Cesar: Douglas MacArthur by William Manchester (ran out of steam on page 422/712+)
Table for Two by Amor Towles, stories and a novella, nothing great
Footloose (Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Netflix)
A Very Bad Estimator – with Donald Knuth, Numberphile, https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/donald-knuth
June
Local Hero (Community Center)
What this Comedian Said Will Shock You by Bill Mahler (make noncollege students pay for students?)
August
Love, Charlie: the Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter, Netflix
On Call by Anthony Fauci, M.D.
My Life with Bridge by Mike Lawrence
The Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough (Netflix)
September
The Beaver Theory by Antti Tuomainen (gift from Donna Otello, read just part)
When We Cease to Understand the World by Bejamin Labatut, (translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West,
Schrödinger’s waves vs. Heisenberg’s “Copenhagen” theory of observations, from Alan Kaplan, CMCBC)
Ellen Degeneris “For Your Approval” (Netflix)
What’s Next: The Future with Bill Gates (Netflix)
November
Reagan, The Life by Brands [gave Paul Audible version]
December
Julia’s Stepping Stones (Netflix)
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