No, we are not reviewing the great Will Ferrell movie Old School. We are reviewing the novel Old School by Tobias Wolff which is our first pod of the new year with our new format. Listen along!

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Our Year End Review. We highlight the books we read throughout the year. Listen along!

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Cover Story is a simple story on its surface. A wealthy woman trying to scam credit card companies in order to live like an heiress. However, when she finds herself a target, her greed kicks in. The opportunity to monetize on the nivate of a college student is just too good to pass up. The only problem is, the FBI is watching her, and she knows it. So, she has to act fast, decisive and outsmart them all. With a surprise ending that you just won't see coming, Susan Rigetti delivers a high shock valued book full of twists and turns that the reader doesn't see coming. Listen along as we discuss the pieces of this book that we enjoyed and what we still are having trouble wrapping our minds about.

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If you have ever read a Dan Brown novel, you know more or less what to expect: An adventure to a place you never thought about having an adventure in. However, in Inferno, Dan Brown forces the reader to debate morality and mortality. As our protagonist is going about the adventure that Dan Brown sent him on, we also see him grapple with the questions of death and sacrifice. If you had the opportunity to save half the population today and kill the other half or not decide and have them all die in 100 years, what would you choose? The arguments, woven into an elaborate story line keep the reader on their toes. Join us as we discuss the philosophical questions that stemmed from this novel and how we felt about the adventure taken by Dr. Langdon.

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Jimmy, Sean and Dave are 3 ordinary kids from Boston. One day, Dave gets tricked into getting in a stranger's car. 4 days later, he returns home, having escaped his captives. 30 years later, Dave's demons from those 4 days are still haunting him. Those demons put him in the wrong place at the wrong time that conincedes with the murder of his old friend Jimmy. To add to the web, Sean, who has not spoken to Jimmy or Dave in years, is the leading detective on the case of Jimmy's daughter's death.

A novel that is somehow rich in both complexity and simplicity, Dennis Lehanes finds a way to keep the readers engaged in every single page. The interconnectedness of the gang 30 years later, the relationships they have formed and destroyed, and the small domino effect that caused a second in their youth to change everything about their adulthood make for such a great story. Join us as we discuss this novel and if we would give this author's other books a chance.

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