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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 3d

What other actors could be in the Godfather and several Woody Allen movies in the 70s? One of my favorites

Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 3d

I believe there is only one highway rest stop in New Jersey named for a novelist. Here are a few thoughts I had at that rest stop yesterday.

#JudyBlume #PhilipRoth

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Two Great New Jersey Books

At least in my opinion, two of the best books written by New Jersey writers in my lifetime are Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Marg...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 5d

Check out my latest review

#NetGalley #ThisIsTheOnlyKingdom

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Review: This Is the Only Kingdom

Publishing Tuesday This is The Only Kingdom by Jaquira Diaz is a multigenerational family story that takes place in Puerto Rico and South...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 8d

My thoughts on Brandon Taylor’s newest novel which was just published yesterday

#MinorBlackFigures #NetGalley

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Review of the Day: Minor Black Figures

Brandon Taylor’s novel is the story of Wyeth, a black gay artist living in NYC. While Wyeth is an artist working in a low level job for a ga...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 23d

My review of a Hollywood satire with some great prose

#Television #NetGalley

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Review of the Day: Television

Television by Lauren Rothery is a satire of Hollywood and the movie industry. The plot is a little thin and occasionally hard to follow; the...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 24d

My latest review

#ReadTheRaise #NetGalley

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Review of the Day: The Raise

Other people might like this book; this was not a book I enjoyed. The Raise is a first person female centric thriller set in a technology c...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 25d

My thoughts on Kiran Desai’s remarkable novel

#Books

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Review of the Day: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Given the length of complexity of this remarkable novel, I have skipped any attempt to summarize the plot and just share two sections I e...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 25d

Junk Journal Week 39

#RobertAltman ##JunkJournal

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Junk Journal Week 39

Still feeling a bit under the weather with this virus, but I’m caught up on the junk journals now. I finally read Katherine Dunn’s Geek Lo...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 25d

Catching up from week 38

What have you been reading and watching?

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Junk Journal Week 38

Catching up with a previous week on my media consumption. Lately a respiratory virus has slowed me down some. What about you? Tell me about...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 26d

Three Leaves I Found On My Walk

#Art #AnalogCollage

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Three Leaves I Found On My Walk

Current reading: Kiran Desai’s epic and very much worth reading The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. 2025 O Henry Prize Winners. One story...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 27d

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#AnalogCollage #Art

Oak Leaf Gelliprint Collage

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · 28d

Drawing Around a Leaf I Found on My Morning Walk

#Art #Nature

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Scott Lives in Jersey Now

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · Sep 23

Check out my latest review of a novel that focuses on one man trying to make sense of one death during the Chinese cultural revolution in 1966 #TheMorgueKeeper #ChineseCulturalRevolution

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Review of the Day: The Morgue Keeper by Ruyan Meng

Aristotle identified four types of metaphor, with one being species to genus or synecdoche. The Greek can be literally translated as coming...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · Sep 22

My review of this provocative novel first published in 1989 #GeekLove #Books

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Review of the Day: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Geek Love is the story of the Biniewski family who, “experimenting with illicit and prescription drugs, insecticides, and eventually radiois...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · Sep 19

In which I share my opinion of Tom Perrotta’s forthcoming novel

#Books #NetGalley

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Review of the Day: Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta

I will just say up front that I was disappointed with this book. I enjoyed Perrotta’s Mrs Fletcher — although I am deeply disappointed that ...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · Sep 18

A compelling read coming out October 24. Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief

#AGuardianAndAThief #Books

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Review of the Day: A Guardian and a Thief

Review of the Day: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar Majumdar’s novel has been nominated for the National Book Award and the Kirk...

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Scott Baxter @scottbaxterinnj.bsky.social · Sep 17

After a bit of a lull, #NetGalley sent me three books to read in a 48 hour period. If you don’t hear from me for a little while It’s because I’m reading and collecting my thoughts about what I read. #Reading

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Time To Read

After a bit of a lull, NetGalley sent me three books to review in a 48 hour period. If you do not hear from me it is because I am reading an...

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