Friday, October 11, 2013

James Bond Plus the Usual Nonsense

NonFiction

Gutbliss: a 10-day plan to ban bloat, flush toxins, and dump your digestive baggage by Robynne Chutkan, M.D.  What an awful title.  What subtitle, "dump your digestive baggage."

Best American Comics: 2013 edited by Jeff Smith.  Smith writes and draws the Bone series which is extremely popular with elementary school kids.

Fiction

Mr. Lynch's Holiday by Catherine O'Flynn.  Irish widower visits his son in Spain.

Solo by William Boyd.  In 1969 James Bond is tasked with settling a civil war in a West African country.

Styxx by Sherilyn Kenyon.  836 page fantasy novel.

The Double by George Pelecanos.  Spero Lucas, a lawyer's investigator in D.C., is asked by a woman to recover a painting.  Lucas has to confront a deadly hoodlum to get the painting.

Rasputin's Shadow by Raymond Khoury.  Thriller.

Usual Stuff

Storm Front by John Sandford.

Doing Hard Time by Stuart Woods.

Starry Night by Debbie Macomber.

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