Musical Interlude. Again.

Musical Interlude

I will have to holler at the Pages to get working on the processing. Here is something I just heard on BBC's 6 Music channel. 6 Music is my favorite radio station.

Some guys called Foster the People.


Someone is a fan of apocalypse movies.

Nothing New. Park Photos Instead.

Farmers' Market

Six

One

Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs. Murder at a NASCAR race.

Two

Ice Station by Peter Tonkin. Floating nuclear station in Siberian Sea threatened by an ice storm and human intrigue.

Three

Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath. Boston cop on loan to Icelandic Police Forces has a murder to work on. "Strikingly original plot," says the flyleaf.

Four

Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs. LARGE PRINT MURDER AT NASCAR.

Five

Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. Women immigrants from Japan to San Francisco to get married.

Six

Legends of Shannara by Terry Brooks. How many of these Shannara books are there? Counting is not easy when there are multiple series set there.

Stray Dog in the Library

Stray Dog

A girl came in the back door last night (August 24th) amidst lots of barking. I asked her if the dog outside was hers. She nervously said no. Her grandmother was still outside getting barked at and both were a bit scared of the dog.

I called 911 to get animal control - which for Lake Mills is contracted through the Humane Society. A local police officer showed up and tried to loop a dog catcher noose but the dog was too skittish and skittered away. The Officer was patient and trying not to injure or the dog, or get bitten.

The dog was not aggressive. He was just nervous and barky. Really barky. Woof, woof, woof, woof, bark, bark, woof, woof. The dog was hanging around the back door and not wandering off. I let him inside to see if that would calm him down and he did not.

Neither of us could coax the dog into the squad car. The dog had looked all over the library but was not satisfied that whoever he was looking for was not there. I left about fifteen minutes after close and the PO stayed for the dog catcher.

Oops. There is a new one.

Fiction

Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson. Fourth in the paperback series featuring Las Vegas tattoo artist Brett Kavanaugh. When hot shot rock'n'roller Dee Carmichael dies Brett is seen leaving the dead girl's hotel room. Except, is wasn't Brett. Uh-oh what will happen?
Will Brett start sleuthing?
Will Brett find the real killer?
Will Olson write about tattooing and Vegas scenery?
Will Olson's publisher continue to hire the same graphic artist who does the neat book covers for this series?
Will Olson buy me a new .45?

Nothing New - Musical Interlude

Musical Interlude

Liam Finn, as mentioned below by Dunedin, is the son of Neil Finn. Our copy of I'll be Lightning has circ'ed 17 times. I ordered the next album, Fomo, which releases this fall.

Off the first album.



Liam and the rest of his family were part of the 7 Worlds Collide concerts in Kiwi-land. Neil Finn invited musicians to Auckland to collaborate. The second album from 2009, The Sun Came Out, features songs and performances by several well-known musician types. A lesser known Kiwi dude is Don McGlashan.



I really like the whole double album of Sun. There is a neat tune by the bassist from Wilco, John Stirratt. This one is by Johnny Marr and Jeff Tweedy, Too Blue.

Two Novels

Large Print

Beach Trees by Karen White. Those are beach bushes on the cover. Not trees.

Fiction

Ideal Man by Julie Garwood. Cover has a manly man photoshopped with a pistol and badge.

Split Second Dexter Has to Suck It and See This Morning

Large Print

Split Second by Catherine Coulter. No author photos on most large print books.

DVD

Dexter: the fifth season starring James Remar. Remar was always good at playing the bad guy. I watched season one of this but kept getting the plots from novels and tv episodes confused. The gal who plays Dexter's sister was rail thin.

Digital Music Even If No One Refers to CDs as Digital Music

Suck It and See by The Arctic Monkeys. [Comment withheld]



This Loud Morning by David Cook. [No comment to withhold]



The guy with the ear? Man, I have no idea...

Books, Music, Tom Piccirilli

Fiction

Every Shallow Cut by Tom Piccirilli. This novel has received very good reviews. I know because Piccirilli always links to them. I think the story has something to do with a road trip and murder. Since this is a Piccirilli book I almost guarantee a muscle car in the story.

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. This won a Big Time Novel Award. Two guys grow up as friends until one is suspected in a girl's disappearance. Twenty years later the same guy is suspected in another disappearance and the other guy is a cop.

With A Little Luck by Caprice Crane. The cover says: Teenage romance. The back says: Adult romance in Los Angeles radio station.

Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan. Irish woman travels to New York in 1920s to make money for injured husband at home. Will she return to Ireland or stay in the U.S.?

Set the Night on Fire by Libby Fischer Hellmann. Hellmann's books check out here. This one came out last December. Don't tell anyone I missed the pub date. Hellmann Fact: She's a nice lady and does not look like her vertically smooshed author photo.

Spiral by Paul McLuen. Thriller with nanorobots, scientists, and a lousy cover.

Only Mine by Susan Mallery. Paperback contemporary romance.

Angela Sloan by James Whorton, Jr. 14-year-old girl's CIA agent father disappears. She tries to find him in post-Watergate D.C. "A priceless coming-of-age story about stealing diner food and salvaging lost identities."

Music on CD

The Harrow and the Harvest by Gillian Welch. Old-time country music fans rejoice by wearing straw hats.

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Mystery Pack

Fiction (With Plot Descriptions Based on Cover Art)

One Dog Night by David Rosenfelt. Something about dogs.

Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry. Something about old London.

Death in High Places by Jo Bannister. Something about mountain climbing.

A Bad Day for Scandal by Sophie Littlefield. Something about a frying pan.

Mr. Monk on the Couch by Lee Goldberg Something about Monk being insane.

Back of Beyond by C.J. Box. Something about campfires. EDIT: Holy Carp! Box has a picture of himself without his hat!

Disturbance by Jan Burke. Something about moths.

Gentlemen's Hour by Don Winslow. Something about water.

Misterioso by Arne Dahl. Something about darts.

Scott Phillips Writes Creepy Sex, Donald Ray Pollock Writes Depressing Rural

Fiction

The Adjustment by Scott Phillips. Post-War Wichita, KS is an airplane town. Built on cattle drives, the town now runs on airplane manufacturing. Army vet Wayne Ogden is out to destroy Collins Aircraft and its founder. But, in return, Wayne is being blackmailed. Corruption, violence, illicit sex and booze, innocent romance. Phillips does real good work.



The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock. Rural residents of Southern Ohio and West Virginia followed over 20 years. I read Pollocks short story collection Knockemstiff after reading a recommendation from author Craig Davidson. Knockemstiff was good.

Cold Vengeance by Preston and Child. Revenge and international settings.

The Sixes by Kate White. Lame cover with a motif you have seen a million times.

Victory and Honor by W.E.B Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Spy operations at the end of world war two.

Darkness My Old Friend by Lisa Unger. Cover has a girl running through foggy, dark woods.

The Pack by Jason Starr. Starr does suspense and crime novels. Laid off dad meets other dads in a park. Joins them for drinks. Starts to change...

Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly. Romance.

Devil Colony by James Rollins. My enthusiasm is fading.

Iron House by John Hart. I am almost finished.

Death Factory by Joe Domenici. Ah, finished. Now to add italics and and post this thing.

French Gunfights, Medieval Swordfights, Modern Day Bombfights

DVD

36th Precinct starring That Other Gerard, Frenchmen. Armed robbers are on a crime spree. The first police lieutenant who catches the gang gets the police chief job. Competition ensues. Shotgun violence follows.

Jesse Stone: No Remorse starring Mustache, William Sadler. Jesse Stone story based on Parker's characters but penned by Mustache and Michael Brandman. Bill Crider says, "[nothing]". Well, I guess he either did not watch it or never blogged about it.

Source Code starring Jake Welsh-y. Soldier goes back in time to stop a bombing on a railway and get a date with a passenger.

Ironclad starring Brian Cox, Derek Jacobi, Armor, Swords, CGI. "The devastating battle for Rochester Castle is a true story of honor, action and excitement."

Music Inscribed Onto... You Get the Idea

Join Us by They Might Be Giants. Songs.

Legendary Weapons by Wu Tang. My brother once bought me a Wu Tang Clan CD. I have no idea why he did that. I kinda liked it but could not understand what the guys were saying.

Musical Interlude

Musical Interlude

Another Neil Finn edition.

1980


1991


2001 (quality is below average)


2011

I'm on Vacation

I'm on Vacation

Come Back Later by Library Director.

Ooh La La. Now THAT Is A Book

NonFiction

German Automatic Weapons of World War II by Robert Bruce. Neat close-up photos of the mechanisms and how the parts fit together. Dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy nazis had some mechanically fascinating weapons. The Fallschirmjaegergewehr is fascinating. I should take this on summer vacation.

Music Translated Into Binary, Digital Language, Written Into a Thin Sheet of Metal, Then Layered Into a Plastic Disc

Gold by Steely Dan. "Expanded edition includes 4 additional recordings over 60 minutes worth of music."

Packers, Commandos, Witches, AC/DC, Jockeys, Mobsters

NonFiction

Rockers and Rollers: a full-throttle memoir by Brian Johnson. Lead singer of AC/DC remembers his life after recalling whatever cars he owned at the time. "Now I know I take the piss out of Porsches a lot, but it;s only because racing against them is so difficult, because they never break, sort of."

Family Secrets: the case that crippled the Chicago mob by Jeff Coen. Shootings, bombings, loansharking.

Aaron Rodgers: leader of the pack by Rob Reischel. Lots of big color photos.

Return to Titletown: the remarkable story of the 2010 Green Bay Packers edited Joe Funk. Game by game with many color photos.

The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals edited by Gail Damerow. Providing nests for your ducks and geese to lay their eggs in helps keep the eggs clean and protects them from being cooked by the sun.

Pavement Chalk Artist: the three-dimensional drawings of Julian Beever by Julian Beever.

Rights of the People: how our search for safety invades our liberties by David K. Shipler. How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost?

Boy Who Came Back From Heaven by Kevin and Alex Malarkey. Is that last name a kind of joke? I'm late on buying this one, I should have noticed it's absence earlier.

Heaven is for Real: a little boy's astounding story of his trip to heaven and back by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. Same story, different kid.

10 Commando by Ian Dear. Ten Commando was composed entirely of men who came from Nazi-occupied countries such as Holland, Poland, and France.

Enter Night: a biography of Metallica by Mick Wall.

Fiction

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher. Magic in Chicago.

Gamble by Felix Frances. Felix finished this one his father and he started.

Missed One: Hobo With a ShotguA

DVD

Hobo With A Shotgun starring Rutger Hauer. A recommendation from novelist Tom Piccirilli.




I wonder if they reference Hitcher.

The Return of Christa Faust (and Lee Goldberg) Plus Rural Murder

DVD

Small Town Murder Songs starring Peter Stormare, Jill Hennessy, Martha Plimpton. Cop whose small town has not had a murder in decades has one now. Cop is determined to find the killer even with mistrust of state cop in charge of the investigation.

Doctor Who: Series Six, Part One starring The Scrawny Doctor, English People. The Doctor lands in 1960s America and other places with aliens.
My family spends way too much time watching Doctor Who and Top Gear on BBC America. Then Boys #1 and #2 tell me about the horsepower ratings and top speeds of exotic sports cars. "If Top Gear reviewed the Hyundai Sonata they would call it the Hyndai Snot-ta!" [Hysterical laughter]

The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, John Leguizamo, Bryan Cranston, Marisa Tomei. Impressive cast list, huh? The book was good and this film version is supposed to be pretty decent. I wonder how they work in a topless McConaughey. Maybe exiting the shower? At the beach? Wearing a tank top?

Fiction

Supernatural: Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust. An original novel featuring characters from the television show. Let's look at the back... Guided by the tattooed, pistol-packing bandita on a motorcycle, Xochi Cazadora, the brothers are plunged into a terrifying world of Aztec gods and monsters. Yep, that sounds like a Faust novel all right.

Justice by Karen Robards. An uninspired cover.

The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines. A good cover. Teen girl in 1942 secretly works her PI dad's recent case when she hears a boy at her school is involved. Sneaking out of the house, dancing at the Savoy, double-crossing her friends...this one sounds like a Megan Abbott novel.

Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore. This may be a YA novel. Girl from family of witches prefers to separate that from "normal" life. While ranch-sitting for an aunt a dangerous ghost is more than she can handle.

NonFiction

Tied In: the business, history, and craft of media tie-in writing edited by Lee Goldberg. I used to sneer at tie-ins until I read what G0ldberg had to say. I have not, however, read what the other Goldberg (Tod) has to say. I can now find out because his is the first piece in here, Does a Real Writer Write Tie-Ins?, and directly addresses my past distaste for tie-ins.

The Deer and the Naturalist: dreamwork and the soul's journey by Mary Edwards.

Large Print

Monument to Murder by Margaret Truman.

Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver. James Bond novel with bigger type.

Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy.

AudioBooks on CD

Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich. 7 CDs at 8.5 hours. Guy steals moon rock for his girlfriend. Gets arrested.

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson. 10 CDs at 12.6 hours. Robots eat people. Or something.

Music on CD

Nina Simone: 17 masters by Nina Simone. 17 selected tracks.

CDs by Gordon Lightfoot, David Bowie and other, lesser beings

Music on CD

Sleeps with Angels by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Waiting for the Sun by The Doors.

Strange Days by The Doors.

Young Americans by David Bowie.

The Best of Earth Wind and Fire: Volumes 1 and 2 by Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Broken Arrow by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Morrison Hotel by The Doors.

L.A. Woman by The Doors.

John Lennon Collection by John Lennon.

The Band by The Band.

Gord's Gold by Gordon Lightfoot.







Talking Book by Steve Wonder.



Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Willie and the Poor Boys by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

One of Those Nights by The Eagles.