New Year, New Books, New Photos

Fiction

Green by Sam Graham-Felsen.  Is Sam a male of female? I don't know, let's check... it's a dude. Only white kid in middle school ends up being friends with a black kid. White kid slowly learns about his advantages. My write-up makes the novel sound hokey and preachy.  The dust cover write-up makes the novel sound interesting.

Death at Nuremberg by WEB Griffin and William E Butterworth, IV.  Cover photo has a guy with a shadowed face pointing a P-38 at the camera. To be fair it might be one of those P1 pistols, the post-war version of the P-38.

Unbound by Stuart Woods. Someone checked out a Woods book a week or two ago and mentioned how each novel is paint by numbers simple.

The Wanted by Robert Crais. Crais puts out some darn fine novels. I am behind on reading the books. This story has both Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.

Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict. I have no idea what this is about. Probably one of those "Look inside the world of the rich through the eyes of a long term servant."  You know, I first typed term as tern. That could be a neat book; life with the Carnegie's through the eyes of a tern.

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The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce.  Cover has someone, presumably a woman, in a green coat. Dust cover says, "1988... run-down suburb... adrift... shop... Ilse... music... wounds... behind... incapable... that... in... their... to... fiction."

Photos

Elevator work
 


Staff retirement



Snow

Two and Large

Fiction Done By Touch Typing - oops, I looked down

The War Bride's Scrapbook by Caroline Preston. Graphic novel by bride who marries Army engineer. Told in scrapbook form. That's why the book is called "Scrapbook". Of course, it's not really a scrapbook, this is a printed book.

NonFiction

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: the royal marriages that shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury. Victoria tried to match up her 30 grandchildren for royal dynasty. Her grandchildren did not always agree.

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The touch typing is going okay. I've had to backspace less than 15 times.

 

Things

DVD

Twin Peaks: a limited event.



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Romance, Murder, Mystery, Amish, and Christmas Fiction

Fiction

A Place At Our Table by Amy Clipston. Amish farmer who works as a firefighter is in a romance novel.

The Paris Secret by Karen Swan. Something about an art mystery and rich people.

A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Chase. A paperback romance and the library barcode is right on top of the author's first name.

The Plot is Murder by V.M. Burns. A mystery with poodles - according to the cover.

Year One by Nora Roberts. There is a crow with swept back wings on the cover. That image and the font makes this look like a fantasy novel. Let me check... Yep. Some sort of worldwide plague and "magick" replacing science.

The Noel Diary by Richard Paul Evans. Some sort of Christmas themed romance.

Been A While, Huh?

NonFiction

Promise me, Dad: a year of hope, hardship and purpose by Joe Biden. A year of Joe Biden's Vice Presidency as his son was dying with a brain tumor.

Fiction

Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini. Another historical novel by the lady from Madison. Lord Byron's only legitimate child is a math genius and works with Charles Babbage.

Hidensee by Gregory Maguire. The font for the main title is very difficult to read on the cover. I suppose that does not much matter for a big name author like Maguire.

Mrs. Osmond by John Banville.  A sequel to Henry James's Portrait of a Lady.

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty. Chakraborty is easier to spell then I first thought. You just end "borty" on the end of "chakra". Chakraborty is on the Twitter. Let's randomly find a "tweet". Here is one from November 28th: "My nerves and the #StrangersThings2 lab are not doing well together."

Beau Death by Peter Lovesey. Lovesey is difficult to spell. I want to omit that second "e". I like the cover.

In the Midst of Winter by Isabelle Allende. You know who is a big name writer? Allende.

Photos

The wooden rails are preparation for the outdoor skating rink in Commons Park.

We order extra book copies for the schools. This is 100+ Harry Potter books for the middle school.

Adventures in collection weeding.

Okay.

Veterans Memorial in Commons Park is well lit at night.

A temporary solution for the hazards of the steep asphalt section by the library's rear entry. The safety posts did not survive the high winds of December 5, 2017.

Books and Morrissey

The Magic of Computers Will Translate This Digital Code Into Magnificent Sound Waves

Low in High School by Morrissey. English singer sings in English about spending the day in bed.



Fiction

The Library At The Edge of the World by Felicity HayesMcCoy. Make up your jokes about lost books. This is about a book mobile lady on the West Coast of Ireland. Seems like I recently read about or watched a film about a city in Western Ireland. Let me think... Oh, yeah, it was the Jack Taylor movies. They are set in Galway which is on the west side of the country.




Whispering Room by Dean Koontz.  I've read some of Koontz's books but not lately. Koontz really likes dogs.

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg. Some sort of Lonely Hearts Meet and Make Friends novel.

Past Perfect by Danielle Steel. I always want to stick an 'E' on the end of Steel.

The People Vs. Alex Cross by James Patterson. The tag on the cover says "Alex Cross goes on trial for murder."

Secrets of Cavendon by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Some romance. I think.

Discs

Singer Sings Into A Microphone and Those Sounds Are Recorded By A Computer and Then Encoded Into A Plastic Disc That You Borrow From the Library

Reputation by Taylor Swift. Big Name Singer sings songs of something or other.




DVD

Atomic Blonde starring Charlize Theron and John Goodman. Super spy does super stuff. Or something. I'm not sure.



Atomic Blonde starring Charlize Theron and John Goodman. Same as before except this time in BluRay high defintion.

New Fiction with Blathering Comments

Fiction

Ghosts of Christmas Past by Rhys Bowen. Rhys is pronounced rees right? I cannot add in the proper pronunciation markers. Dang, I thought Rhys was a male name. Or, is it kinda like Chris or Pat?

End Game by David Baldacci. Another one of those novels by Baldacci about hired killers.  Baldacci started a foundation to promote literacy, that's pretty groovy.

Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich. The popular bounty hunter returns. At least I think she is still a bounty hunter. Maybe she became a radio host. Let's check... yep, still a bounty hunter.

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. I don't think I have ever read an Erdrich novel. Let me check her pub list... Nope, not yet, I'll get to it later. Plague of Doves has a great cover though.

American Drifter by Heather Graham and Chad Michael Murray. Graham has a new author photo, that's cool. I wonder how this collaboration worked. Max Allan Collins has written before about his collaborations and I think learning about about those working relationships is interesting.

Artemis by Andy Weir. The Martian was a massive, massive hit as Weir's first novel. I hope he does well with this story.  Crime novel set on a lunar colony.

Count to Ten by James Patterson and Ashwin Sanghi.

Books

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Coffee

Popular Movie and BIG WORDS

DVD

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 starring [CGI stuff with some actors]. Popular featuring a music soundtrack of 1970s pop songs. Major error in not including The Kinks.








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Reacher is Reachs Wisconsin

Reacher

Midnight Line by Lee Child. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in pawn shop in a "small town." I call BS on that. There are not many pawn shops in WI let alone small town WI.

Fiction

In This Moment by Karen Kingsbury. Looks like some sort of romance. The cover sasy "The Baxter Family" so this must be part of a series. Hey, let's critique Kingsbury's author photo... it's a nice one. Kingsbury is wearing blue and a real photographer took the photo, it's not a cropped family snapshot like on some books. Well done.

The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith. Latest novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.  Now let's critique Smith's photo... Same photo as usual. Smith is outside and wearing a hat. The image is kinda grainy though. I wonder if that is a problem with the printing or the image quality.

NonFiction

State of Craft Beer by Matthew Janzen and Chris Walker. Wisconsin Wisconsinites write about Wisconsin beer and Wisconsin breweries by driving Wisconsin and visiting Wisconsin people in Wisconsin. Except Lake Mills, according to the index anyway. The book has lots and lots of pretty photographs and the entire book was produced in Wisconsin.

Here Are Some Books

Fiction

Hope at Christmas by Nancy Naigle. Another one of those single older-person-meets-someone-new-(or old friend)-at-hometown.

Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly. Another Bosch novel.

Crazy Like A Fox by Rita Mae Brown. Another one of those novels with a nice drawing on the cover.

A Christmas Return by Anne Perry. Another Christmas novel featuring Perry's Pitt characters.

Typhoon Fury by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. The cover image says, "Trains. Train Tunnel. People running on top of the train."

Every Breath You Take by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. What is the deal with Alafair Burke? Does she teach full time? Because she publishes on a regular schedule and that has to take a good amount of time. If she is teaching law full-time and publishing that is very impressive.

NonFiction

What Unites Us: reflections on patriotism by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner. Essays on being a citizen and American.

Photos

DVD and a Novel and Photos

Novel

Murder Games by James Patterson Literary Industries Amalgamated and Howard Rougham. Yeah, I make fun of Patterson, but he has been generous to libraries and independent book stores.

DVD

Dressed To Kill starring Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Nancy Allen. Criterion Collection edition of the 1980 thriller. I thought this would circ'.

Photos

Library is Very Busy: Photo Edition

New Books





No Dogs Allowed in the Library

Pigs are OK.




Gourds
A lady came by the front desk and gave these to us.

Gischler Rejected Capone

Gischler

Hellbound by Victor Gischler, et al. This is not a new book. We added this to the collection two years ago. But, since I had to fix the classification number the book was sitting on the processing cart I am adding it into this post. Gischler does good work and the I enjoyed the artwork in this when I read the book a couple years ago.

NonFiction

Al Capone: his life, legacy and legend by Deirdre Bair.  I find this interesting. I don't know about you.

Joe R. Lansdale Returns!

Lansdale

Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-suckers by Joe R. Lansdale. You surely recall the story about Elvis's last battle against evil featured in Bubba Ho-tep. Here Lansdale gives the story about how Elvis joined the fight against evil as "part of a secret government organization designed to protect civilians."

Fiction

After the Fire by Henning Mankell. I read a Mankell book once.

The Girl Who Takes An Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz. Lagercrantz writes another novel featuring Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander character. I never read any of those Girl Who novels. I was going to watch one of the films and never got around to that either. Hey, I've been busy.

Wolf Season by Helen Benedict. I like the title. Three people who experienced war in Afghanistan or Iraw survive a hurricane that "devastates a small town in upstate New York." Hurricane? Did they mean tornado? Because that seems like a long way for a hurricane to travel.

The Rooster Bar by John Grisham. Meh.

Tell Tale by Jeffrey Archer. Remember when Archer went to prison for lying in court?

Quick and Dirty by Stuart Woods. Is that the title or a description of all of Woods novels?

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. Mohsin is a very difficult name for me to type. According to his bio he has written very popular novels. According to the dust cover this book as about, "teetering... civil war... embark... cloistered... explodes... checkpoints... doors that whisk... escalates... old lives... future... intimate... courage."

Death Overdue by Allison Brook. a cozy mystery featuring a librarian character. OF course there is a cat on the cover. Of course.

NonFiction

Verax: the true history of whistleblowers, drone warfare, and mass surveillance by Pratap Chatterjee and Khalil. Told in graphic novel format. How government surveillance has led to inaccurate intelligence guiding actions.

Pictures

The Library has an Instagram account. Posting images on Instagram is much easier than posting the same photos on Blogger. Here are a few I just saved to the desktop.

Rock Lake at mid-day last Saturday, October 27, 2017. I was walking my dog.

Rainy afternoon from last week.

Apology letter from a young girl. Used by the parent as a a teaching moment. I thanked the girl for her consideration and told her to keep reading.

3 Books + 1CD = Acoustic Weather Game of Wisconsin

The Power of Computers Will Transform This Digital Language Into Sound Waves 

Acoustic Rarities by Richard Thompson. English singer sings songs and performs fancy guitar playing.


NonFiction

Indian Mounds of Wisconsin, 2nd Edition by Robert A. Birmingham and Amy L Rosebrough. "Updated throughout, incorporating exciting new research and satellite imagery."

Fiction With Photo Critiques

Mind Game by Iris Johansen. This has Johansen's usual author photo. Johansen has written A LOT of novels. We have 88 copies of her work, in multiple formats, in Lake Mills.

Strange Weather: four short novels by Joe Hill. Hill looks very beardy in his photo. He looks like he'd have a full beard after growing it for a week or less. His brother and father recently published a collaboration but I cannot recall if they had author photos or not. I won't check either. I'll probably read this book by "Hill", I enjoyed two of his other novels.

Sights and Sounds

DVD

Wonder Woman starring Gal Gadot and Robin Wright. Amazonian becomes Wonder Woman and wins World War One. We have the DVD and BluRay versions.



These New Fangled Plastic Discs Can Be Used to Play Music?!

Lotta Sea Lice by Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile. Australian and Philadelphian singers sing songs and play guitars.


Beautiful Trauma by P!nk. Singer sings songs of pop music.


Carry Fire by Robert Plant. English singer sings songs of being rich and famous.

One DVD and Musical Interlude

DVD

Baby Driver starring Ansel Elgort and [famous people]. Driver drives cars for bad guys to make a getaway.

Musical Interlude

Songs with the word "drive" in the title.

Bunch of Things

DVD

Agatha raisin: series one starring Ashley Jensen. Based on the M.C. Beaton novels. I figure this will circ'.


Killer Cardio by Jillian Michaels. I noticed how the Michaels exercise DVDs still circ' well and looked for some new ones. I found this.


Fiction

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. A prequel to the novel Practical Magic. How about some magic that would buy me a motorcycle. I sure would like to get a motorcycle again.

Fairytale by Danielle Steel. I was looking at used motorcycles online the other day. I saw a KLR650 at what looks like a good price and real low mileage. I still won't spend the dough.

NonFiction

War Spies and Boby Sox: stories about World War II at Home by Libby Fischer Hellmann. Hellmann usually writes novels. OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. This is fiction. It must not have been clear because it wentin the literature section of Dewey, 813. Dang it. I guess I'll fix this tomorrow.