Thursday, August 30, 2007

The Dang Pages Process in Bursts. Here Are Some More.

Audio

Strip Search by William Bernhardt. Kooky behaviorist with Las Vegas Police Department investigates ingenious serial killer who leaves mathematical clues to a "numerological mystery that stretches back hundreds o year." Hmm. That sounds familiar, I wonder why? Maybe because it is the same stupid plot for most every serial killer novel, tv show, movie for the past few years. Good to see you working so hard there, Billy.

Fiction

Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs. Oh brother, read this, "Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases." Is Reichs sleeping with someone at the publisher? Lab lady Brennan researches old skeleton that may connect to several cold cases.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. We have an extra copy so we stuck it in adult fiction.

Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston. Here we go, this is much better. Huston's other crime novels have been pretty good. He writes in a violent pulp style and his dialogue is written the way conversations low back and forth with characters speaking over one another. In 1983 Northern California three juvenile delinquents have a bicycle stolen by the neighborhood toughs, the Arroyos. Sneaking into the Arroyo house to get the bicycle back the find a meth lab and steal some product to sell. Things go downhill.

Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard.

Large Print

Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver. Former cult leader and murderer Daniel Pell escapes from prison and California Bureau of Investigation agent Kathryn Dance hunts him down.

Tumbling Blocks by Earlene Fowler. Benni Harper owns the Sinclair Folk Art Museum and a benefactor demands she solve the murder of the benefactor's close friend Pinky.

Dockside by Susan Wiggs. A middle-aged romance. Middle-aged characters, not Middle Ages setting.

SciFi-Fantasy

Genesis of Shannara: The Elves of Cintra by Terry Brooks. I used to read this series in junior high.

Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. I used to read this series in junior high too.

NonFic

Audacity of Hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama.

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