ALICE LLOYD I highly recommend Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright... a new
TRISH REGAN With all this extra time at home, I’ve dug out some of my favorite board games to play with the
and very strange novel from early 2020 that doesn’t seem to be on too many of those year-end “Best Of ” book lists – probably because it’s too bizarre... A satire of American consumerism and its insane appetites, and as such potentially a tonic to temper your longing for life as it was, it’s the one work of fiction so far that really truly fits the Trump era. Speaking of American consumerism, the Christmas movie Jingle All The Way (1996) is the seasonal favorite of AP reporter Marina Villeneuve, who covers Andrew Cuomo’s state house daily and is a committed connoisseur of 1990s mass culture. A send-up of the holiday’s hyper-commercialization, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad, it is “the single-most underappreciated Christmas classic,” said Marina, who also happens to have been my college roommate. “Plus,” she added, “Sinbad is in it!” If you liked the HBO series The Undoing , or if you didn’t, or if you haven’t seen it and plan to, or if you haven’t seen it and don’t plan to, you might like its source material – Jean Hanff Korelitz’s You Should Have Known , an understated thriller from 2014. Both follow a psychotherapist and her handsome husband as their expensive uptown lives come apart under the pressure of a mysterious scandal. But, beyond that, the show and the book don’t have a whole lot else in common! Other than entertainment value, that is, and the power to make you glad your problems are at least predictable.
kids. Scrabble is a big hit and Monopoly is another. As awful as this pandemic has been, it’s helped all of us focus on what matters most... family. Simple things like board games after dinner on a Friday night – these are memories I’ll always cherish.
JAMISON MILLER I’ve read a ton of books since the COVID lockdowns started and even re-read some “classics”
like Michael Lewis’ Liars Poker and Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven . I recently finished a must-read book called Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. This non-fiction story is a haunting true- life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history that became the center of a major FBI investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. Netflix and Amazon Prime also do a pretty good job of passing the time… The Crown, The Queens Gambit, Ozark, Last Kingdom, Peaky Blinders and Yellowstone all have my two thumbs up.
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