Chances Are

Book menu for Chances Are by Richard Russo

ISBN of edition I read: 9781101947746  (hardcover)


Food mentioned in Chances Are:
 Whiskey, 10, 13
Coffee, 10, 32, 108-109, 124, 149, 243
Chile rellenos, 13
Spaghetti with sausage,meatballs, and pork shoulder in
     tomato sauce, 19
Stroganoff, 27
Potato chips, 29
     with onion dip, 145
Wine, 30, 39 44-45
     Chardonnay, 47
Beer, 30, 39, 51, 55, 139-140, 198, 200
Scotch, 30, 221
Bloody Marys, 62, 80, 174, 221, 227-228, 253
Pumpkin spice lattes, 64
Fried clams, 74
Iced tea, 84
Clam rolls, 90, 92 94, 173
Pancakes, 96, 175
Ice cream cones, 96, 139
Boston cream pie, 109
Burgers, 140, 145
Brat sausages, 140
Cheesecake, 140, 230-233
Scrambled eggs and home fries, 149
Cole slaw, 173-174
Baked beans, 173-174
Corn bread, 173
Deviled eggs, 173
Crudo, 175
Coke, 230
Italian pastries, 231
Chicken fried steak, 236
Baked haddock, 236
Eggs Florentine, 253
Chowder, 301


Books/Authors mentioned in Chances Are: 
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving,14
The Three Musketeers / Alexander Dumas, 24-25, 149, 180
Thomas Merton, 45, 47
     The Seven Storey Mountain, 17
Alexander McCall-Smith, 120


Music mentioned in Chances Are:
"Miss Atomic Bomb" / The Killers, epigraph
The Doors, 4
Buffalo Springfield, 4
"O, Canada", 5
Cat Stevens, 29-30
     "Peace Train", 30
The Decemberists, 64
Belle and Sebastian, 64, 175
Mumford and Sons, 64, 176
Tom Waits, 64
Leonard Cohen, 64
Josh Ritter, 64
Bruce Springstein, 64
Montovani, 64
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, 65
Nat King Cole, 65
"Chances Are" / Johnny Mathis, 65, 145-146, 228

Grace Slick, 72, 187-188, 194
     "Somebody to Love", 194, 236
Creedence Clearwater Revival, 116, 144
Crosby, Stills, and Nash, 141
Nutbush City Limits / Ike and Tina Turner, 179
Janis Joplin, 272
The Who, 272
Jim Morrison, 272
Richie Havens, 272
Bob Seger, 278
Tina Turner, 278

One of my favorite passages from Chances Are:
"But that's the thing about lies, right? Individually they don't amount to much, but you never know how many others you'll need to tell in order to protect that first one, and damned if they don't add up. Over time they get all tangled up until one day you realize it isn't event the lies themselves that matter. It's that somehow lying has become you default mode.And the person you lie to most is yourself" [p.245]

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