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This is a blog about recreational hobbies that I am interested in (music, TV, movies, books). I also talk about what's on my mind or things that happen in life around me. Please feel free to post comments; I want this to be an interactive dialogue. If you like what you read, please share it with your friends. Thanks.

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Book Review: Etiquette for Lovers and Killers

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It’s 1964 in the tiny town of Eastport, Maine, and Billie McCadie is bored to death. She’s surrounded by dull people with more manners tha...

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Book Review: Dissolution

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Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they ...

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Book Review: Come and Get It

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It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. S...

Monday, October 9, 2023

Book Review: World Within a Song

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What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives? And ...

Friday, July 21, 2023

Book Review: Opposable Thumbs

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On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune . Ro...

Friday, August 5, 2022

Book Review: The Intimate City

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As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians, writers, and friends, inv...

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Martin Maenza: Macomb, Michigan, United States; Previously I was a software developer in the retail industry. Late in life, I got my master's degree in library science and became an adult services librarian at my local public library.

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