Friday, April 18, 2008

2 CD, 2 DVD, 4 Fic., 6 NonFic, No Bill Crider

CDs

High School Musical Two. Okay, this isn't really new. It was on the processing shelf after getting a replacement case.

Now That's What I Call Music Volume 20 by various artists. Nuts. This is an older one that needed a new case too. We did get some new CDs in yesterday, they are awaiting processing.

DVD

Disney Rarities: celebrated shorts 1920s - 1960s. I bought this for the 1956 cartoon, In the Bag, where the Jellystone Park bears are assigned to pick up garbage.

Man with the Golden Arm and Suddenly starring Frank Sinatra. Two films on one disc. Suddenly is a presidential assassination movie that, according to the case, was delayed or pulled from distribution after the Kennedy assassination. I've heard the same thing about The Manchurian Candidate which also stars Sinatra.

Fiction

Price of Blood by Declan Hughes. Third in a mystery series set in Ireland and featuring the word "blood" in the title. I read the first novel Wrong Kind of Blood and it was okay, but did not enjoy it enough to try the second book, Color of Blood.

Hold Tight by Harlan Coben. Big name author dude.

Bathtub Admirals by Jeff Huber. Former Navy pilot Huber writes a scathingly satiric novel of life in the modern U.S. Navy.

Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews. Some food based novel judging by the cover and title.

NonFiction

Ten-Cent Plague: the great comic-book scare and how it changed America by David Hajdu. After WW2 and before television comic books were hugely popular with "garish, shameless, and often shocking content." The resulting backlash by parents, teachers, and all the usual complainers ruined all the fun.

The Physics of NASCAR: how to make steel + gas + rubber = speed by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky. Leslie-Pelecky teaches physics at UT-Dallas. But, strangely, she seems to retain a research group at Nebraska-Lincoln and is not listed on the faculty directory for UT's Physics Department.

Bill Mauldin: a life up front by Todd DePastino. A biography of the great Bill Maudlin. A Pulitzer Prize winner during WW2 at age 22 Mauldin continued as an editorial cartoonist and won a second Pulitzer several years later. A diminutive but determined dude.

In Nixon's Web: a year in the crosshairs of Watergate by L. Patrick Gray III, former Acting Director of the FBI. Nixon considered him a threat and threw him to the wolves (the press). Details his relationship with Mark Felt (Deep Throat).

Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, and the American combat sniper by Hans Halberstad. Why not? We own all the other sniper books in the world. See HOGs in the Shadows, Illustrated Manual of Sniper Skills, Stalkers and Shooters, Shooter.

Why Mars and Venus Collide: improving relationships by understanding how men and women cope differently with stress by John Gray, Ph.D. Because people want to read it.

No Bill Crider

This is a test of my theory that Crider has a blog or google alert and checks out all the links he is sent. Crider did post an online mention of Ten-Cent Plague and someone did check out two of his books today so I'm not totally off the mark.

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