Flavorful Assortment

DVD

Planet Terror starring Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Josh Brolin. A purposefully B-Movie with B-level actors. Except for Michael Biehn, that guy is great.

Hoax starring Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden. Clifford Irving convinces a publisher that he was asked by Hoard Hughes to pen Hughes' autobiography. Irving devices an "elaborate scheme to prove his fake manuscript is real."

Transformers starring Shia LeBouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson. Tripe.

Fiction

Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker. A Saudi princess and a genius surfer dude hook-up as targets of a California manhunt.

Now and Then by Robert B. Parker. Spenser investigates an unfaithfull wife. Husband kills several people. Dead wife's lover blames Spenser. Dead wife's lover is terrorist financier. Terrorist financier goes after Spencer's girlfriend. Spenser has a hissy-fit with guns.

Pandora's Daughter by iris Johansen. Some schizophrenic gal doctor is psychic and people want to kill her. Or something like that.

NonFiction

U.S. Coin Digest 2008: the complete guide to current market values.

Guinness World Records 2008. "With glow in the dark features." With: Most Votes for a Chimpanzee in a Political Campaign, Longest Beet, Oldest Female to Row an Ocean, Largest Hotel Complex.

Leviathan: the history of whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin. I've recently read a few sea stories that involved whaling and the industry sounds fascinating. Whale oil was the main source of fuel for lighting and used for in production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, etc.

See You in a Hundred Years: forgotten America by Logan Ward. Heather and Logan take young son, move to Virginia and live with only 100 year old technology. Apparently they forgot that Brownie cameras were available 100 years ago because they didn't add any photos to the dang book.

Giving: how each of us can change the world by Bill Clinton.

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton. The successfull efforts by ordinary Americans to force democracy back to the forefront after the Framers got scared of too much freedom and focused on commerce.

I Am America (and So Can You) by Stephen Colbert. Awarded the Stephen T. Colbert Award for the Literary Excellence.

Private Soldiers: a year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard unit by Benjamin Buchholz. A photo history.