Kate’s 2¢: “The Measure: by Nikki Erlick; Julia Whelan

“The Measure: by Nikki Erlick; Julia Whelan

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Of course, the question of where the boxes came/come from, is never answered. The choice is whether or not to open your personal box (or your partner’s box) and then, what do you do with the knowledge of when you’re going to die, or do nothing.

   A very interesting study of human nature and what people do during their birth date and death date.

   I enjoyed this book and, I’ve often said, it’s what you do during that dash between birth and death that is important.

From her web:

My debut novel, The Measure, was an Instant New York Times Bestseller upon publication in June 2022, with translations forthcoming in 20 languages. The Measure was selected as Jenna Bush Hager and The TODAY Show’s #ReadWithJenna Book Club pick as well as the Barnes & Noble Discover Pick.

My work has also appeared online with New York Magazine, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, Literary Hub, Indagare Travel, BookTrib, and Vox Media.

As a travel writer, I explored nearly a dozen countries on assignment—from rural villages in France to the arctic fjords of Norway. As a ghostwriter, I’ve written for CEOs, entrepreneurs, and academics.

I graduated Harvard University summa cum laude and was an editor of The Harvard Crimson. I earned my master’s degree in Global Thought from Columbia University.

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The measure: a novel DB109475

Erlick, Nikki; Whelan, Julia Reading time: 11 hours, 2 minutes.

Julia Whelan

Friendship Fiction

Science Fiction

Family

Fantasy Fiction

Bestsellers

Psychological Fiction

“Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge? |The Measure| charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown, a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush, a doctor who cannot save himself, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Colony” by Audrey Magee

“The Colony” by Audrey Magee

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I think Mr. Lloyd is a really crappy piece of mankind. He did a terrible thing to James. Masson isn’t any better with his duplicity and sexual escapades. It’s unfortunate that life on the island is so rough  for the three women, but moving to Ireland might be the death of them. They’re better off where they are.

   Stephen Hogan did a good job of reading this novel.

Audrey Magee is an Irish novelist and journalist. Her debut novel, The Undertaking, was nominated for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2014. Her novel The Colony was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.

   Born in Ireland, Magee studied German and French at University College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University. For 12 years, she worked as a journalist, writing for publications such as The Times, The Irish Times The Irish Times, The Observer, and The Guardian.[6]

In 2014, Magee published The Undertaking, her debut novel.[4] It was published by Atlantic Books.[7] The novel is set in World War II-era Germany and “tells the story of Peter Faber, a German soldier fighting on the Eastern front, who marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met, in order to escape the horrors of the battlefield for a few days.”[7]

She wrote The Undertaking with the goal of trying to understand “what it was like to have been an ordinary German during the Second World War.”[3] Magee took a “long time” to write the novel, as she “struggled with the novel’s cruelty and indifference.”[3] To cope, she took walks and drank tea.[3] A review of the novel in The New York Times said: “To write a story that doesn’t allow for much sympathy, that keeps readers at a remove from the central characters, is one of the greatest challenges an author can undertake. That Magee succeeds as well as she does is impressive.”[4]

   Magee lives in Wicklow with her husband and three daughters.[8]

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Magee, Audrey. Reading time: 8 hours, 13 minutes.

Read by Stephen Hogan.

Historical Fiction

“It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by curragh, though boats with engines are available and he doesn’t much like the sea. He wants the authentic experience, to be changed by this place, to let its quiet and light fill him, give him room to create. He doesn’t know that a Frenchman follows close behind. Masson has visited the island for many years, studying their language. He is fiercely protective of their isolation; it is essential to exploring his theories of language preservation and identity. But the people who live on this rock—three miles long and half a mile wide—have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken, and what ought to be given in return. Over the summer, each of them—from great-grandmother Bean Uí Fhloinn to widowed Mairéad and fifteen-year-old James, who is determined to avoid the life of a fisherman—will wrestle with their own values and desires. Meanwhile, all over Ireland, violence is erupting. And there is blame enough to go around. An expertly woven portrait of character and place, a stirring investigation into yearning to find one’s own way, and an unflinchingly political critique of the long, seething cost of imperialism, |The Colony| is a novel that transports, that celebrates beauty and connection, and that reckons with the inevitable ruptures of independence.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

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Kate’s 2¢: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

“Behind Her Eyes” by Sarah Pinborough

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Oh! Dear! Gussie!  You’ll have to read this one to “believe it”.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pen name: Sarah Silverwood

www.sarahpinborough.com

Sarah Pinborough is an English author who has written YA and adult thriller, fantasy and cross-genre novels. She has also been a screenwriter in adaptations of her novels for TV as well as in original projects.   She has had more than 20 novels published by several companies and in several countries. They have also been translated into a number of languages.

From BookShare:Synopsis

Why is everyone talking about the ending of Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes?Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she’s thrilled she finally connected with someone.When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man from the bar. The very married man from the bar…who says the kiss was a terrible mistake, but who still can’t keep his eyes off Louise.And then Louise bumps into Adele, who’s new to town and in need of a friend. But she also just happens to be married to David. And if you think you know where this story is going, think again, because Behind Her Eyes is like no other book you’ve read before.David and Adele look like the picture-perfect husband and wife. But then why is David so controlling? And why is Adele so scared of him?As Louise is drawn into David and Adele’s orbit, she uncovers more puzzling questions than answers. The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong. But Louise can’t guess how wrong—and how far a person might go to protect their marriage’s secrets.In Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough has written a novel that takes the modern day love triangle and not only turns it on its head, but completely reinvents it in a way that will leave readers reeling.

Copyright:

2017

Kate’s 2¢: “We Know You Remember: High Coast series book 1” by Tove Alsterdal; Alice Menzies

“We Know You Remember: High Coast series book 1” by Tove Alsterdal; Alice Menzies

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   It’s too bad the bravado and pride of a teenager didn’t let him admit the truth.  When the policewoman uncovered the truth, her not exonerating the boy, was a miscarriage of justice.

   Hillary Huber did a good job of narrating this translated story.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tove Alsterdal (born 28 December 1960) is a Swedish journalist, playwright, screenwriter and crime fiction writer. Her awards include the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award and the Glass Key award.

Career[edit]

Alsterdal graduated as journalist from Kalix Folkhögskola [sv] in 1985. She has worked as journalist, playwright and screenwriter, and has been editor of several of Liza Marklund’s books. She wrote the script for Helena Bergström’s film Så olika [sv] from 2009, and the libretto for Fredrik Högberg’s opera Woman of Cain.[1]

She made her crime novel debut in 2009, with Kvinnorna på stranden.[1] Her novel Låt mig ta din hand was awarded the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in 2014.[2] Her novel Rotvälta was awarded the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in 2020,[3] and the Glass Key award in 2021.[4]

Personal life[edit]

Born on 28 December 1960 in Malmö, Alsterdal grew up in Stockholm and Umeå.[1] She is a daughter of Alvar Alsterdal [sv] and Elsa Bolin [sv].[5]

   Alice Menzies holds a master of arts in Translation Theory and Practice from University College London, specializing in the Scandinavian languages. She has translated books by Fredrik Bachman and Katarina Bivald, among others. She lives in London.  

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We know you remember: High Coast series, book 1 DB109584

Alsterdal, Tove; Menzies, Alice. Reading time: 11 hours, 53 minutes.

Read by Hillary Huber.

Suspense Fiction

Mystery and Detective Stories

Psychological Fiction

“A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic procedural meets Scandinavian atmosphere in this rich, character-driven mystery, awarded Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, that heralds the American debut of a supremely skilled international writer. It’s been more than twenty years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to his family’s house, he knows instantly that something is amiss. The front door key, hidden under a familiar stone, is still there. Inside, there’s a panicked dog, a terrible stench, water pooling on the floor: the father Olaf has not seen or spoken to in decades is dead in the bathroom shower. For police detective Eira Sjödin, the investigation of this suspicious death resurrects long-forgotten nightmares. She was only nine when Olof Hagström, then fourteen, was found guilty of raping and murdering a local girl. The case left a mark on the town’s collective memory—a wound that never quite healed—and tinged E

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Kate’s 2¢: “Refuge: A Novel” by Dot Jackson

“Refuge: A Novel” by Dot Jackson

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   I really enjoyed this moving story of how one woman re-connected with her father’s people in a rural, saw mill town.  Jackson’s characters were unique, engaging, and real. The descriptions of the mountains, weather, natural flora and fauna  really came alive.   I can appreciate the touch of mysticism with the description of the bees sounding like women softly singing and the way whole folk lyrics came to her in the woods and swamp. I even liked the ending, though a bit disturbing.

   Elizabeth Wiley did a good job of narrating “Refuge”.

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WebBorn Miami, FL, The United States edit data Dot Jackson was born to Appalachian parents in Miami, where she later gave up her college studies of music and dance to become a writer.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Refuge: a novel DB112418

Jackson, Dot. Reading time: 14 hours, 6 minutes.

Read by Elizabeth Wiley.

Historical Fiction

“Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously packs a suitcase, gathers up her son and daughter, and drives away in her abusive and dissolute husband’s brand-new Auburn Phaeton automobile leaving her privileged life in Charleston behind. It is the beginning of a journey of enlightenment that leads Mary “Sen” to the mountains and mysteries of Appalachia where she will learn unexpected family secrets, create a new life for herself and her children, and finally experience love and happiness before tragedy will once again test her. Written by a Pulitzer Prize–nominated author, Dot Jackson has spun a story that will captivate readers looking for an entertaining saga of self-discovery, family, love, loss, and redemption.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Club” by Ellery Lloyd

“The Club” by Ellery Lloyd

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   Wow! There I was, enjoying the amenities of a luxurious spa. It appeared to run like  a well oil machine…until it didn’t and the stuff hit the fan.

   The various under-lying threads came apart causing murder, blackmail,  and mayhem all over the resort. There were numerous subplots that came to the fore and made for an exciting ending…of several people. There was even the suspense of one more disaster pending, but we’re not privy to that one, except in our imaginations.

From the WEB:

Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos.

Collette Lyons is a journalist and editor, the former content director of Elle (UK) and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and the Sunday Times. 

Paul Vlitos is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day is Like Sunday. He is the program director for English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Surrey.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The club: a novel DB108284

Lloyd, Ellery Reading time: 9 hours, 26 minutes.

Tamaryn Payne

Suspense Fiction

Bestsellers

“From the author of People Like Her comes a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs. Everyone’s Dying to Join . . . The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members’ clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular of all is Island Home–a closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coast–and its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the decade. But behind the scenes, tensions are at breaking point: the ambitious and expensive project has pushed the Home Group’s CEO and his long-suffering team to their absolute limits. All of them have something to hide–and that’s before the beautiful people with their own ugly secrets even set foot on the island. As tempers fray and behavior worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up, some of Island Home’s members will begin to wish they’d never made the guest list. Because at this club, if your name’s on the list, you’re not getting out.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2022.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America” by Elizabeth Letts

“The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America” by Elizabeth Letts

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   This was a wonderful story. I’m so glad Annie made her trek when she did. I’m pretty sure that in 2023, she would not find so many back roads to traverse nor trusting people to aid in her up-keep.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elizabeth Letts was born on June 23, 1961, in Houston, Texas.[citation needed] She grew up in Southern California. As a teenager, she was a competitive equestrian three-day eventer. She attended Northfield Mount Hermon School and Yale College where she majored in History. She served in the Peace Corps in Morocco.

She is the author of multiple books: Quality of Care; Family Planning; The Butter Man; The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman the Horse that Inspired a Nation, a #1 New York Times bestseller.;,[1] The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis, which reached #5 on the New York Times bestseller list;[2] and Finding Dorothy. Elizabeth Letts also writes women’s fiction under the pen name Nora Carroll.

Her younger brother, John, is a retired professional tennis player.[citation needed]and her father, J. Spencer Letts was a Federal District Court Judge.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America DB107346

Letts, Elizabeth Reading time: 10 hours, 30 minutes.

Tavia Gilbert

Biography

Animals and Wildlife

The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean. The author recounts her adventure, which included crushing storms, celebrity encounters, and harrowing stretches of highways. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Killing The Killers” by Bill O’reilly, Martin Dugard

“Killing The Killers” by Bill O’reilly, Martin Dugard

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,    describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I was familiar with many of these events as they unfolded throughout the years, but to have them all in one book was difficult to read.  In the first few chapters, the horror of the cruelties and gruesomeness is hard to take; however, by the end of the book, one is a bit inured with it all.

   Let’s face it, both sides were nasty to each other. War is a lose/lose proposition.

Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia

William James O’Reilly Jr.[1] (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator,[2][3] journalist, author, and television host.

O’Reilly’s broadcasting career began during the late 1970s and 1980s, when he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News. He anchored the tabloid television program Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995. O’Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted The O’Reilly Factor until 2017. The O’Reilly Factor had been the highest-rated cable news show for 16 years, and he was described by media analyst Howard Kurtz as “the biggest star in the 20-year history at Fox News” at the time of his ousting.[4][5][6][7][8] He is the author of numerous books and hosted The Radio Factor (2002–2009).[9]

In early 2017, The New York Times reported that he and Fox News had paid five women approximately $13 million to settle various sexual misconduct lawsuits, which led to the network terminating O’Reilly’s employment.[10][11][12][13] An additional New York Times report that O’Reilly paid legal analyst Lis Wiehl $32 million for allegedly initiating a “non-consensual sexual relationship” with her led to him being dropped by the United Talent Agency and literary agency WME.[13] He subsequently began hosting a podcast, No Spin News.[14]

Early life and education

O’Reilly was born on September 10, 1949,[1] at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan to parents William James Sr. and Winifred Angela (Drake) O’Reilly from Brooklyn and Teaneck, New Jersey, respectively.[15] He is of Irish descent with a small degree of English (Colonial American) ancestry.[16] Some of his father’s ancestors lived in County Cavan, Ireland, since the early eighteenth century, and on his mother’s side he has ancestry from Northern Ireland.[17] The O’Reilly family lived in a small apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey, when their son was born.[18] In 1951, his family moved to Levittown on Long Island.[19] O’Reilly has a sister, Janet.[20]

O’Reilly attended St. Brigid parochial school in Westbury and Chaminade High School, a private Catholic boys high school, in Mineola. His father wanted him to attend Chaminade, but O’Reilly wanted to attend W. Tresper Clarke High School, the public school most of his closest friends would attend.[21] He played Little League baseball and was the goalie on the Chaminade varsity hockey team.[22] During his high school years, he met future singer Billy Joel, whom O’Reilly described as a “hoodlum”. O’Reilly recollected in an interview with Michael Kay on the YES Network show CenterStage that Joel “was in the Hicksville section—the same age as me—and he was a hood. He used to slick it [his hair] back like this. And we knew him, because his guys would smoke and this and that, and we were more jocks.”[23]

After graduating from Chaminade in 1967, O’Reilly attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.[24] While at Marist, he was a punter in the National Club Football Association[25] and also wrote for the school’s newspaper, The Circle. He was an honors student who majored in history. He spent his junior year of college abroad, attending Queen Mary College at the University of London.[26] He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971.[27] He played semi-professional baseball during this time as a pitcher for the New York Monarchs.[28] After graduating from Marist College, O’Reilly moved to Miami where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School from 1970 to 1972.[29] He returned to school in 1973[30] and earned a Master of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University.[27] While attending Boston University, he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including the Boston Phoenix, and did an internship in the newsroom of WBZ-TV.[31] In 1995, he attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a master of public administration degree in 1996.[27]

Marist College had bestowed an honorary degree upon O’Reilly, which would later be revoked once the sexual abuse allegations came to light.[32]

Broadcasting career

1973–1980: Early career

O’Reilly’s early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also reported the weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas, O’Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting. He then moved to KMGH-TV in Denver, where he won a local Emmy Award for his coverage of a skyjacking.[33] O’Reilly also worked for WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut from 1979 to 1980.[34] In 1980, O’Reilly anchored the local news-feature program 7:30 Magazine at WCBS-TV in New York. Soon after, as a WCBS News anchor and correspondent, he won his second local Emmy, which was for an investigation of corrupt city marshals.

1982–1986: CBS News and return to local television

In 1982, he became a CBS News correspondent,[35] covering the wars in El Salvador on location and in the Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires, Argentina. O’Reilly left CBS over a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob Schieffer of footage of a riot in response to the military junta’s surrender shot by O’Reilly’s crew in Buenos Aires shortly after the conclusion of the war.[36][37]

After departing CBS News in 1982, O’Reilly joined WNEV-TV (now WHDH) in Boston, as a weekday reporter, weekend anchor and later as host of the station’s local news magazine New England Afternoon. In 1984, O’Reilly went to KATU in Portland, Oregon, where he remained for nine months, then he returned to Boston and joined WCVB-TV as reporter and columnist-at-large for NewsCenter 5.[38][39]

1986–1989: ABC News

In 1986, O’Reilly moved to ABC News, where, during his three-year tenure, he received two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting. He had delivered a eulogy for his friend Joe Spencer, an ABC News correspondent who died in a helicopter crash on January 22, 1986, en route to covering the 1985–86 Hormel strike. ABC News president Roone Arledge, who attended Spencer’s funeral, decided to hire O’Reilly after hearing the eulogy.[40] At ABC, O’Reilly hosted daytime news briefs that previewed stories to be reported on the day’s World News Tonight and worked as a general assignment reporter for ABC News programs, including Good Morning America, Nightline, and World News Tonight.[41]

1989–1995: Inside Edition

Main article: Inside Edition

In 1989, O’Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World (now CBS Television Distribution)-produced Inside Edition, a tabloid-gossip television program in competition with A Current Affair.[27] He became the program’s anchor three weeks into its run after the involvement of original anchor David Frost had ended.[42]

In 1995, former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah Norville replaced O’Reilly on Inside Edition; O’Reilly had expressed a desire to quit the show in July 1994.[43]

Viral video

On May 12, 2008, an outtake of O’Reilly ranting during his time at Inside Edition surfaced on YouTube.[44] The early 1990s video depicts O’Reilly yelling and cursing at his co-workers while having issues pre-recording the closing lines on his teleprompter, eventually yelling the phrase “Fuck it, we’ll do it live!” before continuing the closing segment to his show.[45][46] The original video, titled “Bill O’Reilly Flips Out,” was removed, but another user uploaded it once again the day after and retitled it “Bill O’Reilly Goes Nuts”. Immediately after the video surfaced, O’Reilly acknowledged the video’s existence, claiming that he was amusing his co-workers and said “I have plenty of much newer stuff… If you want to buy the tapes that I have, I’m happy to sell them to you.”[47][48] The rant was later parodied by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report[47][49] as well as Family Guy and by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show,[50] and was named one of Time’s “Top 10 Celebrity Meltdowns”.[51] In October 2008, Wednesday 13 named his first live album after a line in the rant.[50][52] In 2009, a “dance remix” of O’Reilly’s rant was nominated for a Webby Award for “Best Viral Video”[53] but lost to “The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude”.[54]

1996–2017: The O’Reilly Factor

Martin Dugard His 2008 screenplay, A Warrior’s Heart, was released as a feature film starring Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene. It was also presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and was released in the United States on 2 December 2011.

1988

Dugard began writing professionally in 1988. Bored by an unfulfilling corporate marketing job, he began writing articles for endurance sports magazines such as Competitor and Runner’s World in the mornings and on weekends. In 1993, inspired by a three-week journey to Madagascar to cover the Raid Gauloises adventure race, Dugard left the corporate world to pursue a full-time writing career. Although he has returned to journalism from time to time, as when covering the Tour de France from 1999 to 2008, Dugard’s primary focus is writing narrative non-fiction. Dugard wrote his first work of history in 2000. . He is also a track and field coach under Sean Zeitler in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.

1961

Martin Dugard (born June 1, 1961 in Maine) is an American author living in Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County, California. He is known for his frequent collaboration with former Fox News host and commentator, Bill O’Reilly. He and his wife have three sons.

Killing the Killers DB108373

O’Reilly, Bill; Dugard, Martin Reading time: 9 hours, 18 minutes.

Robert Petkoff

Government and Politics

Bestsellers

“In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take listeners deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The Killers narrates America’s intense global war against extremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world, and who eventually destroyed entire nations in their relentless quest for power. Killing The Killers moves from Afghanistan to Iraq, Iran to Yemen, Syria, and Libya, and elsewhere, as the United States fought Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as well as individually targeting the most notorious leaders of these groups. With fresh detail and deeply-sourced information, O’Reilly and Dugard create an

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Kate’s 2¢: “The truth of you: poetry about love, life, joy, and sadness” by Iain S. Thomas

“The truth of you: poetry about love, life, joy, and sadness” by Iain S. Thomas

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   Iain  S. Thomas read his own book of poetry. He has a pleasant voice to listen to and the meditative mood music was a nice touch.

From the web:

Iain S. Thomas is a writer and new media artist. He is the author of several books, the most popular of which is I Wrote This For You. Originally an online verse and photography project widely considered to be at the forefront of popular contemporary poetry, it has gone on to become a worldwide phenomenon.

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The truth of you: poetry about love, life, joy, and sadness DB108837

Thomas, Iain S Reading time: 1 hour, 30 minutes.

Iain S. Thomas

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Poetry

“This is the truth of you. Because you are all I see. Because you are all I breathe. Because when I cannot find you, I am lost. Because when I’m with you, I am found. Because you have the fire of the universe in you, and sometimes you forget. So this book is here to remind you. Dear You, I want you to know that I see you. I want you to know that even if no one else does, even if you are a ghost in this bookshop, or just the static floating across the screen of your computer, wherever you’re reading this, I see you. I see you in the dark and I see you in the grey. I see you as a story, as words I have spoken or may yet speak. Maybe only in a memory or a dream. I see your hands and your arms and your body and your legs and your face and I see what you have been and what you will be. I see you and in looking at you, I want you to know that whoever you’ve had to be to survive all this, I will not look away. I want you to know that there’s a space inside this book for you. So if you have the time and the inclination, you can sit here with me, just for a while. And perhaps between us, we can see everything that matters. -pleasefindthis.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.

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Kate’s 2¢: “O say can you hear?: a cultural biography of “The Star-spangled banner” by Mark Clague

“O say can you hear?: a cultural biography of “The Star-spangled banner” by Mark Clague

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Mark Clague’s extensive research and attention to detail, make this book educational and a joy to read. This book really fills in the details of our national anthem. I found it fascinating to read how each word, line, and verse has depth and meaning, although we usually only sing the first verse.

   I recommend this book to history buffs, music lovers, and teenaged and adult Patriots.

From the University of Michigan:

Mark Clague

Associate Dean for Collaborations and Partnerships and Professor of Music; Director of U-M Gershwin Initiative, Co-Editor-in-Chief MUSA

Music Studies, Musicology, Senior Leadership

Mark Clague researches all forms of music-making in the United States, with recent projects focusing on the United States national anthem (“The Star-Spangled Banner”); American orchestras as institutions (especially in early Chicago and San Francisco); the Atlanta School of composers; Sacred Harp music and performance; critical editing; and the music of George and Ira Gershwin. His interests center on questions of how music forges and shapes social relationships: the art of sound as simultaneously a transcendent emotional expression and an everyday tool for living.

   Professor Clague is an associate professor of musicology with tenure at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan who also enjoys affiliate appointments in American Culture, African and Afro-American Studies, Non-Profit Management, and Entrepreneurship. He serves as director of research for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and as co-director of its American Music Institute. He further serves as faculty advisor to student organizations including Arts Enterprise@U.Michigan, the Ypsilanti Youth Symphony Mentors, Mu Phi Epsilon, and the Interdisciplinary Music Forum.

   Before joining Michigan’s faculty, Professor Clague served as executive editor for Music of the United States of America, a series of scholarly editions of American music published by A-R Editions for the American Musicological Society. He also held editorial positions for the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago, where he helped complete the International Dictionary of Black Composers under the direction of Dr. Samuel Floyd. His dissertation for the University of Chicago – “Chicago Counterpoint: The Auditorium Theater Building and the Civic Imagination” – was completed under the direction of Professors Philip Bohlman and Richard Crawford and won the 2003 H. Wiley Housewright Dissertation Prize of the Society for American Music.

   His first book is an annotated edition of The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy (University of California Press, 2008). He is currently completing a book for the University of Illinois Press titled “Music for the People”: Chicago’s Auditorium Building and the Institutional Revolution of Gilded Age Culture, along with a manuscript entitled “O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’” His writings on teaching music history and arts entrepreneurship appear in the journals College Music Symposium and Music History Pedagogy as well as the books Teaching Music in Higher Education and Disciplining the Arts: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Context.

   Professor Clague’s research appears in the journals American Music (on the film Fantasia and critical editing), Black Music Research (on bandmaster Alton Adams), Michigan Quarterly Review (on Motown), Opera Quarterly (on Chicago’s Auditorium Building), and the book American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century (on early orchestra organization models) as well as in the International Dictionary of Black Composers, The Encyclopedia of Chicago, and African American National Biography. In addition to being a contributor, Professor Clague also served as project editor and cities and institutions editor for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition (Oxford).

   Professor Clague has lectured throughout the United States and China and has presented papers at national meetings of the American Musicological Society, American Studies Association, Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship, Center for Black Music Research, Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (Lisbon, Portugal), College Band Directors National Association, College Music Society, Experience Music, Feminism and Music Theory, Institute of Musical Research (London, U.K.), Michigan Music Educators Conference, Music and the Moving Image, National Association of Schools of Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for American Music. He has spoken as a guest at universities, including Bowling Green, Columbia College Chicago, CUNY Graduate Center, Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, Northwestern, Peabody Conservatory, University of Chicago, and the University of Southern California.

   His awards include the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Medal, a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, the University of Chicago’s Wayne C. Booth Teaching Prize, the 2003 Wiley Housewright Dissertation Prize of the Society for American Music, a 2004 and 2006 Teaching with Technology Fellowship, an 2007 UROP Advisor Award, 2009 Advisor of the Year from the University of Michigan Leadership Awards, a 2013-14 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, a 2013 Sight and Sound subvention for his recorded history of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and a 2013 NEH grant for $200,000 to host a month-long K-12 teacher institute titled “Banner Moments: The National Anthem in American Life.”

   Professor Clague was board president of the Great Lakes Performing Artists Associates and continues to serve on the board of directors of the Star Spangled Music Foundation and the University Musical Society, where he chairs the education committee. He is also a member-at-large of the board of the Society of American Music, where he chairs the outreach council. He is on the advisory board of the Sphinx Organization.

   Before joining the Michigan faculty, Professor Clague was principal bassoonist with the Chicago Civic and Rockford Symphonies and played periodically with the Grant Park and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. In March 2003, he performed André Jolivet’s Concerto pour basson, orchestra a cordes et piano (1954) as the Concerto Competition Winner of the University of Michigan Campus Symphony Orchestra. He has given pre-concert talks for the Ann Arbor, Berlin, Detroit, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago Symphonies as well as the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Detroit Chamber Winds, and the University Musical Society. He has written and edited program notes for the Detroit Symphony as well as the Sphinx Virtuosi and served as centennial historian and American Orchestra Forum host for the San Francisco Symphony.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

O say can you hear?: a cultural biography of “The Star-spangled banner” DB110077

Clague, Mark. Reading time: 9 hours, 40 minutes.

Read by Reuben J. Tapp.

Music Appreciation and History

U.S. History

“The fascinating story of America’s national anthem and an examination of its powerful meaning today. Most Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and Stripes still flying proudly at first light, he was inspired to pen his famous lyric. What Americans don’t know is the story of how this everyday “broadside ballad,” one of thousands of such topical songs that captured the events and emotions of early American life, rose to become the nation’s one and only anthem and today’s magnet for controversy. In |O Say Can You Hear?| Mark Clague brilliantly weaves together the stories of the song and the nation it represents. Examining the origins of both text and music, alternate lyrics and translations, and the song’s use in sports, at times of war, and for political protest, he argues that the anthem’s meaning reflects—and is reflected by—the national anthem.

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