Thursday, April 03, 2008

Large Print, One DVD, Chick Lit, a Joke

DVD

The Mist
starring Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher. A thick mist filled with monsters traps a bunch of people in a supermarket.

Large Print

Miss Julia Paints the Town by Ann B. Ross. Miss Julia tries to scare off developers by exposing and promoting all the weirdos in town.

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. Two best friends from childhood have a split. A schism. An estrangement. A rift.

Texas Princess by Jodi Thomas. A romance. Guy teaches Senator's daughter to horse ride and they take off into the mountains after an assassination attempt.

Fiction

Seraphim by Michael Hauf. A French female knight in 1433 looks to destroy fallen angel Lucifer de Mort.

Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakthrough by Isabel Sarpe. "Welcome to Kettle, Wisconsin where everyone knows nothing bad ever happens."

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian. College girl Laurel helps out in mentally ill facility and finds that recently deceased dude was once famed photographer. Believes she has a found a family secret in his photograph collection.

NonFiction

Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul edited by Jack Canfield. I've never read one of these books. But, in the spirit of this long running book series here is a new April Fool's joke by a five-year-old: "How do you tell if someone pooped in your socks? Rubber Ducky!

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