Large Print
Shots Fired by C.J. Box. Ten short stories.
Goodnight June by Sara Jio. Fictional tale of how Goodnight, Moon was written.
Sight Unseen by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. Serial killer.
DVD
Sons of Anarchy: Season 6 starring Turanga Leela, and Koulikov. Criminals argue with one another. [I've never seen the show.]
Walking Dead: the complete fourth season starring Guy With A Hat, Guy With An Eye Patch, Guy With A Crossbow. I saw the first season and part of the second season. I enjoyed the show but I got off track.
X-Men: days of future past starring [many famous people]. How many X-Men movies are there now? Must be close to ten, right? I stopped watching after the second or third. I did see the one where Wolverine goes to Japan. It was "Eh" quality.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Friday, October 17, 2014
Four Larges, Three Mediums
Large
Paris Match by Stuart Woods. Another Woods books. You will find a new one every quarter.
Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen. Nice cover.
Lost Key by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison.
Killing Patton: the strange death of Word War II's most audacious General by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
Medium
Undead and Unwary by Mary Janice Davidson. Something about a female devil having trouble with her Antichrist sister as they manage Hell.
Mr. Miracle by Debbie Macomber. Some guardian angel novel.
Lila by Marilynne Robinson. Robinson won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Gilead, this has the same setting.
Musical Interlude
I was here by myself when opening the library. I grabbed library CD R-575.
Paris Match by Stuart Woods. Another Woods books. You will find a new one every quarter.
Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen. Nice cover.
Lost Key by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison.
Killing Patton: the strange death of Word War II's most audacious General by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
Medium
Undead and Unwary by Mary Janice Davidson. Something about a female devil having trouble with her Antichrist sister as they manage Hell.
Mr. Miracle by Debbie Macomber. Some guardian angel novel.
Lila by Marilynne Robinson. Robinson won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Gilead, this has the same setting.
Musical Interlude
I was here by myself when opening the library. I grabbed library CD R-575.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Large Print and Another Song
Large Print
The Hexed by Heather Graham.
2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino.
Mistress Memoirs by Jillian Hunter.
The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff.
Haunted by Kay Hooper.
Here and Again by Nicole R. Dickson.
Art of Arranging Flowers by Lynne Branard.
Musical Interlude
When I am the only staff member during opening I play loud music. This tune is off library CD R-735.
The Hexed by Heather Graham.
2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino.
Mistress Memoirs by Jillian Hunter.
The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff.
Haunted by Kay Hooper.
Here and Again by Nicole R. Dickson.
Art of Arranging Flowers by Lynne Branard.
Musical Interlude
When I am the only staff member during opening I play loud music. This tune is off library CD R-735.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Jamaican Assassination
Fiction
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Fictionalized version of a 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley. The novel "delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond."
That's It
No More. Here is a tune.
Musical Interlude
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Fictionalized version of a 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley. The novel "delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond."
That's It
No More. Here is a tune.
Musical Interlude
Monday, October 06, 2014
Six Books
Book One
Rooms by Lauren Oliver. Hoarding hermit dies and family comes to his house for inheritance, the building's ghosts observe.
Book Two
The Day the Streets Stood Still by JaQuavis Coleman. I have not bought much "street lit" before because I figured "Will this book sit and gather dust in small town Wisconsin? Will local readers relate and read something about a black guy drug dealer in the city?". Yeah, because people in small town Wisconsin have so much in common with a 6'5" ex-Army officer who roams the U.S. solving mysteries and rescuing women in trouble, beats people up and kills others, and has sex with police women in every novel. If people read the Jack Reacher series why wouldn't they read this one?
Book Three
Lost Key by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. I'm not sure if this is a new author photo for Coulter. The photo feels very familiar but I am wondering if it is a different shot from the same photography session. Coulter's photo fills the back cover, Ellison's photo is a tiny one on the inside of the dust jacket.
Book Four
Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen. People here sure do like Johansen's books. I have not read one. Right now I am skipping library books and working my way through all the books I own but have never read. I have 10-15 87th Precinct novels at home. What I should do is collect all those novels and read them in order. I won't.
Book Five
Burn by James Patterson Amalgamated Writing Industries and Michael Ledwidge. How do you pronounce Ledwidge? Patterson used to have author photos where you could see his watch and tell what time the photo was taken. This book's author photo has his arms crossed and his left wrist is covered.
Book Six
Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs. I tried the first novel and it was not for me. I think Reichs was on a BBC radio channel last week. I remember hearing a blurb about her and I think it was a BBC channel. Yep, she was on World Book Club. That's neat. Recihs author photo has her wearing a sweater. I wonder if that sweater is cotton, maybe it is silk. I suppose it could be rayon.
Rooms by Lauren Oliver. Hoarding hermit dies and family comes to his house for inheritance, the building's ghosts observe.
Book Two
The Day the Streets Stood Still by JaQuavis Coleman. I have not bought much "street lit" before because I figured "Will this book sit and gather dust in small town Wisconsin? Will local readers relate and read something about a black guy drug dealer in the city?". Yeah, because people in small town Wisconsin have so much in common with a 6'5" ex-Army officer who roams the U.S. solving mysteries and rescuing women in trouble, beats people up and kills others, and has sex with police women in every novel. If people read the Jack Reacher series why wouldn't they read this one?
Book Three
Lost Key by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. I'm not sure if this is a new author photo for Coulter. The photo feels very familiar but I am wondering if it is a different shot from the same photography session. Coulter's photo fills the back cover, Ellison's photo is a tiny one on the inside of the dust jacket.
Book Four
Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen. People here sure do like Johansen's books. I have not read one. Right now I am skipping library books and working my way through all the books I own but have never read. I have 10-15 87th Precinct novels at home. What I should do is collect all those novels and read them in order. I won't.
Book Five
Burn by James Patterson Amalgamated Writing Industries and Michael Ledwidge. How do you pronounce Ledwidge? Patterson used to have author photos where you could see his watch and tell what time the photo was taken. This book's author photo has his arms crossed and his left wrist is covered.
Book Six
Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs. I tried the first novel and it was not for me. I think Reichs was on a BBC radio channel last week. I remember hearing a blurb about her and I think it was a BBC channel. Yep, she was on World Book Club. That's neat. Recihs author photo has her wearing a sweater. I wonder if that sweater is cotton, maybe it is silk. I suppose it could be rayon.
Friday, October 03, 2014
Pistols, Canadians, Lansdales, and Weirdness
DVD
Phantom of the Paradise starring Paul Williams, ['70s people]. Max Allan Collins likes this flick and wrote about it on his webpage. I figured, "What the heck" and ordered this new release. Directed by Brian DePalma.
Down to the Dirt starring [Canadians]. Adaptation of Joel Hynes's novel of a drunken layabout in Newfoundland who hides his poetry and finds a lady friend. (I couldn't find a decent trailer, but this came up when I searched.)
Training to Win by Ben Stoeger. USPSA winning shooter from Eua Claire makes a DVD and poses with crossed arms on the back cover. Tips and training techniques to improve your shooting and shave time off your shooting stages. There are two trailer for this one. The first is informative and second is fancy.
Christmas With the Dead starring [Texans] and Kasey Lansdale. Adaptation of a Joe R. Lansdale story by Lansdale's son, Keith. A guy is out to have Christmas in June no matter how many zombies get in the way.
Bonus Musical Interlude
Joe R. Lansdale was plugging his daughter Kasey's new music video. We have the CD here at the library.
Phantom of the Paradise starring Paul Williams, ['70s people]. Max Allan Collins likes this flick and wrote about it on his webpage. I figured, "What the heck" and ordered this new release. Directed by Brian DePalma.
Down to the Dirt starring [Canadians]. Adaptation of Joel Hynes's novel of a drunken layabout in Newfoundland who hides his poetry and finds a lady friend. (I couldn't find a decent trailer, but this came up when I searched.)
Training to Win by Ben Stoeger. USPSA winning shooter from Eua Claire makes a DVD and poses with crossed arms on the back cover. Tips and training techniques to improve your shooting and shave time off your shooting stages. There are two trailer for this one. The first is informative and second is fancy.
Christmas With the Dead starring [Texans] and Kasey Lansdale. Adaptation of a Joe R. Lansdale story by Lansdale's son, Keith. A guy is out to have Christmas in June no matter how many zombies get in the way.
Bonus Musical Interlude
Joe R. Lansdale was plugging his daughter Kasey's new music video. We have the CD here at the library.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Godzilla is my Neighbor
DVD
Godzilla starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen. Big animal destroys a city.
Neighbors starring Seth Rogen, Zach Efron, Rose Byrne. Neighbors quarrel.
Godzilla starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen. Big animal destroys a city.
Neighbors starring Seth Rogen, Zach Efron, Rose Byrne. Neighbors quarrel.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Music, Talking, and Skeleton. With Musc!
Paperback Mystery
Skeleton Takes a Box by Leigh Perry. I could not recall why I ordered this but found my notes that say, "Recommended by [Bill] Crider." Well, there you go.
Audiobook on CD
Off the Sidelines: raise your voice, change the world by Kirsten Gillibrand. 6.5 hours on 6 CDs. Lame subtitle. Is this the autobio where she mentions the nitwits in Senate who commented to her on her weight and looks? Let me check...yep, this is the book.
Music That At One Time Was More Widely Available On Magnetic Tape Enclosed Inside a Small Plastic Case But Is Now Digitally Encoded Onto a Flat Disc
Brill Bruisers by The New Pornographers. Canadians play music and sing songs.
Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin. Englishmen play music and sing songs on remastered album.
Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin. Englishmen play more music and sing more songs on remastered album.
Skeleton Takes a Box by Leigh Perry. I could not recall why I ordered this but found my notes that say, "Recommended by [Bill] Crider." Well, there you go.
Audiobook on CD
Off the Sidelines: raise your voice, change the world by Kirsten Gillibrand. 6.5 hours on 6 CDs. Lame subtitle. Is this the autobio where she mentions the nitwits in Senate who commented to her on her weight and looks? Let me check...yep, this is the book.
Music That At One Time Was More Widely Available On Magnetic Tape Enclosed Inside a Small Plastic Case But Is Now Digitally Encoded Onto a Flat Disc
Brill Bruisers by The New Pornographers. Canadians play music and sing songs.
Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin. Englishmen play music and sing songs on remastered album.
Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin. Englishmen play more music and sing more songs on remastered album.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
New Photos
Photos
I have not posted any photos in a while.
Masonry repairs on front of the library
The sandstone by the front doors has been crumbling over the past few years. Jacob Arndt of Northwestern Masonry and Stone is cutting replacement stone. The replacements come from the same area of Wisconsin as the originals and are a very close match. Arndt cuts the pieces to fit and then chisels in the decorative lines to match the old stone. He will cut out the old stone and emplace the new pieces.
I have not posted any photos in a while.
Masonry repairs on front of the library
The sandstone by the front doors has been crumbling over the past few years. Jacob Arndt of Northwestern Masonry and Stone is cutting replacement stone. The replacements come from the same area of Wisconsin as the originals and are a very close match. Arndt cuts the pieces to fit and then chisels in the decorative lines to match the old stone. He will cut out the old stone and emplace the new pieces.
Kellerman Consortia and Simon Scarrow
Fiction
Golem of Hollywood by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman. According to the author photo Jesse Kellerman looks more like his mom than dead. A little difficult to tell since senior is facing the camera and junior is 1/4 profile.
The Blood of an Englishman by M.C. Beaton. Another Agatha Raisin novel. Her bio says she was born in Scotland. I wonder if she was eligible to vote in the independence referendum. Did they call the vote a referendum or just a "vote"? Scots are weird.
The Paying Guest by Sarah Waters. This sounds like one I would read. London in 1922. The post-war economy is poor and a formerly wealthy woman and daughter are obliged to take in tenants. "A love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place."
The Zealot by Simon Scarrow. I have not read this series in a couple years. Fun stuff with Roman Legionnaires Cato and Macro in various adventures from Germany to Britain to Italy and now Judea. Historically accurate with adventures adventuring by adventurers. Adventurers are weird.
Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett. Another door stopper by Follett of the Big Welsh Hair. A bunch of characters in the 1960s are printed on some real nice, heavyweight paper. Paper is weird.
Large Print
The Eye of Heaven by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake. Cussler book covers are weird.
Festive in Death by J.D. Robb.
Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot by Reed Farrel Coleman. Author estate titles are weird.
DVD
The Fault in our Stars starring [teen actors I never heard of] and Laura Dern. Something about dying teenagers and love. Chick movies are weird. When John Green spoke at an ALA luncheon a few months ago there was a security guy standing behind Green to fend away the gushing women librarians so Green could eat in peace. I'm serious.
Golem of Hollywood by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman. According to the author photo Jesse Kellerman looks more like his mom than dead. A little difficult to tell since senior is facing the camera and junior is 1/4 profile.
The Blood of an Englishman by M.C. Beaton. Another Agatha Raisin novel. Her bio says she was born in Scotland. I wonder if she was eligible to vote in the independence referendum. Did they call the vote a referendum or just a "vote"? Scots are weird.
The Paying Guest by Sarah Waters. This sounds like one I would read. London in 1922. The post-war economy is poor and a formerly wealthy woman and daughter are obliged to take in tenants. "A love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place."
The Zealot by Simon Scarrow. I have not read this series in a couple years. Fun stuff with Roman Legionnaires Cato and Macro in various adventures from Germany to Britain to Italy and now Judea. Historically accurate with adventures adventuring by adventurers. Adventurers are weird.
Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett. Another door stopper by Follett of the Big Welsh Hair. A bunch of characters in the 1960s are printed on some real nice, heavyweight paper. Paper is weird.
Large Print
The Eye of Heaven by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake. Cussler book covers are weird.
Festive in Death by J.D. Robb.
Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot by Reed Farrel Coleman. Author estate titles are weird.
DVD
The Fault in our Stars starring [teen actors I never heard of] and Laura Dern. Something about dying teenagers and love. Chick movies are weird. When John Green spoke at an ALA luncheon a few months ago there was a security guy standing behind Green to fend away the gushing women librarians so Green could eat in peace. I'm serious.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Chelsea Cain?
Fiction
One Kick by Chelsea Cain. I was intending to read a couple of her other books. I have not gotten to them yet.. Crimespree magazine likes her. You think she gets this a lot?
Bittersweet by Colleen McCullough. Two sets of female twins from the same family grow up in turn of the century Australia.
Reckless Disregard by Robert Rotstein. I read a really nice review for this novel but cannot remember where I read the review or what the book is about. A thriller set in Hollywood with an entertainment lawyer. I think.
Best to Laugh by Lorna Landvik. Comedy novel from someone in Minnesota with a Minnesota character moving to Los Angeles and trying to work as a comic.I think.
Don't Let Her go by Michelle Gagnon. This is a YA book, but ended up in my pile so I'm typing it in. One of those teenagers-on-the-run-from-corporate/government-bad-guys novels. I think Gagnon was the one who posted something online a year or two ago about raccoon trouble. Better than Frog Trouble. Or Car Trouble.
Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah. Hannah writes a new Hercule Poirot novel. I've read mixed reviews, find out for yourself.
In the Morning I'll be Gone by Adrian McKinty. This just won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in Australia. I was thinking Kelly was killed in that shootout. Nope, he was wounded, arrested, and hanged.
Back Channel by Stephen L. Carter. Fictionalization of Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. Marital trouble in 1686 Amsterdam.
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. I never read Cloud Atlas. Maybe I'll get around to it. They used some heavy paper on this book.The dust jacket says the book is "hypnotic...rich with character". Huh. He wrote Black Swan Green, I ordered the audio version a few years after a nice review.
One Kick by Chelsea Cain. I was intending to read a couple of her other books. I have not gotten to them yet.. Crimespree magazine likes her. You think she gets this a lot?
Bittersweet by Colleen McCullough. Two sets of female twins from the same family grow up in turn of the century Australia.
Reckless Disregard by Robert Rotstein. I read a really nice review for this novel but cannot remember where I read the review or what the book is about. A thriller set in Hollywood with an entertainment lawyer. I think.
Best to Laugh by Lorna Landvik. Comedy novel from someone in Minnesota with a Minnesota character moving to Los Angeles and trying to work as a comic.I think.
Don't Let Her go by Michelle Gagnon. This is a YA book, but ended up in my pile so I'm typing it in. One of those teenagers-on-the-run-from-corporate/government-bad-guys novels. I think Gagnon was the one who posted something online a year or two ago about raccoon trouble. Better than Frog Trouble. Or Car Trouble.
Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah. Hannah writes a new Hercule Poirot novel. I've read mixed reviews, find out for yourself.
In the Morning I'll be Gone by Adrian McKinty. This just won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in Australia. I was thinking Kelly was killed in that shootout. Nope, he was wounded, arrested, and hanged.
Back Channel by Stephen L. Carter. Fictionalization of Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. Marital trouble in 1686 Amsterdam.
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. I never read Cloud Atlas. Maybe I'll get around to it. They used some heavy paper on this book.The dust jacket says the book is "hypnotic...rich with character". Huh. He wrote Black Swan Green, I ordered the audio version a few years after a nice review.
Monday, September 15, 2014
I Haven't Read An Ian McEwan Book in Years
Fiction
The Children Act by Ian McEwan. I read a couple of his books in 1994-1995. That was before he was a Big Deal. I should read those Big Deal books, they must be pretty good.
Festive in Death by J.D. Robb. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates murder. Lietennant is difficulf for me to spell.
Perfidia by James Ellroy. The 800 lbs. gorilla of crime fiction. Imagine a 800 lbs. guerrilla. How dangerous would that guy be?
Blood on the Water by Anne Perry. London Copper William Monk witnesses a boat explosion that kills 200 people. Monk gets to work.
Audiobooks on CD
Business Adventures: twelve classic tales of the World of Wall Street by John Brooks. 17 hours on 14 CDs. Stories about the Edsel disaster (except for Sheriff Dan Rhodes), the rise of Xerox, scandals at GE and how "iconic companies was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety."
Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot by Reed Farrel Coleman. 9 hours on 7 CDs. I do not know if Coleman worked from an existing manuscript or not. I won't try to find out. Coleman writes good books and spends a lot of time in Milwaukee.
Dark Blood by Christine Feehan. 15 hours on 12 CDs. Werewolf romance.
Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen. 11 hours on 9 CDs. This was on sale. I thought people might enjoy the story.
Road Dawgz by K'Wan. 10.5 hours on 9 CDs. K'Wan sells a lot of books. But, I always figured they would not circulate here. Phooey, I should buy a couple and find out for sure. Kid grows up in tough situation, goes to jail, learns crime, aims for crime lord-dom.
The Children Act by Ian McEwan. I read a couple of his books in 1994-1995. That was before he was a Big Deal. I should read those Big Deal books, they must be pretty good.
Festive in Death by J.D. Robb. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates murder. Lietennant is difficulf for me to spell.
Perfidia by James Ellroy. The 800 lbs. gorilla of crime fiction. Imagine a 800 lbs. guerrilla. How dangerous would that guy be?
Blood on the Water by Anne Perry. London Copper William Monk witnesses a boat explosion that kills 200 people. Monk gets to work.
Audiobooks on CD
Business Adventures: twelve classic tales of the World of Wall Street by John Brooks. 17 hours on 14 CDs. Stories about the Edsel disaster (except for Sheriff Dan Rhodes), the rise of Xerox, scandals at GE and how "iconic companies was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety."
Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot by Reed Farrel Coleman. 9 hours on 7 CDs. I do not know if Coleman worked from an existing manuscript or not. I won't try to find out. Coleman writes good books and spends a lot of time in Milwaukee.
Dark Blood by Christine Feehan. 15 hours on 12 CDs. Werewolf romance.
Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen. 11 hours on 9 CDs. This was on sale. I thought people might enjoy the story.
Road Dawgz by K'Wan. 10.5 hours on 9 CDs. K'Wan sells a lot of books. But, I always figured they would not circulate here. Phooey, I should buy a couple and find out for sure. Kid grows up in tough situation, goes to jail, learns crime, aims for crime lord-dom.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Awesome Cat Secret Place
NonFiction
Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments by Mike Adamick. Could I just give the book to my kids and let them go at it? Because I still need to reseal the driveway, add insulation to the attic, and figure out a cheap way to put in new windows. Those old windows really have to go. I also need to get some quick mix concrete and fix the crumbled corners on the stairs by the back door. The old railing base was set into the concrete and the ice cracked those corners away.
Complete Cat Care consultant Alison Logan. Couldn't I give the book to my kids and let them go at it? It's about time they help take care of those cat things. Rather than the way they just carry them around and get clawed. Or, using the cats as excuse to come out of their bedrooms at night and not go to bed.
Large Print
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner. Couldn't I just give this book to my kids and let them make up smarmy, internet comments?
Above by Isla Morley. What smarmy things would they say about the books?
Driving With the Top Down by Beth Harbison. I'm not sure.
Safe Keeping by Barbara Taylor Sissel. I have some theories.
Deserves to Die by Lisa Jackson. "Fart, fart, fart."
Home Fires by Lois Greiman. That's one likely thing they would say.
Audiobooks on CD
Personal by Lee Child. 13 hours on 10 CDs. "Get a bunch of TNT and then put it in the building and BOOM!"
The Summer Wind by Mary Alice Monroe. 11.5 hours on 10 CDs. Or how about this one?
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good by Jan Karon. 17.5 hours on 14 CDs. "Those people have a TV for sale on the curb. We could get that for two dollars and take it home and I could have a TV in my room and if it doesn't work we could just throw it out anyway because it's only two dollars."
The Secret Place by Tana Fench. 20.5 hours on 16 CDs. It is best my kids do not run the blog.
Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments by Mike Adamick. Could I just give the book to my kids and let them go at it? Because I still need to reseal the driveway, add insulation to the attic, and figure out a cheap way to put in new windows. Those old windows really have to go. I also need to get some quick mix concrete and fix the crumbled corners on the stairs by the back door. The old railing base was set into the concrete and the ice cracked those corners away.
Complete Cat Care consultant Alison Logan. Couldn't I give the book to my kids and let them go at it? It's about time they help take care of those cat things. Rather than the way they just carry them around and get clawed. Or, using the cats as excuse to come out of their bedrooms at night and not go to bed.
Large Print
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner. Couldn't I just give this book to my kids and let them make up smarmy, internet comments?
Above by Isla Morley. What smarmy things would they say about the books?
Driving With the Top Down by Beth Harbison. I'm not sure.
Safe Keeping by Barbara Taylor Sissel. I have some theories.
Deserves to Die by Lisa Jackson. "Fart, fart, fart."
Home Fires by Lois Greiman. That's one likely thing they would say.
Audiobooks on CD
Personal by Lee Child. 13 hours on 10 CDs. "Get a bunch of TNT and then put it in the building and BOOM!"
The Summer Wind by Mary Alice Monroe. 11.5 hours on 10 CDs. Or how about this one?
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good by Jan Karon. 17.5 hours on 14 CDs. "Those people have a TV for sale on the curb. We could get that for two dollars and take it home and I could have a TV in my room and if it doesn't work we could just throw it out anyway because it's only two dollars."
The Secret Place by Tana Fench. 20.5 hours on 16 CDs. It is best my kids do not run the blog.
Monday, September 08, 2014
Crime and Ghosts
Fiction
Haunted by Kay Hooper. One of those books with police officers who work with ghosts. Or something.
Act of War by Brad Thor. One of those books with international intrigue and action. Or something.
Audiobook on CD
The Son by Jo Nesbo. 14CDs at 17.5 hours. Some sort of Swedish death and dismemberment. Or something.
Haunted by Kay Hooper. One of those books with police officers who work with ghosts. Or something.
Act of War by Brad Thor. One of those books with international intrigue and action. Or something.
Audiobook on CD
The Son by Jo Nesbo. 14CDs at 17.5 hours. Some sort of Swedish death and dismemberment. Or something.
Friday, September 05, 2014
The Return of Billy Boyle
Fiction
The Rest is Silence by James R. Benn. Benn brings back Billy battling bad Bavarians. I presume Benn once again takes a lesser known tale of World War Two and writes another great mystery novel around it. I really enjoy this series.
The Drop by Dennis Lehane. Think of all the things the title could be describing. A tennis serve that spins low. A dropped pass in football. Male infant with testicle that are late to descend.
Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good by Jan Karon. Think on that title. It sounds like a Stranger Danger instruction.
Personal by Lee Child. Jack Reacher beats people up and sleeps with good looking women.
Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman. What's the deal with Kellerman? I could have sworn she had curly blonde hair. Was she kidnapped by aliens and surgically altered? Maybe I was kidnapped by aliens who altered my memories. Did I really get out of bed at 12AM the other day to let the dang dog out? Maybe not.
The River by Beverly Lewis. More Amish romance and family drama.
Large Print
A Change in Altitude by Cindy Meyers. Heck, I do that every time I stand up.
The Sixteenth of June by Maya Lang. I was married in June. I think. It might have been July. Maybe it was July. Damn aliens.
Last to Know by Elizabeth Adler. Hey, that reminds me of a Neil Finn tune. Here ya go, Dunedin.
The Rest is Silence by James R. Benn. Benn brings back Billy battling bad Bavarians. I presume Benn once again takes a lesser known tale of World War Two and writes another great mystery novel around it. I really enjoy this series.
The Drop by Dennis Lehane. Think of all the things the title could be describing. A tennis serve that spins low. A dropped pass in football. Male infant with testicle that are late to descend.
Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good by Jan Karon. Think on that title. It sounds like a Stranger Danger instruction.
Personal by Lee Child. Jack Reacher beats people up and sleeps with good looking women.
Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman. What's the deal with Kellerman? I could have sworn she had curly blonde hair. Was she kidnapped by aliens and surgically altered? Maybe I was kidnapped by aliens who altered my memories. Did I really get out of bed at 12AM the other day to let the dang dog out? Maybe not.
The River by Beverly Lewis. More Amish romance and family drama.
Large Print
A Change in Altitude by Cindy Meyers. Heck, I do that every time I stand up.
The Sixteenth of June by Maya Lang. I was married in June. I think. It might have been July. Maybe it was July. Damn aliens.
Last to Know by Elizabeth Adler. Hey, that reminds me of a Neil Finn tune. Here ya go, Dunedin.
Thursday, September 04, 2014
Two Quebec Novels and More
Quebec
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny. Another Inspector (retired) Gamache novel. He is retired in Three Pines, Quebec and asked to look for a missing man. He heads up the St. Lawrence.
The River Burns by Trevor Ferguson. Ferguson wrote a great crime series under the name John Farrow but gained fame writing literary novels under his own name. This is about the burning of a narrow covered bridge in 1984 in Quebec.
More Fiction
Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet WEvanovich. I bought another copy.
Eyes Only by Fern Michaels. I bet the author photo is that same one with the dogs and Michaels on a couch. Let me check...yep, same photo and three dogs. The dogs are all looking off to the left. The photographer must have had an assistant distracting the mutts. The bookshelves in the background are out of focus, I can only read a few of the spines.
NonFiction
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: build and master ninja weapons by John Austin. Including Cereal Box Blowgun, Chopstick Rubber Band Gun, and Cereal Box Boomerang.
The Nazi Occult War: Hitler's compact with the forces of evil by Michael Fitzgerald. Forces of evil? Hitler was the force of evil. This details a lot of the weirdness, pseudo-science, and outright baloney that was popular with the dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy, no-good nazis.
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny. Another Inspector (retired) Gamache novel. He is retired in Three Pines, Quebec and asked to look for a missing man. He heads up the St. Lawrence.
The River Burns by Trevor Ferguson. Ferguson wrote a great crime series under the name John Farrow but gained fame writing literary novels under his own name. This is about the burning of a narrow covered bridge in 1984 in Quebec.
More Fiction
Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet WEvanovich. I bought another copy.
Eyes Only by Fern Michaels. I bet the author photo is that same one with the dogs and Michaels on a couch. Let me check...yep, same photo and three dogs. The dogs are all looking off to the left. The photographer must have had an assistant distracting the mutts. The bookshelves in the background are out of focus, I can only read a few of the spines.
NonFiction
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: build and master ninja weapons by John Austin. Including Cereal Box Blowgun, Chopstick Rubber Band Gun, and Cereal Box Boomerang.
The Nazi Occult War: Hitler's compact with the forces of evil by Michael Fitzgerald. Forces of evil? Hitler was the force of evil. This details a lot of the weirdness, pseudo-science, and outright baloney that was popular with the dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy, no-good nazis.
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Fiction For You, Not For Me
Fiction That Is Not For Me
(I'm working my way through books I've owned for years but never read)
Secret Place by Tana French. French is Irish. French writes popular mysteries with suspense. At least I think she does, I have not yet read her previous novels.
Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland. Lisette is a nice name. I am not certain how to pronounce Vreeland. Vreeland lives in San Diego. A couple weeks ago someone was talking about how nice the San Diego's baseball stadium is.
Private Down Under by James Patterson Literary Industries, Amalgamated, and Michael White. Patterson always gives his co-authors prominent credit but the publisher prints nothing about them. Let me check the internet machine...Nope, nothing.
Nightmare in Burgundy by Jean-Pieree Alaux and Noel Balen. Both authors live in France. Because they are French.
Her Last Whisper by Karen Robards. Robards lives in Kentucky and writes lots of books. The dust jacket bio says she has written 43 books.
Eye of Heaven by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake. Cussler lives in Arizona and owns really big wrist watches. Blake "lives on the Pacific coast of Mexico." Have the drug wars in Mexico cooled off? Or, has the media burned out on writing about countless torture victims and executions?
Lock In by John Scalzi. Scalzi lives in Ohio. I have not read Redshirts.
(I'm working my way through books I've owned for years but never read)
Secret Place by Tana French. French is Irish. French writes popular mysteries with suspense. At least I think she does, I have not yet read her previous novels.
Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland. Lisette is a nice name. I am not certain how to pronounce Vreeland. Vreeland lives in San Diego. A couple weeks ago someone was talking about how nice the San Diego's baseball stadium is.
Private Down Under by James Patterson Literary Industries, Amalgamated, and Michael White. Patterson always gives his co-authors prominent credit but the publisher prints nothing about them. Let me check the internet machine...Nope, nothing.
Nightmare in Burgundy by Jean-Pieree Alaux and Noel Balen. Both authors live in France. Because they are French.
Her Last Whisper by Karen Robards. Robards lives in Kentucky and writes lots of books. The dust jacket bio says she has written 43 books.
Eye of Heaven by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake. Cussler lives in Arizona and owns really big wrist watches. Blake "lives on the Pacific coast of Mexico." Have the drug wars in Mexico cooled off? Or, has the media burned out on writing about countless torture victims and executions?
Lock In by John Scalzi. Scalzi lives in Ohio. I have not read Redshirts.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Photo Updates
Updates and News
Four staff have recently left library employment.
Jim Braughler was the library's ILL/Cataloging Library Assistant for 8.5 years and did great work.
David Luehring was a Library Page for four years. David was the fourth Luehring sibling in a row to work here. He has graduated high school and left for school in Minnesota. (Davis is on the left.)
Emily Hoggatt and Caitlin Downey were both Library Pages. Emily worked at the library for one year and Caitlin for three. Both of Caitlin and Emily are attending school in Madison.
Four staff have recently left library employment.
Jim Braughler was the library's ILL/Cataloging Library Assistant for 8.5 years and did great work.
David Luehring was a Library Page for four years. David was the fourth Luehring sibling in a row to work here. He has graduated high school and left for school in Minnesota. (Davis is on the left.)
Emily Hoggatt and Caitlin Downey were both Library Pages. Emily worked at the library for one year and Caitlin for three. Both of Caitlin and Emily are attending school in Madison.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
More Sound, Not As Much Vision
Digital Information In Physical Form Is Impressed Onto A Thin Layer of Plastic For Playback
Now That's What I Call Country: Volume 7. Pop singers sing pop songs sold as country songs.
Now That's What I Call Music: volume 51. Pop singers sings pop songs sold to the top forty crowd.
(Weird Al is not on here but he parodies Fancy which is on here.)
Ultraviolence by Lana Del Ray. Pop singer sings pop songs of cruelty and violence.
DVD
300: rise of an empire starring Eva Green. All I know about this flick is that there are boats and a Bond Girl in the nude. At least, that's what I read.
Nurse Jackie: season five starring Edie Falco. All I know about this is what I read on the back cover. Junkie nurse finishes rehab, gets divorced, dates a policeman.
Now That's What I Call Country: Volume 7. Pop singers sing pop songs sold as country songs.
Now That's What I Call Music: volume 51. Pop singers sings pop songs sold to the top forty crowd.
(Weird Al is not on here but he parodies Fancy which is on here.)
Ultraviolence by Lana Del Ray. Pop singer sings pop songs of cruelty and violence.
DVD
300: rise of an empire starring Eva Green. All I know about this flick is that there are boats and a Bond Girl in the nude. At least, that's what I read.
Nurse Jackie: season five starring Edie Falco. All I know about this is what I read on the back cover. Junkie nurse finishes rehab, gets divorced, dates a policeman.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Large Print, 9 CDs, and Some Dude
Large Print
Support and Defend by Mark Greaney. Some sort of thriller with Tom Clancy characters.
Cut and Thrust by Stuart Woods. Some sort of thriller with a lawyer.
Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke. Some sort of crime novel with a lawman.
Fast Track by Julie Garwood. Some sort of family drama and romance with a woman protagonist.
9 CDs
Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan. 11 hours on 9CDs. Professional burglar, Junior Bender, is once again pressed into investigating another crook's problems. I am currently listening to the first book in this series.
Some Dude
Remember Me Like This by Anthony Johnston. You can tell this is a literary novel because the cover has blurbs from John Irving, Tom Perrotta, and Andre Dubus III. I read an Irving book once, A Son of the Circus. That sucker was a doorstop. I think that might be the book where I checked out two copies by mistake. I returned one and still had an overdue notice. I was ticked off. "I know I returned that book!" Nope. I returned the one book and totally forgot I had a second book - at the bottom of a book stack - at home.
I'm not sure what this novel is about. How about a picture of a dog instead?
Support and Defend by Mark Greaney. Some sort of thriller with Tom Clancy characters.
Cut and Thrust by Stuart Woods. Some sort of thriller with a lawyer.
Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke. Some sort of crime novel with a lawman.
Fast Track by Julie Garwood. Some sort of family drama and romance with a woman protagonist.
9 CDs
Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan. 11 hours on 9CDs. Professional burglar, Junior Bender, is once again pressed into investigating another crook's problems. I am currently listening to the first book in this series.
Some Dude
Remember Me Like This by Anthony Johnston. You can tell this is a literary novel because the cover has blurbs from John Irving, Tom Perrotta, and Andre Dubus III. I read an Irving book once, A Son of the Circus. That sucker was a doorstop. I think that might be the book where I checked out two copies by mistake. I returned one and still had an overdue notice. I was ticked off. "I know I returned that book!" Nope. I returned the one book and totally forgot I had a second book - at the bottom of a book stack - at home.
I'm not sure what this novel is about. How about a picture of a dog instead?
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Selected Non-Fiction Quotes
Non-Fiction
Loving Someone With An Addiction by Paraclete Press. DVD, so I guess I cannot quote this one.
Okay. I'll look for some quotes.
Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet by Donald Hensrud, MD, Medical Editor. "Split up the tasks to save time."
Weeknight Gluten Free: simple, healthy meals for every night of the week by Kristine Kidd. "Season to taste."
500 Potato Recipes by Elizabeth Woodland. "Today the potato is the staple food for two-thirds of the world's population and out third most important food crop."
Chic Home Interiors by Carles Broto. A big book with lots of great photos. "On the other hand it had no windows and received no natural light."
Not to be confused with Chic
Loving Someone With An Addiction by Paraclete Press. DVD, so I guess I cannot quote this one.
Okay. I'll look for some quotes.
Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet by Donald Hensrud, MD, Medical Editor. "Split up the tasks to save time."
Weeknight Gluten Free: simple, healthy meals for every night of the week by Kristine Kidd. "Season to taste."
500 Potato Recipes by Elizabeth Woodland. "Today the potato is the staple food for two-thirds of the world's population and out third most important food crop."
Chic Home Interiors by Carles Broto. A big book with lots of great photos. "On the other hand it had no windows and received no natural light."
Not to be confused with Chic
Nothing Much to Say, Here are Ten Novels
Fiction
Home Place by Carrie La Seur. Successful woman returns to Montana after sister dies. Woman thinks sister's death may not have been accident. Woman goes gooey for old boyfriend.
Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy. Yes, I read his name was Van Booty. I'm not sure what the plot is but the back cover says it is "gripping." So are ticks.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami. This book says nothing about the plot either. There are just buzzwords: remarkable...haunted...unintended consequences...journey...mend...heartbreak for the ages.
Magician's Land by Lev Grossman. I don't know anything about this series but I like all the covers. The book is about magic and secret worlds.
The Reckoning by Rennie Arth. Murder mystery set in 1947 England. Okay, I'm burning out this morning.
When the World Was Young by Elizabeth Gaffney. Something about post-WWII life of a teen girl.
Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin. Something about a fortune hunter.
Mean Streak by Sandra Brown. Something about a mean streak.
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom. Something about lucky people.
Monday Monday by Elizabeth Crook. Something about repetition. Something about repetition.
Home Place by Carrie La Seur. Successful woman returns to Montana after sister dies. Woman thinks sister's death may not have been accident. Woman goes gooey for old boyfriend.
Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy. Yes, I read his name was Van Booty. I'm not sure what the plot is but the back cover says it is "gripping." So are ticks.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami. This book says nothing about the plot either. There are just buzzwords: remarkable...haunted...unintended consequences...journey...mend...heartbreak for the ages.
Magician's Land by Lev Grossman. I don't know anything about this series but I like all the covers. The book is about magic and secret worlds.
The Reckoning by Rennie Arth. Murder mystery set in 1947 England. Okay, I'm burning out this morning.
When the World Was Young by Elizabeth Gaffney. Something about post-WWII life of a teen girl.
Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin. Something about a fortune hunter.
Mean Streak by Sandra Brown. Something about a mean streak.
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom. Something about lucky people.
Monday Monday by Elizabeth Crook. Something about repetition. Something about repetition.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Three Dudes and One Gal
Fiction
Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger. Krueger's novels are quite popular around here. They are set up in Duluth.
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay.It seems like I met Barclay at the 2012 Bouchercon in St. Louis. But, there was an open bar so I might be wrong.
Hounded by David Rosenfelt. Defense attorney Andy Carpenter is asked by a policeman friend to take in an orphaned 8-year-old and a basset hound. I'm not sure how old the basset is.
Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little. Fairly decent cover photo. I don't like the title's typeface. I do like the typeface on the inside of the dust jacket. Formerly famous woman is not out of prison hoping to find who killed her mother. Formerly Famous woman was convicted for the crime. Formerly Famous woman had drug issues and may be looking for herself.
Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger. Krueger's novels are quite popular around here. They are set up in Duluth.
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay.It seems like I met Barclay at the 2012 Bouchercon in St. Louis. But, there was an open bar so I might be wrong.
Hounded by David Rosenfelt. Defense attorney Andy Carpenter is asked by a policeman friend to take in an orphaned 8-year-old and a basset hound. I'm not sure how old the basset is.
Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little. Fairly decent cover photo. I don't like the title's typeface. I do like the typeface on the inside of the dust jacket. Formerly famous woman is not out of prison hoping to find who killed her mother. Formerly Famous woman was convicted for the crime. Formerly Famous woman had drug issues and may be looking for herself.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Gischler? Again? Do We Really Need Every Gishler?
Yes. We Do Need Every Gishler.
Kiss Me, Satan!: New Orleans is a werewolf town by Victor Gischler and Juan Ferreyra. Werewolf mob boss puts a hit out on a witch. Bounty hunters arrive. Trouble ensues.
Fiction
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas. This is bound with some heavy paper, man. Thomas won the Graduate Essay Award at UC-Irvine. I don't know what that means. I was twice Wrestler of the Week in high school but I'm not putting it on my resume.
Evergreen by Rebecca Rasmussen. Oh, I read her other book The Bird Sisters for the WI Library Association literary awards committee. Bird Sisters was okay but definitely not my bag. This one is set in 1938 Minnesota.
Kiss Me, Satan!: New Orleans is a werewolf town by Victor Gischler and Juan Ferreyra. Werewolf mob boss puts a hit out on a witch. Bounty hunters arrive. Trouble ensues.
Fiction
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas. This is bound with some heavy paper, man. Thomas won the Graduate Essay Award at UC-Irvine. I don't know what that means. I was twice Wrestler of the Week in high school but I'm not putting it on my resume.
Evergreen by Rebecca Rasmussen. Oh, I read her other book The Bird Sisters for the WI Library Association literary awards committee. Bird Sisters was okay but definitely not my bag. This one is set in 1938 Minnesota.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Real Big Boat of Convict Koreans
DVD
Noah starring Russell Crowe, Hermione Granger, That Lady From Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Guy builds a real big boat.
Silmido starring [Korean actors you never heard of]. in 1968 North Korean commandos attempted to kill the President of South Korea. South Korea retaliated by creating Unit 684 which recruited convicts that would train to kill North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung. When Unit 684's mission was cancelled the South Korean government decided to kill all Unit members.
Here is a trailer of Koreans speaking in German but subtitled in English.
Noah starring Russell Crowe, Hermione Granger, That Lady From Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Guy builds a real big boat.
Silmido starring [Korean actors you never heard of]. in 1968 North Korean commandos attempted to kill the President of South Korea. South Korea retaliated by creating Unit 684 which recruited convicts that would train to kill North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung. When Unit 684's mission was cancelled the South Korean government decided to kill all Unit members.
Here is a trailer of Koreans speaking in German but subtitled in English.
Friday, August 15, 2014
Mike Hammer Reads Large Print
AudioBooks on on CD
King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Hammer suspects an old man recently released from prison is coordinating the suspiciously frequent deaths of several cops. Read by Stacy Keach. Keach does a great job reading these Mike Hammer novels.
I bought three Hammer used paperback novels when I was on vacation last week.
Large Print
Summer People by Elin Hilderbrand. Family with newly dead patriarch goes to annual three month summer vacation in Nantucket. Three months!? I wish.
The Plover by Brian Doyle. Something about a guy who decides to live at sea. What's a "plover"?
Beekeeper's Ball by Susan Wiggs. Some romance novel set in Northern California with cooking.
Talk by Michael Smerconish. Right wing talk radio host has power to way a key Florida demographic and win-or-lose the Presidential election.
Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok. Young lady takes receptionist job at ballroom dance school.
Watermelon Days and Firefly Nights by Annette Smith. Short stories that are supposed to be "heartwarming" and "charming" with "quirky and loveable characters."
Dog Gone, Back Soon by Nick Trout. Veterinarian takes over his dead father's small town practice in Vermont with it's "eccentric residents."
Destiny's Embrace by Beverly Jenkins. The cover is awful with weird photoshopping.
The Cursed by Heather Graham. Woman can see ghosts. Dead guy asks for help. FBI paranormal investigators investigate things.
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter. 1974 Atalanta, cops are on the hunt for a killer and rookie Officer Kate Murphy wants to prove herself.
King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Hammer suspects an old man recently released from prison is coordinating the suspiciously frequent deaths of several cops. Read by Stacy Keach. Keach does a great job reading these Mike Hammer novels.
I bought three Hammer used paperback novels when I was on vacation last week.
Large Print
Summer People by Elin Hilderbrand. Family with newly dead patriarch goes to annual three month summer vacation in Nantucket. Three months!? I wish.
The Plover by Brian Doyle. Something about a guy who decides to live at sea. What's a "plover"?
Beekeeper's Ball by Susan Wiggs. Some romance novel set in Northern California with cooking.
Talk by Michael Smerconish. Right wing talk radio host has power to way a key Florida demographic and win-or-lose the Presidential election.
Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok. Young lady takes receptionist job at ballroom dance school.
Watermelon Days and Firefly Nights by Annette Smith. Short stories that are supposed to be "heartwarming" and "charming" with "quirky and loveable characters."
Dog Gone, Back Soon by Nick Trout. Veterinarian takes over his dead father's small town practice in Vermont with it's "eccentric residents."
Destiny's Embrace by Beverly Jenkins. The cover is awful with weird photoshopping.
The Cursed by Heather Graham. Woman can see ghosts. Dead guy asks for help. FBI paranormal investigators investigate things.
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter. 1974 Atalanta, cops are on the hunt for a killer and rookie Officer Kate Murphy wants to prove herself.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
The Crider Has Landed
Bill Crider
Half In Love With Artful Death by Bill Crider. Sheriff Dan Rhodes battles murder and the antics of local nitwits. Excellent stuff.
Lesser Lights
Top Secret by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Shoot'em up.
Love Letters by Debbie Macomber. Love'em up.
Friendswood by Rene Steinke. Texas'em up.
Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof. Family drama'em up.
The Lost Island by Preston and Child. Treasure'em up.
NonFiction
Dogtripping: 25 rescues, 11 volunteers, and 3 RVs on our canine cross-country adventure by David Rosenfelt. Woof'em up.
Half In Love With Artful Death by Bill Crider. Sheriff Dan Rhodes battles murder and the antics of local nitwits. Excellent stuff.
Lesser Lights
Top Secret by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Shoot'em up.
Love Letters by Debbie Macomber. Love'em up.
Friendswood by Rene Steinke. Texas'em up.
Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof. Family drama'em up.
The Lost Island by Preston and Child. Treasure'em up.
NonFiction
Dogtripping: 25 rescues, 11 volunteers, and 3 RVs on our canine cross-country adventure by David Rosenfelt. Woof'em up.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Monday is Media Day (Plus Two)
Compact Discs Are Primarily Used As A Delivery Method of Sound Recordings
The Voyager by Jenny Lewis. Californian sings songs about colorful clothes.
DVD
Divergent starring [teenagers and adults pretending to be teenagers]. Something about aliens. Vampires? Post apocalyptic sceanrios? I don't know. Watch the trailer.
Israel: royal tour with Benjamin Netanyahu and Peter Greenberg. Travel tour.
Super Skyscrapers by Frontline. The design and construction of four different buildings.
Audiobooks on CD
Torn Away by Jennifer Brown. 7 hours on 6 CDs. Woman survives tornado and lives with relatives she barely knows.
The Collector by Jeffery Deaver. 13 hours on 12 CDs. Murder.
The Fever by Megan Abbott. 9.5 hours on 8 CDs. More greatness from Abbott. I need to check and see if the book is here... Nope, it is out.
The Voyager by Jenny Lewis. Californian sings songs about colorful clothes.
DVD
Divergent starring [teenagers and adults pretending to be teenagers]. Something about aliens. Vampires? Post apocalyptic sceanrios? I don't know. Watch the trailer.
Israel: royal tour with Benjamin Netanyahu and Peter Greenberg. Travel tour.
Super Skyscrapers by Frontline. The design and construction of four different buildings.
Audiobooks on CD
Torn Away by Jennifer Brown. 7 hours on 6 CDs. Woman survives tornado and lives with relatives she barely knows.
The Collector by Jeffery Deaver. 13 hours on 12 CDs. Murder.
The Fever by Megan Abbott. 9.5 hours on 8 CDs. More greatness from Abbott. I need to check and see if the book is here... Nope, it is out.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Godzilla Hotels Companion by Duane Swierczynski
NonFiction
Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia by Vin . T Sparano. I ran across some photos of the park system in the Province of Quebec. This is more hunting and fishing than camping. Page 137 says, "Verify that the correct powder bushing and shot bar are installed in the press."
Weeknight Fresh and Fast: simple, healthy meals for every night of the week by Kristine Kidd. People like cookbooks. Page 173 says, "being organized does not mean being rigid."
Godzilla: history's greatest monster by Duane Swierczynski. Godzilla breathes fire and steps on things. Comic book novel. Swierczynski has written some good novels.
Unusual Hotels of the World by Steve Dobson. Page 183 says, "All the lakeside apartments are staggered so that they have an unobstructed view of the lake - from just about everywhere in the room - even the bath!"
The Western Front Companion: the complete guide to how armies fought for four devastating years, 1914-1918 by Mark Adkin. This is very cool.
Big Book of Vegetarian Recipes by Rachel Rappaport. Page 495 says, "For an Italian variation, add basil and Italian parsley."
Warman's Depression Glass, 6th Edition by Ellen T. Schroy. I'm going to put this in the regular stacks. I think it will be looked for there.
1914: voices from the battlefields by Matthew Richardson. Content from letters, diaries, and memoirs. Page 209 says, "6.20am precisely began the firing of our artillery."
Nixon Tapes edited and annotated by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter. Of the 3,700 hours of tapes only a smattering were unheard. Many our newly transcribed for this book. I heard one of these guys on either C-SPAN or a radio show and this sounds very interesting.
Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia by Vin . T Sparano. I ran across some photos of the park system in the Province of Quebec. This is more hunting and fishing than camping. Page 137 says, "Verify that the correct powder bushing and shot bar are installed in the press."
Weeknight Fresh and Fast: simple, healthy meals for every night of the week by Kristine Kidd. People like cookbooks. Page 173 says, "being organized does not mean being rigid."
Godzilla: history's greatest monster by Duane Swierczynski. Godzilla breathes fire and steps on things. Comic book novel. Swierczynski has written some good novels.
Unusual Hotels of the World by Steve Dobson. Page 183 says, "All the lakeside apartments are staggered so that they have an unobstructed view of the lake - from just about everywhere in the room - even the bath!"
The Western Front Companion: the complete guide to how armies fought for four devastating years, 1914-1918 by Mark Adkin. This is very cool.
Big Book of Vegetarian Recipes by Rachel Rappaport. Page 495 says, "For an Italian variation, add basil and Italian parsley."
Warman's Depression Glass, 6th Edition by Ellen T. Schroy. I'm going to put this in the regular stacks. I think it will be looked for there.
1914: voices from the battlefields by Matthew Richardson. Content from letters, diaries, and memoirs. Page 209 says, "6.20am precisely began the firing of our artillery."
Nixon Tapes edited and annotated by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter. Of the 3,700 hours of tapes only a smattering were unheard. Many our newly transcribed for this book. I heard one of these guys on either C-SPAN or a radio show and this sounds very interesting.
Here are a bunch of DVDs
DVD
A Young Doctor's Notebook starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe. "Insanely dark, and brilliantly hilarious four-part comedy noir." Clip will not embed.
Grand Budapest Hotel starring [bunch of famous people]. Max Allan Collins liked this one, in April he wrote, "the best movie I've seen this year." But, this is August so maybe he has a new favorite.
Joe starring Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan. Kid ends up staying with an ex-con played by Cage. A Cage movie without Crazy Cage-ness.
Bad Words starring Jason Bateman. 40-year-old finds loophole to enter spelling contest. The guy is a jerk.
Cook's Country, Season Six. People cook food.
Poisoner's Handbook: killer chemistry produced by American Experience. Based off the book by a WI author.
Heaven is For Real starring Greg Kinnear. Also based off a book but the author is not from WI.
A Young Doctor's Notebook starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe. "Insanely dark, and brilliantly hilarious four-part comedy noir." Clip will not embed.
Grand Budapest Hotel starring [bunch of famous people]. Max Allan Collins liked this one, in April he wrote, "the best movie I've seen this year." But, this is August so maybe he has a new favorite.
Joe starring Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan. Kid ends up staying with an ex-con played by Cage. A Cage movie without Crazy Cage-ness.
Bad Words starring Jason Bateman. 40-year-old finds loophole to enter spelling contest. The guy is a jerk.
Cook's Country, Season Six. People cook food.
Poisoner's Handbook: killer chemistry produced by American Experience. Based off the book by a WI author.
Heaven is For Real starring Greg Kinnear. Also based off a book but the author is not from WI.
I was gone. I have returned.
Vacation
650' underground at the Strataca Salt Museum in Hutchinson, KS.
Llama at Rolling Hills Zoo in Salina, KS.
Caught that child on the left before he hid from the camera.
I let Boy #1 use the camera.
Toad on a turtle at Scout Camp outside Rice Lake, WI.
Compact Discs are the thin plastic discs used to store sound for replay using a fancy laser system
Mandatory Fun by Weird Al Yankovic. Polka man plays parody.
Meteorites by Echo and the Bunnymen. Quote-worthy Ian sings songs of cultish rock.
Counterfeit Blues by Corb Lund. Canadian sings songs of Copenhagen.
Remedy by Old Crow Medicine Show. Modern musicians sing songs of throw back country.
Fuego by Phish. Modern hippies play music. You'll have to find your own music clip.
Hypnotic Eye by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Audiobooks on CD
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan. 17 hours on 14 CDs. Loving Frank was popular. This has a woman leaving her husband, landing in France, and meeting Robert Louis Stevenson.
HRC: state secrets and the rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. 16 hours on 13 CDs. "HRC portrays a seasoned operator who negotiates political and diplomatic worlds with equal savvy."
Sons of Wichita: how the Koch brothers became America's most powerful and private dynasty by Daniel Schulman. 12.5 hours on 10 CDs. I did not go to Wichita this year. I did not want to spend an hour or more driving down there. My wife and I went to Salina instead.
Thankful: Return to Sugar Creek, Book Two by Shelley Shepard Gray. 6.75 hours on 6 CDs. Amish romance.
In the Morning I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty. 10 hours on 9 CDs. 1984 cop in Northern Ireland has to solve an "locked-room mystery" of a dead woman to get the dead woman's mother to tell him where a IRA bomber is hiding out.
Phantom Instinct by Meg Gardiner. 12.5 hours on 10 CDs. A nightclub shootout ended in disastrous fire. Two survivors are sure a surviving gunman is after the survivors.
Compact Discs are the thin plastic discs used to store sound for replay using a fancy laser system
Mandatory Fun by Weird Al Yankovic. Polka man plays parody.
Meteorites by Echo and the Bunnymen. Quote-worthy Ian sings songs of cultish rock.
Counterfeit Blues by Corb Lund. Canadian sings songs of Copenhagen.
Remedy by Old Crow Medicine Show. Modern musicians sing songs of throw back country.
Fuego by Phish. Modern hippies play music. You'll have to find your own music clip.
Hypnotic Eye by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Audiobooks on CD
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan. 17 hours on 14 CDs. Loving Frank was popular. This has a woman leaving her husband, landing in France, and meeting Robert Louis Stevenson.
HRC: state secrets and the rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. 16 hours on 13 CDs. "HRC portrays a seasoned operator who negotiates political and diplomatic worlds with equal savvy."
Sons of Wichita: how the Koch brothers became America's most powerful and private dynasty by Daniel Schulman. 12.5 hours on 10 CDs. I did not go to Wichita this year. I did not want to spend an hour or more driving down there. My wife and I went to Salina instead.
Thankful: Return to Sugar Creek, Book Two by Shelley Shepard Gray. 6.75 hours on 6 CDs. Amish romance.
In the Morning I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty. 10 hours on 9 CDs. 1984 cop in Northern Ireland has to solve an "locked-room mystery" of a dead woman to get the dead woman's mother to tell him where a IRA bomber is hiding out.
Phantom Instinct by Meg Gardiner. 12.5 hours on 10 CDs. A nightclub shootout ended in disastrous fire. Two survivors are sure a surviving gunman is after the survivors.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
NonFic: Sex, Sassoon, Bikes, Gischler Clowns
NonFic
The New Naked: the ultimate sex education for grown-ups by Harry Fisch, MD with Karen Moline. No pictures. Page 243 says, "That's way above average, especially with seven kids"
Poisonous and Psychoactive Plants by Jim Meuninck. Page 71 says, "This is a dangerous hallucinogen abused by unaware teenagers."
Working Class Foodie Cookbook: real food, for real people, real cheap by Rebecca Lando. Page 1 says, "One morning, I stepped out of the apartment and saw that Union Square Park had become a tent city."
Clown Fatale by Victor Gischler. "Its big-top chaos as four down-on-thei-luck, sexy clowns get caught up in the deadly world of organized crime!"
Healthy Cooker: second edition by Judith Finlayson. Page 17 says, "Do not reheat food in the slow cooker."
Art and Architecture of Insects by David M. Phillips. Lots of great photos. Page 62 says, "The sharp-pointed, pincer-like jaws of this larval neuropteran are designed to pierce the cuticle of small insects and mites and hold them firmly."
Roadside Road Bike Maintenance Manual by Guy Andrews. Lots of color photos. Page 52 says, "On Shimano and SRAM levers, you'll be able to see the white plastic cable-carrier."
Roadside Mountain Bike Maintenance Manual by Mike Davis and Guy Andrews. Page 25 says, "They need to have grease on them and be evenly tightened."
Mastering Online Genealogy: 3rd edition by W. Daniel Quillen. "Once there, go to the same hit."
Overcoming High Blood Pressure: the complete complementary health program by Dr. Sarah Brewer. Page 72 says, "The same is true of yams."
Siegfried Sasson: soldier, poet, lover, friend: a life in one volume by Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Page 157 says, "Just as he had been determined to win steeplechases before the War, he now wanted a medal to prove himself the equal of his contemporaries."
WIndows 8.1 Bible: the comprehensive tutorial resource by Wiley. Page 861 says, "Homegroups are a feature introduced in Windows 7 and carried over to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 that simplify setting up a home network and sharing resrouces on the network."
The White House: its historic furnishings and first families by Betty C. Monkman. Page 111 says, "Mary Todd Lincold selectred this "quite costly and exceedingly beautiful" rosewood table for a White House guest room in 1861."
The New Naked: the ultimate sex education for grown-ups by Harry Fisch, MD with Karen Moline. No pictures. Page 243 says, "That's way above average, especially with seven kids"
Poisonous and Psychoactive Plants by Jim Meuninck. Page 71 says, "This is a dangerous hallucinogen abused by unaware teenagers."
Working Class Foodie Cookbook: real food, for real people, real cheap by Rebecca Lando. Page 1 says, "One morning, I stepped out of the apartment and saw that Union Square Park had become a tent city."
Clown Fatale by Victor Gischler. "Its big-top chaos as four down-on-thei-luck, sexy clowns get caught up in the deadly world of organized crime!"
Healthy Cooker: second edition by Judith Finlayson. Page 17 says, "Do not reheat food in the slow cooker."
Art and Architecture of Insects by David M. Phillips. Lots of great photos. Page 62 says, "The sharp-pointed, pincer-like jaws of this larval neuropteran are designed to pierce the cuticle of small insects and mites and hold them firmly."
Roadside Road Bike Maintenance Manual by Guy Andrews. Lots of color photos. Page 52 says, "On Shimano and SRAM levers, you'll be able to see the white plastic cable-carrier."
Roadside Mountain Bike Maintenance Manual by Mike Davis and Guy Andrews. Page 25 says, "They need to have grease on them and be evenly tightened."
Mastering Online Genealogy: 3rd edition by W. Daniel Quillen. "Once there, go to the same hit."
Overcoming High Blood Pressure: the complete complementary health program by Dr. Sarah Brewer. Page 72 says, "The same is true of yams."
Siegfried Sasson: soldier, poet, lover, friend: a life in one volume by Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Page 157 says, "Just as he had been determined to win steeplechases before the War, he now wanted a medal to prove himself the equal of his contemporaries."
WIndows 8.1 Bible: the comprehensive tutorial resource by Wiley. Page 861 says, "Homegroups are a feature introduced in Windows 7 and carried over to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 that simplify setting up a home network and sharing resrouces on the network."
The White House: its historic furnishings and first families by Betty C. Monkman. Page 111 says, "Mary Todd Lincold selectred this "quite costly and exceedingly beautiful" rosewood table for a White House guest room in 1861."
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Neat-O Book-O
Fiction
Remains of Innocence by J.A. Jance. Joanna Brady mystery-o.
A Perfect Life by Danielle Steel. Does Steel write these anymore? I wonder if she can cranks'em out or if she hires ghost writers.
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. Author of The Husband's Secret writes another novel. Author of The Husband's Secret has a tiny author photo. Author of The Husband's Secretlives in Australian with Australians.
West Fork by Tom McKay. I have no idea what this is. Marilyn must have selected it. Let's take a look...Guy takes teaching job in rural town and town grows up.
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette. Reprint of a French crime novel. Recommended by Bill Crider and Unshelved.
Fast Track by Julie Garwood. Flyleaf says Garwood "lives near Kansas City." Which side? Kansas or Missouri?
The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand. Page 225 says, "This was the address Riley had given her, but it was nothing."
Remains of Innocence by J.A. Jance. Joanna Brady mystery-o.
A Perfect Life by Danielle Steel. Does Steel write these anymore? I wonder if she can cranks'em out or if she hires ghost writers.
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. Author of The Husband's Secret writes another novel. Author of The Husband's Secret has a tiny author photo. Author of The Husband's Secretlives in Australian with Australians.
West Fork by Tom McKay. I have no idea what this is. Marilyn must have selected it. Let's take a look...Guy takes teaching job in rural town and town grows up.
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette. Reprint of a French crime novel. Recommended by Bill Crider and Unshelved.
Fast Track by Julie Garwood. Flyleaf says Garwood "lives near Kansas City." Which side? Kansas or Missouri?
The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand. Page 225 says, "This was the address Riley had given her, but it was nothing."
Monday, July 28, 2014
Greece and London WITH BIG LETTERS
LARGE PRINT
Kraken Project by Douglas Preston. This alwasy reminds me of that rum that is sold under the Kraken name. I don't drink rum but I'm reminded anyway.
Heart of Gold by Beverly Jenkins.
Boy, Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi.
Apart At the Seams by Marie Bostwick.
Marriage Pact by Linda Lael Miller.
Two Sisters by Mary Hogan.
City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn.
Gemini by Carol Cassella.
Sniper's Honor Stephen Hunter.
Eden in Winter by Richard North Patterson.
NonFiction
Top 10 London by Roger Williams. Page 154 says, "With its 10 curved gates rising like shark fins from the river, this piece of engineering is an impressive sight."
Top 10 Athens by Carol Davenport and Jane Foster. Page 44 says, "The continue to astonish and inspire."
Family Guide London:where to play, what to see, where to stay edited by Michelle Crane. Page 203 says, "The brave porkers made a run for it, crossing a river and hiding out in some woods."
Lonely Planet Greek Islands edited by Korina Miller, et al. Page 503 says,"See if you can spot the kofinidia (two small rock protrusions): the sex organs of Uranus that Cronos tossed into the sea foam."
Lonely Planet Austria edited by Anthony Haywood. Page 410 says, "Hitler, Adolf 88, 170, 357-9, 369, 370."
Kraken Project by Douglas Preston. This alwasy reminds me of that rum that is sold under the Kraken name. I don't drink rum but I'm reminded anyway.
Heart of Gold by Beverly Jenkins.
Boy, Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi.
Apart At the Seams by Marie Bostwick.
Marriage Pact by Linda Lael Miller.
Two Sisters by Mary Hogan.
City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn.
Gemini by Carol Cassella.
Sniper's Honor Stephen Hunter.
Eden in Winter by Richard North Patterson.
NonFiction
Top 10 London by Roger Williams. Page 154 says, "With its 10 curved gates rising like shark fins from the river, this piece of engineering is an impressive sight."
Top 10 Athens by Carol Davenport and Jane Foster. Page 44 says, "The continue to astonish and inspire."
Family Guide London:where to play, what to see, where to stay edited by Michelle Crane. Page 203 says, "The brave porkers made a run for it, crossing a river and hiding out in some woods."
Lonely Planet Greek Islands edited by Korina Miller, et al. Page 503 says,"See if you can spot the kofinidia (two small rock protrusions): the sex organs of Uranus that Cronos tossed into the sea foam."
Lonely Planet Austria edited by Anthony Haywood. Page 410 says, "Hitler, Adolf 88, 170, 357-9, 369, 370."
Friday, July 25, 2014
Erotica For Women Is None of Your Business
Singing Combined With Music And Made Digital
World Peace Is None of Your Business by Morrissey. Singers sings songs of vegans and Istanbul with guitars.
Fiction
Can't Get Enough: erotica for women edited by Tenille Brown. The cover has no capitalization. Page 61 says, "It's those damned cobbles."
NonFiction
America's Most Wanted Recipes At the Grill by Ron Douglas. Page 307 says, "1/2 cup red wine vinegar."
10-Minute Makeup: 50 step-by-step looks from fresh and natural catwalk chic by Boris Entrup. Page 79 says,"Carefully apply lipstick using a small, rounded lipstick brush."
Love Your Leftovers by Nick Evans. Page 155 says, "People are always taking cheap shots at it and laughing behind it's back."
Stylish Kids' Parties: recipe and decorations for 12 festive occasions by Kelly Lyden. Page 97 says, "Golfers get thirsty!"
Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 projects you can build in a weekend by Steve Cory. Page 176 says, "Treated lumber is used here, because it will stay rot-free the longest."
Digital Photo Editing With Picasa For Seniors by Studio Visual Steps. Page 153 says, "The collage will be created."
Modern Quilt Perspectives by Thomas Knauer. Page 84 says, "Bind using your preferred method."
100 Organic Skin Care Recipes by Jessica Ress. Page 11 says, "Probably."
Me and My Sewing Adventure: an intermediate guide by Kate Haxell. Page 127 says, "Molly Small was the lovely model."
World Peace Is None of Your Business by Morrissey. Singers sings songs of vegans and Istanbul with guitars.
Fiction
Can't Get Enough: erotica for women edited by Tenille Brown. The cover has no capitalization. Page 61 says, "It's those damned cobbles."
NonFiction
America's Most Wanted Recipes At the Grill by Ron Douglas. Page 307 says, "1/2 cup red wine vinegar."
10-Minute Makeup: 50 step-by-step looks from fresh and natural catwalk chic by Boris Entrup. Page 79 says,"Carefully apply lipstick using a small, rounded lipstick brush."
Love Your Leftovers by Nick Evans. Page 155 says, "People are always taking cheap shots at it and laughing behind it's back."
Stylish Kids' Parties: recipe and decorations for 12 festive occasions by Kelly Lyden. Page 97 says, "Golfers get thirsty!"
Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 projects you can build in a weekend by Steve Cory. Page 176 says, "Treated lumber is used here, because it will stay rot-free the longest."
Digital Photo Editing With Picasa For Seniors by Studio Visual Steps. Page 153 says, "The collage will be created."
Modern Quilt Perspectives by Thomas Knauer. Page 84 says, "Bind using your preferred method."
100 Organic Skin Care Recipes by Jessica Ress. Page 11 says, "Probably."
Me and My Sewing Adventure: an intermediate guide by Kate Haxell. Page 127 says, "Molly Small was the lovely model."
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
War Conspiracy Mistakes
Fiction
Supreme Justice by Max Allan Collins. A disgraced Secret Service agent is hired by a task force investigating the murder of a Supreme Court Justice. What seemed a botched robbery is revealed as a planned murder.
Landline by Raibow Rowell. Marriage drama with wife time traveling. Or something. The fly leaf is unclear.
Large Print
Power Play by Catherine Coulter.
NonFiction
Windows 8.1: tips, tricks, and shortcuts by Stuart Yarnold. Page 157 says, "Let's say you like to dabble in stocks and shares."
Mistakes I Made At Work: 25 influential women reflect on what they got out of getting it wrong edited by Jessica Bacal. I read the piece by Lisa Lutz. Lutz spoke sat on a panel at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego. Lutz was entertaining, I thought she did well. Her piece is on her panic and stress at her first big speaking engagement as an author.
Page 91 says, "It could also cover twelve months of student loan payments."
The Things They Cannot Say: stories soldiers won't tell you about what they've seen, done or failed to do in war by Kevin Sites. Page
200 says, "At night, believing he was in Iraq, he would sometimes roughly shake his wife and tell her it was her time for guard duty."
Supreme Justice by Max Allan Collins. A disgraced Secret Service agent is hired by a task force investigating the murder of a Supreme Court Justice. What seemed a botched robbery is revealed as a planned murder.
Landline by Raibow Rowell. Marriage drama with wife time traveling. Or something. The fly leaf is unclear.
Large Print
Power Play by Catherine Coulter.
NonFiction
Windows 8.1: tips, tricks, and shortcuts by Stuart Yarnold. Page 157 says, "Let's say you like to dabble in stocks and shares."
Mistakes I Made At Work: 25 influential women reflect on what they got out of getting it wrong edited by Jessica Bacal. I read the piece by Lisa Lutz. Lutz spoke sat on a panel at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego. Lutz was entertaining, I thought she did well. Her piece is on her panic and stress at her first big speaking engagement as an author.
Page 91 says, "It could also cover twelve months of student loan payments."
The Things They Cannot Say: stories soldiers won't tell you about what they've seen, done or failed to do in war by Kevin Sites. Page
200 says, "At night, believing he was in Iraq, he would sometimes roughly shake his wife and tell her it was her time for guard duty."
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
The Rest, Fiction M-Z and NonFic
Fiction
California by Edan Lepucki. Post-apocalyptic couple are pregnant and join a community for the help a community should bring.
Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai. Hundred year house? Let me tell you about 110 year houses. Filed stone foundation, old windows, old wiring, poor to little insulation in the walls, weird outlets in the baseboards, old plaster, cramped layout, small kitchen.
I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum. American painter tries to woo his wife after the wife learns of his mistress.
The Quick by Lauren Owen. I like the title. Sister goes looking for her brother in 1893 London and finds a supernatural, and dangerous, side of the city.
Eden in Winter by Richard North Patterson. Not to be confused with Richard Price. Or James Patterson. Or T. Jefferson Parker.
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman. Something about a woman who was kidnapped as a child and raised by mysterious group.
The Heist by Daniel Silva. The movie with the same title was good.
Cut and Thrust by Stuart Woods. Sounds like a Bernard Cornwell novel.
NonFiction
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman. Anthropologist Goffman lived in in a disadvantaged Philadelphia neighborhood for six years. Many residents were "caught up in a web of warrants and surveillance" by police and Goffman studied how the neighborhood residents lived and worked.
Perfect Theory: a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira.
Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo by Jack Cheevers. No surprise that the crew were tortured.
California by Edan Lepucki. Post-apocalyptic couple are pregnant and join a community for the help a community should bring.
Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai. Hundred year house? Let me tell you about 110 year houses. Filed stone foundation, old windows, old wiring, poor to little insulation in the walls, weird outlets in the baseboards, old plaster, cramped layout, small kitchen.
I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum. American painter tries to woo his wife after the wife learns of his mistress.
The Quick by Lauren Owen. I like the title. Sister goes looking for her brother in 1893 London and finds a supernatural, and dangerous, side of the city.
Eden in Winter by Richard North Patterson. Not to be confused with Richard Price. Or James Patterson. Or T. Jefferson Parker.
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman. Something about a woman who was kidnapped as a child and raised by mysterious group.
The Heist by Daniel Silva. The movie with the same title was good.
Cut and Thrust by Stuart Woods. Sounds like a Bernard Cornwell novel.
NonFiction
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman. Anthropologist Goffman lived in in a disadvantaged Philadelphia neighborhood for six years. Many residents were "caught up in a web of warrants and surveillance" by police and Goffman studied how the neighborhood residents lived and worked.
Perfect Theory: a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira.
Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo by Jack Cheevers. No surprise that the crew were tortured.
After A Long Delay: New Fiction, A-J
Fiction
Inside Man by Jeff Abbott. Thriller by a guy who is not related to Megan Abbott. But, if we were to argue, we could say everyone is related, couldn't we? Abbott and Abbott would be related. I would be related to both Abbotts. Is this familial relationship close enough that I would try to crash at their NYC or Austin pads and ask to borrow fifty bucks to go drink beer? No, probably not.
Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews. Andrews lives in Atlanta. I was listening to the car radio this morning and Wisconsin Public Radio was talking to Jeff Shaara about the Civil War. He said people in Atlanta still don't like to talk about General Sherman. Sore losers.
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian. Orphaned teen girl lives on her own in Vermont when her dead engineer father seen as responsible for a nuclear meltdown.
Shots Fired by C.J. Box. Cover image is a road sign peppered with bullet holes. I was in the Kettle Moraine State Forest- Southern Unit a couple weeks to go walking with my kids. After our walk I drive over to see where the public shooting range is. Along they way I saw a road sign that some dope shot up. Really? You're one mile from a range and shoot a road sign?
High Druid's Blade Terry Brooks. Swords. Cloaks. Wizards. Etc.
Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke. Something about drama in post-World War II Texas and the oil business.
The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo. Police Chief investigates murder disguised as suicide in house where Amish family was killed 35 years previous.
Power Play by Catherine Coulter. The usual, I suppose. I've never read a Coulter novel but she has a loyal following and sells a lot of books. I think her author photo is the same. I wonder if the photo budget included a hair and make-up person. I wouldn't know the difference about the make-up but her hair looks sharp.
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. Her books do well here. Something about witches and time travel.
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. Then look for her.
Sight Unseen by Iris and Joy Johansen. Not to be confused with David Johansen.
Inside Man by Jeff Abbott. Thriller by a guy who is not related to Megan Abbott. But, if we were to argue, we could say everyone is related, couldn't we? Abbott and Abbott would be related. I would be related to both Abbotts. Is this familial relationship close enough that I would try to crash at their NYC or Austin pads and ask to borrow fifty bucks to go drink beer? No, probably not.
Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews. Andrews lives in Atlanta. I was listening to the car radio this morning and Wisconsin Public Radio was talking to Jeff Shaara about the Civil War. He said people in Atlanta still don't like to talk about General Sherman. Sore losers.
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian. Orphaned teen girl lives on her own in Vermont when her dead engineer father seen as responsible for a nuclear meltdown.
Shots Fired by C.J. Box. Cover image is a road sign peppered with bullet holes. I was in the Kettle Moraine State Forest- Southern Unit a couple weeks to go walking with my kids. After our walk I drive over to see where the public shooting range is. Along they way I saw a road sign that some dope shot up. Really? You're one mile from a range and shoot a road sign?
High Druid's Blade Terry Brooks. Swords. Cloaks. Wizards. Etc.
Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke. Something about drama in post-World War II Texas and the oil business.
The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo. Police Chief investigates murder disguised as suicide in house where Amish family was killed 35 years previous.
Power Play by Catherine Coulter. The usual, I suppose. I've never read a Coulter novel but she has a loyal following and sells a lot of books. I think her author photo is the same. I wonder if the photo budget included a hair and make-up person. I wouldn't know the difference about the make-up but her hair looks sharp.
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. Her books do well here. Something about witches and time travel.
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. Then look for her.
Sight Unseen by Iris and Joy Johansen. Not to be confused with David Johansen.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Nothing New, Here is a song.
Musical Interlude
From a group that I think disbanded, Ex-Lovers.
The dudes starting at 2:34 have to be trained dancers because they are sharp on that routine.
From a group that I think disbanded, Ex-Lovers.
The dudes starting at 2:34 have to be trained dancers because they are sharp on that routine.
Wednesday, July 09, 2014
I Never Told You QuickBooks, Len Price
Fiction
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. A family starts to fall apart after a daughter dies. Ng attended the University of Michigan. Bleah.
NonFiction
Setting Up and Running QuickBooks 2014 by Thomas E. Barich and Philip B. Goodman CPA. Page 348 says, "Proceed through the wizard one step at a time until you've configured all the necessary items."
Musical Interlude
There is no Len Price in the Len Price 3.
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. A family starts to fall apart after a daughter dies. Ng attended the University of Michigan. Bleah.
NonFiction
Setting Up and Running QuickBooks 2014 by Thomas E. Barich and Philip B. Goodman CPA. Page 348 says, "Proceed through the wizard one step at a time until you've configured all the necessary items."
Musical Interlude
There is no Len Price in the Len Price 3.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
More Items
DVD
Freedom Riders. Produced by The American Experience. 1961 freedom ride brought federal attention to desegregation efforts.
Slavery by Another Name. After slavery was outlawed people were legally forced into unpaid labor as part of imprisonment.
The Abolitionists. "What began as a pacifist movement fueld by persuasion and prayer became a fiery and furious struggle that forever changed the nation."
The Loving Story. Tale of the landmark 1967 court decision legalizing interracial marriage.
Fiction
Night Searchers by Marcia Muller.
Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear.
The City by Dean Koontz.
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes.
For All Time by Jude Deveraux.
Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock.
Large Print
For All Time by Jude Deveraux.
The City by Dean Koontz.
Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock.
Freedom Riders. Produced by The American Experience. 1961 freedom ride brought federal attention to desegregation efforts.
Slavery by Another Name. After slavery was outlawed people were legally forced into unpaid labor as part of imprisonment.
The Abolitionists. "What began as a pacifist movement fueld by persuasion and prayer became a fiery and furious struggle that forever changed the nation."
The Loving Story. Tale of the landmark 1967 court decision legalizing interracial marriage.
Fiction
Night Searchers by Marcia Muller.
Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear.
The City by Dean Koontz.
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes.
For All Time by Jude Deveraux.
Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock.
Large Print
For All Time by Jude Deveraux.
The City by Dean Koontz.
Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock.
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();"
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
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Seventeen with KoKo Kieran
Fiction
Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea. SciFi with guns. Former mercenary runs a island holiday resort and a former colleague sends assassins after her. No author photo.
Red Room by Ridley Pearson. Espionage in Constantinople, Turkey with private security guy. Wait. Istanbul, I meant Istanbul. Small black and white photo of author.
Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry. Some stuff about President Lincoln, modern day Utah and some secret. Color author photo across the whole back cover with Berry leaning on a pillar.
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Part of her Outlander series in 1778 during the Revolutionary War. Color photo on back with Gabaldon in the snow.
One and Only by Emily Giffin. Didn't Giffin just have another book come out? Nope, last one was 2012. Why is her name so familiar. Oh, well. Her author photo covers the back and I like her photographer's work. The photo has nice color and her face is in focus but her hands and shoulders seem to be just slightly out of focus drawing your eye to her face.
The Dog Year by Ann Garvin. Tightly wound surgeon has to go into twelve step program. Garvin teaches at UW-Whitewater and has a black and white author photo. But, who cares about the author photo when there is a dog nose on the cover. Woof!
One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern. Woman researches a list of names left behind by her dead friend. Ahern has a fancy author photo but it's a real tiny one.
Goodnight June by Sarah Jio. Fictionalization of the writing of Goonight, Moon.
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson. Social worker in Montana helps out feral kid with crazy, survivalist dad. Author has Henderson in a pocket T looking unhappy.
What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins.Girl in 19th Century loses four sense to Scarlet Fever and becomes famous. Elkins has a small color photo like Ahern does.
Smoke at Dawn by Jeff Shaara. More Civil War. This novel has some nice, heavy paper. Shaara lives in Gettysburg. Brett, the Library Director for Waupun Public Library, went with his re-enactor group to Gettysburg last year.
Hot Fudge Frame-Up by Christine DeSmet. Cozy mystery set in Door County. We conversed with DeSmet about her teaching a writing workshop here but she was unavailable.
The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Some sort of SciFi with Yellowstone erupting.
The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett. Boy Charlie not a girl Charlie.
Large Print
Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler.
Resistant by Michael Palmer.
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King.
Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea. SciFi with guns. Former mercenary runs a island holiday resort and a former colleague sends assassins after her. No author photo.
Red Room by Ridley Pearson. Espionage in Constantinople, Turkey with private security guy. Wait. Istanbul, I meant Istanbul. Small black and white photo of author.
Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry. Some stuff about President Lincoln, modern day Utah and some secret. Color author photo across the whole back cover with Berry leaning on a pillar.
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Part of her Outlander series in 1778 during the Revolutionary War. Color photo on back with Gabaldon in the snow.
One and Only by Emily Giffin. Didn't Giffin just have another book come out? Nope, last one was 2012. Why is her name so familiar. Oh, well. Her author photo covers the back and I like her photographer's work. The photo has nice color and her face is in focus but her hands and shoulders seem to be just slightly out of focus drawing your eye to her face.
The Dog Year by Ann Garvin. Tightly wound surgeon has to go into twelve step program. Garvin teaches at UW-Whitewater and has a black and white author photo. But, who cares about the author photo when there is a dog nose on the cover. Woof!
One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern. Woman researches a list of names left behind by her dead friend. Ahern has a fancy author photo but it's a real tiny one.
Goodnight June by Sarah Jio. Fictionalization of the writing of Goonight, Moon.
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson. Social worker in Montana helps out feral kid with crazy, survivalist dad. Author has Henderson in a pocket T looking unhappy.
What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins.Girl in 19th Century loses four sense to Scarlet Fever and becomes famous. Elkins has a small color photo like Ahern does.
Smoke at Dawn by Jeff Shaara. More Civil War. This novel has some nice, heavy paper. Shaara lives in Gettysburg. Brett, the Library Director for Waupun Public Library, went with his re-enactor group to Gettysburg last year.
Hot Fudge Frame-Up by Christine DeSmet. Cozy mystery set in Door County. We conversed with DeSmet about her teaching a writing workshop here but she was unavailable.
The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Some sort of SciFi with Yellowstone erupting.
The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett. Boy Charlie not a girl Charlie.
Large Print
Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler.
Resistant by Michael Palmer.
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Nine Garfields and Two Marvels and No Gischler
NonFiction
Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 5 by Jim Davis. Includes Food for Thought, Swallows His Pride, Worldwide.
Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 2 by Jim Davis. Includes Weighs In, Takes the Cake, Eats His Heart Out.
Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 14 by Jim Davis. Includes Survival of the Fattest, Older and Wider, Pigs Out.
Marvel Encyclopedia Updated and Expanded edited by Alastair Dougall. 2014 update. We bought two copies, one for children and one for adults. No mention of Victor Gischler in the index.
Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit: a step-by-step legal guide, 3rd edition by Peri Pakroo, JD. Replacing an old copy. No mention of Victor Gischler in this one either.
Audiobooks on CD
Bill Cosby ...Far From Finished by Bill Cosby. This is actually a comedy album, not an audiobook. But, I put comedy albums in the audiobook section. I doubt Victor Gischler is mentioned.
Obsessed by Jim Gaffigan. Another comedy album.
White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. 11 CDs at 13 hours. Some sort of mystery or thriller.
DVD
Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg. Shoot-em-up in Afghanistan.
Robocop starring Shoot-em-up in Detroit.
Jack Irish: set 1 starring Guy Pearce. Noir-em-up in Australia.
Veronica Mars starring Kristen Bell. Noir-em-up in Neptune.
Loves Her Gun starring Trieste Kelly Dunn. Shoot-em-up in Austin.
The Hobbit: desolation of Smaug starring Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves. Sword-em-up in Middle Earth. Still no Victor Gischler.
Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 5 by Jim Davis. Includes Food for Thought, Swallows His Pride, Worldwide.
Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 2 by Jim Davis. Includes Weighs In, Takes the Cake, Eats His Heart Out.
Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 14 by Jim Davis. Includes Survival of the Fattest, Older and Wider, Pigs Out.
Marvel Encyclopedia Updated and Expanded edited by Alastair Dougall. 2014 update. We bought two copies, one for children and one for adults. No mention of Victor Gischler in the index.
Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit: a step-by-step legal guide, 3rd edition by Peri Pakroo, JD. Replacing an old copy. No mention of Victor Gischler in this one either.
Audiobooks on CD
Bill Cosby ...Far From Finished by Bill Cosby. This is actually a comedy album, not an audiobook. But, I put comedy albums in the audiobook section. I doubt Victor Gischler is mentioned.
Obsessed by Jim Gaffigan. Another comedy album.
White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. 11 CDs at 13 hours. Some sort of mystery or thriller.
DVD
Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg. Shoot-em-up in Afghanistan.
Robocop starring Shoot-em-up in Detroit.
Jack Irish: set 1 starring Guy Pearce. Noir-em-up in Australia.
Veronica Mars starring Kristen Bell. Noir-em-up in Neptune.
Loves Her Gun starring Trieste Kelly Dunn. Shoot-em-up in Austin.
The Hobbit: desolation of Smaug starring Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves. Sword-em-up in Middle Earth. Still no Victor Gischler.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Megan Abbott's New Book, Other Stuff, Smiths Obsession
Abbott
The Fever by Megan Abbott. A mysterious illness strikes the girls in a small town high school. Panic happens when no one can diagnose the cause. Another assuredly engrossing Abbott novel.
Wait a Minute
Did you say Panic?
Panic - The Smiths from Larry Darrell on Vimeo.
Fiction
Stormy Persuasion by Johanna Lindsey. Muscular male model with long hair has blond
woman groping him on a rainy sailing ship as they hang the blessed DJ.
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner. Roller coaster in the clouds of a provincial town.
The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Nice illustration by Christopher Lin who slides down leaf lined streets.
That Night by Chevv Stevens. Leaf in water. Burn down the disco.
Nantucket Sisters by Nancy Thayer. Large fabric bags on the beach with flip flop shoes. It says nothing to me about my life.
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman. Womans legs from the shins down with fallen ice cream cone on pavement. But, Honey Pie, you're not safe here.
Mystery
Terminal City by Linda Fairstein. Elevated view of big stone building in some city. So you run down to the safety of the town.
Prayer by Philip Kerr. Wind vane with a dragon on top of the provincial towns you jog around.
Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich. But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle.
The Fever by Megan Abbott. A mysterious illness strikes the girls in a small town high school. Panic happens when no one can diagnose the cause. Another assuredly engrossing Abbott novel.
Wait a Minute
Did you say Panic?
Panic - The Smiths from Larry Darrell on Vimeo.
Fiction
Stormy Persuasion by Johanna Lindsey. Muscular male model with long hair has blond
woman groping him on a rainy sailing ship as they hang the blessed DJ.
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner. Roller coaster in the clouds of a provincial town.
The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Nice illustration by Christopher Lin who slides down leaf lined streets.
That Night by Chevv Stevens. Leaf in water. Burn down the disco.
Nantucket Sisters by Nancy Thayer. Large fabric bags on the beach with flip flop shoes. It says nothing to me about my life.
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman. Womans legs from the shins down with fallen ice cream cone on pavement. But, Honey Pie, you're not safe here.
Mystery
Terminal City by Linda Fairstein. Elevated view of big stone building in some city. So you run down to the safety of the town.
Prayer by Philip Kerr. Wind vane with a dragon on top of the provincial towns you jog around.
Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich. But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle.
Friday, June 13, 2014
Whoops, More Music, More Music, More Music
Compact Discs Continue To Spin and a Laser Continues to Read Digital Signals
Nobody Knows by the Len Price 3. British singer sings more great rock tunes.
Ready Steady Go by Jake Bell. Former kid actor sings songs of modern rockabilly. I saw a reference of this guy on the Allmusic.com page.
Stockholm by Chrissie Hynde. Ohio woman sings songs of Sweden.
Platinum by Miranda Lambert. Country pop singer sings songs country twang.
Nobody Knows by the Len Price 3. British singer sings more great rock tunes.
Ready Steady Go by Jake Bell. Former kid actor sings songs of modern rockabilly. I saw a reference of this guy on the Allmusic.com page.
Stockholm by Chrissie Hynde. Ohio woman sings songs of Sweden.
Platinum by Miranda Lambert. Country pop singer sings songs country twang.
Music old and new
Compact Discs Are Decoded by Lasers and Computers To Play Music
The Best of Three Dog Night by Three Dog Night. 1970s singing by 1970s singers. This is a replacement copy for the one that went out all the time.
Repeat After Me by Los Amigos Invisibles. Peruvian Disco Men From Outer Space sing songs in Spanish.
The Best of Three Dog Night by Three Dog Night. 1970s singing by 1970s singers. This is a replacement copy for the one that went out all the time.
Repeat After Me by Los Amigos Invisibles. Peruvian Disco Men From Outer Space sing songs in Spanish.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Sam Hawken Repeat
Fiction
Tequila Sunset by Sam Hawken. I ordered a second copy by mistake. Since all paperbacks are processed by the vendor I cannot send them back. Oh well. More opportunity for you to read this crime novel set in Northern Mexico. I read Hawken's first novel but cannot recall which characters survived or if they appear in here.
Audiobook on CD
Hollow City: the second novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. 11.5 hourson 10 CDs. Weirdness with last books characters traveling to London. Includes a disc of PDF images.
Tequila Sunset by Sam Hawken. I ordered a second copy by mistake. Since all paperbacks are processed by the vendor I cannot send them back. Oh well. More opportunity for you to read this crime novel set in Northern Mexico. I read Hawken's first novel but cannot recall which characters survived or if they appear in here.
Audiobook on CD
Hollow City: the second novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. 11.5 hourson 10 CDs. Weirdness with last books characters traveling to London. Includes a disc of PDF images.
Monday, June 09, 2014
Many New Things. Package 3 of 3.
NonFiction
I Don't Know Where You Know Me From: confessions of a co-star by Judy Greer. I know her from Archer for which she voices the character Cheryl Trunt. Page 138 says, "Like if you see a photo of a celeb walking down the street holding an Arby's shake, first of all, those shakes are delicious, so celebrities should walk around with them, but second of all, they were probably paid by Arby's to do it. They, most likely, had their hair and makeup done too, and I'll bet you my entire brass snail collection that there is water in that shake cup (Smartwater because Coca-Cola has deals with celebrities, and celebrities don't eat dairy). I know that some oft-papped stars drive miles and miles out of their way so they can be photographed at pre-arranged locations."
Social Security, Meidcare and Government Pensions: get the most out of your retirement and medical benefits by Joseph Matthews.
Mayo Clinic Book of Alternative Medicine and Home Remedies, second edition edited by Brent Bauer, M.D.
Everything Guide to Online Genealogy, 3rd edition by Kimberly Powell.
Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 8 by Jim Davis. Because kids love Garfield.
Large Print
I Don't Know Where You Know Me From: confessions of a co-star by Judy Greer. I know her from Archer for which she voices the character Cheryl Trunt. Page 138 says, "Like if you see a photo of a celeb walking down the street holding an Arby's shake, first of all, those shakes are delicious, so celebrities should walk around with them, but second of all, they were probably paid by Arby's to do it. They, most likely, had their hair and makeup done too, and I'll bet you my entire brass snail collection that there is water in that shake cup (Smartwater because Coca-Cola has deals with celebrities, and celebrities don't eat dairy). I know that some oft-papped stars drive miles and miles out of their way so they can be photographed at pre-arranged locations."
Social Security, Meidcare and Government Pensions: get the most out of your retirement and medical benefits by Joseph Matthews.
Mayo Clinic Book of Alternative Medicine and Home Remedies, second edition edited by Brent Bauer, M.D.
Everything Guide to Online Genealogy, 3rd edition by Kimberly Powell.
Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 8 by Jim Davis. Because kids love Garfield.
Large Print
Many New Things. Package 2 of 3.
Fiction
Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst. More excellent European espionage in 1938.
Mr. Merecdes by Stephen King. Megan Abbott wrote a review.
Euphoira by Lily King. Huh, this King lives in Maine. I don't think there is a connection unless it's one of Tabitha and Stephen King's kids or kids-in-law. Anthropologists in 1930s New Guinea. Sounds neat as lonely scientists are wearying of their work.
The Vacationers by Emma Straub. Former Wisconsinite writes another novel. A family on vacation in Mallorca bring their problems along.
Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes. What color is that sweater Grimes is wearing in her author photo? Violet? Pink? Pink-Violet? Mauve? It's a nice color but I should cannot name it.
The Keeper by John Lescroart. I can name Lescroart's shirt colors. Grey and black. Because the author photo is black and white.
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch. Famous actor dies on operating table and the doctor tells tale of doctor's bad vacation in France at actor's home.
China Dolls by Lisa See. Ethnic Chinese women meet in 1939 San Francisco. Lisa See wore blue and white for her photo.
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith. Adult child is split between his father and mom and father says mom is psychotic and mom says dad is a villain.
A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton. Same photo for Hamilton. She is dressed in black and sitting sideways in a director's chair. One over the knew, high-heeled boot is kicked up high.
Mystery
Tequila Sunset by Sam Hawken. Crime novel set in Ciudad Juarez. I read the first in the series and it was fairly decent.
Strangling on the Stage by Simon Brett. Brett's books have been big here.
Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst. More excellent European espionage in 1938.
Mr. Merecdes by Stephen King. Megan Abbott wrote a review.
Euphoira by Lily King. Huh, this King lives in Maine. I don't think there is a connection unless it's one of Tabitha and Stephen King's kids or kids-in-law. Anthropologists in 1930s New Guinea. Sounds neat as lonely scientists are wearying of their work.
The Vacationers by Emma Straub. Former Wisconsinite writes another novel. A family on vacation in Mallorca bring their problems along.
Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes. What color is that sweater Grimes is wearing in her author photo? Violet? Pink? Pink-Violet? Mauve? It's a nice color but I should cannot name it.
The Keeper by John Lescroart. I can name Lescroart's shirt colors. Grey and black. Because the author photo is black and white.
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch. Famous actor dies on operating table and the doctor tells tale of doctor's bad vacation in France at actor's home.
China Dolls by Lisa See. Ethnic Chinese women meet in 1939 San Francisco. Lisa See wore blue and white for her photo.
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith. Adult child is split between his father and mom and father says mom is psychotic and mom says dad is a villain.
A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton. Same photo for Hamilton. She is dressed in black and sitting sideways in a director's chair. One over the knew, high-heeled boot is kicked up high.
Mystery
Tequila Sunset by Sam Hawken. Crime novel set in Ciudad Juarez. I read the first in the series and it was fairly decent.
Strangling on the Stage by Simon Brett. Brett's books have been big here.
Many New Things. Package 1 of 3.
DVD
Easy Money: Life Deluxe starring [Swedes]. More Swedish crime based off the Swedish series of Swedish novels by a Swede. I really enjoyed the first novel in the series. I bet the second would have sold better in the U.S. if the translated title was not kept as Never Fuck Up.
Anchorman 2: The legend continues starring [comic actors]. Dang, I missed pre-ordering this one.
Pompeii starring Keifer Sutherland and [bunch of B actors]. Muscular guy plays gladiator saves girl as volcano Explooooodes!
Jack Irish: Set 2 starring Guy Pierece and [Australians]. Recommended by Max Allan Collins. I read one of the original books, Bad Debts, and this series is based off the novels featuring an Australian P.I. Set 1 (Season 1) is in transit to us
Eastbound and Down starring Danny McBride. Washed up major league pitcher still a jackape.
Audiobooks on CD
Joe Ledger: Special Ops by Jonathan Maberry. More mad scientists, terrorists, assassins, and evil politicians are defeated by Captain Joe Ledger. Ledger should go after Maberry for Maberry's Facebook posting mania. The Ledger series is fun and the narrator, Ray Porter, really chews up the narration.
Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus. I'm not sure what this is. Something about a serial killer in Frankfurt.
Sniper's Honor by Stephen Hunter. Sniping snipers snipe.
Suspicion by Joseph Finder. Guy needing money for his daughter's tuition accepts personal loan and DEA goes after him for taking drug money.
Easy Money: Life Deluxe starring [Swedes]. More Swedish crime based off the Swedish series of Swedish novels by a Swede. I really enjoyed the first novel in the series. I bet the second would have sold better in the U.S. if the translated title was not kept as Never Fuck Up.
Anchorman 2: The legend continues starring [comic actors]. Dang, I missed pre-ordering this one.
Pompeii starring Keifer Sutherland and [bunch of B actors]. Muscular guy plays gladiator saves girl as volcano Explooooodes!
Jack Irish: Set 2 starring Guy Pierece and [Australians]. Recommended by Max Allan Collins. I read one of the original books, Bad Debts, and this series is based off the novels featuring an Australian P.I. Set 1 (Season 1) is in transit to us
Eastbound and Down starring Danny McBride. Washed up major league pitcher still a jackape.
Audiobooks on CD
Joe Ledger: Special Ops by Jonathan Maberry. More mad scientists, terrorists, assassins, and evil politicians are defeated by Captain Joe Ledger. Ledger should go after Maberry for Maberry's Facebook posting mania. The Ledger series is fun and the narrator, Ray Porter, really chews up the narration.
Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus. I'm not sure what this is. Something about a serial killer in Frankfurt.
Sniper's Honor by Stephen Hunter. Sniping snipers snipe.
Suspicion by Joseph Finder. Guy needing money for his daughter's tuition accepts personal loan and DEA goes after him for taking drug money.
Thursday, June 05, 2014
Wisconsin Stuff and WWII
DVD
Monuments Men starring Bill Murrary, John Goodman. Famous actors pretend to be museum curators and art historians while carrying guns.
NonFiction
One Room Schools: stories from the days of 1 room, 1 teacher, 8 grades by Susan Apps-Bodilly. APage 89 says, "However, he came to the school's program each year."
Wheel Fever: how Wisconsin became a great bicycling state by Jesse J. Gant and Nicholas J. Hoffman. Page 106 says,"Not all clubs were competitive."
Indian Nations of Wisconsin: histories of endurance and renewal by Patty Loew. Page 150 says, "As had occurred following the Pequot War, surviving Natives who had opposed the colonists were sold into slavery or absorbed into other tribes."
Monuments Men starring Bill Murrary, John Goodman. Famous actors pretend to be museum curators and art historians while carrying guns.
NonFiction
One Room Schools: stories from the days of 1 room, 1 teacher, 8 grades by Susan Apps-Bodilly. APage 89 says, "However, he came to the school's program each year."
Wheel Fever: how Wisconsin became a great bicycling state by Jesse J. Gant and Nicholas J. Hoffman. Page 106 says,"Not all clubs were competitive."
Indian Nations of Wisconsin: histories of endurance and renewal by Patty Loew. Page 150 says, "As had occurred following the Pequot War, surviving Natives who had opposed the colonists were sold into slavery or absorbed into other tribes."
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
Scott Phillips Returns With A New Novel
Fiction
Hop Alley by Scott Phillips. I missed the pre-publication notices on this one and lucked out by seeing a review in the New York Times Book Review. Phillips specializes in unsavory male protagonists who do good despite their own selfish natures. It's 1890 Denver and low-rent photographer Bill Ogden, from Phillips's Cottonwood, is dodging trouble with a drug addicted girlfriend and violent neighborhood.
Dead Lil' Hustler by Victoria Houston. Another fishing themed mystery in Wisconsin's Northwoods.
Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. That's weird. This Cussler cover doesn't have big fiery explosions all over the front.
Suspicion by Joseph Finder. Finder is not wearing a tie for his author photo. You know who Finder reminds me of? Allison Moorer. Only because this Moorer song is playing right now on my computer.
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. Hayes scripted The Road Warrior. The Lord Humongous is a reasonable man.
SciFi/Fantasy
Ancillary Justice by Ann Lecke. This just won a big award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Future artificial intelligence lives inside people. Or something.
Skin Game by Jim Butcher. Guy on the cover has a Colt revolver with an 8" barrel. I don't know those revolvers well enough to identify the model.
Hop Alley by Scott Phillips. I missed the pre-publication notices on this one and lucked out by seeing a review in the New York Times Book Review. Phillips specializes in unsavory male protagonists who do good despite their own selfish natures. It's 1890 Denver and low-rent photographer Bill Ogden, from Phillips's Cottonwood, is dodging trouble with a drug addicted girlfriend and violent neighborhood.
Dead Lil' Hustler by Victoria Houston. Another fishing themed mystery in Wisconsin's Northwoods.
Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. That's weird. This Cussler cover doesn't have big fiery explosions all over the front.
Suspicion by Joseph Finder. Finder is not wearing a tie for his author photo. You know who Finder reminds me of? Allison Moorer. Only because this Moorer song is playing right now on my computer.
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. Hayes scripted The Road Warrior. The Lord Humongous is a reasonable man.
SciFi/Fantasy
Ancillary Justice by Ann Lecke. This just won a big award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Future artificial intelligence lives inside people. Or something.
Skin Game by Jim Butcher. Guy on the cover has a Colt revolver with an 8" barrel. I don't know those revolvers well enough to identify the model.
Monday, June 02, 2014
Orange Blues
DVD
Orange is the New Black: Season One starring [no actorr names on box]. Woman goes to prison and has adventures.
Computerized Music Sounds For You to Listen To If You Have a "CD Player"
Storyline by Hunter Hayes. Is this a TV actor turned musician? Am I thinking of someone else? Nope. Allmusic.com says he was first signed up when he was 19. This video if the first result off a YouTube search. Lousiana singer sings songs without Louisiana accent.
In My Soul by The Robert Cray Band. Blues singer sings songs of sadness and joy. I heard about this because I follow The Verbs online. The lead "Verbie" is married to this album's producer.
Huh, Speak of the devil. The producer is in this album promo at 1:06
Album track.
Orange is the New Black: Season One starring [no actorr names on box]. Woman goes to prison and has adventures.
Computerized Music Sounds For You to Listen To If You Have a "CD Player"
Storyline by Hunter Hayes. Is this a TV actor turned musician? Am I thinking of someone else? Nope. Allmusic.com says he was first signed up when he was 19. This video if the first result off a YouTube search. Lousiana singer sings songs without Louisiana accent.
In My Soul by The Robert Cray Band. Blues singer sings songs of sadness and joy. I heard about this because I follow The Verbs online. The lead "Verbie" is married to this album's producer.
Huh, Speak of the devil. The producer is in this album promo at 1:06
Album track.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Awkward Garden Sale
DVD
Garage Sale Mystery starring Lori Loughlin. Garage sale shopper walks into a murder mystery.
Good Witch's Garden starring Catherine Bell. Some woman, her boyfriend, and a guy claiming ownership of her home.
That Awkward Moment starring Zac Efron, Miles Teller. Sex comedy for twenty year olds.
About Time starring Bill Nighy. Sappy chick-flick.
Garage Sale Mystery starring Lori Loughlin. Garage sale shopper walks into a murder mystery.
Good Witch's Garden starring Catherine Bell. Some woman, her boyfriend, and a guy claiming ownership of her home.
That Awkward Moment starring Zac Efron, Miles Teller. Sex comedy for twenty year olds.
About Time starring Bill Nighy. Sappy chick-flick.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Digital Wedding Music
NonFiction
The Essential Digital Interview Handbook by Paul J. Bailo. Strategies for online and video interviews.
Complete Guide to a Traditional Wedding by Diane Warner. Page 119 says, "One of the best ways to find a rabbi who will officiate at an interfaith marriage is to ask around."
Performers in a Room Record Their Sounds Into Microphones That Relay That Sound Into Computers That Transcribe Those Sounds Into Digital Language Then Transcribe That Digital Language Onto a Thing Layer of Metal Which is Embedded into a Round Piece of Plastic.
Rewind by Rascal Flatts. Singers with expensive haircuts sing country songs.
A Dotted Line by Nickel Creek. Country singers sing songs saying, "No, that's Nickelback, we're Nickel Creek."
Recess by Skrillex. Computer guy with bad hair makes computer sounds.
Put Your Needle Down by Secret Sisters. Sisters sing songs they wrote plus a Dylan cover.
Turn Blue by The Black Keys. Guys from Ohio sings songs of modern blues.
Ghost Stories by Coldplay. English singers sing in English.
Indie Cindy by The Pixies. Punkey singers sing songs.
The Essential Digital Interview Handbook by Paul J. Bailo. Strategies for online and video interviews.
Complete Guide to a Traditional Wedding by Diane Warner. Page 119 says, "One of the best ways to find a rabbi who will officiate at an interfaith marriage is to ask around."
Performers in a Room Record Their Sounds Into Microphones That Relay That Sound Into Computers That Transcribe Those Sounds Into Digital Language Then Transcribe That Digital Language Onto a Thing Layer of Metal Which is Embedded into a Round Piece of Plastic.
Rewind by Rascal Flatts. Singers with expensive haircuts sing country songs.
A Dotted Line by Nickel Creek. Country singers sing songs saying, "No, that's Nickelback, we're Nickel Creek."
Recess by Skrillex. Computer guy with bad hair makes computer sounds.
Put Your Needle Down by Secret Sisters. Sisters sing songs they wrote plus a Dylan cover.
Turn Blue by The Black Keys. Guys from Ohio sings songs of modern blues.
Ghost Stories by Coldplay. English singers sing in English.
Indie Cindy by The Pixies. Punkey singers sing songs.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Four Movies and A Music Device
DVD
Ride Along starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. Buddy comedy.
August: Osage County starring Obi-Won Kenobi. Oscar bait with an awful title.
Book Thief starring Geoffrey Rush. Drama with nazis.
Saving Mr. Banks starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks. Made-up movie pretending whats-her-face approved of the Mary Poppins adaptation.
Singing and Music Recorded With Computers and Played Back by Computers.
Stand Beside Me by Daniel O'Donnell. Irish singer sings Irish songs of Ireland, a polka, and Marty Robbins.
Ride Along starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. Buddy comedy.
August: Osage County starring Obi-Won Kenobi. Oscar bait with an awful title.
Book Thief starring Geoffrey Rush. Drama with nazis.
Saving Mr. Banks starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks. Made-up movie pretending whats-her-face approved of the Mary Poppins adaptation.
Singing and Music Recorded With Computers and Played Back by Computers.
Stand Beside Me by Daniel O'Donnell. Irish singer sings Irish songs of Ireland, a polka, and Marty Robbins.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Musical Interlude
Musical Interlude
Nothing of note today. A new Len Price 3 album is in the pipeline. Prepare with this piece from 2005's Chinese Burn.
Nothing of note today. A new Len Price 3 album is in the pipeline. Prepare with this piece from 2005's Chinese Burn.
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