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Welcome to the WBZ book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Here's one from last

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year called Semi Famous. A true
story of near celebrity by comedian Josh Sunquist

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tagged in an Instagram story by somebody
and they labeled him a semi famous Internet

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comedian, m do you take that
as a compliment? While being the creative

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type that he is, he non
scientifically took a poll of his followers and

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discovered many of them would prefer fame
over happiness. This led to an exploration

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of what celebrity is all about,
and the book is very funny and illustrated,

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with hand drawn grafts and a history
of celebrity from the days of Alexander

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the Great to the influencers on social
media now. Sundquist has an interesting life.

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He's a paralympian, lost a leg
to cancer when he was a child,

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and he exposes the dangers of social
media. How a TikTok disability truther

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claimed that Josh was faking his missing
leg. There's lots of bad stuff about

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being a semi celebrity, but there's
some good stuff too, and we're happy

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to say Sunquist found his journey to
fame, albeit semi fame, a timely

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take called semi famous, a true
story of near celebrity, and that's the

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book Club. WBZ, Boston's new
radio