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First Sentence Fridays: Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks

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Actor Tom Hanks has made us believe he can be anyone and do anything on the big screen.

Now he's taking us on a journey on the page: Hanks has written a book, Uncommon Type.

It's a collection of short stories, with varied subjects: a World War II veteran on Christmas Eve in 1953, a California surfer kid who makes an unsettling discovery. There's time travel. In every story, Hanks sneaks in the machine he's so obsessed with — the typewriter.

"There's something about – I don't know, it's a hex in my brain – there is something I find reassuring, comforting, dazzling in that here is a very specific apparatus that is meant to do one thing, and it does it perfectly," he tells NPR’s David Greene. "And that one thing is to translate the thoughts in your head down to paper. Now that means everything from a shopping list to James Joyce's Ulysses. Short of carving words into stone with a hammer and chisel, not much is more permanent than a paragraph or a sentence or a love letter or a story typed on paper."

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Dec 17: A Book You Did Not Finish (DNF)

Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks

THIS IS NOT BECAUSE THE BOOK WAS BAD. There were so many releases at the time of UT, that it was impossible to read this!! I want to read this book so bad, because TOM HANKS. Also, typewriters! This is a collection of short stories, so if this kind of thing is for you, then read it. BECAUSE TOM HANKS.

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