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By Steve Rhodes
I wasn’t going to go out of my way to be mean to Bourbonnais author Gary W. Moore about his new book, Hey Buddy: In Pursuit of Buddy Holly, My New Buddy John, and My Lost Decade of Music, but if Dave Hoekstra is going to give him a rave review in the Sun-Times, I better set the record straight.
This is just about the worst book I’ve ever read.
Posted on January 31, 2011
By The Beachwood Parlor Games Division
“It’s the Washington parlor game of the week: trying to unravel the mystery – of a fictional new book about a president – identified only as ‘O’ fighting to win re-election in 2012,” Newsy reports.
Posted on January 21, 2011
By The Beachwood Mayoral Memoir Affairs Desk
“Chicago’s new mayor will be sworn in on May 16, and come May 17, Mayor Daley says, he will wake up with nothing he has to do,” the Sun-Times reports.
“But on Wednesday, he said he’s got some ideas on how he wants to spend his time when he leaves City Hall: teach and write a book.”
The Beachwood has learned Daley is shopping around the following proposals:
Posted on January 20, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
A surprising and revealing look inside the Tea Party movement – where it came from, what it stands for, and what it means for the future of American politics.
Or, as Times Books puts it:
The First Definitive Account of a Vastly Misunderstood Movement from the New York Times Reporter Who Has Covered Them More Than Any Other Journalist.
I read this book about a month ago. Let’s see how the passages I highlighted then resonate with recent events.
Posted on January 17, 2011
By Planet 46 Comics
Spider-Man both Amazing and Astonishing. Plus, Supergirl and Captain America.
Posted on January 7, 2011
