Fiction
Kingdom by Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood. I rolled my eyes.
Echoes of the Dead by Sally Spencer. Some kind of Limey mystery. A distant relation called from the UK last night to see if my mother was around. The relation and her pal were going to visit here again in a few months but the pal bonked her head bad enough to be hospitalized. So, they may not make the trip.
Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton. More vampire sex orgies with a serial killer hunt.
Camouflage by Bill Pronzini. This had a very positive review. Another Nameless Detective novel. Pronzini has a much improved author photo.
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Scientist gal is sent to the Amazon to find a missing researcher.
NonFiction
SEAL Team Six: memoirs of a Navy SEAL sniper by Howard E. Wasden and Stephen Templin. This book was already in the publishing pipeline when Osama got shot in the head. The timing could not have been better for the publisher. So, now, the words "SEAL Team Six" are plastered across the cover in extra large type. The book is supposed to be pretty good.
Robert Redford: the biography by Michael Feeney Callan. I read all the picture captions.
Wisconsin's Own: twenty remarkable homes by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman, photos by Zane Williams. Supposed to be very neat and, no, it is not just filled up with Frank Lloyd Wright designs.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Friday, June 03, 2011
It's a Beautiful Spring Day in Southern Wisconsin
I Am Inside
Staring at The Computer Screen for The Afternoon. I can leave early today since I work a few hours tomorrow morning. I was going to try and replace some missing shingles on the library roof but do not have a ladder tall enough to get there. Getting someone to come over and replace just a few shingles is not easy.
Fiction
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville. Short stories. Tales of people disconnected from others and themselves. The stories are interconnected. My advice? Skip the first story and read the rest. I liked Easy Love, Vaara, and The Peach but I am only half-way through my copy.
Staring at The Computer Screen for The Afternoon. I can leave early today since I work a few hours tomorrow morning. I was going to try and replace some missing shingles on the library roof but do not have a ladder tall enough to get there. Getting someone to come over and replace just a few shingles is not easy.
Fiction
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville. Short stories. Tales of people disconnected from others and themselves. The stories are interconnected. My advice? Skip the first story and read the rest. I liked Easy Love, Vaara, and The Peach but I am only half-way through my copy.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
3 Chick Novels, 1 Guy Novel, 6 NonFiction
Chick Novels
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal. Los Angeles film editor goes back to Nebraska to find her old love.
An Unlikely Countess by Jo Beverly. A well reviewed romance. Beverly is well liked.
Centuries of June by Keith Donohue. I sit corrected. Not really a chick novel. "A romp through history, a madcap murder mystery, an existential ghost story, and a stunning tour de force at once ingenious, sexy, inspiring, and ultimately moving." Moving? Yeah, I'm really moved by that description.
Guy Novel
Trader of Secrets by Steve Martini. Attorney Paul Madriani fights evil again.
NonFiction
Pioneer Woman: black wheels to tractor wheels by Ree Drummond. Girl marries Oklahoma cowboy and writes book WITHOUT ANY PICTURES! Where is the photo section?!
The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure. A biography of both the Laura Inger Wilder family and the author's reading of the novels. I think a review was in the Madison newspaper.
At the Dark End of the Street: black women, rape, and resistance - a new history of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power by Danielle L. McGuire. Not a new history so much as a history that focuses on events and people that usually get missed. The rape and abuse of women and the many women who organized and stood up against the sexual abuse and, accordingly, the racial nonsense that kept it going.
Hitman: the untold story of Johnny Martorano by Howie Carr. I bought Carr's book The Brothers Bulger about the Boston mobster and his powerful politician brother. Since Brothers has been successful here I figure those readers might like this.
In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror and an American family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. William E. Dodd was given the job of Ambassador to Germany in 1933. Dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy nazis. I refuse to capitalize the word nazi.
Psychopath Test: a journey through the madness industry by Jon Ronson. Author was on television. No self-diagnosis test included.
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal. Los Angeles film editor goes back to Nebraska to find her old love.
An Unlikely Countess by Jo Beverly. A well reviewed romance. Beverly is well liked.
Centuries of June by Keith Donohue. I sit corrected. Not really a chick novel. "A romp through history, a madcap murder mystery, an existential ghost story, and a stunning tour de force at once ingenious, sexy, inspiring, and ultimately moving." Moving? Yeah, I'm really moved by that description.
Guy Novel
Trader of Secrets by Steve Martini. Attorney Paul Madriani fights evil again.
NonFiction
Pioneer Woman: black wheels to tractor wheels by Ree Drummond. Girl marries Oklahoma cowboy and writes book WITHOUT ANY PICTURES! Where is the photo section?!
The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure. A biography of both the Laura Inger Wilder family and the author's reading of the novels. I think a review was in the Madison newspaper.
At the Dark End of the Street: black women, rape, and resistance - a new history of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power by Danielle L. McGuire. Not a new history so much as a history that focuses on events and people that usually get missed. The rape and abuse of women and the many women who organized and stood up against the sexual abuse and, accordingly, the racial nonsense that kept it going.
Hitman: the untold story of Johnny Martorano by Howie Carr. I bought Carr's book The Brothers Bulger about the Boston mobster and his powerful politician brother. Since Brothers has been successful here I figure those readers might like this.
In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror and an American family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. William E. Dodd was given the job of Ambassador to Germany in 1933. Dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy nazis. I refuse to capitalize the word nazi.
Psychopath Test: a journey through the madness industry by Jon Ronson. Author was on television. No self-diagnosis test included.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Lake Mills Farmers Market
Lake Mills Farmers Market
Wednesdays are Farmers Market days at Commons Park in downtown Lake Mills. There are always many dogs at the Farmers Market. None are for consumption.
I gave the camera to a five-year-old.
Wednesdays are Farmers Market days at Commons Park in downtown Lake Mills. There are always many dogs at the Farmers Market. None are for consumption.
I gave the camera to a five-year-old.
Lake Mills High School Graduation, 2011
2011 High School Graduation
I did not attend. One of the library's Pages shows up in the beginning at 1:28 into the video.
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I did not attend. One of the library's Pages shows up in the beginning at 1:28 into the video.
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