The Hits Keep Coming. CDs/ DVDs and AudioBooks

DVDs

Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig , Eva Green, Jeffrey Wright. I haven't seen this but boy it sure had universally good reviews. I have avoided reading those reviews or summaries since they might spoil the story for for me. So, look the description up yourself.

The Departed starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg. I haven't seen this one either. I have not read reviews or summaries for The Departed either.

Music CDs

Mali to Memphis: An African American Odyssey with Amadou and Mariam, John Lee Hooker, Guy Davis, Boubacar Traore, and others. Mali to Memphis traces the musical heritage of the blues from West Africa to the U.S. Try it out.

Taylor Hicks by Taylor Hicks. Debut album from some American Idol dude with prematurely gray hair. My brother has prematurely gray hair, too; I doubt he can sing worth a dang though.

Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing by Keith Urban. Latest release from the Australian country singer. I've never heard this guy's music but his wife is good looking.

AudioBooks

Sister Mine by Tawni O'Dell. This one sounds good (no pun intended). "Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab - but plenty of people need rides. A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed, she has spent years carving out a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town where she grew up." When Shae's younger sister, previously thought dead, arrives to town followed by a Russain gangster Shae has to deal with her sister's past activities and her own messy love life.

Innocent Man by John Grisham. A nonfiction piece by Grisham about a former baseball player convicted and sentenced for murder on a case "built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts...If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this audiobook will shock you."

Populatio: 485; with selections from Off Main Street by Michael Perry. Author Perry narrates his book about being a volunteer fireman in rural Wisconsin. This is a replacement for a damaged item. But, I took a long time to order the replacement so it may as well be new.

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. Jess Aaron becomes friends with schoolmate Leslie Burke. Jess and Leslie play in the woods and create the kingdom of Terabithia. This is a kid's book that ended up in my pile so I'm writing about it.

Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space by Chris Jones. Donald Pettit, Kenneth Bowersox, and Nikolai Budarin were on a fourteen week mission to the International Space Station in November, 2002 when the shuttle Columbia fell apart on re-entry. All three astronauts were stuck in space indefinitely without a ride home. Jones relates the frantic work of engineers in Houston and Moscow to return them back to Earth.