Thursday, November 29, 2007

Christopher Walken

DVD

Hairspray starring Christopher Walken. Genius filmmaker John Waters had his film Hairspray turned into a stage musical in 2002. This is the film version of the stage version of the film version. This version is almost Ricki Lake free but full of Walken.

Fiction

Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels. No idea what this is about. Someone checked out the book before I read the cover.

Bidding for Love by Katie Fforde. Fashionable Londonder inherits antiques store in the hinterlands.

NonFiction

Breast Cancer Clear and Simple:all your question answered by the American Cancer Society. Choose a doctor, treatment choices and effects, support groups.

Spanish

Complementos Abalorios: como crear magnificos y originales disenos con cuentas by Alexandra Kidd

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

DVDs, Koontz, Large Print, Etc.

DVD

Little Britain: complete first season. BBC comedy series "meet Vicky Pollard, the gloriously incoherent trailer trash teenager. And Emily Howard, the world's least convincing transvestite. Then there's Andy, sitting all day in his wheelchair painstakingly looked after by Lou, who has no idea his friend can walk."

The Gymnast starring Dreya Weber and Addie Yungmee. Jane injures herself and quits gymnastics. A chance meeting gives her a job in a "cirque style aerial act" partnered with Serena. The two gals start dating or something.

Live Free or Die Hard starring Baldylocks, Timothy Oliphant, That Guy From the Apple Ads.

Fiction

Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz. Lady who rescues dogs gets a new one and a bad guy starts showing up.

Large Print

Third Degree by Greg Iles. The book jacket description makes no sense. Something about a lady's husband going nutso, her being pregnant by another guy, and armed men surrounding the house.

Creation in Death by J.D. Robb. The victim in policewoman Eve Dallas' latest homicide investigation was employed by her billionaire husband. It seems the victim was killed by a copycat killer who is also out to get Eve.

Chase by Clive Cussler. Detective Isaac Bell chases the murderous train robber, called the "Butcher Bandit", across the West in 1906.

NonFiction

Rural Ramblings: 30 years of rambling by Gloria Hafemeister. Columnist from Watertown Daily Times who writes about her life on a family farm.

North Country Notebook: Volume 2 by George Vukelich.