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This. Is. Intense. Catch and Kill is Ronan Farrow’s account of his reporting of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual crimes. The story started out as an exploration of Hollywood’s “casting couch”, but it wasn’t long before Farrow realized that the story went much further than Rose McGowan, one of the first women to come forward. Except that the deeper he went and the closer he got
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I thought this was a solid book about the opiate crisis, especially in the Appalachia area. In that way, it hit close to home — I live in the area and recognized many of the places she spoke about, and some of the events (like the TV weathermen who were outed as addicts). It’s all a sad situation, and I can’t say that this book
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Book #46 was Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel – Why Everything You Know Is Wrong, by John Stossel. This was pretty good. I, of course, read everything with my handy grain of salt, but the book confirmed some things I already thought. It also opened my eyes to a few things. And made my eyes roll at a few others. The
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