NonFiction
Guitar Theory for Dummies by Desi Serna. Music books can be hit and miss but guitar topics tends to circ'. Video demos are online, which is neat since DVDs and CDs are a drag to physically process with the book.
Spruce: a step-by-step guide to upholstery and design by Amanda Brown. Make your own furniture.Lots of photos. My couch really needs to be recovered. We have not found any recommended upholsterers. Project 4 is "three-seater tune-up" for couches. Heck, I don't even have a sewing machine.
Ultimate One-Pot Cookbook by Jenni Fleetwood. Because these cookbooks are popular.
Women's Health Big Book of Pilates: essential guide to total-body fitness by Brooke Siler. Using resistance bands, steps, balls, and hand weights while wearing really tight clothes.
iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c: the fast and easy way to learn by Guy Hart-Davis. A fat chance in heck I'll buy one of these.
3D Printing by Terence O'Neill and Josh Williams. I'm thinking of buying one for the library. I want to write up a proposal to ask local engineering and manufacturing firms if they would like to help cover the cost.
Makerspaces by Samantha Roslund and Emily Puckett Rodgers. The hip and now thing for libraries to join. Before this was Twitter and Facebook. Before that was YouTube. Before that was web pages. Before that was VHS. Before that was filmstrips. Before that was microfilm. Before that was papyrus.
Human Body: Investigating an unexplained death by Andrew Solway. Forensic medicine.
A World After: super-plague by Anne Rooney. How it could or would happen. Infection spreading, hospitals overwhelmed, vaccinations not forthcoming, riots, mad dogs, blood in the streets, religious fervor, looted liquor stores, feral cats, manic squirrels, everyone out of batteries.
Comic Book Fiction
Star Wars: lost Tribe of the Sith by John Jackson Miller. The planet Kesh is home to the lost Sith tribe. Female Sith do not like loose clothing.
Half-Off All Fines Today
Thursday, January 02, 2014
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Lansdale, The Dead Man, and Me
Musicians Play Music That is Recorded by Computer, the Music is Electronically Processed and Then Inscribed With Digital Designs Onto a Thin Metal Disc Sandwiched Between Plastic Layers
Restless by Kasey Lansdale. Singers sings songs of country. "Another Lansdale?" you say. "Yeah," I say. "Why not? We've got all of His Ownself's recent books. We even have a movie his son did." Here is Lansdale in Italy. Lansdales, apparently, are big in Italy.
Fiction
The Dead Man: volume 6: Colder Than Hell: Evil to Burn: Streets of Blood by Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin, Anthony Neil Smith, Lisa Klink, and Barry Napier. Latest print editions of the e-book originals. Klink wrote an earlier Dead Man novella, Slaves to Evil. I read that hoping it would stink and I could write Klink goes clunk. But, the story was good, so I didn't. Smith has a story in here that I've put off reading because I think the e-book stuff is a hassle.
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon. This is actually a kid's book. But I already incorporated the book title into into the blog post title and I don't want to change anything. Girl thinks a gator-man killed someone.
Wait a minute... Lansdale? Dead Man? Gator-man? This is like some weird Bill Crider sneak attack.
Restless by Kasey Lansdale. Singers sings songs of country. "Another Lansdale?" you say. "Yeah," I say. "Why not? We've got all of His Ownself's recent books. We even have a movie his son did." Here is Lansdale in Italy. Lansdales, apparently, are big in Italy.
Fiction
The Dead Man: volume 6: Colder Than Hell: Evil to Burn: Streets of Blood by Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin, Anthony Neil Smith, Lisa Klink, and Barry Napier. Latest print editions of the e-book originals. Klink wrote an earlier Dead Man novella, Slaves to Evil. I read that hoping it would stink and I could write Klink goes clunk. But, the story was good, so I didn't. Smith has a story in here that I've put off reading because I think the e-book stuff is a hassle.
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon. This is actually a kid's book. But I already incorporated the book title into into the blog post title and I don't want to change anything. Girl thinks a gator-man killed someone.
Wait a minute... Lansdale? Dead Man? Gator-man? This is like some weird Bill Crider sneak attack.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Two Musics, Two Nonfics
Melodies and Voices Purposefully Blended Together and Then Recorded
Wildewoman by Lucius. Two girl singers sing songs of pop. I think they might be hipsters. They live in Brooklyn. I cannot recall how I came to order this. When looking them up I found a brief radio interview.
I Will Be Me by Dave Davies. Guitarist plays songs and sings lyrics. I presume this song is about how he razored his amp to change the sound.
NonFiction
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: what everyone needs to know by P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman. "Provide[s] the kind of wasy-to-read yet deeply informative resource book that has been missing on this crucial issue of 21st century life."
Hydrofracking: what everyone needs to know by Alex Prud'homme. My cousin started a drilling services company and does a lot of work with hydrofracturing operations. He was mentioning how the method is only worthwhile because oil and gas prices are high. He said that about 1.5 years ago though, maybe extraction costs are down.
Musical Interlude Extra
I got to thinking about The Kinks.
One Davies sister moved to Australia. They missed her.
I had thought David Watts was joke about a guy dating another sister. I just read a different story that was a pal of the band. Heck if I know the truth, the sources are murky.
Last one.
Wildewoman by Lucius. Two girl singers sing songs of pop. I think they might be hipsters. They live in Brooklyn. I cannot recall how I came to order this. When looking them up I found a brief radio interview.
I Will Be Me by Dave Davies. Guitarist plays songs and sings lyrics. I presume this song is about how he razored his amp to change the sound.
NonFiction
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: what everyone needs to know by P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman. "Provide[s] the kind of wasy-to-read yet deeply informative resource book that has been missing on this crucial issue of 21st century life."
Hydrofracking: what everyone needs to know by Alex Prud'homme. My cousin started a drilling services company and does a lot of work with hydrofracturing operations. He was mentioning how the method is only worthwhile because oil and gas prices are high. He said that about 1.5 years ago though, maybe extraction costs are down.
Musical Interlude Extra
I got to thinking about The Kinks.
One Davies sister moved to Australia. They missed her.
I had thought David Watts was joke about a guy dating another sister. I just read a different story that was a pal of the band. Heck if I know the truth, the sources are murky.
Last one.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Music Old and New
Voices and Sounds Created for Harmony, Recorded on Computers, Transferred into a Thin Data Disc Sandwiched into Plastic
Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Soundtrack with Coldplay, National, etc. Song singers not mood music.
Frozen: Soundtrack by Kristen Bell, other cast members. Singers sing songs from flick and mood music included.
The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground. Weird people sing songs from long ago (1967) and far away (New York).
Shangri-La by Jake Bugg. English singer sings songs, plays guitar, gets famous.
Prism by Katy Perry. Singer sings songs of pop and pretends to roar.
Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Soundtrack with Coldplay, National, etc. Song singers not mood music.
Frozen: Soundtrack by Kristen Bell, other cast members. Singers sing songs from flick and mood music included.
The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground. Weird people sing songs from long ago (1967) and far away (New York).
Shangri-La by Jake Bugg. English singer sings songs, plays guitar, gets famous.
Prism by Katy Perry. Singer sings songs of pop and pretends to roar.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Horror and Religion
DVD
Now You See Me starring [big names]. Magicians steal stuff and give it away.
The Family starring [more big names]. Mafia family moves to France and causes trouble.
Nothing Left to Fear starring Anne Heche and Clancy Brown.Family moves to small town Stull, Kansas and horror happens. Did they really film this in Kansas? I doubt it, let me check. Nope, according to credits on IMDB they filmed in Louisiana.
Doctor Who, Series seven: Part Two starring [English]. Part One must be around here somewhere.
Fast and Furious 6 starring [same guys as before]. I watched the one set in Brazil and it was fun driving and smashing and crashing and tough-guy-talk.
One Direction This is Us starring [English kids]. Boy group gets filmed doing boy group things.
Our Town starring Paul Newman. others. Stage production of the play.
Persuasion starring [English]. 1995 BBC Films dramatization of the Jane Austin novel. I never read the book. I've never seen any of the movies. I do like the Tim Finn song with the same title. Good luck finding a YouTube clip with good audio.
NonFiction
Marijuana Legalization: what everyone needs to know by Jonathan P. Caulkins, et al. "Provides readers with a non-partisan primer covering everything from the risks and benefits of using marijuana to the current laws, to the open scientific questions."
Understanding the Book of Mormon: a reader's guide by Grant Hardy. Page 324 says, " Let me try to clarify what I am claiming here and elsewhere in the chapter."
What everyone needs to know about Islam: answers to frequently asked questions, from one of America's leading experts by John L. Esposito. Page 36 says, "Muslims celebrate two great Islamic holidays."
Audiobook on CD
Cross my Heart by James Patterson. 9.5 hours on 8 CDs. Something about a policeman and murderers. This says Patterson lives in Florida.
Now You See Me starring [big names]. Magicians steal stuff and give it away.
The Family starring [more big names]. Mafia family moves to France and causes trouble.
Nothing Left to Fear starring Anne Heche and Clancy Brown.Family moves to small town Stull, Kansas and horror happens. Did they really film this in Kansas? I doubt it, let me check. Nope, according to credits on IMDB they filmed in Louisiana.
Doctor Who, Series seven: Part Two starring [English]. Part One must be around here somewhere.
Fast and Furious 6 starring [same guys as before]. I watched the one set in Brazil and it was fun driving and smashing and crashing and tough-guy-talk.
One Direction This is Us starring [English kids]. Boy group gets filmed doing boy group things.
Our Town starring Paul Newman. others. Stage production of the play.
Persuasion starring [English]. 1995 BBC Films dramatization of the Jane Austin novel. I never read the book. I've never seen any of the movies. I do like the Tim Finn song with the same title. Good luck finding a YouTube clip with good audio.
NonFiction
Marijuana Legalization: what everyone needs to know by Jonathan P. Caulkins, et al. "Provides readers with a non-partisan primer covering everything from the risks and benefits of using marijuana to the current laws, to the open scientific questions."
Understanding the Book of Mormon: a reader's guide by Grant Hardy. Page 324 says, " Let me try to clarify what I am claiming here and elsewhere in the chapter."
What everyone needs to know about Islam: answers to frequently asked questions, from one of America's leading experts by John L. Esposito. Page 36 says, "Muslims celebrate two great Islamic holidays."
Audiobook on CD
Cross my Heart by James Patterson. 9.5 hours on 8 CDs. Something about a policeman and murderers. This says Patterson lives in Florida.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Erotic Eric's End
DVD
At World's End starring [Limeys]. Guys go on pub crawl. Meet aliens.
Hangover, Part III starring [same people as last time]. Man, I never thought the first one was all that great. Except for Heather Graham.
Dead in Tombstone starring Danny Trejo, Anthony Michael Hall, Mickey Rourke. B-movie schlock that people like Bill Crider and Joe Bob Briggs live for.
We're the Millers starring [famous gal from Friends]. Guy has smuggle drugs in from Mexico. Guy hires people to be his fake family.
Fiction
Behind the Plaid: an erotic novel by Eliza Knight. I scanned through for the good parts but did not find them.
Eric of Aztalan by Ralph Milne Farley. Five facsimile reprints from pulp magazines of the '30s. The Milney pen-name was by Roger Sherman Hoar. The title story is from the January, 1939 issue of Golden Fleece. Someone in town saw this, bought it, and gave it to the library.
Audiobooks on CD
A Mist of Prophecies by Steven Saylor. 9.5 hours on 8 CDs. Saylor (no relation) continues his series about ancient Rome.
Murder as a Second Marriage by Joan Hess. 10 hours on 8 CDs. Woman is asked by her husband to help in murder investigation.
Double Image by David Morrell. 15.75 hours on 13 CDs. Photographer...memories... mystery... starlet... collide... eerily... life... killer..hell...identities...revenge...courage...gun.
Audiobooks on CD with Made-up Plots
Castles by Julie Garwood. 12.33 hours on 11 CDs. Alesandra knew that...hasty marriage...could protect her from...a wildfire.
Nightmare Range by Martin Limon. 13 hours on 11 CDs. Young...detective...assigned cases...with...best behavior...crime.
Twilight Zone: radio dramas: volume 16 by [various]. 4 hours on 3 CDs. Experience... dramatized...celebrities.
Tenth Witness by Leonard Rosen. 9 hours on 8 CDs. Engineering...in...1978...on a ship...developed by...Interpol.
Thorne by Lisa Jackson. 6.1666 hours on 5 CDs. Family ranch...hospital...passion...affects...happy ending?
At World's End starring [Limeys]. Guys go on pub crawl. Meet aliens.
Hangover, Part III starring [same people as last time]. Man, I never thought the first one was all that great. Except for Heather Graham.
Dead in Tombstone starring Danny Trejo, Anthony Michael Hall, Mickey Rourke. B-movie schlock that people like Bill Crider and Joe Bob Briggs live for.
We're the Millers starring [famous gal from Friends]. Guy has smuggle drugs in from Mexico. Guy hires people to be his fake family.
Fiction
Behind the Plaid: an erotic novel by Eliza Knight. I scanned through for the good parts but did not find them.
Eric of Aztalan by Ralph Milne Farley. Five facsimile reprints from pulp magazines of the '30s. The Milney pen-name was by Roger Sherman Hoar. The title story is from the January, 1939 issue of Golden Fleece. Someone in town saw this, bought it, and gave it to the library.
Audiobooks on CD
A Mist of Prophecies by Steven Saylor. 9.5 hours on 8 CDs. Saylor (no relation) continues his series about ancient Rome.
Murder as a Second Marriage by Joan Hess. 10 hours on 8 CDs. Woman is asked by her husband to help in murder investigation.
Double Image by David Morrell. 15.75 hours on 13 CDs. Photographer...memories... mystery... starlet... collide... eerily... life... killer..hell...identities...revenge...courage...gun.
Audiobooks on CD with Made-up Plots
Castles by Julie Garwood. 12.33 hours on 11 CDs. Alesandra knew that...hasty marriage...could protect her from...a wildfire.
Nightmare Range by Martin Limon. 13 hours on 11 CDs. Young...detective...assigned cases...with...best behavior...crime.
Twilight Zone: radio dramas: volume 16 by [various]. 4 hours on 3 CDs. Experience... dramatized...celebrities.
Tenth Witness by Leonard Rosen. 9 hours on 8 CDs. Engineering...in...1978...on a ship...developed by...Interpol.
Thorne by Lisa Jackson. 6.1666 hours on 5 CDs. Family ranch...hospital...passion...affects...happy ending?
Monday, December 16, 2013
Happy Marriage Divorce
NonFiction
Stop Fighting Over the Kids: resolving day-to-day custody conflict in divorce situations by Mike Mastracci. I rarely buy books from email solicitations. I bought this after reading positive reviews.
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett. "[Marriage as metaphor] Patchett has devoted her life to the people and ideals she loves the most." Author photo has her in bookstore digging through boxes.
The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: a child, an elder, and the light from an ancient sky by Kent Nerburn. Did I order this? I have no idea what this is.
A Reader's Book of Days: true tales from the lives and works of writers for every day of the year by Tom Nissley. I ordered this, too? No idea about this either. Let me look... Snoopy wrote to Miss Helen Sweetstory on April 9, 1971. In 2008, Will Heinrich said about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, "To call the dialogue wooden would be an insult to longbows and violins. An yet, I had no trouble finishing the book - on the contrary, I raced through it, even while I disliked it, and myself for reading it."
Death of Santini: the story of a father and his son by pat Conroy. If you read the book or saw the movie you know Conroy's fahter was a jerk-and-a-half. Conroy's dad did not mind the result, he traveled with Conroy to book signings and was happy to sign autographs. Here is something I just learned from the book, Pat Conroy has had some awful haircuts over the past 40 years.
Kaplan GED: 2014. Brand spanking new study guide.
Large Print
Command Authority by Tom Clancy.
Dust by Patricia Cornwell.
Innocence by Dean Koontz.
Stop Fighting Over the Kids: resolving day-to-day custody conflict in divorce situations by Mike Mastracci. I rarely buy books from email solicitations. I bought this after reading positive reviews.
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett. "[Marriage as metaphor] Patchett has devoted her life to the people and ideals she loves the most." Author photo has her in bookstore digging through boxes.
The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: a child, an elder, and the light from an ancient sky by Kent Nerburn. Did I order this? I have no idea what this is.
A Reader's Book of Days: true tales from the lives and works of writers for every day of the year by Tom Nissley. I ordered this, too? No idea about this either. Let me look... Snoopy wrote to Miss Helen Sweetstory on April 9, 1971. In 2008, Will Heinrich said about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, "To call the dialogue wooden would be an insult to longbows and violins. An yet, I had no trouble finishing the book - on the contrary, I raced through it, even while I disliked it, and myself for reading it."
Death of Santini: the story of a father and his son by pat Conroy. If you read the book or saw the movie you know Conroy's fahter was a jerk-and-a-half. Conroy's dad did not mind the result, he traveled with Conroy to book signings and was happy to sign autographs. Here is something I just learned from the book, Pat Conroy has had some awful haircuts over the past 40 years.
Kaplan GED: 2014. Brand spanking new study guide.
Large Print
Command Authority by Tom Clancy.
Dust by Patricia Cornwell.
Innocence by Dean Koontz.
Literary Fiction Sex Demon
Fiction
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. McBride is wearing a hat for his author photo. His bio says he graduated from Oberlin. My brother toured there on a college trip and I went along. I did not like the place.
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang. Bestselling South Korean short novel about a chicken who leaves the farm to lay an egg in the forest.
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford. "Nice cover design" says Gerard. "I live in Montana." says Mr. Ford's bio.
Brown Dog by Jim Harrison. Not to be confused with Black Dog.
Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips. Phillips's bio says she has won a lot of awards. Novel about a journalist in 1931 who works to help convict a murdering con man.
Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa Ione. Half-breed demon...assassin...earn freedom...on last kill...earthbound angel...handsome adversary...eternal chastity...passion...duty and desire.
The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten. Lady comes home to find her mother murdered, her daughter missing, and a dead man clutching a Luger pistol.
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. Futuristic fantasy. We own a lot of books with "bone" in the title.
Rag and Bone
Goliath Bone
Charlie Bone
Bone
Bone Bed
Winter's Bone
Rust and Bone
Give the Dog a Bone
Bone Vault
Jewelweed by David Rhodes.Wisconsin guy writes novel set in Wisconsin where it was this cold at 10:15 AM this morning.
Last Telegram by Liz Trenow. Something about World War Two.
Death of the Black Haired Girl by Robert Stone. Gerard says, "Married college professor ends affair with student." Stone says, "Don't pull my beard."
Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson. Gerard says, "Single mom falls for a guy who helps her during a robbery." Joshilyn says, "No, s-h-i-l-y-n."
Margot by Jillian Cantor. 1959 and Anne Frank's older sister, Margot, survived Bergen-Belsen and lives unknown in Philadelphia. Cantor's online bio says she loves coffee. Good.
Death Comes to the Village by Catherine Lloyd. Some sort of cozy mystery with a survivor of the Battle of Waterloo returning to his village in England.
Lies You Wanted to Hear by James Whitfield Thomson. "Explores the way good people talk themselves into doing seemingly unthinkable things." Thomson wrote his dissertation on Raymond Chandler and then writes literary fiction? C'mon, man.
The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly. Bootleggers in Mississippi.
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2013 edition edited by Rick Horton. These are popular.
Heritage of Darkness by Kathleen Ernst. Ernst did two programs at our library this past Spring. The American Girl themed program (Ernst writes those books, too) drew a massive crowd.
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. McBride is wearing a hat for his author photo. His bio says he graduated from Oberlin. My brother toured there on a college trip and I went along. I did not like the place.
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang. Bestselling South Korean short novel about a chicken who leaves the farm to lay an egg in the forest.
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford. "Nice cover design" says Gerard. "I live in Montana." says Mr. Ford's bio.
Brown Dog by Jim Harrison. Not to be confused with Black Dog.
Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips. Phillips's bio says she has won a lot of awards. Novel about a journalist in 1931 who works to help convict a murdering con man.
Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa Ione. Half-breed demon...assassin...earn freedom...on last kill...earthbound angel...handsome adversary...eternal chastity...passion...duty and desire.
The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten. Lady comes home to find her mother murdered, her daughter missing, and a dead man clutching a Luger pistol.
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. Futuristic fantasy. We own a lot of books with "bone" in the title.
Rag and Bone
Goliath Bone
Charlie Bone
Bone
Bone Bed
Winter's Bone
Rust and Bone
Give the Dog a Bone
Bone Vault
Jewelweed by David Rhodes.Wisconsin guy writes novel set in Wisconsin where it was this cold at 10:15 AM this morning.
Last Telegram by Liz Trenow. Something about World War Two.
Death of the Black Haired Girl by Robert Stone. Gerard says, "Married college professor ends affair with student." Stone says, "Don't pull my beard."
Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson. Gerard says, "Single mom falls for a guy who helps her during a robbery." Joshilyn says, "No, s-h-i-l-y-n."
Margot by Jillian Cantor. 1959 and Anne Frank's older sister, Margot, survived Bergen-Belsen and lives unknown in Philadelphia. Cantor's online bio says she loves coffee. Good.
Death Comes to the Village by Catherine Lloyd. Some sort of cozy mystery with a survivor of the Battle of Waterloo returning to his village in England.
Lies You Wanted to Hear by James Whitfield Thomson. "Explores the way good people talk themselves into doing seemingly unthinkable things." Thomson wrote his dissertation on Raymond Chandler and then writes literary fiction? C'mon, man.
The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly. Bootleggers in Mississippi.
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2013 edition edited by Rick Horton. These are popular.
Heritage of Darkness by Kathleen Ernst. Ernst did two programs at our library this past Spring. The American Girl themed program (Ernst writes those books, too) drew a massive crowd.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Musical Ice Skating Rink Interlude
Ice Skating
The Parks Department has been spraying the winter ice skating rink in Commons Park, across from the library. Here are some photos I was able to grab this week on the fly with my phone camera.
After the first layer or two of water
Spraying last night after the library closed
Last Night's Temperature as I walked home at 9 PM.
Musical Interlude
I was checking if Teddy Thompson had a new album coming any time soon. I found this instead.
The Parks Department has been spraying the winter ice skating rink in Commons Park, across from the library. Here are some photos I was able to grab this week on the fly with my phone camera.
After the first layer or two of water
Spraying last night after the library closed
Last Night's Temperature as I walked home at 9 PM.
Musical Interlude
I was checking if Teddy Thompson had a new album coming any time soon. I found this instead.
More Macaroni, Marcia?
Fiction
Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani. If you don't want to listen to the audiobook I listed yesterday you can read this instead. Author photo kinds looks lie a Google street view shot. Trigiani is posing on a outdoor stairway with an intersection behind her. A guy in a suit is in the crosswalk.
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III. How do you pronounce this guy's name? If you think that one is tough read the Acknowledgments, Kourosh Zomorodian.
Killer Ambition by Marcia Clark. Former prosecutor is putting out good crime novels. She was at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego last month. I was not. I was at the Cub Scout pancake breakfast for half the day.
Photo is from Jen's Book Blog.
White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The cover only says "Preston & Child". The dual author photo says, Just For Men. You know how I decide when to get my hair cut? When the gray hairs get too long they curl and stick out.
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat. Dang another one I have no idea how to pronounce. Danticat's hair is braided. The photo was taken by Jonathan Demme.
Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich. Second copy ordered by mistake. That's okay. People will read it.
NonFiction
Stitches: a handbook on meaning, hope and repair by Anne Lamott. Book cover says Lamott lives in Northern California. Author photo says Lamott lives on a commune.
Musical Interlude
BBC 6 Music is playing an older Adam Ant tune.
Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani. If you don't want to listen to the audiobook I listed yesterday you can read this instead. Author photo kinds looks lie a Google street view shot. Trigiani is posing on a outdoor stairway with an intersection behind her. A guy in a suit is in the crosswalk.
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III. How do you pronounce this guy's name? If you think that one is tough read the Acknowledgments, Kourosh Zomorodian.
Killer Ambition by Marcia Clark. Former prosecutor is putting out good crime novels. She was at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego last month. I was not. I was at the Cub Scout pancake breakfast for half the day.
White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The cover only says "Preston & Child". The dual author photo says, Just For Men. You know how I decide when to get my hair cut? When the gray hairs get too long they curl and stick out.
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat. Dang another one I have no idea how to pronounce. Danticat's hair is braided. The photo was taken by Jonathan Demme.
Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich. Second copy ordered by mistake. That's okay. People will read it.
NonFiction
Stitches: a handbook on meaning, hope and repair by Anne Lamott. Book cover says Lamott lives in Northern California. Author photo says Lamott lives on a commune.
Musical Interlude
BBC 6 Music is playing an older Adam Ant tune.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Wolverine Cowboy Hunters
DVD
Wolverine starring Australian, Japanese, Dutch. Wolverine is told a former Japanese soldier can help him out. Things happen, including a long, boring fight on top of a train.
Large Print
Merry Christmas, Cowboy by Janet Dailey. A romance. The phrase "happy endings" is used on the back cover.
No Escape by Mary Burton. Another serial killer novel.
Is This Tomorrow by Carline Leavitt. Sounds like someones needs to set their watch.
Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon. Korean moves to Brazil after the war.
Ready to Die by Lisa Jackson. Killer on the loose in Montana. Maybe a maniacal, murderous Montana moose?
Fallen Women by Sandra Dallas. And they can't get up.
Candlelight Christmas by Susan Wiggs. I hope their power did not go out. Our gas furnace has an electric start.
Songs of Christmas by Katherine Spencer. "But must she choose between her music and losing Gabriel forever?" Will I care?
Storm Front by John Sandford. Many murderous men in Minnesota.
Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye. Tragedy in Duluth. Or something. Booklist liked it, gave a starred review.
AudioBook on CD
Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani. 10 hours on 8 CDs. According to the internet Adriana Trigiani has curly hair and was born in Virginia.
Paperback
Secrets of a Runaway Bride by Valerie Bowman. According to the internet UFOs are flying out of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico.
Extra Copy
Sycamore Row by John Grisham. According to the internet President Truman kept an alien visit a secret.
Wolverine starring Australian, Japanese, Dutch. Wolverine is told a former Japanese soldier can help him out. Things happen, including a long, boring fight on top of a train.
Large Print
Merry Christmas, Cowboy by Janet Dailey. A romance. The phrase "happy endings" is used on the back cover.
No Escape by Mary Burton. Another serial killer novel.
Is This Tomorrow by Carline Leavitt. Sounds like someones needs to set their watch.
Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon. Korean moves to Brazil after the war.
Ready to Die by Lisa Jackson. Killer on the loose in Montana. Maybe a maniacal, murderous Montana moose?
Fallen Women by Sandra Dallas. And they can't get up.
Candlelight Christmas by Susan Wiggs. I hope their power did not go out. Our gas furnace has an electric start.
Songs of Christmas by Katherine Spencer. "But must she choose between her music and losing Gabriel forever?" Will I care?
Storm Front by John Sandford. Many murderous men in Minnesota.
Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye. Tragedy in Duluth. Or something. Booklist liked it, gave a starred review.
AudioBook on CD
Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani. 10 hours on 8 CDs. According to the internet Adriana Trigiani has curly hair and was born in Virginia.
Paperback
Secrets of a Runaway Bride by Valerie Bowman. According to the internet UFOs are flying out of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico.
Extra Copy
Sycamore Row by John Grisham. According to the internet President Truman kept an alien visit a secret.
Monday, December 09, 2013
Photo Version with Musical Accompaniment
Fiction
NonFiction
Musical Interlude
Heard just now on BBC 6 Music with Marc Riley. Teen Canteen. Singing girl-group pop with their Scottish accents.
NonFiction
Musical Interlude
Heard just now on BBC 6 Music with Marc Riley. Teen Canteen. Singing girl-group pop with their Scottish accents.
Friday, December 06, 2013
Dr. Who Hooper Hall
NonFiction
Doctor Who: the essential guide by Justin Richards. Page 67 has a gal in a skimpy outfit. Page 123 has Cheetah People
Fiction
Going Dark by James W. Hall. Thorn finds out his newly discovered adult son has joined an eco-terrorist group. Thorne has to join to the group to save his son.
Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich. Legal thriller? Financial thriller?
Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly. I have really enjoyed this series about Los Angeles defesne attoreny Mickey Haller.
Hostage by Kay Hooper. Hooper's author photo is in black and white. She is striking a pensive pose.
DVD
Breaking Bad: Final Season starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. I've never seen any of these. I'll get around to season one some day.
In the Fog starring [Russians]. 1942 and Russian rail worker is accused by partisans of collusion with the Germans.
Doctor Who: the essential guide by Justin Richards. Page 67 has a gal in a skimpy outfit. Page 123 has Cheetah People
Fiction
Going Dark by James W. Hall. Thorn finds out his newly discovered adult son has joined an eco-terrorist group. Thorne has to join to the group to save his son.
Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich. Legal thriller? Financial thriller?
Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly. I have really enjoyed this series about Los Angeles defesne attoreny Mickey Haller.
Hostage by Kay Hooper. Hooper's author photo is in black and white. She is striking a pensive pose.
DVD
Breaking Bad: Final Season starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. I've never seen any of these. I'll get around to season one some day.
In the Fog starring [Russians]. 1942 and Russian rail worker is accused by partisans of collusion with the Germans.
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Movie and a Song
Movie
Clear History starring Jon Hamm, Larry David, Bill Hader. Guy has big vote with boss and quits company and all his shares. Company makes billions of dollars.
Song
iTunes was playing and this tune came up. I heard if off the library's copy of Putumayo Presents: Latin Lounge.
Clear History starring Jon Hamm, Larry David, Bill Hader. Guy has big vote with boss and quits company and all his shares. Company makes billions of dollars.
Song
iTunes was playing and this tune came up. I heard if off the library's copy of Putumayo Presents: Latin Lounge.
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Coffe, Conway, Peanuts, Dekker, Musical Interlude
Coffee and Peanuts
Audiobooks on CD
Outlaw by Ted Dekker. 11 hours on 9 CDs. "Full of harrowing twists, sweeping violence, and wild love."
What's So Funny?: my hilarious life by Time Conway with Jane Scovell. 8.75 hours on 8 CDs. Like the print edition but without the photo section.
Musical Interlude
The eternal question.
Audiobooks on CD
Outlaw by Ted Dekker. 11 hours on 9 CDs. "Full of harrowing twists, sweeping violence, and wild love."
What's So Funny?: my hilarious life by Time Conway with Jane Scovell. 8.75 hours on 8 CDs. Like the print edition but without the photo section.
Musical Interlude
The eternal question.
Monday, December 02, 2013
Audio
AudioBooks on CD
Mad About the Boy by by Helen Fielding. 11.5 hours on 10 CDs. The reader has acted in three James Bond films.
Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith. 8 hours on 7 CDs. Russian policeman Arkady Renko has more trouble and heartbreak. The reader's head shot looks to be from a webcam.
Good Boy by Theresa Schwegel. 12 hours on 10 CDs. Schwegel cop novel. I still have not read any of Schwegel's books but her Chicago set novels are supposed to be pretty good. She won an Edgar Award and received this personalized trophy.
Dust by Patricia Cornwell. 14 hours on 12 CDs. I was chatting to someone last week about Cornwell. I said I had not read any of her books - I may have read or listened to one years ago - and that all I recall about Cornwell is that she was involved in a marriage scandal. The wife had an affair with Cornwell. When the husband found out about the affair he used that as an excuse to go nutso and he kidnapped his wife, he then kidnapped a minister. Law and Order riffed on the story for an episode.
Let the Dead Sleep by Heather Graham. 9.8 hours on 8 CDs. Part of a series.
The Outpost: an untold story of American valor by Jake Tapper. 22.5 hours on 18 CDs. Untold? Are you kidding, this had been told lots of times because one soldier was award the Medal of Honor for his actions there. I'm not saying you shouldn't listen to the book, but it's not untold.
Sycamore Row by John Grisham. 20.5 hours on 16 CDs. Ugliest cover ever.
Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich. 6 hours on 5 CDs. This cover is also awful.
Deadly Heat by Richard Castle. 11.5 hours on 9 CDs. My left ear hurts. Those headphones must have been on way too loud.
Accused by Lisa Scottoline. 11 hours on 9 CDs. Scottoline leads a secret life staring at a computer screen in her home. Wait, that's a not a secret. That's every author.
Melissa Explains it All: tale from my abnormally normal life by Melissa Joan Hart. 7 hours on 6 CDs. Good cover.
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom. 17.5 hours on 14 CDs.
DVD
Mad Men: season 6 starring [people]. Hair, clothes, cocktails.
NonFiction
A Passion to Teach: fifty-eight years of humorous, weird, and engaging tales by Richard W. Knowles. Page 138 says, "Research can be son much fun, or so exasperating, so exciting, or so dull, so productive, or wasting of time. Most importantly, research activity offers one a chance to be truly creative."
Mad About the Boy by by Helen Fielding. 11.5 hours on 10 CDs. The reader has acted in three James Bond films.
Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith. 8 hours on 7 CDs. Russian policeman Arkady Renko has more trouble and heartbreak. The reader's head shot looks to be from a webcam.
Good Boy by Theresa Schwegel. 12 hours on 10 CDs. Schwegel cop novel. I still have not read any of Schwegel's books but her Chicago set novels are supposed to be pretty good. She won an Edgar Award and received this personalized trophy.
Dust by Patricia Cornwell. 14 hours on 12 CDs. I was chatting to someone last week about Cornwell. I said I had not read any of her books - I may have read or listened to one years ago - and that all I recall about Cornwell is that she was involved in a marriage scandal. The wife had an affair with Cornwell. When the husband found out about the affair he used that as an excuse to go nutso and he kidnapped his wife, he then kidnapped a minister. Law and Order riffed on the story for an episode.
Let the Dead Sleep by Heather Graham. 9.8 hours on 8 CDs. Part of a series.
The Outpost: an untold story of American valor by Jake Tapper. 22.5 hours on 18 CDs. Untold? Are you kidding, this had been told lots of times because one soldier was award the Medal of Honor for his actions there. I'm not saying you shouldn't listen to the book, but it's not untold.
Sycamore Row by John Grisham. 20.5 hours on 16 CDs. Ugliest cover ever.
Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich. 6 hours on 5 CDs. This cover is also awful.
Deadly Heat by Richard Castle. 11.5 hours on 9 CDs. My left ear hurts. Those headphones must have been on way too loud.
Accused by Lisa Scottoline. 11 hours on 9 CDs. Scottoline leads a secret life staring at a computer screen in her home. Wait, that's a not a secret. That's every author.
Melissa Explains it All: tale from my abnormally normal life by Melissa Joan Hart. 7 hours on 6 CDs. Good cover.
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom. 17.5 hours on 14 CDs.
DVD
Mad Men: season 6 starring [people]. Hair, clothes, cocktails.
NonFiction
A Passion to Teach: fifty-eight years of humorous, weird, and engaging tales by Richard W. Knowles. Page 138 says, "Research can be son much fun, or so exasperating, so exciting, or so dull, so productive, or wasting of time. Most importantly, research activity offers one a chance to be truly creative."
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Almost Done: Last of the New Pile
Fiction
Tremble: erotic tales of the mystical and sinister by Tobsha Learner. Erotic fiction. Page 177 says, "She woke to find her husband [...redacted...] already creating a whirlwind of [...redacted...] trembling."
Others of My Kind by James Sallis. Girl is kidnapped at eight-years-old and kept captive for two years. As an adult she is asked to help a girl who survived similar circumstances. Sallis wrote the crime novels Drive and Driven. Driven was a great look at Phoenix with the dust, the brown colors, the spread out spaces and high walls separating all the homes.
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2013 edited by Paula Guran. We have the 2011 edition and that sucker keeps going out. That and Lansdale has a story in this one, too.
Large Print
Loss of Innocence by Richard North Patterson. Picture of a lighthouse on the cover.
Non Fiction
Van Meter Visitor: a true and mysterious encounter with the unknown by Chad Lewis, Noah Voss, and Kevin Lee Nelson. "For several nights in 1903, the small town of van Meter, IA was terrorized by a giant bat-like creature that emerged from an old abandoned mine."
The Need to Say "No": the importance of setting boundaries in love, life, and your world by Jill Brooke. Page 95 says, "Here is how you can take the bull by the horns."
Garfield's Sunday Finest: 35 years of my best Sunday funnies by Jim Davis. My kids have been waiting for this one. They love Garfield. A lot. The read the comics out loud to one another and cackle with laughter.
State of Wisconsin Blue Book, 2013-2014. No one will read it. But, it's here anyway.
Audio Book on CD
Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and success in modern America by Steven Watts. 17 hours on 14 CDs. "The story of Carnegie's personal journey and how it gave rise to the movement of self-help and personal reinvention."
Tremble: erotic tales of the mystical and sinister by Tobsha Learner. Erotic fiction. Page 177 says, "She woke to find her husband [...redacted...] already creating a whirlwind of [...redacted...] trembling."
Others of My Kind by James Sallis. Girl is kidnapped at eight-years-old and kept captive for two years. As an adult she is asked to help a girl who survived similar circumstances. Sallis wrote the crime novels Drive and Driven. Driven was a great look at Phoenix with the dust, the brown colors, the spread out spaces and high walls separating all the homes.
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2013 edited by Paula Guran. We have the 2011 edition and that sucker keeps going out. That and Lansdale has a story in this one, too.
Large Print
Loss of Innocence by Richard North Patterson. Picture of a lighthouse on the cover.
Non Fiction
Van Meter Visitor: a true and mysterious encounter with the unknown by Chad Lewis, Noah Voss, and Kevin Lee Nelson. "For several nights in 1903, the small town of van Meter, IA was terrorized by a giant bat-like creature that emerged from an old abandoned mine."
The Need to Say "No": the importance of setting boundaries in love, life, and your world by Jill Brooke. Page 95 says, "Here is how you can take the bull by the horns."
Garfield's Sunday Finest: 35 years of my best Sunday funnies by Jim Davis. My kids have been waiting for this one. They love Garfield. A lot. The read the comics out loud to one another and cackle with laughter.
State of Wisconsin Blue Book, 2013-2014. No one will read it. But, it's here anyway.
Audio Book on CD
Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and success in modern America by Steven Watts. 17 hours on 14 CDs. "The story of Carnegie's personal journey and how it gave rise to the movement of self-help and personal reinvention."
Dang, Even More New Books
Fiction
Total War Rome: destroy Carthage by David Gibbins. Fancy cover for a video game tie-in novel. Gibbins has Ph.D. and taught archeology and history so I assume this will be an accurate and realistic historical novel. Except for all that video game stuff. Ka-Boom!
Death of a Nightingale by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis. Authors of Boy in the Suitcase. Boy's large print copy checked out 15 times. Danish authors.
Night Film by Marisha Pessl. I listened to the audio version of this novel. It was fantastic. A journalist investigates the suicide of a famous and reclusive film director's daughter.
NonFiction
Hidden Warbirds: the epic stories of finding, recovering & rebuilding WWII's lost aircraft by Nicholas A. Veronico. Lots and lots of neat color photos. Wrecks recovered from jungle and ice and many restored to flying condition.
Large Print
Total War Rome: destroy Carthage by David Gibbins. Fancy cover for a video game tie-in novel. Gibbins has Ph.D. and taught archeology and history so I assume this will be an accurate and realistic historical novel. Except for all that video game stuff. Ka-Boom!
Death of a Nightingale by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis. Authors of Boy in the Suitcase. Boy's large print copy checked out 15 times. Danish authors.
Night Film by Marisha Pessl. I listened to the audio version of this novel. It was fantastic. A journalist investigates the suicide of a famous and reclusive film director's daughter.
NonFiction
Hidden Warbirds: the epic stories of finding, recovering & rebuilding WWII's lost aircraft by Nicholas A. Veronico. Lots and lots of neat color photos. Wrecks recovered from jungle and ice and many restored to flying condition.
Large Print
James Patterson Word Production Industries
Fiction
Cross my Heart by James Patterson. Well, that's weird. Patterson wrote this one by himself. Another entry in the Alex Cross series. Patterson has a new photo on the back cover.
Fringe: the burning man by Christa Faust. Based on characters from the Fringe TV show. I never saw the show but read the first novel because Faust wrote it. Olivia Dunham's turn for a prequel novel. No author photo of Faust but there are photos of actors from the series.
Venom Business by Michael Crichton. From 1966 to 1972 Crichton wrote eight books under the pen John Lange name, all while still in medical school. Before Crichton died in 2008 he was working with Charles Ardai at Hard Case Crime to bring those novels back into print. Here is this one.
Odds On by Michael Crichton. Here is the other one.
The Lost Stars: the perilous shield by Jack Campbell. Military SF. We have another book in the series still awaiting processing. Campbell's author photo says his real name is John G. Henry.
Doc Savage: the Miracle Menace by Kenneth Robeson. Bill Crider told me to buy it.
Cross my Heart by James Patterson. Well, that's weird. Patterson wrote this one by himself. Another entry in the Alex Cross series. Patterson has a new photo on the back cover.
Fringe: the burning man by Christa Faust. Based on characters from the Fringe TV show. I never saw the show but read the first novel because Faust wrote it. Olivia Dunham's turn for a prequel novel. No author photo of Faust but there are photos of actors from the series.
Venom Business by Michael Crichton. From 1966 to 1972 Crichton wrote eight books under the pen John Lange name, all while still in medical school. Before Crichton died in 2008 he was working with Charles Ardai at Hard Case Crime to bring those novels back into print. Here is this one.
Odds On by Michael Crichton. Here is the other one.
The Lost Stars: the perilous shield by Jack Campbell. Military SF. We have another book in the series still awaiting processing. Campbell's author photo says his real name is John G. Henry.
Doc Savage: the Miracle Menace by Kenneth Robeson. Bill Crider told me to buy it.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Lansdale's Secret Erotica Funnel Cake
Fiction
Bleeding Shadows by Joe R. Lansdale. Anotehr collection of horror suspense by Lansdale. Printed by Subterranean Press which uses really heavy paper.
Fatal Funnel Cake by Livia J. Washburn. Bill Crider liked it. 28 people liked the other one we one, that's how many times it circ'ed.
The Naughty Corner by Jasmine Haynes. Erotica novel with a bondage/discipline bent.
Secret Lives of Married Women by Elissa Wald. Two reasons to check this one out: 1) printed by Hard Case Crime, 2) plugged by Megan Abbott.
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Collins was the narrator of the novel Drood. I found out that Collins's Moonstone was one of the first, and most successful, detective novels. I bought a new edition.
Non Fiction
In My Shoes by Tamara Mellon with William Patrick. One of the co-founders of Jimmy Choo shoes writes a memoir. Shoes?
I bought these on clearance a year or so ago. I thought, "Hey, they've got zippers! I'll never have to tie my shoes again." Not so, the zipper just make them easier to slip on and off.
Bleeding Shadows by Joe R. Lansdale. Anotehr collection of horror suspense by Lansdale. Printed by Subterranean Press which uses really heavy paper.
Fatal Funnel Cake by Livia J. Washburn. Bill Crider liked it. 28 people liked the other one we one, that's how many times it circ'ed.
The Naughty Corner by Jasmine Haynes. Erotica novel with a bondage/discipline bent.
Secret Lives of Married Women by Elissa Wald. Two reasons to check this one out: 1) printed by Hard Case Crime, 2) plugged by Megan Abbott.
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Collins was the narrator of the novel Drood. I found out that Collins's Moonstone was one of the first, and most successful, detective novels. I bought a new edition.
Non Fiction
In My Shoes by Tamara Mellon with William Patrick. One of the co-founders of Jimmy Choo shoes writes a memoir. Shoes?
I bought these on clearance a year or so ago. I thought, "Hey, they've got zippers! I'll never have to tie my shoes again." Not so, the zipper just make them easier to slip on and off.
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