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."

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."

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.

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.