Non-Fiction: KS Prep Football, Stern's Wife, Surgery in Iraq

Fiction

61 Hours by Lee Child. Jack Reacher probably rescues some chick.

NonFiction

Our Boys: a perfect season on the plains with the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape. The flyleaf says, "Hours removed from the nearest city." I call bullshit. Smith Center is only 80 miles from Kearney, NE (pop. 27431). 99 miles from Grand Island, NE (pop. 42940). Hays, KS (pop. 20,000) is just 90 miles away. Salina (pop. 46,000) is only 99 miles away.

Incidentally, if you're ever riding your Honda Nighthawk from Lindsborg, KS to Cheyenne, WY and the master link on your chain falls off in Western Kansas, you can get towed over to Colby. While there you can:
1. borrow some tools from the mechanic,
2. walk next door to the tractor supply,
3. find a master link to a chainsaw,
4. spend 30 minutes in the sun wrestling the new master link onto the motorcycle chain,
5. drive to the nearest Honda dealer for the correct master link,
6. watch the bike mechanic take all of five minutes to put the new link on,
7. drive into Colorado,
8. stop for gas in Eastern Colorado,
9. have the bike not start,
10. realize the battery is dead,
11. have a little freak-out,
12. realize the battery water is low,
13. borrow a straw from the diner,
14. use the straw to slowly transfer water from a drinking bottle into the battery's cells,
15. wait for the battery to recover,
16. chat with a truck driver who will substantially calm your nerves,
17. get bike started,
18. ride into rain in Denver,
19. finally pull into Cheyenne and be happy you reserved a hotel room because of all the Sturgis people rolling in looking for a room.

Cheap: the high cost of discount culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Madison PL had a review of this.

Remembering Survival: inside a Nazi slave-labor camp by Christopher R. Browning. Testimony from 300 survivors during a 1972 trial, yet the filthy, dirty, rotten, stinking Nazi piece-of-crap was acquitted. The story of the camp and the testimony of those survivors. Stinking Nazis.

Oh My Dog: how to choose, train, groom, nurture, feed, and care for your new best friend by Beth Ostrosky Stern. Yeah, this is a celebrity wife book. But, Stern is supposed have done a good job gathering info.

The Replacements: all over but the shouting: an oral history by Jim Walsh. The best of CD checks out well. Lots and lots and lots of drinking and purposefully pissing people off.

The Big Necessity: the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters by Rose George. Sewers.

Healing Hearts: a memoir of a female heart surgeon by Kathy E. Magliato, MD. Heart surgery and transplants memoir.

Coppola: a pediatric surgeon in Iraq by Dr. Chris Coppola. This has to be a heartbreaking story what with all the war injuries to children.

The Skinnygirl Dish: easy recipes for your naturally thin life by Bethenny Frankel. Books from this series check out pretty well because broads don't like to be broad.

Romance

Five paperbacks I am too lazy to list.