Monday, December 14, 2009

Pile of Stuff, Chocolate Thing, Lousy Coffee

AudioBook on CD

Take Two by Karen Kingsbury. 8 CDs at 9.5 hours. Independent movie producers compete against Hollywood for the rights to an inspirational novel.

Made-Up Stories Printed Onto Paper and Then Bound Together with Cloth and Glue (with cover interpretations by me)

La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith. A duck and two chickens travel across China in a cage is strapped to the back of a bicycle.

Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton. Famed gladiator Vealinus, who wears a nail tied to his neck, is purchased and wooed by a sexy vampire.

Promised World by Lisa Tucker. Two kids on summer vacation hang out at a lake, tell fart jokes, and pick berries.

Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn. Special Agent Mack O'Connor Guimbetto discovers a conspiracy by the leading secular humanist, liberal in Congress who is making deals with Al Queda in an attempt to advance his political career and destroy America.

The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch. A Conservative Member of Parliament and disgraced Cabinet Minister arranges for his banking associates to be murdered rather than have them reveal his avarice and trade in African sex slaves.

Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge. Brenda O'Aden has lived alone on the rural coast of Massachusetts ever since being left at the alter ten years ago. Will the arrival of handsome, mysterious, emotionally wounded, and famous painter Hakeem "Haiku" Callahan give her a chance at healing not only herself but Haiku as well? How Brenda make it? Can Haiku paint art again? Read it to find out.

A Troubled Piece by L.M. Elliott. A YA book. Richard O'Theobald returns to his former German home after serving with the U.S. Army during World War Two. Is his former girlfriend, Gerta, still alive? What of Gerta's Nazi father?

Change-Up: mystery at the World Series by John Feinstein. A YA book. Josh O'Finklestein has the best job a kid could have, Bat Boy for the famed New York Long Socks during the World Series. But, when famed pitcher Kick O'Shanter is poisoned before Game 3 can Josh use his insider knowledge to help his police detective dad solve the crime?

NonFiction

Cookbooks (with Fiction styled plotlines by me)

Cooking Dirty: a story of life, sex, love and death in the kitchen by Jason Sheehan. New chef Silvio O'Smith heads to Los Angeles for a dream job but is quickly fired and forced to take a job as a the caterer for the set of a porn movie.

Clean Food: a seasonal guide to eating close to the source: with more than 200 recipes for a healthy and sustainable you by Terry Walters. New age farmer and cook Terry O'Porcupine brings fresh produce and delightful food to the suspicious, close-minded people of Shattuck, New York and produces a sea change in their thinking.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. Socialite Elizabeth O'Cornelia is a neophyte to the ways of cooking and lesbian love. During a trip to the famed Egouts de Cuisine school in Dijon she learns about both.

The Best of America's Test Kitchen 2010: the year's best recipes, equipment reviews, and tasting. Fern O'Jefferson finds out that the secret ingredient in famous chef Gary Bond's New Orleans Schoolhouse Hot Dish is not pork.

Baked: new frontiers in baking by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. Matt O'Pinto spends his time smoking marijuana rather than facing life.

New American Table by Marcus Samuelsson. Sven O'Spyderco discovers life in lower Manhattan is much different than his hometown of Borglundsen, Denmark.

Chocolate Thing

This appeared this morning.



This morning's coffee was lousy.

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