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Formerly bookfella on Twitter. Book reviewer (Booklist, the Winnipeg Free Press, others). Former radio playwright. Bookseller. Amateur smart-ass, hoping to turn pro. Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Website: reviewsbybookfella.wordpress.com.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · Nov 13

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks! Do you have pub date, page count, Canadian price?

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 11h

Has anyone ever overlooked Keaton's contributions to the Godfather films?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h

Diane Keaton’s ability to show you a character’s vulnerability was as striking as her gift for showing you what can lie beneath such sensitivity, including neediness at its rawest and most acutely exposed, our chief film critic Manohla Dargis writes.

Often Overlooked, Diane Keaton Was Essential to ‘The Godfather’ Saga

The star’s emotional transparency and expressive eyes helped us see the Corleones as both fascinating and repellent, just as her character did.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 1d

I don't usually cry when celebrities die, but Diane Keaton? You bet I did.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 1d

I want one of these, but for Donald E. Westlake.

Raven Crime Reads @ravencrime.bsky.social · 1d

Wee bit chilly tonight so out comes the #StephenKing
blanket... Sweet dreams 😱😈

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 1d

Garbage AI. Delete this.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 1d

I am dressed appropriately for the season.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 1d

Book and film are so different that someone could make a movie using Brandner's story and it would not feel like a retread of @thejoedante.bsky.social's masterpiece.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 2d

Haven't read this in, oh, 45 years or so. @thejoedante.bsky.social's film is quite different, I remember that much.

Cover of 2025 reissue of The Howling (1977).

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 2d

Haven't read this in, oh, 45 years or so. @thejoedante.bsky.social's film is quite different, I remember that much.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 2d

Ready to film the sequel to The Departed. (The version where Nicholson's character didn't die.)

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Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social · 2d

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Promotional graphic of upcoming Booklist and PYR webinar CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS VOICES happening 11/3 at 2 p.m. ET

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 2d

Waiting for the Felon-in-Chief to announce he didn't want the Nobel anyway, he was just campaigning for it to see if they would bow to pressure, and he's happy to report his plan went superbly because they didn't give him the Nobel.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 2d

"The Elizabeth Holmes of media": that's genius at work, right there.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 2d

Lyz outdid herself today

Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 2d

Constipated badgerlickers

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 2d

Can I please be the guy who tells Trump he didn't get the Nobel?

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

"Where's my Nobel Peace Prize?"

- Elmer Fudd

Tom Bradley Jr. 📚💙 @tbradleywrites.bsky.social · 3d

"Where's my Nobel Peace Prize?"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 3d

"Where's my Nobel Peace Prize?"
- Genghis Khan

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

Is it on Netgalley or Edelweiss?

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

Oh for Chri -- I mean, gee golly, enough with these live-action remakes already.

Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 3d

Disney's live-action Tangled movie is back in early development — and Scarlett Johansson is circling the role of villainous lead Mother Gothel.

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

The great Peter Stormare guest-stars in "The Office Job," a season four episode of Leverage, which also happens to be a rather clever and funny spoof of The Office.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

I misread this as "commuter".

Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 8d

every day I wake up and kill a computer because I can

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

Just saw a commercial for something called a modular sofa but was actually just three chairs lined up in a row. I mean, really.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

Can you imagine the public response if the Nobel committee gave the Felon-in-Chief the peace prize?

You're shaking your head, saying it can't happen, but he bought himself a White House. Twice.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

If Carney allows this to happen, we'll know we're in big trouble.

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 3d

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

It was The Grave Danger Job.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking as a claustrophobe, Aldis Hodge fuckin' nailed it in this episode of Leverage.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

Oops.

Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking as a claustrophobe, Aldis Hodge fuckin' nailed it in this episode of Leverage.

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