Fiction
Through the Cracks by Barbara Fister. Chicago Private Investigator takes on case of rape victim. The man convicted for the rape 20 years was exonerated and the victim wants the real rapist caught.
Lets look at the author bio...Barbara Fister lives in rural Minnesota, where she works as a librarian at a small liberal arts college. Hmm. That sounds familiar. But,
1) It's not really all that rural (30,000 people).
2) Library? That sounds familiar, too.
3) College? Does the inside of the window still grow a sheet of ice in the winter?
Sleepless by Charlie Huston. Huston's previous novel was nominated for several awards. A plague of insomnia has spread around the world. LAPD undercover cop suffers the disease and is charged with stopping the illegal trade in the one drug that can bring sleep.
Procession of the Dead by Darren Shan. An adult novel by the uber-popular Young Adult novelist.
Junkyard Dogs by Craig McDonald. McDonald is another guy with good reviews and award nominations. He is also another writer I have not yet gotten to. Sheriff Longmire gets involved in a modern Wyoming range war between a junkyard and a would be land developer.
So Cold the River by Michael Koryta. That's a tough name for me to type. Filmmaker Eric Shaw is hired to produce biography of a rich millionaire. Shaw travels to the former resort town of the rich man. Staying at a recently renovated mineral springs resort Shaw starts to experience hallucinations.
Bodily Harm by Robert Dugoni. The cover makes this look like a thriller. It is. Attorney David Sloane is told that the medical malpractice case Sloane just won is an error. The real culprit is a toy company's faulty product. When Sloane visits the toy designer's apartment he finds the place ransacked and the designer missing.
NonFiction
Super Service: seven keys to delivering great customer service by Val and Jeff Gee. Revised and expanded version. With cartoon illustrations.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
John Waters, Wisconsin War Stories, Fiction
NonFiction
Role Models by John Waters. The filmmaker lists people he admires. I randomly was flipping through and he has an eesay about his favorite gay porn producer. One friend of Waters's is Leslie van Houten who participated in the LaBianca murders. Waters has a deep desire to be Johnny Mathis. Waters is a freaking genius. GENIUS!
Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories and Wisconsin Korean War Stories by Sarah A. Larsen and Jennifer M. Miller. Companion books to the Wisconsin Public Television programs. Stories from Wisconsin veterans of both wars.
Fiction
Cross Roads by Fern Michaels. Romance.
The Spy by Clive Cussler. German submarine.
Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver. Deaver attend Murder and Mayhem in Muskego last fall and it was nice to listen to him.
Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton. Bi-sexual vampire group sex.
The Rule of Nine by Steve Martini. Lawyers.
Role Models by John Waters. The filmmaker lists people he admires. I randomly was flipping through and he has an eesay about his favorite gay porn producer. One friend of Waters's is Leslie van Houten who participated in the LaBianca murders. Waters has a deep desire to be Johnny Mathis. Waters is a freaking genius. GENIUS!
Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories and Wisconsin Korean War Stories by Sarah A. Larsen and Jennifer M. Miller. Companion books to the Wisconsin Public Television programs. Stories from Wisconsin veterans of both wars.
Watch the full episode. See more Wisconsin War Stories.
Fiction
Cross Roads by Fern Michaels. Romance.
The Spy by Clive Cussler. German submarine.
Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver. Deaver attend Murder and Mayhem in Muskego last fall and it was nice to listen to him.
Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton. Bi-sexual vampire group sex.
The Rule of Nine by Steve Martini. Lawyers.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
I'm Not Sure What the Pages Were Doing Last Night
But, They Should Have Been Processing
Because The New Stuff is Sitting Unprocessed. Dang it.
Musical Interlude of Aggravation
With a solo nice bass line
Because The New Stuff is Sitting Unprocessed. Dang it.
Musical Interlude of Aggravation
With a solo nice bass line
Friday, June 04, 2010
Nothing New
Seriously
Musical Interlude Two
Nothing New to list.
Musical Interlude
YouTubing at home by IShouldGo TotheGymInstead
Musical Interlude Two
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
DVD, Old CD, Radio Disney, Old Audiobooks
DVD
The Road with Viggo Mortenson, Charlize Theron. Guy and son travel the wasteland. I never read the book. I assume Lord Humungus does not appear.
Music on CD
Radio Disney Jams 12 with [teenybopper singers].
...For the Whole World to See by Death. We bought this CD a while ago but the case must have needed repair or something because it was on the processing cart. I had no idea that the band was now playing.
American Slang by Gaslight Anthem. We have not received the CD yet but Little Steven has been playing the tune on The Underground Garage. I cannot find any embedding source. Dang it.
You can link over to the title tune, American Slang, at http://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem.
Old Audiobooks
We got back three audiobooks that had been checked out for a long, long time and were finally returned. I won't name names on who brought them back so late, but the borrower's first initial starts with "P" and ends with "aul Saylor" and they were checked out on my card.
The Road with Viggo Mortenson, Charlize Theron. Guy and son travel the wasteland. I never read the book. I assume Lord Humungus does not appear.
Music on CD
Radio Disney Jams 12 with [teenybopper singers].
...For the Whole World to See by Death. We bought this CD a while ago but the case must have needed repair or something because it was on the processing cart. I had no idea that the band was now playing.
American Slang by Gaslight Anthem. We have not received the CD yet but Little Steven has been playing the tune on The Underground Garage. I cannot find any embedding source. Dang it.
You can link over to the title tune, American Slang, at http://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem.
Old Audiobooks
We got back three audiobooks that had been checked out for a long, long time and were finally returned. I won't name names on who brought them back so late, but the borrower's first initial starts with "P" and ends with "aul Saylor" and they were checked out on my card.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
More Of That Glee Crap
Music on CD
The Music of Glee: The Power of Madonna by CastOfShow.
Possible subtitles include:
Crappy Music to Melt Your Ears
Madonna Is A Skank
This Show Blows; Except For the Slutty Cheerleaders
I Like Scotch, But I'd Need a Gallon to Sit Through an Episode of This Crap
Wash The Taste Out of Mouth
DVD
It's Entertainment by Celtic Thunder. Concert DVD from five guys. Are they really all Irish? This was a donation and after checking circs on other items from these guys I figured the DVD would check out.
Hell, any music item with the word "Celtic" in it will check out. I could record myself getting drunk at a karaoke bar singing Thin Lizzy and U2 songs in a bad accent and release a DVD.
Burn Notice: Season Three starring Bruce Campbell, and some really thin people. But, not Bruce Campbell. That guy is now chubby-chub-chubs.
Glee: Season One, Volume One: The road to sectionals starring [Actors]. Just fast forward to the slutty cheerleader parts and skip past the awful renditions of pop songs.
Five Minutes of Heaven starring Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt. Eleven year old boy witnesses his older teenage brother murdered by the IRA. Thirty years later the killer is released from prison and the two are scheduled to meet on television show. Things happen.
Paperbacks
The Rancher's Promise by Jillian Hart. Some romance with horses. There is a gal, Ann Voss Peterson, who lives in Middleton who writes romances. I figure I'll try out a couple of her books here.
Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub. Thriller or mystery or something.
The Music of Glee: The Power of Madonna by CastOfShow.
Possible subtitles include:
Crappy Music to Melt Your Ears
Madonna Is A Skank
This Show Blows; Except For the Slutty Cheerleaders
I Like Scotch, But I'd Need a Gallon to Sit Through an Episode of This Crap
Wash The Taste Out of Mouth
DVD
It's Entertainment by Celtic Thunder. Concert DVD from five guys. Are they really all Irish? This was a donation and after checking circs on other items from these guys I figured the DVD would check out.
Hell, any music item with the word "Celtic" in it will check out. I could record myself getting drunk at a karaoke bar singing Thin Lizzy and U2 songs in a bad accent and release a DVD.
Burn Notice: Season Three starring Bruce Campbell, and some really thin people. But, not Bruce Campbell. That guy is now chubby-chub-chubs.
Glee: Season One, Volume One: The road to sectionals starring [Actors]. Just fast forward to the slutty cheerleader parts and skip past the awful renditions of pop songs.
Five Minutes of Heaven starring Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt. Eleven year old boy witnesses his older teenage brother murdered by the IRA. Thirty years later the killer is released from prison and the two are scheduled to meet on television show. Things happen.
Paperbacks
The Rancher's Promise by Jillian Hart. Some romance with horses. There is a gal, Ann Voss Peterson, who lives in Middleton who writes romances. I figure I'll try out a couple of her books here.
Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub. Thriller or mystery or something.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
DVDs With South African Accents, Army Lingo, Talking Tools
DVD
The Messenger starring ThatPotHeadFromCheers. Two soldiers assigned to notify family of combat deaths.
Invictus starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. I'll bet you most anything that college rugby players sit around drinking beer and watching this movie on the weekends. I'll assume this picture did well in NZ, except for that last game of course. Australians, outside of Queensland, probably did not give damn. Fijians must have liked it. Who I am missing? The Limeys?
I bought an All Blacks necktie as a gift for my father when I was in Auckland in '92.
Cool Stuff to Sew With Sara by TeenageGirl. Teenager shows you how to sew stuff. "Make it tonight, use it tomorrow."
Handy Manny: Big Race starring ThatGuyFromThat'70sShow. Handy and the tools help Kelly's brother fix up a car to race and Manny enters the race. This was a good one. I've heard the Manny soundtrack so many times, and I like it almost as much as my children do.
The Messenger starring ThatPotHeadFromCheers. Two soldiers assigned to notify family of combat deaths.
Invictus starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. I'll bet you most anything that college rugby players sit around drinking beer and watching this movie on the weekends. I'll assume this picture did well in NZ, except for that last game of course. Australians, outside of Queensland, probably did not give damn. Fijians must have liked it. Who I am missing? The Limeys?
I bought an All Blacks necktie as a gift for my father when I was in Auckland in '92.
Cool Stuff to Sew With Sara by TeenageGirl. Teenager shows you how to sew stuff. "Make it tonight, use it tomorrow."
Handy Manny: Big Race starring ThatGuyFromThat'70sShow. Handy and the tools help Kelly's brother fix up a car to race and Manny enters the race. This was a good one. I've heard the Manny soundtrack so many times, and I like it almost as much as my children do.
Monday, May 24, 2010
NonFiction Action Pack! Socks! Depression! JavaScript!
NonFiction
Save My 401(k)!: what you can do now to rebuild your retirement future by David Rye. Get back what you lost! Ride the market to victory! Retire to the Bahamas with a blond-haired trophy wife!
Depression Answer Book: professional answers to more than 275 critical questions about medication, therapy, support and more by Wes Burgess, MD, PhD. Conquer depression! Eat Zoloft! Buy a book advertised inside the back cover!
Socks by Chrissie Day. Knit your way to warmth! Impress your friends! Embarrass your kids!
McGraw-Hill's ASVAB by Dr. Janet E. Wall. Join the Mariens! Sail to Australia! Get drunk in a Freemantle bar and make out with a local chick!
QuickBooks 2010: the official guide for QuickBooks Pro users by Leslie Capachietti. Pay bills! Record the information! Obsess on the stock market!
Big Buy Cooking: the food lover's guide to buying in bulk and using it all up edited by Fine Cooking. Buy five gallons of mayonnaise! Buy a gallon of scotch! Combine the two in drunken brawl with your ex-wife!
Quicken 2010: the official guide by Maria Langer. Track your expenses! Bank online! Wonder if you should have bought QuickBooks instead!
Remodeling a Basement by Roger German. Tear out your walls! Strip out your wiring! Hire a professional to fix up the mess you made!
JavaScript, 3rd Edition by John Pollock. Sit in a dark room staring at a screen! Drink canned "energy" drinks! Convince yourself you're hip!
More Not So Big Solutions for Your Home by Susan Susanka. Cram everything you own into a small house! Take pretty pictures! Put them in a book! Wish you had more space! Eat some donuts!
Leave Your French Press Coffee Maker at Home by Gerard the Library Director. Say "Damn" when you remember you forgot the press! Make coffee with that crappy drip maker! Fondly recall the coffee you drank yesterday morning!
Write Nonsense Online By Gerard the Staller. Put off doing any real work! Stare at the paperwork on your desk! Wonder if you have anything fun to do today at work!
Save My 401(k)!: what you can do now to rebuild your retirement future by David Rye. Get back what you lost! Ride the market to victory! Retire to the Bahamas with a blond-haired trophy wife!
Depression Answer Book: professional answers to more than 275 critical questions about medication, therapy, support and more by Wes Burgess, MD, PhD. Conquer depression! Eat Zoloft! Buy a book advertised inside the back cover!
Socks by Chrissie Day. Knit your way to warmth! Impress your friends! Embarrass your kids!
McGraw-Hill's ASVAB by Dr. Janet E. Wall. Join the Mariens! Sail to Australia! Get drunk in a Freemantle bar and make out with a local chick!
QuickBooks 2010: the official guide for QuickBooks Pro users by Leslie Capachietti. Pay bills! Record the information! Obsess on the stock market!
Big Buy Cooking: the food lover's guide to buying in bulk and using it all up edited by Fine Cooking. Buy five gallons of mayonnaise! Buy a gallon of scotch! Combine the two in drunken brawl with your ex-wife!
Quicken 2010: the official guide by Maria Langer. Track your expenses! Bank online! Wonder if you should have bought QuickBooks instead!
Remodeling a Basement by Roger German. Tear out your walls! Strip out your wiring! Hire a professional to fix up the mess you made!
JavaScript, 3rd Edition by John Pollock. Sit in a dark room staring at a screen! Drink canned "energy" drinks! Convince yourself you're hip!
More Not So Big Solutions for Your Home by Susan Susanka. Cram everything you own into a small house! Take pretty pictures! Put them in a book! Wish you had more space! Eat some donuts!
Leave Your French Press Coffee Maker at Home by Gerard the Library Director. Say "Damn" when you remember you forgot the press! Make coffee with that crappy drip maker! Fondly recall the coffee you drank yesterday morning!
Write Nonsense Online By Gerard the Staller. Put off doing any real work! Stare at the paperwork on your desk! Wonder if you have anything fun to do today at work!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Gun Book, Glee CD, That Movie With Blue People
DVD
It's Complicated starring Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, other old people. Old people have sex.
Edge of Darkness starring Mel Gibson. Angry father of dead daughter kills people.
Avatar starring Blue People. I still have not seen this.
Music on CD
Glee: the music, volume 3, showstoppers by [Singing Actors]. Bill Crider is still hoping for an ABBA themed episode. My wife likes this show a lot. I made sure to viciously mock the Madonna themed episode.
NonFiction
The Gun Digest Book of the AK and SKS by Patrick Sweeney. "A complete guide to guns, gear and ammunition." Once again I call bullshit on anything proclaiming to be a complete guide.
However, I do like this book. There is a lengthy piece on the Czech Vz. 58 which is neat rifle. I'd like to get one but CZ-USA's list price on the semi-auto version is $1015. That would still be about $800 out the door. At least I still have a PCR. Which reminds me, I need to look up my score from the shooting event this past Sunday. I started out lousy but improved on each stage.
Knitted Wire Jewelry by Samantha A. Lopez.
Beginners' Upholstery Techniques by David James.
Amulets and Talismans: simple techniques for creating meaningful jewelry by Robert Dancik.
Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Romance: 20 designs for Rowan for patchwork and quilting by [no editor listed].
Warman's U.S. Stamps Field Guide by Maurice D. Wozniak.
Warman's World Coins Field Guide by Arlyn G. Sieber.
Shooting Results
Dang It by Frustrated Library Director. The results are still not posted online.
It's Complicated starring Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, other old people. Old people have sex.
Edge of Darkness starring Mel Gibson. Angry father of dead daughter kills people.
Avatar starring Blue People. I still have not seen this.
Music on CD
Glee: the music, volume 3, showstoppers by [Singing Actors]. Bill Crider is still hoping for an ABBA themed episode. My wife likes this show a lot. I made sure to viciously mock the Madonna themed episode.
NonFiction
The Gun Digest Book of the AK and SKS by Patrick Sweeney. "A complete guide to guns, gear and ammunition." Once again I call bullshit on anything proclaiming to be a complete guide.
However, I do like this book. There is a lengthy piece on the Czech Vz. 58 which is neat rifle. I'd like to get one but CZ-USA's list price on the semi-auto version is $1015. That would still be about $800 out the door. At least I still have a PCR. Which reminds me, I need to look up my score from the shooting event this past Sunday. I started out lousy but improved on each stage.
Knitted Wire Jewelry by Samantha A. Lopez.
Beginners' Upholstery Techniques by David James.
Amulets and Talismans: simple techniques for creating meaningful jewelry by Robert Dancik.
Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Romance: 20 designs for Rowan for patchwork and quilting by [no editor listed].
Warman's U.S. Stamps Field Guide by Maurice D. Wozniak.
Warman's World Coins Field Guide by Arlyn G. Sieber.
Shooting Results
Dang It by Frustrated Library Director. The results are still not posted online.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
My Four-Year-Old Smells Like Onions
Chive Eating Four-Year-Old
He was outside this morning and pulled some chives from the garden to eat. He even ate the flowers. He really smelled like onions. Later on, I was reading a Magic Tree House novel to him and inserting phrases like, "Eating chives makes you smell like onions." He would say, "No, read it properly!"
NonFiction
How to Take Over The World by NoRealName. "We dedicashuns dis manual to all teh kittehs out dere strugglings udner teh yoke of incompitent servidudes and duddetts." Selections from here.
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern. Selections from here. Including priceless advice like:
On Bragging "I would simmer down a bit if I were you...Well, for one, the only one who was impressed was the little girl sitting behind you, and for two, they don't exactly hand out Medals of fucking Honor for eating two Denny's breakfast plates in one sitting."
And
On Getting a Job as a Cook at Hooters "You, my man, are not as dumb as I first fucking suspected."
And
On the Democratic System "We're having fish for dinner...Fine, let's take a vote. Who wants fish for dinner?...Yeah, democracy ain't so fun when it fucks you, huh?"
Yoga For You Brain by Tim Sole and Rod Marshall. Mental exercises.
Felting: the Complete Guide by Jane Davis. Once again I call BS on anything that says the "complete guide."
Pops: a life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout. Acclaimed bio of the big time musician.
Toys and Prices, 2010 edited by Justin Moen Who Must Have a Sad Life.
Satchel: the life and times of an American legend by Larry Tye. Wasn't Paige so dang good he pitched until he was in his fifties or something? Yep, the guy was 59-freaking-years-old for his last major league pitch.
Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid in the world by Chris Ware. What a depressing book.
Home Cooking with Trisha Tearwood by Trisha Yearwood.
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat by Bill Watterson. Replacement.
Fiction
A Secret Affair by Mary Balogh. Bleagh.
Supreme Justice by Philip Margolin. Don't care.
Storm Prey by John Sandford. His titles are so unique.
Audiobooks on CD
Think Twice by Lesa Scottoline.
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. The paper version seems to check out.
He was outside this morning and pulled some chives from the garden to eat. He even ate the flowers. He really smelled like onions. Later on, I was reading a Magic Tree House novel to him and inserting phrases like, "Eating chives makes you smell like onions." He would say, "No, read it properly!"
NonFiction
How to Take Over The World by NoRealName. "We dedicashuns dis manual to all teh kittehs out dere strugglings udner teh yoke of incompitent servidudes and duddetts." Selections from here.
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern. Selections from here. Including priceless advice like:
On Bragging "I would simmer down a bit if I were you...Well, for one, the only one who was impressed was the little girl sitting behind you, and for two, they don't exactly hand out Medals of fucking Honor for eating two Denny's breakfast plates in one sitting."
And
On Getting a Job as a Cook at Hooters "You, my man, are not as dumb as I first fucking suspected."
And
On the Democratic System "We're having fish for dinner...Fine, let's take a vote. Who wants fish for dinner?...Yeah, democracy ain't so fun when it fucks you, huh?"
Yoga For You Brain by Tim Sole and Rod Marshall. Mental exercises.
Felting: the Complete Guide by Jane Davis. Once again I call BS on anything that says the "complete guide."
Pops: a life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout. Acclaimed bio of the big time musician.
Toys and Prices, 2010 edited by Justin Moen Who Must Have a Sad Life.
Satchel: the life and times of an American legend by Larry Tye. Wasn't Paige so dang good he pitched until he was in his fifties or something? Yep, the guy was 59-freaking-years-old for his last major league pitch.
Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid in the world by Chris Ware. What a depressing book.
Home Cooking with Trisha Tearwood by Trisha Yearwood.
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat by Bill Watterson. Replacement.
Fiction
A Secret Affair by Mary Balogh. Bleagh.
Supreme Justice by Philip Margolin. Don't care.
Storm Prey by John Sandford. His titles are so unique.
Audiobooks on CD
Think Twice by Lesa Scottoline.
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. The paper version seems to check out.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Non-Fiction: KS Prep Football, Stern's Wife, Surgery in Iraq
Fiction
61 Hours by Lee Child. Jack Reacher probably rescues some chick.
NonFiction
Our Boys: a perfect season on the plains with the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape. The flyleaf says, "Hours removed from the nearest city." I call bullshit. Smith Center is only 80 miles from Kearney, NE (pop. 27431). 99 miles from Grand Island, NE (pop. 42940). Hays, KS (pop. 20,000) is just 90 miles away. Salina (pop. 46,000) is only 99 miles away.
Incidentally, if you're ever riding your Honda Nighthawk from Lindsborg, KS to Cheyenne, WY and the master link on your chain falls off in Western Kansas, you can get towed over to Colby. While there you can:
1. borrow some tools from the mechanic,
2. walk next door to the tractor supply,
3. find a master link to a chainsaw,
4. spend 30 minutes in the sun wrestling the new master link onto the motorcycle chain,
5. drive to the nearest Honda dealer for the correct master link,
6. watch the bike mechanic take all of five minutes to put the new link on,
7. drive into Colorado,
8. stop for gas in Eastern Colorado,
9. have the bike not start,
10. realize the battery is dead,
11. have a little freak-out,
12. realize the battery water is low,
13. borrow a straw from the diner,
14. use the straw to slowly transfer water from a drinking bottle into the battery's cells,
15. wait for the battery to recover,
16. chat with a truck driver who will substantially calm your nerves,
17. get bike started,
18. ride into rain in Denver,
19. finally pull into Cheyenne and be happy you reserved a hotel room because of all the Sturgis people rolling in looking for a room.
Cheap: the high cost of discount culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Madison PL had a review of this.
Remembering Survival: inside a Nazi slave-labor camp by Christopher R. Browning. Testimony from 300 survivors during a 1972 trial, yet the filthy, dirty, rotten, stinking Nazi piece-of-crap was acquitted. The story of the camp and the testimony of those survivors. Stinking Nazis.
Oh My Dog: how to choose, train, groom, nurture, feed, and care for your new best friend by Beth Ostrosky Stern. Yeah, this is a celebrity wife book. But, Stern is supposed have done a good job gathering info.
The Replacements: all over but the shouting: an oral history by Jim Walsh. The best of CD checks out well. Lots and lots and lots of drinking and purposefully pissing people off.
The Big Necessity: the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters by Rose George. Sewers.
Healing Hearts: a memoir of a female heart surgeon by Kathy E. Magliato, MD. Heart surgery and transplants memoir.
Coppola: a pediatric surgeon in Iraq by Dr. Chris Coppola. This has to be a heartbreaking story what with all the war injuries to children.
The Skinnygirl Dish: easy recipes for your naturally thin life by Bethenny Frankel. Books from this series check out pretty well because broads don't like to be broad.
Romance
Five paperbacks I am too lazy to list.
61 Hours by Lee Child. Jack Reacher probably rescues some chick.
NonFiction
Our Boys: a perfect season on the plains with the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape. The flyleaf says, "Hours removed from the nearest city." I call bullshit. Smith Center is only 80 miles from Kearney, NE (pop. 27431). 99 miles from Grand Island, NE (pop. 42940). Hays, KS (pop. 20,000) is just 90 miles away. Salina (pop. 46,000) is only 99 miles away.
Incidentally, if you're ever riding your Honda Nighthawk from Lindsborg, KS to Cheyenne, WY and the master link on your chain falls off in Western Kansas, you can get towed over to Colby. While there you can:
1. borrow some tools from the mechanic,
2. walk next door to the tractor supply,
3. find a master link to a chainsaw,
4. spend 30 minutes in the sun wrestling the new master link onto the motorcycle chain,
5. drive to the nearest Honda dealer for the correct master link,
6. watch the bike mechanic take all of five minutes to put the new link on,
7. drive into Colorado,
8. stop for gas in Eastern Colorado,
9. have the bike not start,
10. realize the battery is dead,
11. have a little freak-out,
12. realize the battery water is low,
13. borrow a straw from the diner,
14. use the straw to slowly transfer water from a drinking bottle into the battery's cells,
15. wait for the battery to recover,
16. chat with a truck driver who will substantially calm your nerves,
17. get bike started,
18. ride into rain in Denver,
19. finally pull into Cheyenne and be happy you reserved a hotel room because of all the Sturgis people rolling in looking for a room.
Cheap: the high cost of discount culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Madison PL had a review of this.
Remembering Survival: inside a Nazi slave-labor camp by Christopher R. Browning. Testimony from 300 survivors during a 1972 trial, yet the filthy, dirty, rotten, stinking Nazi piece-of-crap was acquitted. The story of the camp and the testimony of those survivors. Stinking Nazis.
Oh My Dog: how to choose, train, groom, nurture, feed, and care for your new best friend by Beth Ostrosky Stern. Yeah, this is a celebrity wife book. But, Stern is supposed have done a good job gathering info.
The Replacements: all over but the shouting: an oral history by Jim Walsh. The best of CD checks out well. Lots and lots and lots of drinking and purposefully pissing people off.
The Big Necessity: the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters by Rose George. Sewers.
Healing Hearts: a memoir of a female heart surgeon by Kathy E. Magliato, MD. Heart surgery and transplants memoir.
Coppola: a pediatric surgeon in Iraq by Dr. Chris Coppola. This has to be a heartbreaking story what with all the war injuries to children.
The Skinnygirl Dish: easy recipes for your naturally thin life by Bethenny Frankel. Books from this series check out pretty well because broads don't like to be broad.
Romance
Five paperbacks I am too lazy to list.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Great News! Another Gun Book!
Gun Book
Standard Catalog of Civil War Firearms by John F. Graf. Carbines, muskets, pistols, and all the different variations and contracts and runs purchased or used throughout the war. Many, many color photographs. The librarian up at Waupun, Bret, would like this. I'll send him an email.
We have another Patrick Sweeney book in the processing pile. The Sweeney book is on the AK.
Stuff
101 Ways You Can Help: how to offer comfort and support to those who are grieving by Liz Aleshire.
Teen Stages: the breakthrough year-by-year approach to understanding your ever-changing teen by PeopleWithTheirNamesCoveredByTheBarcode.
Crochet: the complete guide by Jane Davis. The complete guide. I doubt that.
China by Robert Andfe LaFleur. Part of the Asia in Focus series. We do not hav emuch on modern China or Chinese history so I bought this.
Warman's Coins and Paper Money, 4th Edition. Allen G. Berman. Price guide to old stuff.
HTML, XHTML and CSS Quicksteps by Guy Hart-Davis. Stephanie, who works here (see video), was saying how great she is at web design now. I'm going to go through this and give her a pop quiz.
Digital Photography Q&A: great tips and hints from a top pro by Paul Harcourt Davies. Does this teach me how to use a camera that was dropped on concrete and produces photos that are uniformly black?
I'm Pregnant: a week-by-week guide to conception to birth by Lesely Regan, MD. I'm not. This is a Dorling-Kindersley book so there are lots of photos and illustrations of infants and pregnant women, and nude pregnant women.
Layer Cake, Jelly Roll and Charm Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott.
Essential Color Guide to Knitting Techniques by Margaret Radcliffe. Thank goodness because I have some some really ugly knitted clothes.
Standard Catalog of Civil War Firearms by John F. Graf. Carbines, muskets, pistols, and all the different variations and contracts and runs purchased or used throughout the war. Many, many color photographs. The librarian up at Waupun, Bret, would like this. I'll send him an email.
We have another Patrick Sweeney book in the processing pile. The Sweeney book is on the AK.
Stuff
101 Ways You Can Help: how to offer comfort and support to those who are grieving by Liz Aleshire.
Teen Stages: the breakthrough year-by-year approach to understanding your ever-changing teen by PeopleWithTheirNamesCoveredByTheBarcode.
Crochet: the complete guide by Jane Davis. The complete guide. I doubt that.
China by Robert Andfe LaFleur. Part of the Asia in Focus series. We do not hav emuch on modern China or Chinese history so I bought this.
Warman's Coins and Paper Money, 4th Edition. Allen G. Berman. Price guide to old stuff.
HTML, XHTML and CSS Quicksteps by Guy Hart-Davis. Stephanie, who works here (see video), was saying how great she is at web design now. I'm going to go through this and give her a pop quiz.
Digital Photography Q&A: great tips and hints from a top pro by Paul Harcourt Davies. Does this teach me how to use a camera that was dropped on concrete and produces photos that are uniformly black?
I'm Pregnant: a week-by-week guide to conception to birth by Lesely Regan, MD. I'm not. This is a Dorling-Kindersley book so there are lots of photos and illustrations of infants and pregnant women, and nude pregnant women.
Layer Cake, Jelly Roll and Charm Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott.
Essential Color Guide to Knitting Techniques by Margaret Radcliffe. Thank goodness because I have some some really ugly knitted clothes.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Crowded House Album
Crowded House
Finn and company have a new album coming out. Due to the goofy, staggered release dates for the U.K., the U.S., and the South Seas the album will not be on sale here until July.
I'm probably the only one here interested. Aren't I? Except, maybe, the blog reader in Dunedin. Who I am blatantly calling attention to in an effort to maintain "readership". Oh, look, they're hiring a page.
Apparently the band appeared on Later with Jools Holland recently.
Finn and company have a new album coming out. Due to the goofy, staggered release dates for the U.K., the U.S., and the South Seas the album will not be on sale here until July.
I'm probably the only one here interested. Aren't I? Except, maybe, the blog reader in Dunedin. Who I am blatantly calling attention to in an effort to maintain "readership". Oh, look, they're hiring a page.
Apparently the band appeared on Later with Jools Holland recently.
Bad News, Good News, Large Print
Bad News
I couldn't get the bathroom faucet at home to stop leaking.
Good News
I did find a bowl to catch the drip from the second leak, underneath the bathroom sink, from the leaking water valve. The valve that sprays out water when I turn it closed.
Large Print
Return to Sender by Fern Michaels. Address unknown.
Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts. No.
Breaking Out of Bedlam by Leslie Larson. Bethlehem Royal Hospital.
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin. Yoda-like, this title is.
BBC6
Listen live link.
I couldn't get the bathroom faucet at home to stop leaking.
Good News
I did find a bowl to catch the drip from the second leak, underneath the bathroom sink, from the leaking water valve. The valve that sprays out water when I turn it closed.
Large Print
Return to Sender by Fern Michaels. Address unknown.
Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts. No.
Breaking Out of Bedlam by Leslie Larson. Bethlehem Royal Hospital.
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin. Yoda-like, this title is.
BBC6
Listen live link.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Subscription Suggestion or Donation?
Unknown Status
This was found filed with some magazine back issues in our reading room. I don't know why it was there. Better this than Hustler. It's expensive too. List price is $6.99.
This was found filed with some magazine back issues in our reading room. I don't know why it was there. Better this than Hustler. It's expensive too. List price is $6.99.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Six Books I Did Not List Earlier Because I Did Not Want to Bother
Large Print
Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box.
Chasing Perfect by Susan Mallery. "Fool's Gold Trilogy"
Matthew's Story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
The Cross Gardener by Jason E. Wright. Is the gardener angry or planting crosses?
Without Mercy by Lisa Jackson.
The Pallbearers by Stephen J. Cannell.
Musical Interlude
Another Attempt to Get Views
What to Read 37: Noir Novels I Like
Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box.
Chasing Perfect by Susan Mallery. "Fool's Gold Trilogy"
Matthew's Story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
The Cross Gardener by Jason E. Wright. Is the gardener angry or planting crosses?
Without Mercy by Lisa Jackson.
The Pallbearers by Stephen J. Cannell.
Musical Interlude
Another Attempt to Get Views
What to Read 37: Noir Novels I Like
Pam Grier, Cole and Hitch, Comic Book Novel
Fiction
Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker. Third western with Cole and Hitch. I'll presume that Cole calmy shoots people and Hitch shoots his people with his 8-gauge.
Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard. Another Pickard story set in Kansas so maybe I will read it. The author lives in Merriam, KS. Which is just another way of saying Kansas City.
Innocent by Scott Turow. Bald lawyer writes book.
Shoot to Thrill by P.J. Tracy. "A monkeewrench novel." Written by a mother and daughter team. Do they have sex scenes in their books? How do they collaborate on that topic?
Private Life by Jane Smiley. Isn't Smiley kind of "literary"? I read Moo and thought it was funny.
Hannah's List by Debbie Macomber. What is that tune I'm hearing? Can you hear it? I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.
Stay a Little Longer by Dorothy Garlock. Romance in post-WWI Minnesota with a small girl and a dog talking a walk in the autumn woods with a lady who has a bunch of flowers in her hat.
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris. ...
State Fair by Earlene Fowler. Never watched the movie either.
Black Hole by Charles Burns. Comic book novel about a sexually transmitted virus that brings odd and sometimes disturbing physical deformations among teens in the Pacific Northwest. I read this a year or two ago. Someone donated this copy.
NonFiction
Foxy: my life in three acts by Pam Grier. Actress tells about her life. Richard Pryor stories included.
1,000 Dollars and an Idea: entrepreneur to billionaire by Sam Wyly. Autio-bio by fella who expanded the Michaels craft stores and other businesses. One way to stay a billionaire is to ship out sex freaking copies of your book to every library you see and then claim a tax credit. Presumably.
Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker. Third western with Cole and Hitch. I'll presume that Cole calmy shoots people and Hitch shoots his people with his 8-gauge.
Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard. Another Pickard story set in Kansas so maybe I will read it. The author lives in Merriam, KS. Which is just another way of saying Kansas City.
Innocent by Scott Turow. Bald lawyer writes book.
Shoot to Thrill by P.J. Tracy. "A monkeewrench novel." Written by a mother and daughter team. Do they have sex scenes in their books? How do they collaborate on that topic?
Private Life by Jane Smiley. Isn't Smiley kind of "literary"? I read Moo and thought it was funny.
Hannah's List by Debbie Macomber. What is that tune I'm hearing? Can you hear it? I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.
Stay a Little Longer by Dorothy Garlock. Romance in post-WWI Minnesota with a small girl and a dog talking a walk in the autumn woods with a lady who has a bunch of flowers in her hat.
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris. ...
State Fair by Earlene Fowler. Never watched the movie either.
Black Hole by Charles Burns. Comic book novel about a sexually transmitted virus that brings odd and sometimes disturbing physical deformations among teens in the Pacific Northwest. I read this a year or two ago. Someone donated this copy.
NonFiction
Foxy: my life in three acts by Pam Grier. Actress tells about her life. Richard Pryor stories included.
1,000 Dollars and an Idea: entrepreneur to billionaire by Sam Wyly. Autio-bio by fella who expanded the Michaels craft stores and other businesses. One way to stay a billionaire is to ship out sex freaking copies of your book to every library you see and then claim a tax credit. Presumably.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
What to Read 37: Noir Novels
What to Read 37: Noir Novels
Books by Daniel Woodrell, James Reasoner, Richard Stark (Donald Westlake).
I was going to recommend Fade to Blonde by Max Phillips. But, since I was the only who ever checked the book out I ended up withdrawing it from the collection just a few weeks ago.
Books by Daniel Woodrell, James Reasoner, Richard Stark (Donald Westlake).
I was going to recommend Fade to Blonde by Max Phillips. But, since I was the only who ever checked the book out I ended up withdrawing it from the collection just a few weeks ago.
Monday, May 03, 2010
No hobbits, no talking trees, no giant apes...just a dead teenage girl
DVD
The Lovely Bones starring [a bunch of actors]. Murdered girl tries to help her parents catch the killer. I think.
73 Skills to Create Your Dream Garden by Gord Nickel.
AudioBooks on CD
In Defense of Food: an eater's manifesto by Michael Pollan. I got this one on sale.
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler. This was on sale, too.
Fiction
9th Judgement by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. I don't care.
Return to Sender by Fern Michaels. Blah.
NonFiction
Lords of the Ring by Doug Moe. The University of Wisconsin had one of the best NCAA boxing teams and won numerous team and individual championships. Until April, 1960 when Badger boxer Charlie Mohr was killed from punch in the ring in the NCAA title bout. Shortly after Mohr's death the NCAA eliminated boxing from competition. Moe follows the tale by speaking to former Badger boxers, coaches, and even Mohr's surgeon. Article from 1960.
The Lovely Bones starring [a bunch of actors]. Murdered girl tries to help her parents catch the killer. I think.
73 Skills to Create Your Dream Garden by Gord Nickel.
AudioBooks on CD
In Defense of Food: an eater's manifesto by Michael Pollan. I got this one on sale.
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler. This was on sale, too.
Fiction
9th Judgement by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. I don't care.
Return to Sender by Fern Michaels. Blah.
NonFiction
Lords of the Ring by Doug Moe. The University of Wisconsin had one of the best NCAA boxing teams and won numerous team and individual championships. Until April, 1960 when Badger boxer Charlie Mohr was killed from punch in the ring in the NCAA title bout. Shortly after Mohr's death the NCAA eliminated boxing from competition. Moe follows the tale by speaking to former Badger boxers, coaches, and even Mohr's surgeon. Article from 1960.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Three Criders and a Crumley
Three Criders and a Crumley
These were for sale at the Sheboygan Public Library
I bought the top two.
These were for sale at the Sheboygan Public Library
I bought the top two.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Beer and Hippies and Hitchcock
DVD
Battle in Seattle starring Ray Liotta, Woody Harrelson, others. Dramatization of the 1999 Seattle riots. Okay, not really "riots" but a big mass of hippies destroying stuff. Told through six characters. Directed by that guy who used to be shacked up with Charlize Theron.
The American Brew: the rich and surprising history of beer. "Explores the evolution of beer through the centuries." Surprising facts: beer is brewed, beer comes in different colors, beer is wet.
Ultimate Hitchcock Collection, Six CDs.
Jamaica Inn from 1939 with Maureen O'Hara. Have not seen it.
Young and Innocent from 1937 starring Derrick De Marney.Have not seen it.
The Skin Game from 1931 starring Edmund Gwenn. Have not seen it.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice a television episode from 1963. Have not seen it.
The Manxman from 1929 starring Anny Ondra. Have not seen it. I don't know if the Isle of Man TT Road Race is still broadcast on Speed TV.
Juno and the Paycock from 1930 starring Sara Allgood. Have not seen it.
Champagne from 1928 starring Betty Balfour. Have not seen it.
The Cheney Vase a 1955 television episode starring Darren McGavin. Have not seen it.
The Farmer's Wife from 1928 starring Samuel Sweetland. Have not seen it.
Easy Virtue from 1928 starring Isabel Jeans. Have not seen it.
The Ring from 1927 starring Lilian Hall-Davis. Have not seen it.
Blackmail from 1929 starring NoOne InParticular.Have not seen it.
Lady Vanishes from 1938 starring NoNames Listed. Have not seen it.
Rich and Strange from 1932 starring NoNames Again. Have not seen it.
Sabotage from 1936 starring AnotherOne WithNoNames. Have not seen it.
Secret Agent from 1936 NoOne AtAll. Have not seen it.
The 39 Steps from 1938 starring LetsFaceIt Iwillnotlookupanynames. Seen it.
Number 17 from 1932. Have not seen it.
The Man Who Knew Too Much from 1934. Seen it.
The Lodger from 1926. Have not seen it.
Born Into Brothels Children of prostitutes are taught photography by some New York lady. A documentary.
NonFiction
The Big Short: inside the Doomsday machine by Michael Lewis.
Large Print
Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen.
Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark.
Burning Lamps by Amanda Quick.
Battle in Seattle starring Ray Liotta, Woody Harrelson, others. Dramatization of the 1999 Seattle riots. Okay, not really "riots" but a big mass of hippies destroying stuff. Told through six characters. Directed by that guy who used to be shacked up with Charlize Theron.
The American Brew: the rich and surprising history of beer. "Explores the evolution of beer through the centuries." Surprising facts: beer is brewed, beer comes in different colors, beer is wet.
Ultimate Hitchcock Collection, Six CDs.
Jamaica Inn from 1939 with Maureen O'Hara. Have not seen it.
Young and Innocent from 1937 starring Derrick De Marney.Have not seen it.
The Skin Game from 1931 starring Edmund Gwenn. Have not seen it.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice a television episode from 1963. Have not seen it.
The Manxman from 1929 starring Anny Ondra. Have not seen it. I don't know if the Isle of Man TT Road Race is still broadcast on Speed TV.
Juno and the Paycock from 1930 starring Sara Allgood. Have not seen it.
Champagne from 1928 starring Betty Balfour. Have not seen it.
The Cheney Vase a 1955 television episode starring Darren McGavin. Have not seen it.
The Farmer's Wife from 1928 starring Samuel Sweetland. Have not seen it.
Easy Virtue from 1928 starring Isabel Jeans. Have not seen it.
The Ring from 1927 starring Lilian Hall-Davis. Have not seen it.
Blackmail from 1929 starring NoOne InParticular.Have not seen it.
Lady Vanishes from 1938 starring NoNames Listed. Have not seen it.
Rich and Strange from 1932 starring NoNames Again. Have not seen it.
Sabotage from 1936 starring AnotherOne WithNoNames. Have not seen it.
Secret Agent from 1936 NoOne AtAll. Have not seen it.
The 39 Steps from 1938 starring LetsFaceIt Iwillnotlookupanynames. Seen it.
Number 17 from 1932. Have not seen it.
The Man Who Knew Too Much from 1934. Seen it.
The Lodger from 1926. Have not seen it.
Born Into Brothels Children of prostitutes are taught photography by some New York lady. A documentary.
NonFiction
The Big Short: inside the Doomsday machine by Michael Lewis.
Large Print
Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen.
Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark.
Burning Lamps by Amanda Quick.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Nothing New
Nothing New
Nothing New by Empty Processing Cart. Seriously, there is nothing new.
Musical Interlude
Entertain yourself with the fabulous sounds of Los Straitjackets.
Nothing New by Empty Processing Cart. Seriously, there is nothing new.
Musical Interlude
Entertain yourself with the fabulous sounds of Los Straitjackets.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Comic Book
Comic Book
The Best American Comics, 2006 edited by Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore. Comic strips with one by Joe Sacco.
The English Are Weird
Dunedin
Hokey Smokes. You're way down South on the South Island. Do you see the sun for only half the year down there? (That's a joke)
The Best American Comics, 2006 edited by Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore. Comic strips with one by Joe Sacco.
The English Are Weird
Dunedin
Hokey Smokes. You're way down South on the South Island. Do you see the sun for only half the year down there? (That's a joke)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Stuff Processed by Sierra the Page
AudioBook on CD stuff
Fault Line by Barry Eisler. Audio version of the print version of Eisler's computer version of Eisler's mental version. A sequel of sorts is coming out in June.
Hero of the Pacific: the life of Marine legend John Basilone by James Brady. The audio version of the print version of the computer version of the mental version of the real story of John Basilone.
NonFiction Stuff
Bedwetter: stories of courage, redemption, and pee by Sarah Silverman. The worst part about a three-year-old wetting the bed? Getting up at 3 AM to change the sheets, cleaning the boy off, consoling the tired-out kid, and getting him back to bed while you are just about sleepwalking yourself.
DVD Stuff
Pirate Radio starring Bill Nighy. Limeys in a boat floating around in international waters broadcast a radio station and wearing awful '60s clothes.
Year Round Gardening with Jerry Baker starring Jerry Baker. Baker has a registered trademark as America's Master Gardener. What a doofus. Five DVD discs. Shelved with the books.
Fault Line by Barry Eisler. Audio version of the print version of Eisler's computer version of Eisler's mental version. A sequel of sorts is coming out in June.
Hero of the Pacific: the life of Marine legend John Basilone by James Brady. The audio version of the print version of the computer version of the mental version of the real story of John Basilone.
NonFiction Stuff
Bedwetter: stories of courage, redemption, and pee by Sarah Silverman. The worst part about a three-year-old wetting the bed? Getting up at 3 AM to change the sheets, cleaning the boy off, consoling the tired-out kid, and getting him back to bed while you are just about sleepwalking yourself.
DVD Stuff
Pirate Radio starring Bill Nighy. Limeys in a boat floating around in international waters broadcast a radio station and wearing awful '60s clothes.
Year Round Gardening with Jerry Baker starring Jerry Baker. Baker has a registered trademark as America's Master Gardener. What a doofus. Five DVD discs. Shelved with the books.
Monday, April 19, 2010
The Usual Plus One Gardening Book
NonFiction
Community Gardening edited by Ellen Kirby and Elizabeth Peters. Lake Mills is sort-of rural but with plenty of houses in town. The local non-profit Lake Mills Activity Center is starting up a community garden plot. I thought someone may like this book. Info on successful gardens, methods, organization, weasels.
Fiction
This Body of Death by Elizabeth George. "An Inspector Lynley Novel" 689 freaking pages long.
Burning Lamp by Amanda Quick. Is this a romance, or thriller, or what? The cover says "An Arcane Society Novel" which makes me think "mystery". The cover also says Book Two of the Dreamlight Trilogy" which makes me think "fantasy".
Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci. Weasels in suits.
Lucid Intervals by Stuart Woods. Does Woods write his own books anymore? The cover has a rocks glass next to a bottle of Knob Creek with a straw photoshopped into the bottle. Then why bother having a glass there at all? Weaselly photo editors.
The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith. This is one of the Africa novels, not a Scotland novel. Weasels are native to both Scotland and Africa.
Edge of Apocalypse by Tim Lahaye and Craig Parshall. Since this is a LaHaye novel I assume there is some sort of threat to modern Christian society. Yep, flyfleaf says, " With help from a group of powerfully connected Christian leaders know as the Patriots, Jordan works to save the nation from economic and moral collapse."
Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen. "An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller." Who was the first author to break big with forensics novels? Was that Cornwell? You know how likes forensic novels a lot? Weasels.
Large Print
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb. I thought we had this already.
Split Image by Robert B. Parker. I thought we had this one too. I must be thinking of the regular weasel version.
Roger Smith
Mixed Blood by Roger Smith. I read Smith's Wake Up Dead and was very impressed. I did not even know we owned Mixed Blood. Which is odd considering I'm the one who bought the dang thing last March. I'm going to read it.
Noir Novels
Noir Novels I Like by Gerard Saylor. Some gal up North sends me an email, "Would you be willing to sit on the panel for the Notable Books Marathon at WAPL?"
"Yeah, I guess so." I reply.
"What topic do you want to do?"
Hell, if I know, I think. "How about noir novels?"
"Okay, I have you down." She responds.
Crap. What the hell am I going to do now?
Community Gardening edited by Ellen Kirby and Elizabeth Peters. Lake Mills is sort-of rural but with plenty of houses in town. The local non-profit Lake Mills Activity Center is starting up a community garden plot. I thought someone may like this book. Info on successful gardens, methods, organization, weasels.
Fiction
This Body of Death by Elizabeth George. "An Inspector Lynley Novel" 689 freaking pages long.
Burning Lamp by Amanda Quick. Is this a romance, or thriller, or what? The cover says "An Arcane Society Novel" which makes me think "mystery". The cover also says Book Two of the Dreamlight Trilogy" which makes me think "fantasy".
Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci. Weasels in suits.
Lucid Intervals by Stuart Woods. Does Woods write his own books anymore? The cover has a rocks glass next to a bottle of Knob Creek with a straw photoshopped into the bottle. Then why bother having a glass there at all? Weaselly photo editors.
The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith. This is one of the Africa novels, not a Scotland novel. Weasels are native to both Scotland and Africa.
Edge of Apocalypse by Tim Lahaye and Craig Parshall. Since this is a LaHaye novel I assume there is some sort of threat to modern Christian society. Yep, flyfleaf says, " With help from a group of powerfully connected Christian leaders know as the Patriots, Jordan works to save the nation from economic and moral collapse."
Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen. "An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller." Who was the first author to break big with forensics novels? Was that Cornwell? You know how likes forensic novels a lot? Weasels.
Large Print
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb. I thought we had this already.
Split Image by Robert B. Parker. I thought we had this one too. I must be thinking of the regular weasel version.
Roger Smith
Mixed Blood by Roger Smith. I read Smith's Wake Up Dead and was very impressed. I did not even know we owned Mixed Blood. Which is odd considering I'm the one who bought the dang thing last March. I'm going to read it.
Noir Novels
Noir Novels I Like by Gerard Saylor. Some gal up North sends me an email, "Would you be willing to sit on the panel for the Notable Books Marathon at WAPL?"
"Yeah, I guess so." I reply.
"What topic do you want to do?"
Hell, if I know, I think. "How about noir novels?"
"Okay, I have you down." She responds.
Crap. What the hell am I going to do now?
Friday, April 16, 2010
Musical Interlude
Len Price 3
I could not find any YouTube clips with songs off the latest album aside from the rendition of "Pictures" that I already posted. I highly recommend you checkout the latest album. Listen to more songs through one of those crappy MySpace pages that the band has.
I could not find any YouTube clips with songs off the latest album aside from the rendition of "Pictures" that I already posted. I highly recommend you checkout the latest album. Listen to more songs through one of those crappy MySpace pages that the band has.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Doug Moe At the Library on Saturday, April 17th from 10 AM to 12 (or so) PM
Doug Moe
Doug Moe, writer and newspaper columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal will be here this Saturday, April 17th from 10 AM to 12 PM (or so) to talk about his writing, favorite topics, so on, so forth.
Please join us for coffee and cookies. The first person to ask Mr. Moe about The Simpsons episode "Flaming Moe's", where Homer sees Moe's face everywhere, gets a quarter.
Doug Moe, writer and newspaper columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal will be here this Saturday, April 17th from 10 AM to 12 PM (or so) to talk about his writing, favorite topics, so on, so forth.
Please join us for coffee and cookies. The first person to ask Mr. Moe about The Simpsons episode "Flaming Moe's", where Homer sees Moe's face everywhere, gets a quarter.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Four Audiobooks
Audiobooks on CD
The Checklist Manifesto: how to get things right by Atul Gawande. 5 CDs at 6.5 hours. The overlooked importance of adhering to checklists instead of memory. I do not know how to pronounce this guy's first name, Atul. I hope it is pronounced 'a-tool' so that when Atul is having a bad day people can say, "Atul is being a real tool."
The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose. 19 CDs at 24 hours. I don't get HBO but I assume the current mini-series is getting good ratings. So I bought this.
I listened to Retribution: the battle for Japan by Max Hastings. That was a good book. Hastings covers the Pacific campaign and talks about soldiers on the ground and the strategic decisions of the brass. Once the Navy and it's submarines were geared up the Japanese were screwed. The Japanese defensive warfare skills were superb but they had no way to resupply or reinforce.
I also bought Islands of Hell by Eric Hammel which is a coffee table book on the Pacific campaign. I'm currently reading The Root by Hammel which is about the Marines in Beirut in '82-'84. I've fallen asleep several times while reading it.
The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell. 12 CDs at 15.5 hours. Henning? What kind of name is that?
Big Girl by Danielle Steel. 9 CDs at 10.5 hours. Big-boned gal from L.A. moves to New York to get away from her skinny parents and snobby L.A. types.
The Checklist Manifesto: how to get things right by Atul Gawande. 5 CDs at 6.5 hours. The overlooked importance of adhering to checklists instead of memory. I do not know how to pronounce this guy's first name, Atul. I hope it is pronounced 'a-tool' so that when Atul is having a bad day people can say, "Atul is being a real tool."
The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose. 19 CDs at 24 hours. I don't get HBO but I assume the current mini-series is getting good ratings. So I bought this.
I listened to Retribution: the battle for Japan by Max Hastings. That was a good book. Hastings covers the Pacific campaign and talks about soldiers on the ground and the strategic decisions of the brass. Once the Navy and it's submarines were geared up the Japanese were screwed. The Japanese defensive warfare skills were superb but they had no way to resupply or reinforce.
I also bought Islands of Hell by Eric Hammel which is a coffee table book on the Pacific campaign. I'm currently reading The Root by Hammel which is about the Marines in Beirut in '82-'84. I've fallen asleep several times while reading it.
The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell. 12 CDs at 15.5 hours. Henning? What kind of name is that?
Big Girl by Danielle Steel. 9 CDs at 10.5 hours. Big-boned gal from L.A. moves to New York to get away from her skinny parents and snobby L.A. types.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
National Library Week and Doug Moe
National Library Week
You can tell from the sign
Until the wind took hold.
Doug Moe on Saturday, May 17th at 10 AM
Columnist and author Doug Moe will be here this Saturday starting at 10 AM. Moe currently writes for the Wisconsin State Journal. Grab a free coffee and listen in.
You can tell from the sign
Until the wind took hold.
Doug Moe on Saturday, May 17th at 10 AM
Columnist and author Doug Moe will be here this Saturday starting at 10 AM. Moe currently writes for the Wisconsin State Journal. Grab a free coffee and listen in.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Two CDs, Three Large Print, One Novel
Music on CD
Freight Train by Alan Jackson. Country singer sings country songs.
The Fame by Lady Gaga. I'm a bit slow on getting this disc which has some not-a-hermaphrodite singing songs.
Large Print
Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger. Some book.
Copper Bracelet by [a bunch of people]. Jeffrey Deaver conceived plot and characters and several writers each did a chapter. That Deaver is a good guy.
House Rules by Jodi Picoult.
Fiction
The Travels of Increase Joseph by Jerry Apps.
Freight Train by Alan Jackson. Country singer sings country songs.
The Fame by Lady Gaga. I'm a bit slow on getting this disc which has some not-a-hermaphrodite singing songs.
Large Print
Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger. Some book.
Copper Bracelet by [a bunch of people]. Jeffrey Deaver conceived plot and characters and several writers each did a chapter. That Deaver is a good guy.
House Rules by Jodi Picoult.
Fiction
The Travels of Increase Joseph by Jerry Apps.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Pieces of Paper Bound Together with Glue and Thread
Fiction
Wrecked by Carol Higgins Clark. This has a release date of 13 April. So you have to wait. I don't need to wait because I won't read it. "A Reagan Reilly mystery."
From the Grounds Up by Sandra Balzo. Another coffee shop mystery.
The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark. Also releasing on April 13. Also not being read by me.
Shameless by Karen Robards. 13th. No read.
Bride Collector by Ted Dekker. Same as above.
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martin. Also 13 April but I might read it or listen to it.
Large Print
Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White.
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa. That's a tough one to type.
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen. I'm betting Mennonite women do not shave their legs so you better hope that hemline is low.
Out of Body by Stella Cameron.
Summer Hideaway by Susan Wiggs.
NonFiction
Fodor's Southern California, 2010. As if you're going to go surfing with the lanky model chicks on the cover.
Fodor's Toronto, 2010. As if you're going to hang out with the hipsters at their outdoor cafe.
Fodor's Northern California, 2010. As if you're going to take a winery tour into the vineyards rather than sit your lazy ass down in a tasting room and complain about the heat.
Fodor's California, 2009. As it your going to find any stretch of Highway 1 not crammed with cars as you toodle along in a red convertible.
Saylor's Lake Mills, 2010. As if you're going to do anything of interest this summer aside from march in the Town and Country Days parade and give push starts for Boy #2's bicycle. Did you even go swimming in the lake last year? Don't start to pretend you'll do the zombie shoot in MN.
Wrecked by Carol Higgins Clark. This has a release date of 13 April. So you have to wait. I don't need to wait because I won't read it. "A Reagan Reilly mystery."
From the Grounds Up by Sandra Balzo. Another coffee shop mystery.
The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark. Also releasing on April 13. Also not being read by me.
Shameless by Karen Robards. 13th. No read.
Bride Collector by Ted Dekker. Same as above.
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martin. Also 13 April but I might read it or listen to it.
Large Print
Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White.
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa. That's a tough one to type.
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen. I'm betting Mennonite women do not shave their legs so you better hope that hemline is low.
Out of Body by Stella Cameron.
Summer Hideaway by Susan Wiggs.
NonFiction
Fodor's Southern California, 2010. As if you're going to go surfing with the lanky model chicks on the cover.
Fodor's Toronto, 2010. As if you're going to hang out with the hipsters at their outdoor cafe.
Fodor's Northern California, 2010. As if you're going to take a winery tour into the vineyards rather than sit your lazy ass down in a tasting room and complain about the heat.
Fodor's California, 2009. As it your going to find any stretch of Highway 1 not crammed with cars as you toodle along in a red convertible.
Saylor's Lake Mills, 2010. As if you're going to do anything of interest this summer aside from march in the Town and Country Days parade and give push starts for Boy #2's bicycle. Did you even go swimming in the lake last year? Don't start to pretend you'll do the zombie shoot in MN.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Mike-Squared, Dinosaurs, Sherlock Holmes, That Quilt Lady
DVD
Bizarre Dinosaurs by National Geographic. Dinosaurs that look bizarre. We have this in the kids section but I'd guess that kids will have to be at least 3rd grade unless you want to quickly bore them and have them trying to crush your head when all you want to do is sit on the couch and watch a show about bizarre dinosaurs.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes. "High-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon." Remember what Kinski said about Herzog?
Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep...he should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No panther claws should rip open his throat--that would be much too good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It's no use; the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.
That Kinski. What a card.
Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey , Jr. and Jude Law. Holmes now updated with slow motion! And sexual innuendo! Crider liked this. But, consider the trailers of B-movie dreck he posts on his website.
An Education starring SomeGirl and SomeActorGuy. Teenage girl hooks up with older guy in '60s London.
AudioBook on CD
Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton. 10 CDs at 12.5 hours. More vampire and werewolf sex I suppose.
Small Wars by Sadie Jones. 8 CDs at 10.5 hours. British Army officer and family go to Cyprus in 1956. Officer is in combat and things change between he and his wife.
Fiction
City of Lost Girls by Declan Hughes. I cannot keep the Declans (Burke and Hughes) apart.
The Blackout by Martha Grimes. Something about a person who has a blackout. Maybe they have a memory blackout during an electrical blackout while playing in a minstrel show wearing blackface.
You know what I want to read about? An overweight, middle-aged woman assassin. They could hold some promise.
Changes by Jim Butcher. You know what I don't want to read about? Witches in Chicago.
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. Judging by the cover illustration and typeface this is something "literary".
The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini. Chiaverini continues to steamroll the quilting universe and become the empress of Quilting Fiction.
NonFiction
Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life by Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic. Golic is the fat one. Greenberg is the one using hair products.
The Rough Guide First-Time Asia by Lesley Reader. I ran across a web page devoted to middle-aged white guys who travel to Thailand for hookers. It was creepy, depressing, and fascinating all at once.
Bizarre Dinosaurs by National Geographic. Dinosaurs that look bizarre. We have this in the kids section but I'd guess that kids will have to be at least 3rd grade unless you want to quickly bore them and have them trying to crush your head when all you want to do is sit on the couch and watch a show about bizarre dinosaurs.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes. "High-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon." Remember what Kinski said about Herzog?
Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep...he should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No panther claws should rip open his throat--that would be much too good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It's no use; the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.
That Kinski. What a card.
Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey , Jr. and Jude Law. Holmes now updated with slow motion! And sexual innuendo! Crider liked this. But, consider the trailers of B-movie dreck he posts on his website.
An Education starring SomeGirl and SomeActorGuy. Teenage girl hooks up with older guy in '60s London.
AudioBook on CD
Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton. 10 CDs at 12.5 hours. More vampire and werewolf sex I suppose.
Small Wars by Sadie Jones. 8 CDs at 10.5 hours. British Army officer and family go to Cyprus in 1956. Officer is in combat and things change between he and his wife.
Fiction
City of Lost Girls by Declan Hughes. I cannot keep the Declans (Burke and Hughes) apart.
The Blackout by Martha Grimes. Something about a person who has a blackout. Maybe they have a memory blackout during an electrical blackout while playing in a minstrel show wearing blackface.
You know what I want to read about? An overweight, middle-aged woman assassin. They could hold some promise.
Changes by Jim Butcher. You know what I don't want to read about? Witches in Chicago.
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. Judging by the cover illustration and typeface this is something "literary".
The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini. Chiaverini continues to steamroll the quilting universe and become the empress of Quilting Fiction.
NonFiction
Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life by Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic. Golic is the fat one. Greenberg is the one using hair products.
The Rough Guide First-Time Asia by Lesley Reader. I ran across a web page devoted to middle-aged white guys who travel to Thailand for hookers. It was creepy, depressing, and fascinating all at once.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Sixteen Novels with Critiques of Author Photos.
Fiction
Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski. Unemployed reporter Mickey moves into his sick grandfather's place. The next day he wakes up and everything is the same: cars, the elevated train, the same stores. But, Mickey has woken up in the past, and has met the 12-year-old kid who will murder Mickey's father. Crappy little postage stamp black-and-white author photo.
Exclusive by Fern Michaels. Author photo has Michaels sitting on a couch with three dogs and trying to smile.
Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box. Another novel in Box's Wyoming game warden series with Joe Pickett. Box is supposed to write great, exciting novels but I have not read one yet. I suppose I could start with this one. Box was at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego and never took off his hat. He left it on for his author photo too.
A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters. Amelia Peabody is banned from the Valley of the Kings and takes a trip to Palestine with another archaeologist. Amelia's arch. partner wants to find the Ark of the Covenant. Peters is posing with a hat for her photo has it lying (laying?) next to her and is posing in an Egyptian ruins settings. Peters has a different author photo than I remember from before. I think she used to pose wearing a Pith helmet.
Laughed 'Til He Died by Carolyn Hart. "A Death on Demand Mystery". Hart's author photo is fairly straightforward studio snap.
The Telling by Beverly Lewis. Lewis also has a studio snap but it has that blurry-hazy look added to it.
The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg. Another studio snap but with black-and-white and more contrast.
Holly Blues by Susan Wittig Albert. Another studio snap but with one of those weird poses where Wittig is holding her hand up under her chin.
The Killing Edge by Heather Graham. Full color author photo on the back cover that is more of a glamour shot with graham's hair down and arranged and big earrings.
Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown. Brown does not have an author photo. She has a picture of a green eyed cat on the back cover.
Blame by Michelle Huneven. Another studio shot with good lighting. I like this shot the best.
Large Print With No Author Photos
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline.
Shattered by Karen Robards.
The Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry.
Caught by Harlan Coben.
The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler.
Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski. Unemployed reporter Mickey moves into his sick grandfather's place. The next day he wakes up and everything is the same: cars, the elevated train, the same stores. But, Mickey has woken up in the past, and has met the 12-year-old kid who will murder Mickey's father. Crappy little postage stamp black-and-white author photo.
Exclusive by Fern Michaels. Author photo has Michaels sitting on a couch with three dogs and trying to smile.
Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box. Another novel in Box's Wyoming game warden series with Joe Pickett. Box is supposed to write great, exciting novels but I have not read one yet. I suppose I could start with this one. Box was at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego and never took off his hat. He left it on for his author photo too.
A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters. Amelia Peabody is banned from the Valley of the Kings and takes a trip to Palestine with another archaeologist. Amelia's arch. partner wants to find the Ark of the Covenant. Peters is posing with a hat for her photo has it lying (laying?) next to her and is posing in an Egyptian ruins settings. Peters has a different author photo than I remember from before. I think she used to pose wearing a Pith helmet.
Laughed 'Til He Died by Carolyn Hart. "A Death on Demand Mystery". Hart's author photo is fairly straightforward studio snap.
The Telling by Beverly Lewis. Lewis also has a studio snap but it has that blurry-hazy look added to it.
The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg. Another studio snap but with black-and-white and more contrast.
Holly Blues by Susan Wittig Albert. Another studio snap but with one of those weird poses where Wittig is holding her hand up under her chin.
The Killing Edge by Heather Graham. Full color author photo on the back cover that is more of a glamour shot with graham's hair down and arranged and big earrings.
Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown. Brown does not have an author photo. She has a picture of a green eyed cat on the back cover.
Blame by Michelle Huneven. Another studio shot with good lighting. I like this shot the best.
Large Print With No Author Photos
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline.
Shattered by Karen Robards.
The Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry.
Caught by Harlan Coben.
The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Some DVDs and Reed Farrel Coleman
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.
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.
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.
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