Friday, October 16, 2015

Three Novels, Computer Stuff, Civil War

Fiction

Foreign Affairs by Stuart Woods. Your quarterly installation.

City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg. This has some really heavy paper. It is 903 pages long. There are some illustrations.

See Me by Nicholas Sparks. Man meets woman and romance begins.

NonFiction

CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Guide: exam N10-006, sixth edition by Mike Meyers. I have no idea what this is but figure it will be used. Page 436 says, "To get on the IPv6 network, you need to leap over this gap, to implement an IPv4-to-IPv6 tunnel."

Civil War Album: complete photographic history - Fort Sumter to Appomattox edited by William C. Davis and Bell L. Wiley. This is very neat. A tall and thick book filled with almost 4,000 images. Page 447 says, "Beyond the Wheat Field, at the southernmost edge of the Rose Farm, raged a heavy fight that left scores of dead Confederates behind."

Books on CD

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter.

Alert by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge.

The Murder House by James Patterson and David Ellis.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

The One Where I Purchase A Bunch Of TV Shows

DVD

The Red Road: complete first season starring [actors].  Modern day trouble between a town's Anglos and the mountain's Native American tribe.


Full House: season 5 starring [I don't care]. Man, I really dislike this show, but someone told me this is still popular. So I bought a couple seasons. I'll buy more seasons later.

Full House: season 8 starring [I still don't care].

The Big Bang Theory: complete eight season starring [other people]. I've watch some of one episode.

Modern Family: complete sixth season starring That Guy From Married With Children. Comedy.

Empire: season one starring [more people]. I have wanted to watch this show and never did.

The Jinx: the life and deaths of Robert Durst starring [a killer]. Super wealthy man gets away with murder.

The Flash: complete first season starring [Mr. Speedy].

Top of the Lake starring [Kiwis]. Pregnant woman goes missing in a lake on the South Island and woman detective looks for her. Jane Campion did this production. Hey, Dunedin, is this any good?

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Amish Country Coven

DVD

Queen and Country starring [British]. Sequel to John Boorman's Hope and Glory. I really enjoyed Hope and Glory, that is a neat flick.



Far From the Madding Crowd starring Carey Mulligan and others. Woman pretends to be a character from a novel in the movie of the novel.

Amish Grace starring [actors]. Amish drama about a tragedy.

Strangerland starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes. A couple's teen children go missing in a desert dust storm.



Pitch Perfect 2 starring Various Green Bay Packers. The Green Bay Packers sing a song.



Child 44 starring Noomi Rapace, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman. I read the novel and enjoyed the story. Soviet cop exiled to Siberia and looks for a serial killer.


The Salvation starring Eva Green, Mars Mikkelsen, "Bad Men Will Bleed."


The Goonies starring [children]. You know the story.

Avengers: Age of Ultron starring [famous actors]. What's the story? A robot picks up a East European country or something?

American Horror Story: Coven: the complete third season starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Basett. I've wanted to see this program but never got around to it.

Large Print


Monday, October 12, 2015

Witch Cat Bible

NonFiction

97 Ways to Make A Cat Like You by Carol Kaufman. Good luck. Suggestion #32: flush the toilet in front of your pet.



The Witch of Lime Street: seance, seduction, and Houdini in the spirit world by David Jaher. Psychic Medium in 1924 tries to convince five judges and runs afoul of trick-master Houdini. Jaher has a tiny black-and-white photo. He needs one of those big back cover photos like Fern Michaels posing with her dogs.

The Make-Ahead Cookbook by Lydia Kessler.  Page 153 says, "And if you have high blood pressure, try substituting tarragon for salt!"

The Beer Bible by Jeff Alworth.  Let's check the index ... Nothing for Wisconsin or Tyranena. It does have a listing for New Glarus and Lakefront. There is a ton of neat stuff in here with food pairings, history of brewing styles, glass types, etc.


Gischler Returns. Again. In Case You Missed All the Other Ones I Bought.

Victor Gischler

Gestapo Mars: a Carter Sloan novel by Victor Gischler. Gischler takes a break from telling Twitter about grilling and writes a novel.  Trained assassin is awakened from cryogenic sleep and assigned to kill Nazis on Mars. If you like this you can try all the other novels and Gischler authored comics we have.

Other Fiction

Reckoning Stones by Laura DeSilverio. "A Novel of Suspense." But, how does it compare to Nazis on Mars?

Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber. Not the author of The Deputy.

Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein. Not the authors of To the Devil, My Regards.

Ghost to the Rescue by Carolyn Hart. Not the author of Gun Monkeys.

Undead and Unforgiven by MaryJanice Davidson. Not the author of Pistol Poets.

The Survivor by Vince Flynn. Not the author of Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse.

The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks. Not the author of Ink Mage.

A.D. 33 by Ted Dekker. Not the author of Stay.