DVD
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog starring Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion. Because some people don't want to watch the damn thing on the computer. With a bunch of "bonus material".
The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock, Some Tall Kid. Instead of playing a hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold or a nun Bullock plays a nice, rich, white lady and gets an Oscar.
The Men Who Stare at Goats with Obi Wan Kenobi, Robert Patrick, Mr. Hollywood. Army study to use brainwaves to kill goats and Iranians. Or something. A comedy.
Doc Martin, Series [season] 3 with Martin Clunes. Former surgeon with blood phobia continues to be brusque and evasive in small town England.
New Moon starring [current teen sensations]. Girl loves vampire and werewolf. Or something. I'm not going to watch this crap.
Fiction
Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman. Crime novel.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
NonFiction Part Two: Cookbooks
NonFiction Part Two - Cookbooks
Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook by Taste of Home Books.
Salt: cooking with the world's favorite seasoning by Valerie Aikman-Smith.
Muffin Magic: irresistible recipes for [something covered by the barcode] by Susannah Blake.
Taste of Home Dinner on a Dime by Taste of Home Magazine. 403 budget-friendly family recipes.
Preserving: self-sufficiency by Carol Wilson. "Preserving fruits and vegetables is a great way to turn homegrown or local produce into delicious treats that can be enjoyed year-round."
Mad Hungry: feeding men and boys, recipes, strategies and survival techniques by Lucinda Scala Quinn.
Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook by Taste of Home Magazine.
Best of Taste of Home, Volume 2.
Super Salads: More than 250 super-easy recipes for super nutrition and super flavor.
Betty Crocker Money Saving Meals: 200 delicious ways to eat on the cheap.
Good Home Cookbook: more than 1,000 classic American recipes edited by Richard J. Perry.
More Vegetables Please!: over 100 easy and delicious recipes for eating healthy foods each and every day by Elson M. Haas, MD and Patty James, MS.
Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook by Taste of Home Books.
Salt: cooking with the world's favorite seasoning by Valerie Aikman-Smith.
Muffin Magic: irresistible recipes for [something covered by the barcode] by Susannah Blake.
Taste of Home Dinner on a Dime by Taste of Home Magazine. 403 budget-friendly family recipes.
Preserving: self-sufficiency by Carol Wilson. "Preserving fruits and vegetables is a great way to turn homegrown or local produce into delicious treats that can be enjoyed year-round."
Mad Hungry: feeding men and boys, recipes, strategies and survival techniques by Lucinda Scala Quinn.
Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook by Taste of Home Magazine.
Best of Taste of Home, Volume 2.
Super Salads: More than 250 super-easy recipes for super nutrition and super flavor.
Betty Crocker Money Saving Meals: 200 delicious ways to eat on the cheap.
Good Home Cookbook: more than 1,000 classic American recipes edited by Richard J. Perry.
More Vegetables Please!: over 100 easy and delicious recipes for eating healthy foods each and every day by Elson M. Haas, MD and Patty James, MS.
NonFiction Part One: Comic book novels, test guides, bicycles, hippie stuff
NonFiction - Part One
Baby Sleep Guide: sleep solutions for you and your baby by Marcie Jones and Sandy Jones. Good luck with that.
Bluegrass: a true story of murder in Kentucky by William Van Meter. Student murdered in her dorm room in Western Kentucky University.
The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles: craftsmanship, elegance and function by Jan Heine, Jean-Pierre Praderes. Cycling is popular around here. I took a chance on this one even though it cost $50. Lots of nice photos.
Islands of Hell: the U.S. Marines in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Eric Hammel. Since The Pacific is on HBO I figured this may go out. That and I like the coffee table books on WWII. Especially the Pacific campaign. When I worked in the Stacks at the U of I I ran across a multi-volume photo history of the Pacific campaign. Island after island after island of barren beaches surrounding swamp and mangrove forests and quickly filling up with piles of garbage, cardboard boxes, brass casings, and tin cans.
Naturopathic Way: how to detox, find quality nutrition, and restore your acid-alkaline balance by Christopher Vasey, N.D.
The Story of Libraries: from the inception of writing to the computer age by Fred Lerner.
2010 Writer's Market, 89th annual edition.
2010 Guide to Literary Agents, 19th annual edition by [some editor]. If the Writer's Market works.
Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs, 2010 edition by E. Winter Griffith, M.D. The Griffith name has a trademark mark next to it. Why not just take his name off and promote the real guy's name to the top?
2010 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, 19th edition edited by Don Fluckinger. Fluckinger?
Windows 7 Secrets by Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera. We need newer computer books.
Praxis, 10th edition. Practice exams for the PRAXIS test - whatever the hell that is.
5 GED Practice Tests by Princeton Review. I only "studied" the night before my GED exams. I then woke up late, scrabbled for a couple pencils and then drove over to south central Dallas to take the exam.
Gotham Central: Book Two: Jokers and Madmen by Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka. We have the first one in the series and it has gone out 13 times.
Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer by Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins. Comic book novel with Pinocchio using his growing nose to make stakes and revenge Geppetto.
Raise Happy Chickens and Other Poultry by Victoria Roberts. Broody hens, handling ducks, plucking and hanging, favorite recipes.
Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause: everything you need to know to thrive during menopause, from a renowned women's health expert by Holly Thacker, MD. Thacker?
The No Bull Book on Heart Disease: real answers to winning back your heart and health by Joel Okner MD and Jeremy Clorfene, PhD.
The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running by Adam W. Chase and Nancy Hobbs. Equipment, finding trails, weather, hill strategy, so on, so forth.
The Truth About Back Pain: a revolutionary approach to diagnosing and healing back pain by Todd Sinett, DC and Sheldon Sinett, DC.
Living with Someone Who's Living with BiPolar Disorder: a practical guide for family, friends, and coworkers by Chelsea Lowe and Bruce M Cohen, MD, PhD.
The Brain Training Revolution: a proven workout for healthy brain aging by Paul E. Bendheim, MD. Brains science, exercises, look at that duck, lifestyle adjustments.
Baby Sleep Guide: sleep solutions for you and your baby by Marcie Jones and Sandy Jones. Good luck with that.
Bluegrass: a true story of murder in Kentucky by William Van Meter. Student murdered in her dorm room in Western Kentucky University.
The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles: craftsmanship, elegance and function by Jan Heine, Jean-Pierre Praderes. Cycling is popular around here. I took a chance on this one even though it cost $50. Lots of nice photos.
Islands of Hell: the U.S. Marines in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Eric Hammel. Since The Pacific is on HBO I figured this may go out. That and I like the coffee table books on WWII. Especially the Pacific campaign. When I worked in the Stacks at the U of I I ran across a multi-volume photo history of the Pacific campaign. Island after island after island of barren beaches surrounding swamp and mangrove forests and quickly filling up with piles of garbage, cardboard boxes, brass casings, and tin cans.
Naturopathic Way: how to detox, find quality nutrition, and restore your acid-alkaline balance by Christopher Vasey, N.D.
The Story of Libraries: from the inception of writing to the computer age by Fred Lerner.
2010 Writer's Market, 89th annual edition.
2010 Guide to Literary Agents, 19th annual edition by [some editor]. If the Writer's Market works.
Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs, 2010 edition by E. Winter Griffith, M.D. The Griffith name has a trademark mark next to it. Why not just take his name off and promote the real guy's name to the top?
2010 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, 19th edition edited by Don Fluckinger. Fluckinger?
Windows 7 Secrets by Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera. We need newer computer books.
Praxis, 10th edition. Practice exams for the PRAXIS test - whatever the hell that is.
5 GED Practice Tests by Princeton Review. I only "studied" the night before my GED exams. I then woke up late, scrabbled for a couple pencils and then drove over to south central Dallas to take the exam.
Gotham Central: Book Two: Jokers and Madmen by Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka. We have the first one in the series and it has gone out 13 times.
Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer by Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins. Comic book novel with Pinocchio using his growing nose to make stakes and revenge Geppetto.
Raise Happy Chickens and Other Poultry by Victoria Roberts. Broody hens, handling ducks, plucking and hanging, favorite recipes.
Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause: everything you need to know to thrive during menopause, from a renowned women's health expert by Holly Thacker, MD. Thacker?
The No Bull Book on Heart Disease: real answers to winning back your heart and health by Joel Okner MD and Jeremy Clorfene, PhD.
The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running by Adam W. Chase and Nancy Hobbs. Equipment, finding trails, weather, hill strategy, so on, so forth.
The Truth About Back Pain: a revolutionary approach to diagnosing and healing back pain by Todd Sinett, DC and Sheldon Sinett, DC.
Living with Someone Who's Living with BiPolar Disorder: a practical guide for family, friends, and coworkers by Chelsea Lowe and Bruce M Cohen, MD, PhD.
The Brain Training Revolution: a proven workout for healthy brain aging by Paul E. Bendheim, MD. Brains science, exercises, look at that duck, lifestyle adjustments.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
What to Read 34: South African Authors Deon Meyer and Roger Smith
What to Read 34: South African Authors Deon Meyer and Roger Smith
Blood Safari by Deon Meyer and Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith. Two crime novels recently released in the United States.
Both Meyer and Smith did the google over to my online book notes. I assume they will end up here as well. What they need to do is quit screwing around and get back to work.
Blood Safari by Deon Meyer and Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith. Two crime novels recently released in the United States.
Both Meyer and Smith did the google over to my online book notes. I assume they will end up here as well. What they need to do is quit screwing around and get back to work.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Michael Perry Did A Music Album, Kellerman Changed His Author Photo
Music CD
Tiny Pilot by Michael Perry and the Long Beds. One of Wisconsin's favorite authors also works with a band. He writes the lyrics. Listen here: here.
Fiction
Deception by Jonathan Kellerman. Kellerman has a new author photo. Thanks goodness he got rid of those photos where - I swear - he was wearing eye makeup.
No Distance Too Far by Lauraine Snelling. Girl doctor goes to North Dakota reservation to fight measles.
Solar by Ian McEwan. Famous scientist coasts on fame by charging speaking fees. Now the compulsive womanizer finds his fifth wife is having an affair.
Tiny Pilot by Michael Perry and the Long Beds. One of Wisconsin's favorite authors also works with a band. He writes the lyrics. Listen here: here.
Fiction
Deception by Jonathan Kellerman. Kellerman has a new author photo. Thanks goodness he got rid of those photos where - I swear - he was wearing eye makeup.
No Distance Too Far by Lauraine Snelling. Girl doctor goes to North Dakota reservation to fight measles.
Solar by Ian McEwan. Famous scientist coasts on fame by charging speaking fees. Now the compulsive womanizer finds his fifth wife is having an affair.
Friday, March 26, 2010
2 Novels, 2 DVDs, 7 CDs with Neil Finn and AC/DC
Music on CD
The Sun Came Out by 7 Worlds Collide. Neil Finn did a group concert a few years ago and called the resulting CD 7 Worlds Collide (I have it at home if you want to borrow it). So, Finn put together most of the same people again as a benefit CD for Oxfam. Included are Jeff Tweedy, Johnny Marr, KT Tunstall, assorted Finns, etc.
A Friend of A Friend by Dave Rawlings Machine. Why did I buy this? Must be because Gillian Welch is in the band. Kind of like I bought The Mighty Celt because Gillian Anderson is in that.
Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden by Michael Buble and a band. Buble has a nice voice but I have heard few of his songs. Hey! Did I mention that Chris Isaak has another show on TV? I caught it by chance the other day and Buble was on.
Some guy who stinks - STINKS - of stale cigarettes just came into the library.
Pictures by The Len Price 3. Great stuff.
Keeps Gettin' Better: a decade of hits by Christina Aguilera. Stuff.
Powerage by AC/DC. My quest for the full AC/DC catalog continues.
'74 Jailbreak by AC/DC. See? What did I tell you? This is just a five song EP from '84 when early, unreleased tracks were packaged for the U.S.
DVD
Ghostbusters 1 & 2 starring ][the cast]. I think a previous copy was mangled. Includes a fancy booklet.
Gigante starring [Uruguayans]. Shy security guard in Montevideo falls for the night time cleaning lady. Romantic comedy with stalking.
Fiction
Known to Evil by Walter Mosley. "A Leonic McGill Mystery". Mosley has written some great novels.
She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell. Romance.
The Sun Came Out by 7 Worlds Collide. Neil Finn did a group concert a few years ago and called the resulting CD 7 Worlds Collide (I have it at home if you want to borrow it). So, Finn put together most of the same people again as a benefit CD for Oxfam. Included are Jeff Tweedy, Johnny Marr, KT Tunstall, assorted Finns, etc.
A Friend of A Friend by Dave Rawlings Machine. Why did I buy this? Must be because Gillian Welch is in the band. Kind of like I bought The Mighty Celt because Gillian Anderson is in that.
Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden by Michael Buble and a band. Buble has a nice voice but I have heard few of his songs. Hey! Did I mention that Chris Isaak has another show on TV? I caught it by chance the other day and Buble was on.
Some guy who stinks - STINKS - of stale cigarettes just came into the library.
Pictures by The Len Price 3. Great stuff.
Keeps Gettin' Better: a decade of hits by Christina Aguilera. Stuff.
Powerage by AC/DC. My quest for the full AC/DC catalog continues.
'74 Jailbreak by AC/DC. See? What did I tell you? This is just a five song EP from '84 when early, unreleased tracks were packaged for the U.S.
DVD
Ghostbusters 1 & 2 starring ][the cast]. I think a previous copy was mangled. Includes a fancy booklet.
Gigante starring [Uruguayans]. Shy security guard in Montevideo falls for the night time cleaning lady. Romantic comedy with stalking.
Fiction
Known to Evil by Walter Mosley. "A Leonic McGill Mystery". Mosley has written some great novels.
She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell. Romance.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Harlan Coben is Bald, More Indian Mounds, Underwear Girl on Cover
Fiction
Bite Me: a love story by Christopher Moore. Comedic novel with vampires in San Francisco.
212 by Alafair Burke. No relation to Alafair Robicheaux.
Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman. PI in NYY tries to track down the blackmailing girlfriend of his married brother. The woman, who works an internet porn and black mailing operation, ends up dead and evidence leads to the PI's brother. The cover has a gal dressed in underwear and stockings.
Caught by Harlan Coben. Seventeen year old girl goes missing. Lady tv reporter who hosts a fictionalized version of Catch a Predator gets involved.
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear. I always enjoy the artwork on these Winspear covers. I cannot name the painting style but it has that 1920s-1930s, Hopper-like, WPA feel. I've still never read one of these books though.
Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken. This looks like a YA novel and has a lousy cover.
Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry. Woman travels to Constantinople in 1273 to prove her brother's innocence in conspiring to kill a nobleman. Good for her.
Shattered by Karen Robards. Sha-dooby. Shattered. Shattered.
NonFiction
Spirits of Earth: the effigy mound landscape Madison and the Four Lakes by Robert A. Birmingham. Birmingham used to be State Archeologist and has writen several books on mounds including the one about the mounds in Aztalan State Park.
Kids Book
Tollins by Conn Iggulden. I list this because it was in the same pile as the other books in this post. Tollins was the Rotary gift book from this week. The Rotary Club of Lake Mills donates a book in the name of the weekly program. This means I have to find a new book each week and I sometimes run around trying to scare one up.
The program this week was a tour at Ephraim Faience Pottery by one of the owners. Ephraim just moved downtown about a year ago and make Arts and Crafts style pottery. They have a neat operation and the tour covered all the steps of the process. Tours are not often given though, so don't just expect one if you suddenly show up.
Bite Me: a love story by Christopher Moore. Comedic novel with vampires in San Francisco.
212 by Alafair Burke. No relation to Alafair Robicheaux.
Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman. PI in NYY tries to track down the blackmailing girlfriend of his married brother. The woman, who works an internet porn and black mailing operation, ends up dead and evidence leads to the PI's brother. The cover has a gal dressed in underwear and stockings.
Caught by Harlan Coben. Seventeen year old girl goes missing. Lady tv reporter who hosts a fictionalized version of Catch a Predator gets involved.
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear. I always enjoy the artwork on these Winspear covers. I cannot name the painting style but it has that 1920s-1930s, Hopper-like, WPA feel. I've still never read one of these books though.
Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken. This looks like a YA novel and has a lousy cover.
Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry. Woman travels to Constantinople in 1273 to prove her brother's innocence in conspiring to kill a nobleman. Good for her.
Shattered by Karen Robards. Sha-dooby. Shattered. Shattered.
NonFiction
Spirits of Earth: the effigy mound landscape Madison and the Four Lakes by Robert A. Birmingham. Birmingham used to be State Archeologist and has writen several books on mounds including the one about the mounds in Aztalan State Park.
Kids Book
Tollins by Conn Iggulden. I list this because it was in the same pile as the other books in this post. Tollins was the Rotary gift book from this week. The Rotary Club of Lake Mills donates a book in the name of the weekly program. This means I have to find a new book each week and I sometimes run around trying to scare one up.
The program this week was a tour at Ephraim Faience Pottery by one of the owners. Ephraim just moved downtown about a year ago and make Arts and Crafts style pottery. They have a neat operation and the tour covered all the steps of the process. Tours are not often given though, so don't just expect one if you suddenly show up.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Leftovers and Donations
Justified
I was watching this during lunch and started talking in a fake drawl.
Fiction
Hearts Awakening by Delia Parr. Christian/inspirational fiction.
These novels are all donations. Someone left these and other books in some plastic bags next to our outdoor book drop. Good thing the bags didn't have dog dirt or a bomb instead of books.
Somebody Owes Me Money by Donald E. Westlake. A Hard Case Crime reprint.
The Cutie by Donald E. Westlake. Another Hard Case Crime reprint. You remember Hard Case don't you? After that tattoo you received?
Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris.
Cry Wolf by Tami Hoag.
I am Not a Cop by Richard Belzer and Michael Black. Belzer plays himself as an actor called upon to be the character he plays on television.
Large Print
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb.
Split Image by Robert B. Parker.
I was watching this during lunch and started talking in a fake drawl.
Fiction
Hearts Awakening by Delia Parr. Christian/inspirational fiction.
These novels are all donations. Someone left these and other books in some plastic bags next to our outdoor book drop. Good thing the bags didn't have dog dirt or a bomb instead of books.
Somebody Owes Me Money by Donald E. Westlake. A Hard Case Crime reprint.
The Cutie by Donald E. Westlake. Another Hard Case Crime reprint. You remember Hard Case don't you? After that tattoo you received?
Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris.
Cry Wolf by Tami Hoag.
I am Not a Cop by Richard Belzer and Michael Black. Belzer plays himself as an actor called upon to be the character he plays on television.
Large Print
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb.
Split Image by Robert B. Parker.
Retreads: Ringo, Sade, Johnny Cash, The A-Team
DVD
A-Team: Season Two starring those three guys and Mr. T. Our first copy of this lost some discs, or was mangled, or something. Remember how the characters would fire thousands of rounds, use flamethrowers, conk people on the head, or get in massive car crashes but no one was ever shown injured?
Storm starring [Germans]. Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague has a key witness commit suicide. She travels to Yugoslavia for the witness's funeral and meets the man's sister who knows the same information. The prosecutor and new witness have to make it back to Holland alive.
Boondock Saints II starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus. The first movie has a strong following so I bought this sequel. A quote on the front of the box says, "The sequel improves on everything that made the first film great." That is a difficult proposition considering the first movie is, in reality, a pile of crap.
Where do all these movie characters get suppressors for their guns? If I want one I have to pay $200 up front just on the federal tax stamp.
Precious starring Gabourey Sidibe and other people. You should know the story by now.
The Informant! starring Scott Bakula and Matt Damon. Comedy with an informant working with the FBI over a price fixing scheme on food additives.
Up in the Air starring George Clooney. You should know this story as well.
Music CDs
Songs From the Heart by Celtic Woman. These CDs and DVDs are really popular. The band's name is a misnomer since there seem to be five gals involved. Judging from the liner notes I say that Lynn and Mairead are the best looking. Because, let's face it, looks are as important as talent for the kind of show they run.
American VI: aint't no grave by Johnny Cash. Another album of covers by Cash.
Y Not by Ringo Starr. Ten new tunes by Starkey.
Charlie Hood is happy.
Soldier of Love by Sade. Older people tend to dig this album. Or so the newspaper said.
Ultra Dance 11 by DJ Enferno. DJ Enferno needs to buy a dictionary. The model in the liner notes is probably the only good thing about these two discs.
A-Team: Season Two starring those three guys and Mr. T. Our first copy of this lost some discs, or was mangled, or something. Remember how the characters would fire thousands of rounds, use flamethrowers, conk people on the head, or get in massive car crashes but no one was ever shown injured?
Storm starring [Germans]. Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague has a key witness commit suicide. She travels to Yugoslavia for the witness's funeral and meets the man's sister who knows the same information. The prosecutor and new witness have to make it back to Holland alive.
Boondock Saints II starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus. The first movie has a strong following so I bought this sequel. A quote on the front of the box says, "The sequel improves on everything that made the first film great." That is a difficult proposition considering the first movie is, in reality, a pile of crap.
Where do all these movie characters get suppressors for their guns? If I want one I have to pay $200 up front just on the federal tax stamp.
Precious starring Gabourey Sidibe and other people. You should know the story by now.
The Informant! starring Scott Bakula and Matt Damon. Comedy with an informant working with the FBI over a price fixing scheme on food additives.
Up in the Air starring George Clooney. You should know this story as well.
Music CDs
Songs From the Heart by Celtic Woman. These CDs and DVDs are really popular. The band's name is a misnomer since there seem to be five gals involved. Judging from the liner notes I say that Lynn and Mairead are the best looking. Because, let's face it, looks are as important as talent for the kind of show they run.
American VI: aint't no grave by Johnny Cash. Another album of covers by Cash.
Y Not by Ringo Starr. Ten new tunes by Starkey.
Charlie Hood is happy.
Soldier of Love by Sade. Older people tend to dig this album. Or so the newspaper said.
Ultra Dance 11 by DJ Enferno. DJ Enferno needs to buy a dictionary. The model in the liner notes is probably the only good thing about these two discs.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Another Gischler and Max Allan Collins
Fiction
You Can't Stop Me by Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens. Former sheriff J.C. Harrow had a red letter day. He caught a Presidential assassin and his wife and son were murdered. Now the host of Crime Seen! he tracks down crooks with the help of viewer's tips and has a chance to catch the killer of his family.
Collins has a neat blog that I referred to before. He seems like a good dude. We also just received a DVD movie based on one of his Quarry stories, The Last Lullaby.
Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova. Artist slashes a famed painting hanging in a museum. Psychiatrist tries to figure out why.
Wedding Season by Kate Fforde. With a title like this how could it be anything but a chick book?
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline. I think I read a short story by Scottoline. If she is the one I am thinking of the story was dang good.
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian. Cover has a lady taking a swim in a lake.
Welcome to the Bayou by Victor Gischler. Comic book novel by the famed novelist. Famed? Oh, that was funny. Funny, funny, funny.
Wild Ride by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. Supernatural romance at an amusement park. I think.
You Can't Stop Me by Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens. Former sheriff J.C. Harrow had a red letter day. He caught a Presidential assassin and his wife and son were murdered. Now the host of Crime Seen! he tracks down crooks with the help of viewer's tips and has a chance to catch the killer of his family.
Collins has a neat blog that I referred to before. He seems like a good dude. We also just received a DVD movie based on one of his Quarry stories, The Last Lullaby.
Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova. Artist slashes a famed painting hanging in a museum. Psychiatrist tries to figure out why.
Wedding Season by Kate Fforde. With a title like this how could it be anything but a chick book?
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline. I think I read a short story by Scottoline. If she is the one I am thinking of the story was dang good.
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian. Cover has a lady taking a swim in a lake.
Welcome to the Bayou by Victor Gischler. Comic book novel by the famed novelist. Famed? Oh, that was funny. Funny, funny, funny.
Wild Ride by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. Supernatural romance at an amusement park. I think.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tattoos, Prison, Turks on the Run, Rostnikov's Last Deadlift
DVD
Bliss starring [no one who you heard of]. Family of girl in rural Turkey thinks she may have been raped. What to do? What to Do? Why, kill her of course. Hey, we'll get her cousin to do it. The cousin decides that is not such a good idea.
Bronson starring Tom Hardy. Biopic of "Britian's most dangerous prisoner." He has spent 34 years in prison and 30 of those years were in solitary confinement. He is a violent nutbag.
The Burning Plain starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. Two women find their lives linked "by the forces of love and fate." What the heck is that supposed to mean? You call that a plot description? Here is a review from Allmovie.com.
Fiction
A Whisper to the Living by Stuart M. Kaminsky. Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, one of the only honest cops in Moscow, is assigned to protect an English journalist writing about prostituion.
Kaminsky recently died so this is the last Rostnikov novel unless Kaminsky left behind some unpublished work or his estate licenses someone. I read an older Rostnikov novel and thought it was okay but not great. I then found out the novel won an Edgar award.
Horns by Joe Hill. Pitchfork on the cover. A horror novel. Maybe.
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen. Chick book.
Treasure of the Golden Cheetah by Suzanne Arruda. The further African adventures of Jade Del Cameron during the 1920s. Jade takes a job helping a Hollywood film crew and has to solve some murders.
Broken Places by Sandra Parsnan. A mystery. Which means someone died.
Pretty in Ink by Karen E. Olson. Las Vegas tattoo shop owner has to solve the recent murders of Vegas's famous drag queens. Some gal with a torso tattoo was just in the library.
The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz. This series circulates well.
Bliss starring [no one who you heard of]. Family of girl in rural Turkey thinks she may have been raped. What to do? What to Do? Why, kill her of course. Hey, we'll get her cousin to do it. The cousin decides that is not such a good idea.
Bronson starring Tom Hardy. Biopic of "Britian's most dangerous prisoner." He has spent 34 years in prison and 30 of those years were in solitary confinement. He is a violent nutbag.
The Burning Plain starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. Two women find their lives linked "by the forces of love and fate." What the heck is that supposed to mean? You call that a plot description? Here is a review from Allmovie.com.
Fiction
A Whisper to the Living by Stuart M. Kaminsky. Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, one of the only honest cops in Moscow, is assigned to protect an English journalist writing about prostituion.
Kaminsky recently died so this is the last Rostnikov novel unless Kaminsky left behind some unpublished work or his estate licenses someone. I read an older Rostnikov novel and thought it was okay but not great. I then found out the novel won an Edgar award.
Horns by Joe Hill. Pitchfork on the cover. A horror novel. Maybe.
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen. Chick book.
Treasure of the Golden Cheetah by Suzanne Arruda. The further African adventures of Jade Del Cameron during the 1920s. Jade takes a job helping a Hollywood film crew and has to solve some murders.
Broken Places by Sandra Parsnan. A mystery. Which means someone died.
Pretty in Ink by Karen E. Olson. Las Vegas tattoo shop owner has to solve the recent murders of Vegas's famous drag queens. Some gal with a torso tattoo was just in the library.
The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz. This series circulates well.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Men's Book Club Meets Wed., March 24th at Tyranena Brewing
Men's Book Club
The Men's Book Club will meet on Wednesday, March 24th at Tyranena Brewing to discuss Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Why are we discussing Catcher in the Rye? Several reasons. They are:
1. Salinger just died.
2. You probably have not read the book since high school.
3. Since it was a high school assignment you probably never read the book anyway.
4. You'll feel like you know what the heck people are talking about.
5. What do you care anyway? You'll probably read ten pages, put it down, never finish, and just show up to drink beer.
The Men's Book Club will meet on Wednesday, March 24th at Tyranena Brewing to discuss Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Why are we discussing Catcher in the Rye? Several reasons. They are:
1. Salinger just died.
2. You probably have not read the book since high school.
3. Since it was a high school assignment you probably never read the book anyway.
4. You'll feel like you know what the heck people are talking about.
5. What do you care anyway? You'll probably read ten pages, put it down, never finish, and just show up to drink beer.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Several Large Print and Three Romance Novels From Lorelai James
Fiction
Branded as Trouble, Tied Up, Tied Down, and Rough, Raw, and Ready by Lorelai James. Three separate novels. James is the pen name for Lori Armstrong. Armstrong did a post on firstoffenders.blogspot.com about her romance series that generated a ton of responses. So, I decided to order several titles.
One of the responses to Armstrong's post was by me questioning whether these novels were gay porn because the titles sound sure sound like it. No, they are not gay porn. There is dude-on-dude sex but it's not an all gay romance. The back covers of each book have tongue in cheek warnings like: this book contains unbelievably explicit sex, including multiple cowboy/cowgirl/cowboy menage scenes, juicy, hot, male on male action [yeesh], a bucketful of politically incorrect situations and true Western ideology.
Large Print
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah.
Tate by Linda Lael Miller. A McKettricks of Texas novel.
Dead by Midnight by Beverly Barton.
Through the Heart by Kate Morgenroth.
Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens.
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag.
Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton.
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee.
Branded as Trouble, Tied Up, Tied Down, and Rough, Raw, and Ready by Lorelai James. Three separate novels. James is the pen name for Lori Armstrong. Armstrong did a post on firstoffenders.blogspot.com about her romance series that generated a ton of responses. So, I decided to order several titles.
One of the responses to Armstrong's post was by me questioning whether these novels were gay porn because the titles sound sure sound like it. No, they are not gay porn. There is dude-on-dude sex but it's not an all gay romance. The back covers of each book have tongue in cheek warnings like: this book contains unbelievably explicit sex, including multiple cowboy/cowgirl/cowboy menage scenes, juicy, hot, male on male action [yeesh], a bucketful of politically incorrect situations and true Western ideology.
Large Print
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah.
Tate by Linda Lael Miller. A McKettricks of Texas novel.
Dead by Midnight by Beverly Barton.
Through the Heart by Kate Morgenroth.
Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens.
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag.
Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton.
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
One NonFiction, Four Fiction, and One YA Misplaced in Fiction
YA in Fiction
Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan. "A companion to The Forest of Hands and Teeth." Not a sequel to Forest but with a new main character and told from a different community surrounded by the same zombies of Forest. This book came up on the holds list with my wife's name on it. I'm going to check Dead-Tossed out for her but not let her have it until after I read it. I can write that because my wife never reads this blog.
Fiction
The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler and Jack De Brul. Max Allan Collins posted an interesting piece on his blog about co-writing novels. Collins has been finishing some manuscripts left behind by Mickey Spillane and also collaborating with Matthew Clemens. Collins writes that you cannot tell by the cover who is doing most of the work.
Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White. Another Florida mystery. Who is it that started all this? John D. McDonald? I have yet to read one of his books.
Hell Gate by Linda Fairstein. The cover has some sort of stone tower building on the cover. I'm going assume someone was tied up and thrown off the roof.
Bone Fire by Mark Spragg. A novel set in rural Iowa with meth-heads, Alzheimers disease, and other stuff. We have two copies of this because I screwed up the order. Spragg should be happy about that. Maybe we'll get a thank you note but I doubt it.
NonFiction
Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller. The last back-order of that big cookbook order I did a month or so ago. Ad Hoc is the name of the author's restaurant in California. A big book with lots a pretty pictures. I have a 1.75 liter bottle of Dewar's at home that I got over the weekend. I have not cracked it yet.
Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan. "A companion to The Forest of Hands and Teeth." Not a sequel to Forest but with a new main character and told from a different community surrounded by the same zombies of Forest. This book came up on the holds list with my wife's name on it. I'm going to check Dead-Tossed out for her but not let her have it until after I read it. I can write that because my wife never reads this blog.
Fiction
The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler and Jack De Brul. Max Allan Collins posted an interesting piece on his blog about co-writing novels. Collins has been finishing some manuscripts left behind by Mickey Spillane and also collaborating with Matthew Clemens. Collins writes that you cannot tell by the cover who is doing most of the work.
Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White. Another Florida mystery. Who is it that started all this? John D. McDonald? I have yet to read one of his books.
Hell Gate by Linda Fairstein. The cover has some sort of stone tower building on the cover. I'm going assume someone was tied up and thrown off the roof.
Bone Fire by Mark Spragg. A novel set in rural Iowa with meth-heads, Alzheimers disease, and other stuff. We have two copies of this because I screwed up the order. Spragg should be happy about that. Maybe we'll get a thank you note but I doubt it.
NonFiction
Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller. The last back-order of that big cookbook order I did a month or so ago. Ad Hoc is the name of the author's restaurant in California. A big book with lots a pretty pictures. I have a 1.75 liter bottle of Dewar's at home that I got over the weekend. I have not cracked it yet.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Six Chick Books
Fiction
Cook the Books by Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant. Some chick tries to solve the murder of a chef.
Game Over by Fern Michaels. Another book about the Sisterhood which is a group of gals fighting injustice.
Teaberry Strangler by Laura Childs. Some broad who owns a teashop solves murder of a neighboring store owner.
House Rules by Jodi Picoult. Skirt with an autistic son who likes to watch crime scenes has to defend her son when he becomes a suspect.
False Mermaid by Erin Hart. Sister of dead woman suspects her brother-in-law of murder and believes her niece and his new squeeze are in danger.
NonFiction
Your Beautiful Wedding on any Budget by Todd Outcalt. It all starts with having this printed as a paperback for $12.99. Dames like weddings.
Coffee Break
I'm going over to Sweet Lips Gallery shortly at around 10:30 to get an Americano. I have not had one in a while. If you get to Sweet Lips while I am still there I will buy you a drink. If you get to Sweet Lips while I am still there I will pretend to be someone else so I do not have to by you a drink.
2010 Census
I've been getting phone calls from some Census people. Many of them seem to be nitwits. I suppose I should not be too surprised considering who they have hired in the past.
Cook the Books by Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant. Some chick tries to solve the murder of a chef.
Game Over by Fern Michaels. Another book about the Sisterhood which is a group of gals fighting injustice.
Teaberry Strangler by Laura Childs. Some broad who owns a teashop solves murder of a neighboring store owner.
House Rules by Jodi Picoult. Skirt with an autistic son who likes to watch crime scenes has to defend her son when he becomes a suspect.
False Mermaid by Erin Hart. Sister of dead woman suspects her brother-in-law of murder and believes her niece and his new squeeze are in danger.
NonFiction
Your Beautiful Wedding on any Budget by Todd Outcalt. It all starts with having this printed as a paperback for $12.99. Dames like weddings.
Coffee Break
I'm going over to Sweet Lips Gallery shortly at around 10:30 to get an Americano. I have not had one in a while. If you get to Sweet Lips while I am still there I will buy you a drink. If you get to Sweet Lips while I am still there I will pretend to be someone else so I do not have to by you a drink.
2010 Census
I've been getting phone calls from some Census people. Many of them seem to be nitwits. I suppose I should not be too surprised considering who they have hired in the past.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Janette Oke and More Vampires
DVD
Janette Oke Movies
You know why these movies annoy me? I never hear about their release dates. The DVDs are quite popular and always check out, but I never hear when the new ones come out. Heck, I just looked at the studio's website and found out that the eighth one, Love Finds A Home, was released this past November. Dang it!
Love's Unending Legacy starring Erin Cottrell. Fifth in the Love Comes Softly series. Missie and her young son move nearer to her parents two years after Missie was widowed. Missie adopts a teen girl off an orphan train and starts to dig the local sheriff.
Love's Unfolding Dream starring Erin Cottrell. Sixth in the series. Missie's adopted daughter wants to become a doctor against the resistance of the local doctor and her own boyfriend.
Feeling Better Now
A tune by Richard Thompson, Mr. Rebound, just came up on my computer. I decided to listen to all the songs beginning with Mr. and Mr. Rabbit was next. Listen here, player in upper right corner.
Another DVD
Vampire's Assistant starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek's Breasts, Chris Massoglia. Teen visits a traveling sideshow called Cirque Du Freak. He trades in his ordinary life to be a vampire with the Cirque, "his existence as a member of the undead is filled with more challenges, suspense and fun than he ever thought possible."
Best of Johnny Carson and Friends. Four DVDs worth at 23 hours. 23 hours? Screw that.
NonFiction
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg. People like to steal these books. Filthy, thieving weasels. ABout 4,000 mounds remain in Wisconsin. Drive over to the mound at Aztalan State Park. Just don't bring your four year old because he will be bored.
Janette Oke Movies
You know why these movies annoy me? I never hear about their release dates. The DVDs are quite popular and always check out, but I never hear when the new ones come out. Heck, I just looked at the studio's website and found out that the eighth one, Love Finds A Home, was released this past November. Dang it!
Love's Unending Legacy starring Erin Cottrell. Fifth in the Love Comes Softly series. Missie and her young son move nearer to her parents two years after Missie was widowed. Missie adopts a teen girl off an orphan train and starts to dig the local sheriff.
Love's Unfolding Dream starring Erin Cottrell. Sixth in the series. Missie's adopted daughter wants to become a doctor against the resistance of the local doctor and her own boyfriend.
Feeling Better Now
A tune by Richard Thompson, Mr. Rebound, just came up on my computer. I decided to listen to all the songs beginning with Mr. and Mr. Rabbit was next. Listen here, player in upper right corner.
Another DVD
Vampire's Assistant starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek's Breasts, Chris Massoglia. Teen visits a traveling sideshow called Cirque Du Freak. He trades in his ordinary life to be a vampire with the Cirque, "his existence as a member of the undead is filled with more challenges, suspense and fun than he ever thought possible."
Best of Johnny Carson and Friends. Four DVDs worth at 23 hours. 23 hours? Screw that.
NonFiction
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg. People like to steal these books. Filthy, thieving weasels. ABout 4,000 mounds remain in Wisconsin. Drive over to the mound at Aztalan State Park. Just don't bring your four year old because he will be bored.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Dogs Teaching Physics During the Annual Report
NonFiction
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel. With great humor and clarity, Chad Orzel explains to Emmy [his dog], and to human readers, just what quantum mechanics is and how it works - and why, although you can't use it to catch squirrels or eat steak, it's still bizarre, amazing, and important to every dog and human.
Read this book, teach your dog the principles, get the dog hired as a physics teacher. Wouldn't it be nice to have a dog do something worthwhile?
Fun and Adventure During Annual Report Time
Eat your heart out. This kind of fun is mine, mine, mine.
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel. With great humor and clarity, Chad Orzel explains to Emmy [his dog], and to human readers, just what quantum mechanics is and how it works - and why, although you can't use it to catch squirrels or eat steak, it's still bizarre, amazing, and important to every dog and human.
Read this book, teach your dog the principles, get the dog hired as a physics teacher. Wouldn't it be nice to have a dog do something worthwhile?
Fun and Adventure During Annual Report Time
Eat your heart out. This kind of fun is mine, mine, mine.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
It Smells Like Manure Outside. I'm not sure if it is pig or chicken.
Fiction
Black Hills by Dan Simmons. Another historical novel by Simmons. A young Sioux boy touches Custer right at the time of his death and Custer's ghost follows the boy for sixty years until 1936 when the Sioux man is working on the Mount Rushmore monument.
Simmons' book The Terror was really outstanding. Another of his books, Darwin's Blade, was a piece of crap. That is proof that no one is perfect. Even Crider, who is the one who recommended Darwin's Blade.
Heat Wave by Richard Castle. Novel from the television show. There is speculation on who ghosted the novel. Stephen J. Cannell gives a blurb on the back and is a common guess as the real writer.
Wild Zone by Joy Fielding. Some sort of book.
Black Hills by Dan Simmons. Another historical novel by Simmons. A young Sioux boy touches Custer right at the time of his death and Custer's ghost follows the boy for sixty years until 1936 when the Sioux man is working on the Mount Rushmore monument.
Simmons' book The Terror was really outstanding. Another of his books, Darwin's Blade, was a piece of crap. That is proof that no one is perfect. Even Crider, who is the one who recommended Darwin's Blade.
Heat Wave by Richard Castle. Novel from the television show. There is speculation on who ghosted the novel. Stephen J. Cannell gives a blurb on the back and is a common guess as the real writer.
Wild Zone by Joy Fielding. Some sort of book.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Did anyone read that last post?
Anyone? Did you see the vague and unrelated reference to Apocalypse Now?
DVD
Law Abiding Citizen with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. Revenge movie.
Fiction
Split Image by Robert B. Parker. A Jesse Stone novel. Revenge status unknown.
Money to Burn by James Grippando. Presumed dead wife seems to be alive and ruining life and career of finance guy. Revenge likely.
Coffee Break
Fiction Continued
Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer. The flyleaf has a long convoluted description of the plot but I'm pretty sure revenge is involved.
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb. Cover illustration has a two shot derringer and a sword with a circuit board in the background. I bet a computer specialist takes revenge on the evil religious order that killed his wife and destroyed his business.
Big Girl by Danielle Steel. Revenge status unknown but likely.
Apple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke. This is one of those mystery with recipes so I'll bet the murder is revenge related.
Matthew's Story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. You could say that Roman actions were revenge against rebellion and dissension.
Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison. Some vampire/werewolf/zombie/witches novel with a belly button bared broad on the cover seeking revenge against the forces of evil. Is this like those Hamilton books with all the hard-core sex scenes packed into the plot?
A Night Too Dark by Dana Stabenow. One of Stabenow's Alaska novels. A grizzly bear seeks revenge against the vicious salmon invading his territory.
NonFiction
Nothing to Envy: ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. What a crap hole. When things change there you I bet there will be revenge killings.
DVD
Law Abiding Citizen with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. Revenge movie.
Fiction
Split Image by Robert B. Parker. A Jesse Stone novel. Revenge status unknown.
Money to Burn by James Grippando. Presumed dead wife seems to be alive and ruining life and career of finance guy. Revenge likely.
Coffee Break
Fiction Continued
Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer. The flyleaf has a long convoluted description of the plot but I'm pretty sure revenge is involved.
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb. Cover illustration has a two shot derringer and a sword with a circuit board in the background. I bet a computer specialist takes revenge on the evil religious order that killed his wife and destroyed his business.
Big Girl by Danielle Steel. Revenge status unknown but likely.
Apple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke. This is one of those mystery with recipes so I'll bet the murder is revenge related.
Matthew's Story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. You could say that Roman actions were revenge against rebellion and dissension.
Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison. Some vampire/werewolf/zombie/witches novel with a belly button bared broad on the cover seeking revenge against the forces of evil. Is this like those Hamilton books with all the hard-core sex scenes packed into the plot?
A Night Too Dark by Dana Stabenow. One of Stabenow's Alaska novels. A grizzly bear seeks revenge against the vicious salmon invading his territory.
NonFiction
Nothing to Envy: ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. What a crap hole. When things change there you I bet there will be revenge killings.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
These Items are so uninteresting I barely have the energy to type
DVD
The L Word: complete fourth season starring [the same people as last time]. L.A. lesbians lock lips and love alliteration.
The Great Circus Parade 2009: Wisconsin national treasure. Sell the house.
Fiction
The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson. I don't care. Neither do you. Sell the car.
Large Print
Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins. Sell the kids.
Find Someone Else
Forget it by I'm Never Coming Back. Forget it.
The L Word: complete fourth season starring [the same people as last time]. L.A. lesbians lock lips and love alliteration.
The Great Circus Parade 2009: Wisconsin national treasure. Sell the house.
Fiction
The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson. I don't care. Neither do you. Sell the car.
Large Print
Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins. Sell the kids.
Find Someone Else
Forget it by I'm Never Coming Back. Forget it.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Another Trailer Park Movie
DVD
Trailer Park of Terror starring SomeCountryMusicSinger. Six high school students are stranded in a trailer park filled with hillbilly zombies playing guitar.
Music on CD
The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic by Weird Al Yankovic. Two discs of "hits".
Until the Whole World Hears by Casting Crowns. Christian themed rock.
Element of Freedom by Alicia keys. Fourteen pop songs.
Public Service Announcement
Trailer Park of Terror starring SomeCountryMusicSinger. Six high school students are stranded in a trailer park filled with hillbilly zombies playing guitar.
Music on CD
The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic by Weird Al Yankovic. Two discs of "hits".
Until the Whole World Hears by Casting Crowns. Christian themed rock.
Element of Freedom by Alicia keys. Fourteen pop songs.
Public Service Announcement
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Some People Say A Christmas Wreath Should Be Removed by Ash Wednesday
I say, "That ladder is a hassle."
Internet Radio Stations
I don't listen to online radio as much as I used to. I still enjoy Little Steven's Underground Garage but don't listen to BBC6 nearly as much as I used to. I almost never listen to Australia national radio (ABC) or the Roots Rock Radio podcast anymore.
A favorite radio station of mine is WTKM out of Hartford, WI. Why? Because they play polka. Listening link here.
DVD
Fast Track starring Guysinshirtsiwthoutsleeves and Girlsinskimpydresses. Lee Goldberg (author of the Monk novels) was executive producer of this and seems really happy with the results. So I bought a copy for the Library. Plot: Kids race cars, wage money, and crash the cars.
Good Hair with Chris Rock. Straightened hair versus curly hair styles for black people. Chris Rock takes a look. That's good I suppose, I myself usually cannot remember what anyone has for hair.
Sometimes I'll play a game with myself called "What shirt am I wearing?" Without looking down I have to remember what shirt I am wearing that day. It can be tough.
Trailer Park Boys: the movie starring [Canadians]. I do not remember how I ran across this. Maybe a search for something else popped this up. I then looked at the web page and figured I should order it. The movie version of a Canadian television show set in a trailer park.
Drool School: family dog training by [some dog trainer who wanted to make a movie]. I don't remember how I found this either. I think I read a review. "Smart games, tricks, and commands for kids age 3 through 13, and timely tips for parents." Heck, we should shelve this downstairs in the kids section.
The Ministers starring John Leguizamo and Harvey Keitel. Some shoot-em-up murder mystery with religious overtones. This was advertised on television when the DVD came out. Leguizamo is such a dang good actor.
Downloading Nancy starring Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell. Self-destructive and suicidal married woman has been carrying on numerous affairs and disappears. Her husband has to find out what happened. Creepy sex scenes included so you - yeah you - will want to watch it.
AudioBooks on CD
Vegas Sunrise by Fern Michaels. Michales audio titles check out well so I got this older title, third in a trilogy.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. This will go out.
Internet Radio Stations
I don't listen to online radio as much as I used to. I still enjoy Little Steven's Underground Garage but don't listen to BBC6 nearly as much as I used to. I almost never listen to Australia national radio (ABC) or the Roots Rock Radio podcast anymore.
A favorite radio station of mine is WTKM out of Hartford, WI. Why? Because they play polka. Listening link here.
DVD
Fast Track starring Guysinshirtsiwthoutsleeves and Girlsinskimpydresses. Lee Goldberg (author of the Monk novels) was executive producer of this and seems really happy with the results. So I bought a copy for the Library. Plot: Kids race cars, wage money, and crash the cars.
Good Hair with Chris Rock. Straightened hair versus curly hair styles for black people. Chris Rock takes a look. That's good I suppose, I myself usually cannot remember what anyone has for hair.
Sometimes I'll play a game with myself called "What shirt am I wearing?" Without looking down I have to remember what shirt I am wearing that day. It can be tough.
Trailer Park Boys: the movie starring [Canadians]. I do not remember how I ran across this. Maybe a search for something else popped this up. I then looked at the web page and figured I should order it. The movie version of a Canadian television show set in a trailer park.
Drool School: family dog training by [some dog trainer who wanted to make a movie]. I don't remember how I found this either. I think I read a review. "Smart games, tricks, and commands for kids age 3 through 13, and timely tips for parents." Heck, we should shelve this downstairs in the kids section.
The Ministers starring John Leguizamo and Harvey Keitel. Some shoot-em-up murder mystery with religious overtones. This was advertised on television when the DVD came out. Leguizamo is such a dang good actor.
Downloading Nancy starring Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell. Self-destructive and suicidal married woman has been carrying on numerous affairs and disappears. Her husband has to find out what happened. Creepy sex scenes included so you - yeah you - will want to watch it.
AudioBooks on CD
Vegas Sunrise by Fern Michaels. Michales audio titles check out well so I got this older title, third in a trilogy.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. This will go out.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Retro Horror Movie, Some Music CDs, Some Books
DVD
The House of the Devil starring Somebody Named Gerta. Desperate for quick cash, college sophomore Samantha Hughes takes a babysitting job in the isolated mansion of the creepy Ulman family. Ignoring the warnings of her best friend, Samantha has no idea that a nightmare of unspeakable fear and torment awaits her within these walls.
Music CDs
Rated R by Rihanna. Is this the gal who was dating Mr. Punchy?
Worship Jamz - Blue. Techno gospel?
Contra by Vampire Weekend. Flavor of the indie month.
Breakout by Miley Cyrus. Our last copy cracked.
Kidz Bop 16. Children sing popular pop tunes. The booklet says I am supposed to check out kidzbop.com. I refuse.
Original Soundtrack to Princess and the Frog. Randy Newman must have a lifetime contract with Disney.
Fiction
The Abortionist by Michael james Caughill. A Library customer read a review in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and requested I get purchase a copy. I did.
NonFiction
Women and Men on the Overland Trail: 2nd edition by John Mack Faragher. A lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s.
Large Print
The Bargain Bride by Barbara Metzger. My wife watches that television show set in an expensive bridal gown store.
Early Dawn by Catherine Anderson. Woman kidnapped in Colorado by "murderous outlaws" who plan to sell her in Mexico. Local dude rescues her and they go on the run.
Love and Summer by William Trevor. Mid 1950s...orphan girl...blighted by unspeakable tragedy...young photographer...poignant love affair...herself.
Gemma by Meg Tilly. Twelve-year-old is kidnapped and just survives the abuse.
The House of the Devil starring Somebody Named Gerta. Desperate for quick cash, college sophomore Samantha Hughes takes a babysitting job in the isolated mansion of the creepy Ulman family. Ignoring the warnings of her best friend, Samantha has no idea that a nightmare of unspeakable fear and torment awaits her within these walls.
Music CDs
Rated R by Rihanna. Is this the gal who was dating Mr. Punchy?
Worship Jamz - Blue. Techno gospel?
Contra by Vampire Weekend. Flavor of the indie month.
Breakout by Miley Cyrus. Our last copy cracked.
Kidz Bop 16. Children sing popular pop tunes. The booklet says I am supposed to check out kidzbop.com. I refuse.
Original Soundtrack to Princess and the Frog. Randy Newman must have a lifetime contract with Disney.
Fiction
The Abortionist by Michael james Caughill. A Library customer read a review in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and requested I get purchase a copy. I did.
NonFiction
Women and Men on the Overland Trail: 2nd edition by John Mack Faragher. A lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s.
Large Print
The Bargain Bride by Barbara Metzger. My wife watches that television show set in an expensive bridal gown store.
Early Dawn by Catherine Anderson. Woman kidnapped in Colorado by "murderous outlaws" who plan to sell her in Mexico. Local dude rescues her and they go on the run.
Love and Summer by William Trevor. Mid 1950s...orphan girl...blighted by unspeakable tragedy...young photographer...poignant love affair...herself.
Gemma by Meg Tilly. Twelve-year-old is kidnapped and just survives the abuse.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
What to Read 35: Gerald Seymour's "The Walking Dead"
What to Read 35
Gerald Seymour's The Walking Dead.
Gerald Seymour's The Walking Dead.
DVD and AudioBooks: Colombian Yoga Zombies Drive Trucks
DVD
Seven Pounds starring Will Smith. Another copy.
Zombieland starring Woody "THC" Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg. Nerd and White Trash Guy join forces after the zombie plague.
Yoga for Strength and Training with Stephanie Snyder. 60 minute toning and strengthening sequence and 30 minute core practice.
Isolated Incident starring Dane Cook. I thought this would check out.
Dog Eat Dog starring [people you never heard of]. El Orejon, the agoraphobic crime kingpin of Cali, Colombia, goes after two guys who stole a cash collection and killed Orejon's godson. Lot's of shooting. I think.
Somerstown starring [Limeys]. Two teenaged boys in London become friends. One is homeless and the other lets him stay in his house without his father's knowledge.
Trucker starring Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion. Truck driver Diane lives a carefree, unattached life as in independent driver. Diane's 11-year-old son, who she has not seen in ten years, shows up to stay with her when his dad is in the hospital.
The Biggest Loser Workout: 30-day jumpstart with [people from some television show]. Five 10 minute workouts.
AudioBooks on CD
Vegas Heat by Fern Michaels. Her books check out
The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz. His book check out, too.
No Mercy by Lori Armstrong. This is supposed to be good.
The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins. Burning car on the cover.
Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker. Desert landscape on the cover.
Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Exploding apple on the cover.
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler. Boring cover with compass face.
Seven Pounds starring Will Smith. Another copy.
Zombieland starring Woody "THC" Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg. Nerd and White Trash Guy join forces after the zombie plague.
Yoga for Strength and Training with Stephanie Snyder. 60 minute toning and strengthening sequence and 30 minute core practice.
Isolated Incident starring Dane Cook. I thought this would check out.
Dog Eat Dog starring [people you never heard of]. El Orejon, the agoraphobic crime kingpin of Cali, Colombia, goes after two guys who stole a cash collection and killed Orejon's godson. Lot's of shooting. I think.
Somerstown starring [Limeys]. Two teenaged boys in London become friends. One is homeless and the other lets him stay in his house without his father's knowledge.
Trucker starring Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion. Truck driver Diane lives a carefree, unattached life as in independent driver. Diane's 11-year-old son, who she has not seen in ten years, shows up to stay with her when his dad is in the hospital.
The Biggest Loser Workout: 30-day jumpstart with [people from some television show]. Five 10 minute workouts.
AudioBooks on CD
Vegas Heat by Fern Michaels. Her books check out
The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz. His book check out, too.
No Mercy by Lori Armstrong. This is supposed to be good.
The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins. Burning car on the cover.
Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker. Desert landscape on the cover.
Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Exploding apple on the cover.
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler. Boring cover with compass face.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Two Foot Stack Variety Pack with Blond Yoga Girl, Joe Sacco, Charlie Hood
DVD
Yoga for Beginners and Beyond by Ana Brett and Ravi Singh. I bought this DVD for two reasons. 1: People here like yoga DVDs. 2: Blond chick on the cover (she's okay looking).
50 Dead Men Walking with Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess. Crook in Belfast is recruited by the police as a grasser against the IRA during the height of the Troubles.
Blood Creek with Michael Fassbender. A Nazi scholar's effort with the occult in 1936 West Virginia come back to haunt a modern family.
Fiction
Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker. Sheriff's Deputy Charlie Hood has joined an anti-drug task force on the California-Mexico border. When a stakeout ends in the death of a boy the boy's father, an extremely violent Mexican cartel leader, is out for revenge against the ATF agents involved. The other two Charlie Hood novels have been quite good.
My Before and After Life by Risa Miller. Two daughters fly to Israel to try and convince their newly religious father to return to the U.S.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The last copy fell apart.
The Chill by Jason Starr and Mick Bertilorenzi. Comic book novel with a serial killer in NYC. Looks good with a deadly woman, ritualized murder, a centuries old cop, nudity.
NonFiction - Lots of it, so pay attention
Apache: inside the cockpit of the world's most deadly fighting machine by Ed Macy. British Army pilot Macy was ready to retire when he takes a job as an Apache pilot in Afghanistan. Only 2% of candidates complete the 18 months of Apache training. Macey is sent into the ultra-violence Helmand Province and is involved in a rescue attempt with the rescuers, Royal Marines, strapped onto the outside of his Apache.
Skateboarder's Start-Up: a beginner's guide to skateboarding by Doug Werner and Steve Badillo.
Ultimate Super Bowl Book: a complete reference to the stats, stars, and stories behind the football's biggest game - and why the best team won by Bob McGinn. Excluding yesterday's game.
Midwest Home Landscaping Including Southern Canada: new edition by Roger Holmes and Rita Buchanan. Believe it or not, some people actually enjoy gardening.
Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin by James Norton and Becca Dilley. Yeah, laugh it up. Cheese and Wisconsin, ha ha ha. But, this has great little bios of Masters with plenty of photographs to keep you interested.
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco. Sacco is an excellent journalist writing in comics format. He travels to crappy places like Palestine and the Bosnian War then writes and illustrates the stories of his trip and the interviews he made with residents.
Murder for Hire: my life as the country's most successful undercover agent by Jack Ballentine. Ballentine joined the Phoenix Police Department in 1978 and often posed as a paid killer. His work led to 24 convictions for murder conspiracy. Phoenix is a dangerous beat. Remember that gunfight a few years ago when two officers were murdered?
None Left Behind: the 10th Mountain Division and the Triangle of Death by Charles W. Sasser. Delta Company's work along the Euphrates River in 2007. Including the attack and capture of several infantrymen on 12 May 2007 and the 10th's search for the missing men.
Checklist Manifesto: how to get things right by Atul Gawande. Gawande does some great writing and analyses on methods, procedures, and human nature. When medical checklists are followed they can save lives. Or, like when a pilot skips a step on his takeoff checklist, people will die.
Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin. I am late buying this book. Mainly because I think Griffin is a horses's ass and I ignore her whenever possible.
Inside the Teenage Brain: parenting a work in progress by Sheryl Feinstein. The brains of teenagers are growing and changing the same as the rest of the body.
Stones into Schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson. Mortenson writes another book.
Large Print
I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter. Another tale on the beauty of the .30 caliber.
Impact by Douglas Preston.
Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexnader McCall Smith.
Prodigal Wife by Marcia Willett.
Yoga for Beginners and Beyond by Ana Brett and Ravi Singh. I bought this DVD for two reasons. 1: People here like yoga DVDs. 2: Blond chick on the cover (she's okay looking).
50 Dead Men Walking with Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess. Crook in Belfast is recruited by the police as a grasser against the IRA during the height of the Troubles.
Blood Creek with Michael Fassbender. A Nazi scholar's effort with the occult in 1936 West Virginia come back to haunt a modern family.
Fiction
Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker. Sheriff's Deputy Charlie Hood has joined an anti-drug task force on the California-Mexico border. When a stakeout ends in the death of a boy the boy's father, an extremely violent Mexican cartel leader, is out for revenge against the ATF agents involved. The other two Charlie Hood novels have been quite good.
My Before and After Life by Risa Miller. Two daughters fly to Israel to try and convince their newly religious father to return to the U.S.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The last copy fell apart.
The Chill by Jason Starr and Mick Bertilorenzi. Comic book novel with a serial killer in NYC. Looks good with a deadly woman, ritualized murder, a centuries old cop, nudity.
NonFiction - Lots of it, so pay attention
Apache: inside the cockpit of the world's most deadly fighting machine by Ed Macy. British Army pilot Macy was ready to retire when he takes a job as an Apache pilot in Afghanistan. Only 2% of candidates complete the 18 months of Apache training. Macey is sent into the ultra-violence Helmand Province and is involved in a rescue attempt with the rescuers, Royal Marines, strapped onto the outside of his Apache.
Skateboarder's Start-Up: a beginner's guide to skateboarding by Doug Werner and Steve Badillo.
Ultimate Super Bowl Book: a complete reference to the stats, stars, and stories behind the football's biggest game - and why the best team won by Bob McGinn. Excluding yesterday's game.
Midwest Home Landscaping Including Southern Canada: new edition by Roger Holmes and Rita Buchanan. Believe it or not, some people actually enjoy gardening.
Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin by James Norton and Becca Dilley. Yeah, laugh it up. Cheese and Wisconsin, ha ha ha. But, this has great little bios of Masters with plenty of photographs to keep you interested.
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco. Sacco is an excellent journalist writing in comics format. He travels to crappy places like Palestine and the Bosnian War then writes and illustrates the stories of his trip and the interviews he made with residents.
Murder for Hire: my life as the country's most successful undercover agent by Jack Ballentine. Ballentine joined the Phoenix Police Department in 1978 and often posed as a paid killer. His work led to 24 convictions for murder conspiracy. Phoenix is a dangerous beat. Remember that gunfight a few years ago when two officers were murdered?
None Left Behind: the 10th Mountain Division and the Triangle of Death by Charles W. Sasser. Delta Company's work along the Euphrates River in 2007. Including the attack and capture of several infantrymen on 12 May 2007 and the 10th's search for the missing men.
Checklist Manifesto: how to get things right by Atul Gawande. Gawande does some great writing and analyses on methods, procedures, and human nature. When medical checklists are followed they can save lives. Or, like when a pilot skips a step on his takeoff checklist, people will die.
Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin. I am late buying this book. Mainly because I think Griffin is a horses's ass and I ignore her whenever possible.
Inside the Teenage Brain: parenting a work in progress by Sheryl Feinstein. The brains of teenagers are growing and changing the same as the rest of the body.
Stones into Schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson. Mortenson writes another book.
Large Print
I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter. Another tale on the beauty of the .30 caliber.
Impact by Douglas Preston.
Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexnader McCall Smith.
Prodigal Wife by Marcia Willett.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Snowy Snow of Snowitude
Various Photos
Library on Tuesday morning, 2 Feb 2010.
Street Slush
Motor-scooter with homemade outrigger
PVC pipe bolted to footboard.
Library on Tuesday morning, 2 Feb 2010.
Street Slush
Motor-scooter with homemade outrigger
PVC pipe bolted to footboard.
Seven Novels at Seven and a Half Inches Tall
Fiction
Wicked Craving by G.A. McKevett. Must be a cooking mystery because there is a caramel apple on the cover with the handle tied in a bow.
Cape Greed by Sam Cole. Crime novel set in Cape Town, South Africa. I just read a good mystery set in S.A., Blood Safari by Deon Meyer. There have been a handful of well received crime novels set in S.A over the past couple years. Maybe S.A. is the new Sweden in crime fiction.
I've read that the violent crime level in South Africa is freaking insane. I don't know if that is true but it should generate plenty of fiction.
Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton. Vampire killing and sex. Or something like that.
Blood Ties by Kay Hooper. The FBI's Special Crimes Unit follow after a serial killing sniper in Tennessee.
Worst Case by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. "Only detective Michael Bennett can stop the most ingenious killer in New York history." Do people even read the description of Patterson plots? Don't they just buy them, read them, and stick them in a pile?
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. I am not interested enough to look at what this is about.
Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith. Oh, this is another crime novel set in Cape Town, S.A. Ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband are violently carjacked. The carjackers come after Roxy as do a mercenary owed money and the jailhouse "husband" of one of the carjackers.
Wicked Craving by G.A. McKevett. Must be a cooking mystery because there is a caramel apple on the cover with the handle tied in a bow.
Cape Greed by Sam Cole. Crime novel set in Cape Town, South Africa. I just read a good mystery set in S.A., Blood Safari by Deon Meyer. There have been a handful of well received crime novels set in S.A over the past couple years. Maybe S.A. is the new Sweden in crime fiction.
I've read that the violent crime level in South Africa is freaking insane. I don't know if that is true but it should generate plenty of fiction.
Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton. Vampire killing and sex. Or something like that.
Blood Ties by Kay Hooper. The FBI's Special Crimes Unit follow after a serial killing sniper in Tennessee.
Worst Case by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. "Only detective Michael Bennett can stop the most ingenious killer in New York history." Do people even read the description of Patterson plots? Don't they just buy them, read them, and stick them in a pile?
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. I am not interested enough to look at what this is about.
Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith. Oh, this is another crime novel set in Cape Town, S.A. Ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband are violently carjacked. The carjackers come after Roxy as do a mercenary owed money and the jailhouse "husband" of one of the carjackers.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Library Open House, Local History, It's Not A Beard
Library Open House
Our annual Library Open House is Saturday, 13 February from 10 AM to 12 PM. Baked goods and coffee from Waterhouse Foods. Piano performance by the students of local instructor Emily Paape. Display of Library history. Come on over.
Local History
Dr. Liebenow published an updated version of People, Places, and Things. Get a copy for $20 with all proceeds going to the Library's building fund.
More Food
These were still warm when I took the photo. I took all my coffee mugs home to the dishwasher.
It's Not a Beard
I just don't feel like shaving.
Thoughtful:
Wise:
Suave:
Scheming:
That's it. I'm shaving tonight.
Our annual Library Open House is Saturday, 13 February from 10 AM to 12 PM. Baked goods and coffee from Waterhouse Foods. Piano performance by the students of local instructor Emily Paape. Display of Library history. Come on over.
Local History
Dr. Liebenow published an updated version of People, Places, and Things. Get a copy for $20 with all proceeds going to the Library's building fund.
More Food
These were still warm when I took the photo. I took all my coffee mugs home to the dishwasher.
It's Not a Beard
I just don't feel like shaving.
Thoughtful:
Wise:
Suave:
Scheming:
That's it. I'm shaving tonight.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Tom Piccirilli Does Great Work, I Don't Know About the Rest
Fiction
Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli. Blinded ex-cop Finn is teaching at "an isolated girls' prep school" when "a group of innocent studetns has been put in harm's way by a pair of vicious criminals stalking Finn for unknown reasons."
Secret of Everything by Barba O'neal. "Life is a treasure hunt - and the key is closer than you think."
Serpent in the Thorns by Jeri Westerson. I bought this for two reasons. 1. The cover illustration seemed unique but disturbingly romance-like. 2. The words "Medieval Noir".
Rogue Warrior: Seize the Day by Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice. Demolition Dick does a video impersonation of Castro declaring freedom. When the video is intercepted Demo Dick travels to Cuba.
Veracity by Laura Bynum. A future government controls the population through sex, drugs, and the "slate" that monitors every word you say. Utter a forbidden word and the Blue Coats come to get you. What happens when your daughter rebels against the government and her name is forbidden?
Ice by Linda Howard. Chick book.
Bryant and May on the Loose by Christopher Fowler. "A Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery"
Redemption by Karen Kingsbury w/ Gary Smalley. "A Baxter family drama" Kari Jacobs is "furious, hurt, and confused" when her professor husband has an affair with a student.
Hidden Flame by Davis Bunn and Janette Oke.
Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury. Guy in twenties heads home to get forgiveness from an old girlfriend.
Snapped by Pamela Klaffke. Style guru Sara is losing her mojo. "Fueled by alcohol, nicotine and self-loathing, Sara launches into a cringeworthy but often comic series of blowups - personal, professional and provate - that culminte in an epiphany."
Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli. Blinded ex-cop Finn is teaching at "an isolated girls' prep school" when "a group of innocent studetns has been put in harm's way by a pair of vicious criminals stalking Finn for unknown reasons."
Secret of Everything by Barba O'neal. "Life is a treasure hunt - and the key is closer than you think."
Serpent in the Thorns by Jeri Westerson. I bought this for two reasons. 1. The cover illustration seemed unique but disturbingly romance-like. 2. The words "Medieval Noir".
Rogue Warrior: Seize the Day by Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice. Demolition Dick does a video impersonation of Castro declaring freedom. When the video is intercepted Demo Dick travels to Cuba.
Veracity by Laura Bynum. A future government controls the population through sex, drugs, and the "slate" that monitors every word you say. Utter a forbidden word and the Blue Coats come to get you. What happens when your daughter rebels against the government and her name is forbidden?
Ice by Linda Howard. Chick book.
Bryant and May on the Loose by Christopher Fowler. "A Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery"
Redemption by Karen Kingsbury w/ Gary Smalley. "A Baxter family drama" Kari Jacobs is "furious, hurt, and confused" when her professor husband has an affair with a student.
Hidden Flame by Davis Bunn and Janette Oke.
Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury. Guy in twenties heads home to get forgiveness from an old girlfriend.
Snapped by Pamela Klaffke. Style guru Sara is losing her mojo. "Fueled by alcohol, nicotine and self-loathing, Sara launches into a cringeworthy but often comic series of blowups - personal, professional and provate - that culminte in an epiphany."
Friday, January 22, 2010
I Need To Do Library Bills, Here Is My Evasion
Fiction
Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. Author of the moment. Too bad he died in 2004.
No Mercy by Lori Armstrong. Army gal Mercy returns home to South Dakota on medical leave. When an Indian boy is found dead on her property Mercy is concerned by the lack of investigation. When a relative dies Mercy is out for revenge. Reall good reviews on this one. The author likes to do that blogging thing.
Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville. Listed on several best-of lists. A former IRA killer is hired to do in the IRA leaders who used to decide who died.
Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry. Some world-on-the-brink with only-one-man-can-stop-the-evil-conspiracy book.
Noah's Book by Anne Tyler. Tyler's books check-out pretty well here.
13th Hour by Richard Doetsch.Nick Quinn is accused of murdering his wife. A mysterious guy gives him the ability to jump back in time one hour at a time and prevent his wife's murder.
Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. Author of the moment. Too bad he died in 2004.
No Mercy by Lori Armstrong. Army gal Mercy returns home to South Dakota on medical leave. When an Indian boy is found dead on her property Mercy is concerned by the lack of investigation. When a relative dies Mercy is out for revenge. Reall good reviews on this one. The author likes to do that blogging thing.
Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville. Listed on several best-of lists. A former IRA killer is hired to do in the IRA leaders who used to decide who died.
Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry. Some world-on-the-brink with only-one-man-can-stop-the-evil-conspiracy book.
Noah's Book by Anne Tyler. Tyler's books check-out pretty well here.
13th Hour by Richard Doetsch.Nick Quinn is accused of murdering his wife. A mysterious guy gives him the ability to jump back in time one hour at a time and prevent his wife's murder.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Usual Appearances
Fiction
Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell. Cornwell takes a break from killing Frenchmen and goes back to the Danish and English killing each other instead.
The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins. Members of the British Prime Minister's "private army" are being assassinated in the U.K and U.S. Hey, an Elvis Costello song just came on.
Kisser by "Stuart Woods". Woods's ghost writers are hard at work writing Stone Barrington novels. I wish I knew who wrote some of those Nick Stone novels for Andy McNab.
Silencer by James W. Hall. I read a couple Hall books before. He does good work. Hall's recurring character, Thorn, is kidnapped after the murder of a man intent on donating his land for conservavtion. Hey, a Crowded House song just came on and I found a link.
NonFiction
Bo Ryan: another hill to climb by Bo Ryan with Mike Lucas. Autobiography of the UW-Madison basketball coach and member of the 500-win club.
Tim Russert, We Heartily Knew Ye: wonderful stories from friends celebrating a great life edited by Rich Wolfe.
Large Print
Committed: a skeptic makes peace with marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert. Sing with me again: I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.
Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell. Cornwell takes a break from killing Frenchmen and goes back to the Danish and English killing each other instead.
The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins. Members of the British Prime Minister's "private army" are being assassinated in the U.K and U.S. Hey, an Elvis Costello song just came on.
Kisser by "Stuart Woods". Woods's ghost writers are hard at work writing Stone Barrington novels. I wish I knew who wrote some of those Nick Stone novels for Andy McNab.
Silencer by James W. Hall. I read a couple Hall books before. He does good work. Hall's recurring character, Thorn, is kidnapped after the murder of a man intent on donating his land for conservavtion. Hey, a Crowded House song just came on and I found a link.
NonFiction
Bo Ryan: another hill to climb by Bo Ryan with Mike Lucas. Autobiography of the UW-Madison basketball coach and member of the 500-win club.
Tim Russert, We Heartily Knew Ye: wonderful stories from friends celebrating a great life edited by Rich Wolfe.
Large Print
Committed: a skeptic makes peace with marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert. Sing with me again: I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
3,220 Pages of Large Print Fiction
Large Print
Chopin Manuscript: a serial thriller by Jeffery Deaver and others. I said hello to Deaver when he was at the Murder and Mayhem event in Muskego this past Fall. He is a good dude.
The Disciple by Stephen Coonts. Iran has a nuke and wants to use it. The CIA plans to stop them. Coonts uses the real President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as a bad guy intent on martyring his whole nation. Doing that seems like a bad idea for several reasons.
While I'm Falling by Laura Moriarty. Chick book.
Dragon House by John Shors. American couple open school for Vietnamese street kids.
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro. Short stories.
Breaking the Rules by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Chick book.
The Maverick by Diana Palmer. Major chick book.
The Humbling by Philip Roth. Hoity-toity literary book. No vampires or private detectives allowed.
Chopin Manuscript: a serial thriller by Jeffery Deaver and others. I said hello to Deaver when he was at the Murder and Mayhem event in Muskego this past Fall. He is a good dude.
The Disciple by Stephen Coonts. Iran has a nuke and wants to use it. The CIA plans to stop them. Coonts uses the real President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as a bad guy intent on martyring his whole nation. Doing that seems like a bad idea for several reasons.
While I'm Falling by Laura Moriarty. Chick book.
Dragon House by John Shors. American couple open school for Vietnamese street kids.
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro. Short stories.
Breaking the Rules by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Chick book.
The Maverick by Diana Palmer. Major chick book.
The Humbling by Philip Roth. Hoity-toity literary book. No vampires or private detectives allowed.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Triple Crais, MJ, That Gal from Juno, Gagnon Returns?
DVD
Whip It starring Ellen Page, Daniel Stern, Kristen Wiig. Girl joins a roller derby team.
Michael Jackson's This Is It. DVD of the movie of the concert practice.
Whiteout starring Kate Beckinsal and a Glock 19. A U.S. Marshal is sent to Antarctica to investigate a murder. Since when does the Marshals Service investigate murder?
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell starring [people you never heard of] and Traci Lords. Scuzzy dudes have a night on the town. I tried reading the book of this and realized it was just one repeating story of drunken foolishness.
Yoga for the Rest of Us: heart healthy yoga with Peggy Cappy. The cover photo of Cappy is odd. I cannot tell if she is winking at the camera, had a stroke, squinting at the light, or what.
The Girl from Monaco starring [French People]. Neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a crook. A "beautiful she-devil" makes him a wreck. Comedy.
Adult Fiction
The Gatekeeper by Michelle Gagnon. FBI Special Agent Kelly Jones investigates the murder of a Senator that may be related to the terrorist kidnapping of a sixteen-year-old girl. Last time I bought a Gagnon book she posted some comment here.
The First Rule by Robert Crais. The mysterious Joe Pike returns as the lead character. One of Pike's former mercenary colleagues and the man's family are murdered in a home invasion. The cops think the dead man must have been a crook. Pike sets out to clear the dead man's name and kill those responsible.
Large Print
The First Rule by Robert Crais. All Joe Pike wanted was a little vacation time away from his hectic work in L.A. But, his vacation in Alaska takes a turn for the silly with a lonely moose, a leaky cabin, and the local, and beautiful, donut shop owner.
Committed: a skeptic makes peace with marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert. Chick gets remarried.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. Chick Book.
Treasure Hunt by John Lescroart. Private investigator Mickey Dade finds the body of a prominent San Francisco activist.
AudioBook on CD
The First Rule by Robert Crais. Joe Pike never wanted a life as a bus driver. But, when his career as a rock singer never broke and his wife died he needed a steady job to raise his kids. Now he's angling for a big role in a Broadway show and maybe a spotlight lead with famous stage actress Melody Meringer.
Whip It starring Ellen Page, Daniel Stern, Kristen Wiig. Girl joins a roller derby team.
Michael Jackson's This Is It. DVD of the movie of the concert practice.
Whiteout starring Kate Beckinsal and a Glock 19. A U.S. Marshal is sent to Antarctica to investigate a murder. Since when does the Marshals Service investigate murder?
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell starring [people you never heard of] and Traci Lords. Scuzzy dudes have a night on the town. I tried reading the book of this and realized it was just one repeating story of drunken foolishness.
Yoga for the Rest of Us: heart healthy yoga with Peggy Cappy. The cover photo of Cappy is odd. I cannot tell if she is winking at the camera, had a stroke, squinting at the light, or what.
The Girl from Monaco starring [French People]. Neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a crook. A "beautiful she-devil" makes him a wreck. Comedy.
Adult Fiction
The Gatekeeper by Michelle Gagnon. FBI Special Agent Kelly Jones investigates the murder of a Senator that may be related to the terrorist kidnapping of a sixteen-year-old girl. Last time I bought a Gagnon book she posted some comment here.
The First Rule by Robert Crais. The mysterious Joe Pike returns as the lead character. One of Pike's former mercenary colleagues and the man's family are murdered in a home invasion. The cops think the dead man must have been a crook. Pike sets out to clear the dead man's name and kill those responsible.
Large Print
The First Rule by Robert Crais. All Joe Pike wanted was a little vacation time away from his hectic work in L.A. But, his vacation in Alaska takes a turn for the silly with a lonely moose, a leaky cabin, and the local, and beautiful, donut shop owner.
Committed: a skeptic makes peace with marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert. Chick gets remarried.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. Chick Book.
Treasure Hunt by John Lescroart. Private investigator Mickey Dade finds the body of a prominent San Francisco activist.
AudioBook on CD
The First Rule by Robert Crais. Joe Pike never wanted a life as a bus driver. But, when his career as a rock singer never broke and his wife died he needed a steady job to raise his kids. Now he's angling for a big role in a Broadway show and maybe a spotlight lead with famous stage actress Melody Meringer.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Skating in Commons Park and a Musical Interlude
Skating
Commons Park is across from the Library. Parks Department sets up a skating rink each winter.
Musical Interlude
Richard Thompson
Thompson came up just now using the shuffle feature on my computer.
The clip is from Later... with Jools Holland. I wish there were an American version of this show. One of the neatest things about Later... is the camera shots of other bands listening and enjoying the music of an entirely different kind of band.
Commons Park is across from the Library. Parks Department sets up a skating rink each winter.
Musical Interlude
Richard Thompson
Thompson came up just now using the shuffle feature on my computer.
The clip is from Later... with Jools Holland. I wish there were an American version of this show. One of the neatest things about Later... is the camera shots of other bands listening and enjoying the music of an entirely different kind of band.
Friday, January 08, 2010
What to Read 34: Victor Gischler's "Vampire A Go-Go"
What to Read 34: Victor Gischler's Vampire A Go-Go.
Traditional French Cooking With Fronch Dressing. Fronch Fries. Fronch Bread.
DVD
Julie and Julia. Woman cooks recipes while Streep pretends to be a Child.
In the Loop with James Gandolfini and English People. British government spokesman says war is unforseeable and causes lots of trouble at home and the U.S.
The Burrowers starring Clancy Brown. Horror movie set in 1879 South Dakota. I don't remember why I ordered this. Maybe it was cheap.
Wrong Turn at Tahoe starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. Debt collector for the mob gets stuck in battle between mob and drug dealer.
Music on CD
Back Spacer by Pearl Jam. http://www.pearljam.com/music. Seattle song singers.
Greatest Hits by The Foo Fighters. Drummer sings songs.
Now That's What I call Music: 31. Pop singers singing pop songs.
Fiction
Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks. Reporter in Newark investigates a quadruple murder the police have written off.
My Dead Body by Charlie Huston. Huston's latest in the tale of Joe Pitt, noir vampire of NYC.
Fit to Be Tied by Robin Lee Hatcher. Idaho Cowgirl in 1916 falls in love with English aristocrat.
Dawn's Prelude by Tracie Peterson. Young widow with inheritance goes to Alaska and meets a Swede.
Sting of Justice by Cora Harrison. Mystery set in medieval Ireland that had a real good review. Woman investigates murder by bee sting.
Dracula the Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. "The sequel to the original classic." 25 years after Dracula with the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker finding out what happened.
The House of Mystery by DC Comics. Compilation of horror comics.
Julie and Julia. Woman cooks recipes while Streep pretends to be a Child.
In the Loop with James Gandolfini and English People. British government spokesman says war is unforseeable and causes lots of trouble at home and the U.S.
The Burrowers starring Clancy Brown. Horror movie set in 1879 South Dakota. I don't remember why I ordered this. Maybe it was cheap.
Wrong Turn at Tahoe starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. Debt collector for the mob gets stuck in battle between mob and drug dealer.
Music on CD
Back Spacer by Pearl Jam. http://www.pearljam.com/music. Seattle song singers.
Greatest Hits by The Foo Fighters. Drummer sings songs.
Now That's What I call Music: 31. Pop singers singing pop songs.
Fiction
Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks. Reporter in Newark investigates a quadruple murder the police have written off.
My Dead Body by Charlie Huston. Huston's latest in the tale of Joe Pitt, noir vampire of NYC.
Fit to Be Tied by Robin Lee Hatcher. Idaho Cowgirl in 1916 falls in love with English aristocrat.
Dawn's Prelude by Tracie Peterson. Young widow with inheritance goes to Alaska and meets a Swede.
Sting of Justice by Cora Harrison. Mystery set in medieval Ireland that had a real good review. Woman investigates murder by bee sting.
Dracula the Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. "The sequel to the original classic." 25 years after Dracula with the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker finding out what happened.
The House of Mystery by DC Comics. Compilation of horror comics.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Japanese Schoolgirls, Werewolves, Mobsters, IEDs
DVDs
An American Werewolf in London starring JENNY AGUTTER. American backpacker is bitten when visiting the English moors. Has trouble adjusting to his new werewolf life.
When I was a kid I thought the dream sequence with the machine gun shooting monsters and every scene with Agutter were way cool. I couldn't find a clip of either.
Blood: the last vampire starring [Japanese girls]. Schoolgirl has to fight vampires.
The Hurt Locker by Jeremy Renner, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly. Sergeant in Iraq disables IEDs.
Welcome to Staten Island starring Uma's Ex-Husband, Private Pyle, HeyThatOneGuy. Local mob boss on Staten Island crosses paths with expecting father and local businessman.
Fiction
Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky. Several high school girls get pregnant. Local principal, and mom of one of the girls, gets blamed.
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier.
Hastur Lord by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deboarh J. Ross. Why do SciFi and Fantasy authors always use extra initials and names?
Large Print
Fired Up by Jayne Ann Krentz. Same cover as the regular print hardcover.
An American Werewolf in London starring JENNY AGUTTER. American backpacker is bitten when visiting the English moors. Has trouble adjusting to his new werewolf life.
When I was a kid I thought the dream sequence with the machine gun shooting monsters and every scene with Agutter were way cool. I couldn't find a clip of either.
Blood: the last vampire starring [Japanese girls]. Schoolgirl has to fight vampires.
The Hurt Locker by Jeremy Renner, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly. Sergeant in Iraq disables IEDs.
Welcome to Staten Island starring Uma's Ex-Husband, Private Pyle, HeyThatOneGuy. Local mob boss on Staten Island crosses paths with expecting father and local businessman.
Fiction
Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky. Several high school girls get pregnant. Local principal, and mom of one of the girls, gets blamed.
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier.
Hastur Lord by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deboarh J. Ross. Why do SciFi and Fantasy authors always use extra initials and names?
Large Print
Fired Up by Jayne Ann Krentz. Same cover as the regular print hardcover.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Lyle Lovett Plus Two Others and a Musical Interlude
Music CDs
Natural Forces by Lyle Lovett. Texan sings songs by Texan song writers.
Roadsinger by Yusuf. Cat Muslim sings songs about something. Review Link: The songs are low intensity, mostly hummable, and always rooted in the strumming or fingerpicking of an acoustic guitar even as strings, electric guitars, wispy percussion, and sometimes horns wind their way in without digging as deeply into the pop-conscious productions of An Other Cup.
Awake by Skillet. Rock singers sing songs about Christianity.
Musical Interlude
Texas is a common Lovett theme.
If only that line about free beer were true.
Natural Forces by Lyle Lovett. Texan sings songs by Texan song writers.
Roadsinger by Yusuf. Cat Muslim sings songs about something. Review Link: The songs are low intensity, mostly hummable, and always rooted in the strumming or fingerpicking of an acoustic guitar even as strings, electric guitars, wispy percussion, and sometimes horns wind their way in without digging as deeply into the pop-conscious productions of An Other Cup.
Awake by Skillet. Rock singers sing songs about Christianity.
Musical Interlude
Texas is a common Lovett theme.
If only that line about free beer were true.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Nine Music CDs and an Audiobook
Music CDs
Mudvayne by Mudvayne. Metal band from Peoria scream songs.
Toussaint St. Jean: From the hut, to the projects, to the mansion by Wyclef Jean. Singer songs songs from album with a book title.
Buffet Hotel by Jimmy Buffet. Singer sings songs about parrots or Mexico or margaritas or crap like that.
Michael Jackson's This Is It by Michael Jackson. Singer sings greatest hits songs.
Sainthood by Tegan and Sara. Canadian girl singers sing songs.
Sex Therapy by Robin Thicke. Canadian guy singer sings songs.
Raditude by Weezer. Nerdy singer sings songs.
Battle Studies by John Mayer. Guitarist sings songs.
Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot. Singers sing rock'n'roll gospel music. Not the gospel of rock'n'roll.
AudioBook
U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton. Detective detects death dealer.
Mudvayne by Mudvayne. Metal band from Peoria scream songs.
Toussaint St. Jean: From the hut, to the projects, to the mansion by Wyclef Jean. Singer songs songs from album with a book title.
Buffet Hotel by Jimmy Buffet. Singer sings songs about parrots or Mexico or margaritas or crap like that.
Michael Jackson's This Is It by Michael Jackson. Singer sings greatest hits songs.
Sainthood by Tegan and Sara. Canadian girl singers sing songs.
Sex Therapy by Robin Thicke. Canadian guy singer sings songs.
Raditude by Weezer. Nerdy singer sings songs.
Battle Studies by John Mayer. Guitarist sings songs.
Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot. Singers sing rock'n'roll gospel music. Not the gospel of rock'n'roll.
AudioBook
U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton. Detective detects death dealer.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Local Flavor and Musical Interlude
Local Flavor
Ice skating in Commons Park across from the Library. Even if I had a fancy camera like my brother these pictures would still be lousy.
Musical Interlude
Apeman from The Kinks
Remember when Ray Davies got shot in New Orleans?
Ice skating in Commons Park across from the Library. Even if I had a fancy camera like my brother these pictures would still be lousy.
Musical Interlude
Apeman from The Kinks
Remember when Ray Davies got shot in New Orleans?
A Few DVDs
DVD
A Perfect Getaway starring Hot Chicks in Danger, Steve Zahn. Vacation hikers in Hawaii may be teamed up with vicious murderers. Kind of like Shoot to Kill which I saw at the Virginia when it came out.
Extract with Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, JK Simmons. Workplace comedy with jokes.
Jennifer's Body starring AMY SEDARIS with Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, JK Simmons. Current It Girl is a demon possessed cheerleader who eats her male classmates.
Paranormal Activity with [people no one has ever heard of]. Scary movie with scary stuff. Set in a couple's bedroom. Read into that however you want.
Chopper starring Eric Bana. Australian convict and criminal "dreams of making a name for himself."
Ghosted starring Weird Looking Blond Woman and Chinese Lady. German lady's Taiwanese girlfriend is murdered. Taiwanese journalist investigates the murder and shows up in Germany.
I would link or embed a movie trailer but the only trailer I found was with the two chicks making out and no information about the actual plot. I also found out you can watch the whole dang movie on YouTube if you are so inclined.
Spread starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche. I wrote a plot description based on the box cover but the trailer says different. Just watch the trailer.
How many jokes have been made comparing Kutcher's character to Kutcher's marriage?
Criminal Justice starring Pete Postlethwaite. Young guy wakes up next to murdered woman with no memory of what happened. Guy goes on trial while simultaneously trying to survive in jail.
A Perfect Getaway starring Hot Chicks in Danger, Steve Zahn. Vacation hikers in Hawaii may be teamed up with vicious murderers. Kind of like Shoot to Kill which I saw at the Virginia when it came out.
Extract with Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, JK Simmons. Workplace comedy with jokes.
Jennifer's Body starring AMY SEDARIS with Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, JK Simmons. Current It Girl is a demon possessed cheerleader who eats her male classmates.
Paranormal Activity with [people no one has ever heard of]. Scary movie with scary stuff. Set in a couple's bedroom. Read into that however you want.
Chopper starring Eric Bana. Australian convict and criminal "dreams of making a name for himself."
Ghosted starring Weird Looking Blond Woman and Chinese Lady. German lady's Taiwanese girlfriend is murdered. Taiwanese journalist investigates the murder and shows up in Germany.
I would link or embed a movie trailer but the only trailer I found was with the two chicks making out and no information about the actual plot. I also found out you can watch the whole dang movie on YouTube if you are so inclined.
Spread starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche. I wrote a plot description based on the box cover but the trailer says different. Just watch the trailer.
How many jokes have been made comparing Kutcher's character to Kutcher's marriage?
Criminal Justice starring Pete Postlethwaite. Young guy wakes up next to murdered woman with no memory of what happened. Guy goes on trial while simultaneously trying to survive in jail.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Bob Lee Swagger, Cookbooks, Repeats
Fiction
I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter. Famed sniper Bob Lee Swagger assist an FBI pal in investigating long-range rifle killings of former '60s radicals. All evidence points to a famed Army sniper from Vietnam. But, Swagger sees that the evidence is too neat.
Crawl Space by Sarah Graves. "A Home Repair is Homicide mystery."
Ticket to Ride by Ed Gorman. Iowa lawyer Sam McCain organizes an anti-war rally in 1965. After a local war hero suffer an apoplectic stroke there are two murders. McCain navigates the changes of rock music, the Vietnam war, and rebellious youth.
If this is set in 1965 what's the deal with the Beretta 92 series pistol in the cover design?
Little Stevens Underground Garage
I Slept with Joey Ramone by Mickey Leigh. Steven Van Zandt recommends this as best book of the year. A tale of Joey's (Jeff Hyman's) dysfunctional family written by Joey's brother.
Cheap Trick
Fiction Repeats
A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh. Some romance I think.
Burn by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. The plot description on the back cover makes little sense.
Fired Up by Jane Ann Krentz. "An Arcane Society novel." Shirtless guy on the cover.
Days of Gold by Jude Deveraux. 1766 Scotland with romance between a clan's laird and some rich lady.
Honor of Spies by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Two pretentiously named authors write another book about spies in WWII.
Sizzle by Julie Garwood. Girl film student needs to decide on job offers at graduation time and "witnesses a shocking crime" and meets "rugged FBI agent."
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. I withhold comment.
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag. What's that then? Miners?
Cookbooks
I did I mention I ordered a lot of cookbooks?
Allergen-Free baker's handbook: how to bake without gluten, wehat, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame by Cybele Pascal.
Food You Crave: luscious recipes for a healthy life by Ellie Krieger. Won the James Beard and IACP awards.
I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter. Famed sniper Bob Lee Swagger assist an FBI pal in investigating long-range rifle killings of former '60s radicals. All evidence points to a famed Army sniper from Vietnam. But, Swagger sees that the evidence is too neat.
Crawl Space by Sarah Graves. "A Home Repair is Homicide mystery."
Ticket to Ride by Ed Gorman. Iowa lawyer Sam McCain organizes an anti-war rally in 1965. After a local war hero suffer an apoplectic stroke there are two murders. McCain navigates the changes of rock music, the Vietnam war, and rebellious youth.
If this is set in 1965 what's the deal with the Beretta 92 series pistol in the cover design?
Little Stevens Underground Garage
I Slept with Joey Ramone by Mickey Leigh. Steven Van Zandt recommends this as best book of the year. A tale of Joey's (Jeff Hyman's) dysfunctional family written by Joey's brother.
Cheap Trick
Fiction Repeats
A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh. Some romance I think.
Burn by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. The plot description on the back cover makes little sense.
Fired Up by Jane Ann Krentz. "An Arcane Society novel." Shirtless guy on the cover.
Days of Gold by Jude Deveraux. 1766 Scotland with romance between a clan's laird and some rich lady.
Honor of Spies by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Two pretentiously named authors write another book about spies in WWII.
Sizzle by Julie Garwood. Girl film student needs to decide on job offers at graduation time and "witnesses a shocking crime" and meets "rugged FBI agent."
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. I withhold comment.
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag. What's that then? Miners?
Cookbooks
I did I mention I ordered a lot of cookbooks?
Allergen-Free baker's handbook: how to bake without gluten, wehat, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame by Cybele Pascal.
Food You Crave: luscious recipes for a healthy life by Ellie Krieger. Won the James Beard and IACP awards.
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