Thursday, June 26, 2014

First-Degree Minecraft Arsonist

Fiction

Nine Lives to Die by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown.  Another cat mystery.  The author phot is a picture of a cat.  Not this photo.


Invisible by James Patterson Literary Industries and David Ellis.  I'm pretty sure I read an Ellis novel before.  Let me check...nope.  The dude won an Edgar Award though, that's a big deal.  Patterson has a new author photo, I cannot see his watch in this one.

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter. I've never read a slaughter book.  I think this is her 17th novel.  Unless she did some ghost writing.  Oh, I remember her author photo.  He photographer did that thing where the face is in focus and everything else is in soft focus.  That's a neat effect.

The Arsonist by Sue Miller. A guy I know on the local volunteer fire department never joined the fire department until after he stopped working for the Sheriff's Department.  He used to investigate arson crimes and since arsonists may, and sometimes are, be firefighters he wanted to avoid that entanglement.

First-Degree Murder by Christine DeSmet.  Doesn't DeSmet teach at UW-Madison.  Let me check...yep, she does screenwriting and fiction and her author photo is a small black and white one.

NonFiction

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Jeez, she stepped in it when saying her family was broke after Pres. Clinton left office.

Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins: create flying Creepers and Flaming Cows in JAVA by Andy Hunt.  Page 97 says, "List listOfStrings = new ArrayList();"

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Pseudonym Slings Silkworm

Fiction

Silkworm by Robert Galbraith.  English private eye Cormoran Strike hired to look for missing novelist. Novelist is killed and Strike has to stop the killer.

Monday, June 23, 2014

Dyeing in the Hole

DVD

True Detective starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.


Ace In the Hole starring Kirk Douglas.  "One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker...a no-holds-barred expose of the American media's appetite for sensation that has gotten only  more relevant with time."


Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume 1: your dye kitchen and equipment; dyeing basics.

Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume 2: how to dye with acid dyes; spots and textures, pots and casseroles.

Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume3: dyeing without dye; marrying and marbleizing colors.

Audiobooks on CD

White Fire by Preston and Child. 11CDs at 13 hours.

Robert B. Parker's Bull River by Robert Knott.  6CDs at 7.5 hours.

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett.  10 CDs at 12.5 hours.

Killer by Jonathan Kellerman.  9 CDs at 11 hours.

The Chase by Lee  Goldberg and Janet Evanovich.  8 CDs at 9 hours.

Blossom Street Brides by Debbie Macomber.  9 CDs at 11 hours.