Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Yes, and he might run for the US Senate in Ohio next year, too: Venture capitalist J.D. Vance’s proto–Senate campaign takes on venture capitalists.

The book you’ve read recently and enjoyed the most, and a six-word description of it

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Genius’s plan to find perfect wife
  2. The Speed of Trust by Stephen MR Covey — trust governs every relationship for you
  3. The World of Jimmy Breslin - collection of typical articles; snarky glory
  4. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Pulitzer winner, vanished Old Master painting
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Memoir featuring social problems in Appalachia
  6. Pyramid by David Macaulay - How ancient Egyptians pulled it off

Description for #2 reduced to six words.

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I read the book when it was first published. Fascinating.

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It came out in 1975. I’d say you just might want to revisit it!

The book you’ve read recently and enjoyed the most, and a six-word description of it

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Genius’s plan to find perfect wife
  2. The Speed of Trust by Stephen MR Covey — trust governs every relationship for you
  3. The World of Jimmy Breslin - collection of typical articles; snarky glory
  4. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Pulitzer winner, vanished Old Master painting
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Memoir featuring social problems in Appalachia
  6. Pyramid by David Macaulay - How ancient Egyptians pulled it off
  7. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother by Barry Sonnenfeld - Hollywood director’s quirky, funny, uncomfortable memoir
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The book you’ve read recently and enjoyed the most, and a six-word description of it

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Genius’s plan to find perfect wife
  2. The Speed of Trust by Stephen MR Covey — trust governs every relationship for you
  3. The World of Jimmy Breslin - collection of typical articles; snarky glory
  4. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Pulitzer winner, vanished Old Master painting
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Memoir featuring social problems in Appalachia
  6. Pyramid by David Macaulay - How ancient Egyptians pulled it off
  7. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother by Barry Sonnenfeld - Hollywood director’s quirky, funny, uncomfortable memoir
  8. What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why - Huge encyclopedia of birds and characteristics

I’m still working on this one.

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The book you’ve read recently and enjoyed the most, and a six-word description of it

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Genius’s plan to find perfect wife
  2. The Speed of Trust by Stephen MR Covey — trust governs every relationship for you
  3. The World of Jimmy Breslin - collection of typical articles; snarky glory
  4. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Pulitzer winner, vanished Old Master painting
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Memoir featuring social problems in Appalachia
  6. Pyramid by David Macaulay - How ancient Egyptians pulled it off
  7. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother by Barry Sonnenfeld - Hollywood director’s quirky, funny, uncomfortable memoir
  8. What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why - Huge encyclopedia of birds and characteristics
  9. The Brinkley Beat by David Brinkley - Reporter wryly remembers people, places events.

Added a second because the list is stalled.

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The book you’ve read recently and enjoyed the most, and a six-word description of it

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Genius’s plan to find perfect wife
  2. The Speed of Trust by Stephen MR Covey — trust governs every relationship for you
  3. The World of Jimmy Breslin - collection of typical articles; snarky glory
  4. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Pulitzer winner, vanished Old Master painting
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Memoir featuring social problems in Appalachia
  6. Pyramid by David Macaulay - How ancient Egyptians pulled it off
  7. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother by Barry Sonnenfeld - Hollywood director’s quirky, funny, uncomfortable memoir
  8. What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why - Huge encyclopedia of birds and characteristics
  9. The Brinkley Beat by David Brinkley - Reporter wryly remembers people, places events.
  10. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - Rob Hall, Scott Fischer are f*cked
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The book you’ve read recently and enjoyed the most, and a six-word description of it

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Genius’s plan to find perfect wife
  2. The Speed of Trust by Stephen MR Covey — trust governs every relationship for you
  3. The World of Jimmy Breslin - collection of typical articles; snarky glory
  4. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Pulitzer winner, vanished Old Master painting
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Memoir featuring social problems in Appalachia
  6. Pyramid by David Macaulay - How ancient Egyptians pulled it off
  7. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother by Barry Sonnenfeld - Hollywood director’s quirky, funny, uncomfortable memoir
  8. What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why - Huge encyclopedia of birds and characteristics
  9. The Brinkley Beat by David Brinkley - Reporter wryly remembers people, places events.
  10. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - Rob Hall, Scott Fischer are f*cked
  11. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - Foes fall in love across eons
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The book you’ve read recently and enjoyed the most, and a six-word description of it

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Genius’s plan to find perfect wife
  2. The Speed of Trust by Stephen MR Covey — trust governs every relationship for you
  3. The World of Jimmy Breslin - collection of typical articles; snarky glory
  4. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Pulitzer winner, vanished Old Master painting
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Memoir featuring social problems in Appalachia
  6. Pyramid by David Macaulay - How ancient Egyptians pulled it off
  7. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother by Barry Sonnenfeld - Hollywood director’s quirky, funny, uncomfortable memoir
  8. What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why - Huge encyclopedia of birds and characteristics
  9. The Brinkley Beat by David Brinkley - Reporter wryly remembers people, places events.
  10. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - Rob Hall, Scott Fischer are f*cked
  11. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - Foes fall in love across eons
  12. Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett - bittersweet, final contact with the Discworld

-“BB”-

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The book you’ve read recently and enjoyed the most, and a six-word description of it

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Genius’s plan to find perfect wife
  2. The Speed of Trust by Stephen MR Covey — trust governs every relationship for you
  3. The World of Jimmy Breslin - collection of typical articles; snarky glory
  4. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Pulitzer winner, vanished Old Master painting
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance - Memoir featuring social problems in Appalachia
  6. Pyramid by David Macaulay - How ancient Egyptians pulled it off
  7. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother by Barry Sonnenfeld - Hollywood director’s quirky, funny, uncomfortable memoir
  8. What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why - Huge encyclopedia of birds and characteristics
  9. The Brinkley Beat by David Brinkley - Reporter wryly remembers people, places events.
  10. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - Rob Hall, Scott Fischer are f*cked
  11. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - Foes fall in love across eons
  12. Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett - bittersweet, final contact with the Discworld
  13. Hiroshima by John Hersey - survivors’ stories, masterpiece of “New Journalism”

Pass, the previous category was mine

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Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
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Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
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Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman
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Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman
  4. Little Girl Lost - Drew Barrymore
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Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman
  4. Little Girl Lost - Drew Barrymore
  5. Eragon by Christopher Paolini

He started writing it when he was 15.

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Yeah, but is Eragon a memoir?

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Not unless he really did live in a world with dragons.

Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman
  4. Little Girl Lost - Drew Barrymore
  5. The Journal of Hélène Berr - a Holocaust victim, Hélène Berr (1921-1945) has been called “the French Anne Frank”
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Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman
  4. Little Girl Lost - Drew Barrymore
  5. The Journal of Hélène Berr - a Holocaust victim, Hélène Berr (1921-1945) has been called “the French Anne Frank”
  6. Voice of an Angel - My Life (So Far) - Charlotte Church

who was 19 when the book came out.

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Oops, sorry, I missed the “Memoir” bit. It was only the first word of the category description, after all. Ahem.

Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman
  4. Little Girl Lost - Drew Barrymore
  5. The Journal of Hélène Berr - a Holocaust victim, Hélène Berr (1921-1945), has been called “the French Anne Frank”
  6. Voice of an Angel - My Life (So Far) - Charlotte Church
  7. Tara Lipinski: Triumph on Ice by Tara Lipinski
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Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman
  4. Little Girl Lost - Drew Barrymore
  5. The Journal of Hélène Berr - a Holocaust victim, Hélène Berr (1921-1945), has been called “the French Anne Frank”
  6. Voice of an Angel - My Life (So Far) - Charlotte Church
  7. Tara Lipinski: Triumph on Ice by Tara Lipinski
  8. Junior – Macauley Culkin …(autobiography published in 2006, when he was 26 years old)

-“BB”-

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Memoirs written by people 30 years old or younger

  1. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzi
  2. The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman
  4. Little Girl Lost - Drew Barrymore
  5. The Journal of Hélène Berr - a Holocaust victim, Hélène Berr (1921-1945), has been called “the French Anne Frank”
  6. Voice of an Angel - My Life (So Far) - Charlotte Church
  7. Tara Lipinski: Triumph on Ice by Tara Lipinski
  8. Junior – Macauley Culkin …(autobiography published in 2006, when he was 26 years old)
  9. How to Get Run Over by a Truck by Katie McKenna

Published in 2016, when she was 29 and recovering from being run over by a truck