AudioBooks
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton. 8 CDs at 10 hours. This is the first Anita Blake novel with a 1993 copyright. That makes 16 years of vampires having group sex right? Or was that some fairys and werewolves thing?
Fiction
No Time to Wave Goodbye by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Some sort of sequel to that Ocean book. The bio on the cover says Mitchard has seven kids. Seven?!
Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. Do all his book's need to have a beach or water scene on the cover? Teen of divorce spends summer with dad in NC and meets local hunk.
Beneath the Bleeding by Val McDermid. McDermid's crime novels have a big following. Psychologist Dr. Tony Hill assists the police in the murder of soccer star and then in the bombing of a stadium.
Over-Easy by S. Kay Weber. Vacationers in Door County, WI get drawn into a mystery.
Night Monster by James Swain. Former cop, and current private investigator, Jack Carpenter is asked by his daughter to help with a creep following her college basketball team around. Carpenter runs across a connection to a cold case from his cop days.
NonFiction
Murder in the Name of Honor: the true story of one woman's heroic fight against an unbelievable crime by Rana Husseini. Investigation into honor killings which happen about 5000 times a year around the world.
You Can Adopt by Susan Caughman and Isolde Motley. "From deciding to homecoming - practical advice and real-life stories from adoptive families."
Spanish for Gringos, 2nd Edition by William C. Harvey.
Large Print
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs.
Surrender Becomes Her by Shirlee Busbee.
Chosen to Die by Lisa Jackson.
Ian Says
"You're so fluffy, I'm going to eat your nose."
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Two Actors Demoted to B-List with a Stunt Casting and Michael Biehn
DVD
Streets of Blood starring Val Kilmer, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Sharon Stone, Michael Biehn. Six months after Hurricane Katrina two corrupt New Orleans cops are cutting loose. Like I said before, Val Kilmer DVDs always check out.
Streets of Blood starring Val Kilmer, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Sharon Stone, Michael Biehn. Six months after Hurricane Katrina two corrupt New Orleans cops are cutting loose. Like I said before, Val Kilmer DVDs always check out.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Four Large Print Novels
Large Print
Fragment by Warren Fahy. The library barcode is right on top of the author's name and now his last name looks like "Fart".
The Shortest Distance Between Two Women by Kris Radish. Crappy cover. I'm guessing this is a best-friends-forever novel and not a women-being-mean-to-each-other novel.
Vanished by Joseph Finder. Some thriller.
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner. The library barcode is right on top of this author's name and makes it look like "penis". Just kidding.
Fragment by Warren Fahy. The library barcode is right on top of the author's name and now his last name looks like "Fart".
The Shortest Distance Between Two Women by Kris Radish. Crappy cover. I'm guessing this is a best-friends-forever novel and not a women-being-mean-to-each-other novel.
Vanished by Joseph Finder. Some thriller.
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner. The library barcode is right on top of this author's name and makes it look like "penis". Just kidding.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
I'm Going to Get Those New Beatles Albums
The Beatles
I'm going to order those remastered albums on CD. I think I'll place the order tonight.
Update: I just ordered (6:54 PM pm) ABBEY ROAD, BEATLES FOR SALE, HARD DAY'S NIGHT, HELP!, LET IT BE, MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, PLEASE PLEASE ME, REVOLVER, RUBBER SOUL, SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, WITH THE BEATLES, YELLOW SUBMARINE.
Second update: Crap. I just noticed I missed the White Album.
Fiction
The Missing by Beverly Lewis. One of those Amish books.
Day After Night by Anita Diamant. Snap Judgment from Cover: Teenage girls live and learn love on a Jewish Kibbutzz in the 1950s. Real Plot: Hey! I was kinda close. Four women tell story of 1945 escape from English prison near Haifa by Holocaust survivors.
NonFiction
Master of War: the life of General George H. Thomas by Benson Bobrick. Thomas was a very successful Union general during the Civil War, "The Rock of Chickamagua". Both Sherman and Grant derided him as "Slow Trot Thomas". But he "Thomas was methodical and careful, and always prepared...he was quick to analyze every situation and always knew what to do and when to do it."
I looked for a video of Uncle Tupelo playing Chickamagua but YouTube only has a Son Volt version.
I'm going to order those remastered albums on CD. I think I'll place the order tonight.
Update: I just ordered (6:54 PM pm) ABBEY ROAD, BEATLES FOR SALE, HARD DAY'S NIGHT, HELP!, LET IT BE, MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, PLEASE PLEASE ME, REVOLVER, RUBBER SOUL, SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, WITH THE BEATLES, YELLOW SUBMARINE.
Second update: Crap. I just noticed I missed the White Album.
Fiction
The Missing by Beverly Lewis. One of those Amish books.
Day After Night by Anita Diamant. Snap Judgment from Cover: Teenage girls live and learn love on a Jewish Kibbutzz in the 1950s. Real Plot: Hey! I was kinda close. Four women tell story of 1945 escape from English prison near Haifa by Holocaust survivors.
NonFiction
Master of War: the life of General George H. Thomas by Benson Bobrick. Thomas was a very successful Union general during the Civil War, "The Rock of Chickamagua". Both Sherman and Grant derided him as "Slow Trot Thomas". But he "Thomas was methodical and careful, and always prepared...he was quick to analyze every situation and always knew what to do and when to do it."
I looked for a video of Uncle Tupelo playing Chickamagua but YouTube only has a Son Volt version.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Two Television Series on DVD with Scotch
DVD
Mad Men: Season Two starring [pretty people]. You probably heard of this show.
The Middleman starring [actors and hair gel]. Artist is recruited by secret agency for fight evil.
Badgers starring [badgers]. Badgers.
Mad Men: Season Two starring [pretty people]. You probably heard of this show.
The Middleman starring [actors and hair gel]. Artist is recruited by secret agency for fight evil.
Badgers starring [badgers]. Badgers.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Two Sex Books with Victor Gischler
Fiction
Vampire a Go-Go by Victor Gischler. The latest from the writer of Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. The back of the book says little about the plot. Something about werewolves, alchemists and gun-toting Jesuits. None of that matters because every on of Gischler's books have been quite good. He always has a good bit of humor within a quickly moving story. So try it out.
The Spire by Richard North Patterson. Mark Darrow grew up poor but brilliant. A local college prof mentored Darrow who became a "superb trial lawyer". Darrow is asked to be the college President and finds that a murder case from when Darrow was a student there may have resulted in a wrong conviction.
Green by Ted Dekker. Thriller of some kind. Something about a guy falling asleep and waking up two thousand years later in a new Eden split by the Green and the Black Forest.
Enchanted Dreams: erotic tales of the supernatural by Nancy Madore. Our other Madore book, Enchanted Again, checks out pretty well so I ordered this one. Seven stories.
Random page:
As I was settling into the warm, sudsy water of Vincent's bathtub, there came a tap on the bathroom door.
"Yes?"
The door slipped open a few inches, "Would you like more wine?"
"I would, and company, too, if you care to stay," I heard myself responding. The warm water and wine were having their effect.
He closed the lid of the toilet and sat down there.
"How old are you?" I asked him.
"Eighty-five." he said with a smug smile. He look like a man in his early thirties.
"Still in your prime," I murmured. He laughed.
"Is it true vampires live forever?" I asked.
Vampires? O crap, not again.
NonFiction
Domestic Sex Goddess by Kate Taylor. Some sex themed nonfiction goes out and some doesn't. There is no telling. Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex and Confessions of a Naughty Mommy checked out okay. But, Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Women has done twice as well. Some things never check out. Like Staying Safe: a teen's guide to sexually transmitted diseases, we've had that for four years and it has never left the shelf. This one shows boobs and buttocks.
Large Print
Even Money by Felix Frances and Dick Frances.
Intervention by Robin Cook.
92 Pacific Boulevard by Debbie Macomber.
Vampire a Go-Go by Victor Gischler. The latest from the writer of Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. The back of the book says little about the plot. Something about werewolves, alchemists and gun-toting Jesuits. None of that matters because every on of Gischler's books have been quite good. He always has a good bit of humor within a quickly moving story. So try it out.
The Spire by Richard North Patterson. Mark Darrow grew up poor but brilliant. A local college prof mentored Darrow who became a "superb trial lawyer". Darrow is asked to be the college President and finds that a murder case from when Darrow was a student there may have resulted in a wrong conviction.
Green by Ted Dekker. Thriller of some kind. Something about a guy falling asleep and waking up two thousand years later in a new Eden split by the Green and the Black Forest.
Enchanted Dreams: erotic tales of the supernatural by Nancy Madore. Our other Madore book, Enchanted Again, checks out pretty well so I ordered this one. Seven stories.
Random page:
As I was settling into the warm, sudsy water of Vincent's bathtub, there came a tap on the bathroom door.
"Yes?"
The door slipped open a few inches, "Would you like more wine?"
"I would, and company, too, if you care to stay," I heard myself responding. The warm water and wine were having their effect.
He closed the lid of the toilet and sat down there.
"How old are you?" I asked him.
"Eighty-five." he said with a smug smile. He look like a man in his early thirties.
"Still in your prime," I murmured. He laughed.
"Is it true vampires live forever?" I asked.
Vampires? O crap, not again.
NonFiction
Domestic Sex Goddess by Kate Taylor. Some sex themed nonfiction goes out and some doesn't. There is no telling. Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex and Confessions of a Naughty Mommy checked out okay. But, Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Women has done twice as well. Some things never check out. Like Staying Safe: a teen's guide to sexually transmitted diseases, we've had that for four years and it has never left the shelf. This one shows boobs and buttocks.
Large Print
Even Money by Felix Frances and Dick Frances.
Intervention by Robin Cook.
92 Pacific Boulevard by Debbie Macomber.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Two DVDs, Three Picture Books, Four CDs, Six Open Windows
DVD
Extreme Rules 2009 starring [lots of wrestler dudes]. The back cover says that Big Show weighs in at 485 pounds! Hokey smokes!
Suerveillance starring Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond. Two FBI agents assisting in a murder case have to detangle three varying eyewitness stories.
Music CDs
Back From the Dead by Spinal Tap. New songs and old songs. Do you think anyone ever tries that old joke with Christopher Guest, "Do you have any naked pictures of your wife? Want to buy some?"
Lotusflow3r by Prince. This actually three discs: Elixer by Bria Valente, Lotusflow3r by Prince, and MPLSound by Prince.
Lines, Vines and Trying Times by The Jonas Brothers. As I said in the bat video, I would have bought this sooner but I thought we already had it. I've heard portions of that Paranoid song and liked what I heard. I have not yet heard the full thing. I still like the Kinks best anyway.
Sunny Side Up by Paolo Nutini. Scottish guy with Italian name with strumming acoustic guitars.
Picture Books
Stretch by Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin. Subject headings are: 1. Stories in rhyme. 2. Stretching exercises - Fiction.
What Really Happened to Humpty? by Jeanie Franz Ransom and Stephen Axelsen. From the LOC cataloging info: Detective Joe Dumpty rushes to investigate the mysterious circumstances under which his older brother, Humpty, fell from a wall on his first day as captain of the new Neighborhood Watch program. Where is Sheriff Rhodes when you need him? He's coming up for election you know.
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Cynthia Rylant and Gustaf Tenggren. I just read Mr. Monk Goes to Germany where Monk and his assistant go to the Lohr region of Germany from where the fairy tale originated.
Extreme Rules 2009 starring [lots of wrestler dudes]. The back cover says that Big Show weighs in at 485 pounds! Hokey smokes!
Suerveillance starring Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond. Two FBI agents assisting in a murder case have to detangle three varying eyewitness stories.
Music CDs
Back From the Dead by Spinal Tap. New songs and old songs. Do you think anyone ever tries that old joke with Christopher Guest, "Do you have any naked pictures of your wife? Want to buy some?"
Lotusflow3r by Prince. This actually three discs: Elixer by Bria Valente, Lotusflow3r by Prince, and MPLSound by Prince.
Lines, Vines and Trying Times by The Jonas Brothers. As I said in the bat video, I would have bought this sooner but I thought we already had it. I've heard portions of that Paranoid song and liked what I heard. I have not yet heard the full thing. I still like the Kinks best anyway.
Sunny Side Up by Paolo Nutini. Scottish guy with Italian name with strumming acoustic guitars.
Picture Books
Stretch by Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin. Subject headings are: 1. Stories in rhyme. 2. Stretching exercises - Fiction.
What Really Happened to Humpty? by Jeanie Franz Ransom and Stephen Axelsen. From the LOC cataloging info: Detective Joe Dumpty rushes to investigate the mysterious circumstances under which his older brother, Humpty, fell from a wall on his first day as captain of the new Neighborhood Watch program. Where is Sheriff Rhodes when you need him? He's coming up for election you know.
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Cynthia Rylant and Gustaf Tenggren. I just read Mr. Monk Goes to Germany where Monk and his assistant go to the Lohr region of Germany from where the fairy tale originated.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Ghost Written, No Such Agency, Pigeon Detectives
Fiction
Heaven's Keep by William Kent Krueger. Krueger's books are supposed to be pretty good. The body of Cork O'Connor's wife went missing in a plane crash in the Wyoming mountains. A few months later he learns the pilot may have been a fraud. Cork goes looking for evidence and runs into DANGER!
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs. Temperance Brennan awakes, with her hands and feet bound, in a cold, dark, enclosed place. She traces back through a series of Montreal area murders and the possibility that a colleague may have sabotaged laboratory work. Will she escape the DANGER?!
Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. The Fargos, a fortune hunting wife and husband, find a German U-Boat in a Maryland swamp that holds a map piece leading to an ancient treasure. A rich half-Persian, half-Russian millionaire wants the treasure and puts the Fargos in DANGER!
Large Print
Smash Cut by Sandra Brown. Lawyer takes on case of a nephew murdering his own wealthy uncle. The uncle's mistress tries to interfere with the lawyer's case. Mistress is caught in several lies and puts everyone in DANGER!
Pigeon Detectives
Wait For Me by The Pigeon Detectives. I'm in DANGER! of listening to this album and Richard Thompson music all afternoon instead of weeding old books.
NonFiction
Beading with Filigree by Cynthia Deis. A replacement for a copy that was either mangled through negligence or mutilated when someone stole some pages. If I find the person responsible she is in DANGER!
Unmasked: the final years of Michael Jackson by Ian Halperin. I heard a radio interview with Halperin. Halperin intended an expose on Jackson that would give final proof of Jackson's guilt as a pedophile. Instead, Halperin became convinced of Jackson's innocence of all sex allegations. Halperin did find out Jackson was gay and weird and in DANGER! from drug abuse.
Post-death updates to the book seem to have been very rushed. The picture captions are incomplete and resultingly bizarre.
The Secret Sentry: the untold story of the National Security Agency by Matthew M. Aid. The history of the super-secret NSA from it's post-war inception to today's mission of protecting us from DANGER!
Heaven's Keep by William Kent Krueger. Krueger's books are supposed to be pretty good. The body of Cork O'Connor's wife went missing in a plane crash in the Wyoming mountains. A few months later he learns the pilot may have been a fraud. Cork goes looking for evidence and runs into DANGER!
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs. Temperance Brennan awakes, with her hands and feet bound, in a cold, dark, enclosed place. She traces back through a series of Montreal area murders and the possibility that a colleague may have sabotaged laboratory work. Will she escape the DANGER?!
Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. The Fargos, a fortune hunting wife and husband, find a German U-Boat in a Maryland swamp that holds a map piece leading to an ancient treasure. A rich half-Persian, half-Russian millionaire wants the treasure and puts the Fargos in DANGER!
Large Print
Smash Cut by Sandra Brown. Lawyer takes on case of a nephew murdering his own wealthy uncle. The uncle's mistress tries to interfere with the lawyer's case. Mistress is caught in several lies and puts everyone in DANGER!
Pigeon Detectives
Wait For Me by The Pigeon Detectives. I'm in DANGER! of listening to this album and Richard Thompson music all afternoon instead of weeding old books.
NonFiction
Beading with Filigree by Cynthia Deis. A replacement for a copy that was either mangled through negligence or mutilated when someone stole some pages. If I find the person responsible she is in DANGER!
Unmasked: the final years of Michael Jackson by Ian Halperin. I heard a radio interview with Halperin. Halperin intended an expose on Jackson that would give final proof of Jackson's guilt as a pedophile. Instead, Halperin became convinced of Jackson's innocence of all sex allegations. Halperin did find out Jackson was gay and weird and in DANGER! from drug abuse.
Post-death updates to the book seem to have been very rushed. The picture captions are incomplete and resultingly bizarre.
The Secret Sentry: the untold story of the National Security Agency by Matthew M. Aid. The history of the super-secret NSA from it's post-war inception to today's mission of protecting us from DANGER!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Two Ghostwriters and the DVDs I Opened with the Bat
Fiction
Even Money by Dick Francis and Felix Francis. British bookie is approached by man claiming to be his father. Bookie's parents were supposed to have died when the Bookie was an infant. Hours later the Bookie's father is stabbed to death. What a warm and uplifting story.
Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. Character Alex Cross writes a novel about his great-uncle who was fighting the Ku Klux Klan in 1900 Mississippi. You know what I always say about Nazis, right? Dirty, filthy, stinking, rotten Nazis? The same goes for the Klan.
DVD
The Great Buck Howard starring Steve Zahn, Ricky Jay, John Malkovich, Tom Hanks Son. Former bigshot mentalist is on the bottom of a career slump. His new assistant and a new publicist get him back in the limelight.
I Love You Man starring [Apatow regulars], Lou Ferrigno. Guy with no friends tries to find guy to be his best man. Meets a dude he gets along with.
Taken starring Liam Neeson. Former spy's daughter is kidnapped in Paris. Spy has hissy fit with guns.
Hannah Montana: the movie starring Miley Cyrus. Snotty and self-important teen pop star gets sent to the family farm to get her to behave. Her 20-year-old boyfriend then moves into the family home.
Inkheart starring that Mummy Guy. Mummy Guy reads stories and they come to life. He and daughter have to put the characters back. Someone should do a study of how many real characters versus CGI characters Mummy Guy has had to perform with.
Sunshine Cleaning starring Amy Adams, Alan Arkin. Single mom and her slacker sister start a business as biohazard cleaners for crime scenes and accidents.
Duplicity starring who cares? Opposing corporate spies are hot for each other.
Even Money by Dick Francis and Felix Francis. British bookie is approached by man claiming to be his father. Bookie's parents were supposed to have died when the Bookie was an infant. Hours later the Bookie's father is stabbed to death. What a warm and uplifting story.
Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. Character Alex Cross writes a novel about his great-uncle who was fighting the Ku Klux Klan in 1900 Mississippi. You know what I always say about Nazis, right? Dirty, filthy, stinking, rotten Nazis? The same goes for the Klan.
DVD
The Great Buck Howard starring Steve Zahn, Ricky Jay, John Malkovich, Tom Hanks Son. Former bigshot mentalist is on the bottom of a career slump. His new assistant and a new publicist get him back in the limelight.
I Love You Man starring [Apatow regulars], Lou Ferrigno. Guy with no friends tries to find guy to be his best man. Meets a dude he gets along with.
Taken starring Liam Neeson. Former spy's daughter is kidnapped in Paris. Spy has hissy fit with guns.
Hannah Montana: the movie starring Miley Cyrus. Snotty and self-important teen pop star gets sent to the family farm to get her to behave. Her 20-year-old boyfriend then moves into the family home.
Inkheart starring that Mummy Guy. Mummy Guy reads stories and they come to life. He and daughter have to put the characters back. Someone should do a study of how many real characters versus CGI characters Mummy Guy has had to perform with.
Sunshine Cleaning starring Amy Adams, Alan Arkin. Single mom and her slacker sister start a business as biohazard cleaners for crime scenes and accidents.
Duplicity starring who cares? Opposing corporate spies are hot for each other.
Monday, August 24, 2009
New Stuff for 24 August 2009
Some new DVDs and CDs. Plus a special guest appearance from a local bat found floating in the toilet bowl this morning.
Two Audiobooks, A Dead Bat in the Toilet
AudioBooks
Blindman's Bluff by Faye Kellerman. 10 CDs. "LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, will be blindsided by a brutal multiple murderer in this twisting tale of suspense."
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz. 7 CDs at 9 hours. Dude who talks to the dead goes to small CA seaside town when he gets dreams of an "all encompassing red tide."
Dead Bat in Toilet
Dead Bat in Upstairs Toilet
Blindman's Bluff by Faye Kellerman. 10 CDs. "LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, will be blindsided by a brutal multiple murderer in this twisting tale of suspense."
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz. 7 CDs at 9 hours. Dude who talks to the dead goes to small CA seaside town when he gets dreams of an "all encompassing red tide."
Dead Bat in Toilet
Dead Bat in Upstairs Toilet
Friday, August 21, 2009
Not Many New Books. I Should Do Another Video.
Adult Fiction
Vanishing Act by Fern Michaels. What are the chances I will ever read a Fern Michaels novel? Very, very low. Maybe if I were to be kidnapped and locked in a room with nothing but a Michaels novel.
Filler
Jonas Brothers by Maggie Maron. Joe's favorite drink is Orange Gatorade. Kevin's favorite drink is coffee. Coffee!? Hey, I like that guy now!
I Love Dirt: 52 activities to help you and your kids discover the wonders of nature by Jennifer Ward. Divided by season. We were playing outside yesterday afternoon and the dog wanted to go back inside. I told her to stop whining.
Fractured Fairy Tales by Rocky and Bullwinkle. I'm listening to the Underground Garage (advance to track 5 of 10 for the story). They are playing the audio of Fractured Fairytale's version of Rumpelstitskin. Rumpelstiltskin is a PR man.
Simply Delicious! by Margaret Mahy. A resourceful father engages in all kinds of acrobatic moves to keep an assortment of jungle creatures from getting the double-dip-chocolate-chip-and-cherry ice cream cone he is taking home to his son.
Hey, Crider. There is a crocodile in this one.
Donut Holes by Jim Braughler. Jim brought in donut holes this morning. The sour cream kind.
Oops, Missed Two Comics
Unstoppable: Astonishing X-Men by Josh Whedon and John Cassaday. Super heroes save the world
Dangerous: Astonishing X-Men by Josh Whedon and John Cassaday. A powerful enemy [is] living among the X-Men.
Vanishing Act by Fern Michaels. What are the chances I will ever read a Fern Michaels novel? Very, very low. Maybe if I were to be kidnapped and locked in a room with nothing but a Michaels novel.
Filler
Jonas Brothers by Maggie Maron. Joe's favorite drink is Orange Gatorade. Kevin's favorite drink is coffee. Coffee!? Hey, I like that guy now!
I Love Dirt: 52 activities to help you and your kids discover the wonders of nature by Jennifer Ward. Divided by season. We were playing outside yesterday afternoon and the dog wanted to go back inside. I told her to stop whining.
Fractured Fairy Tales by Rocky and Bullwinkle. I'm listening to the Underground Garage (advance to track 5 of 10 for the story). They are playing the audio of Fractured Fairytale's version of Rumpelstitskin. Rumpelstiltskin is a PR man.
Simply Delicious! by Margaret Mahy. A resourceful father engages in all kinds of acrobatic moves to keep an assortment of jungle creatures from getting the double-dip-chocolate-chip-and-cherry ice cream cone he is taking home to his son.
Hey, Crider. There is a crocodile in this one.
Donut Holes by Jim Braughler. Jim brought in donut holes this morning. The sour cream kind.
Oops, Missed Two Comics
Unstoppable: Astonishing X-Men by Josh Whedon and John Cassaday. Super heroes save the world
Dangerous: Astonishing X-Men by Josh Whedon and John Cassaday. A powerful enemy [is] living among the X-Men.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Colonel Volkovoy Returns
DVD
Eastbound and Down: complete first season starring Danny McBride. A drunken lout lives too hard and loses his skills as a big-league pitcher. Lout ends up living with his brother and teaching PE at the local middle school while he "wreaks havoc with his boorish behavior and even makes a pre-emptive romantic strike on his former high school squeeze, now a teacher engaged to the school principal."
Fiction
The Venona Cable by Brent Ghelfi. Col. Volkovoy is a covert Russian Army officer and a leader in Moscow's crime world. Volk is taken to the crime scene of a murdered Hollywood cinematographer implicated in the '50s as a spy. Among the dead man's possessions is a photograph is Volk's long-missing father.
Vanished by Joseph Finder. Lauren and her husband, Roger, are mugged. Lauren is knocked out and Roger is missing. Lauren calls Rogers brother, Nick, to find Roger.
Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks. Some fantasy thing.
Obsession: an erotic tale by Gloria Vanderbilt. Lady finds secret letters hidden among her recently deceased husband's possessions.
Eastbound and Down: complete first season starring Danny McBride. A drunken lout lives too hard and loses his skills as a big-league pitcher. Lout ends up living with his brother and teaching PE at the local middle school while he "wreaks havoc with his boorish behavior and even makes a pre-emptive romantic strike on his former high school squeeze, now a teacher engaged to the school principal."
Fiction
The Venona Cable by Brent Ghelfi. Col. Volkovoy is a covert Russian Army officer and a leader in Moscow's crime world. Volk is taken to the crime scene of a murdered Hollywood cinematographer implicated in the '50s as a spy. Among the dead man's possessions is a photograph is Volk's long-missing father.
Vanished by Joseph Finder. Lauren and her husband, Roger, are mugged. Lauren is knocked out and Roger is missing. Lauren calls Rogers brother, Nick, to find Roger.
Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks. Some fantasy thing.
Obsession: an erotic tale by Gloria Vanderbilt. Lady finds secret letters hidden among her recently deceased husband's possessions.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Crazy Library Customer
A story from Stephanie about a crazy lady who came in a year or two ago. More stories as they become available.
In reference to a couple comments I have had on the nature of this video: One of the great things about Libraries, and there are many, is that anyone can come and use the Library. Libraries get the whole of society including the homeless, mentally ill, socially tactless, and generally clueless. They are all welcome. But, sometimes, bizarre and inappropriate behavior is part of the package. This incident occurred in the center of the Library in front of staff and several customers.
Remembering this incident is not intended to belittle the lady but to laugh about the situation and the whole event. My intent was not to mock a someone with a mental illness. The customer is entirely welcome to return and use the Library.
In reference to a couple comments I have had on the nature of this video: One of the great things about Libraries, and there are many, is that anyone can come and use the Library. Libraries get the whole of society including the homeless, mentally ill, socially tactless, and generally clueless. They are all welcome. But, sometimes, bizarre and inappropriate behavior is part of the package. This incident occurred in the center of the Library in front of staff and several customers.
Remembering this incident is not intended to belittle the lady but to laugh about the situation and the whole event. My intent was not to mock a someone with a mental illness. The customer is entirely welcome to return and use the Library.
Four Large Print Novels
All our large print novels are bought on two subscription services from Gale/Cengage and Center Point Large Print. I don't actually select the titles.
Large Print
Storm Cycle by Iris and Roy Johansen. Computer genius Rachel tries to rescue archeologist John who is trapped in an Egyptian tomb. John may have discovered a secret to cure Rachel's dying sister.
Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney. Opening to a random page: "Not yet." The cook eyed her severely. "You never mentioned that you had a husband."
Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenowith. Abby travels to northern New Hampshire with her parents in the summer. Her mother has just been diagnosed with malignant brain tumor and visitors come to see her mom for the last time.
Below Zero by C.J. Box. Box's novels are supposed to be quite good. Sheriff Joe Pickett's oldest daughter Sherry is convinced that Pickett's foster daughter survived a massacre and has been calling on the telephone.
CJ Box is confirmed to attend the Murder and Mayhem in Muskego conference on Nov 14, '09. The conference line-up for this year looks great. Well, the list looks great to me because I have read several of the authors. Heck, I already signed up.
Large Print
Storm Cycle by Iris and Roy Johansen. Computer genius Rachel tries to rescue archeologist John who is trapped in an Egyptian tomb. John may have discovered a secret to cure Rachel's dying sister.
Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney. Opening to a random page: "Not yet." The cook eyed her severely. "You never mentioned that you had a husband."
Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenowith. Abby travels to northern New Hampshire with her parents in the summer. Her mother has just been diagnosed with malignant brain tumor and visitors come to see her mom for the last time.
Below Zero by C.J. Box. Box's novels are supposed to be quite good. Sheriff Joe Pickett's oldest daughter Sherry is convinced that Pickett's foster daughter survived a massacre and has been calling on the telephone.
CJ Box is confirmed to attend the Murder and Mayhem in Muskego conference on Nov 14, '09. The conference line-up for this year looks great. Well, the list looks great to me because I have read several of the authors. Heck, I already signed up.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I Returned And Found These
DVD
Dexter the Third Season starring [actors]. Evil guy does evil things.
AudioBooks
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child. 12 CDs, 14.5 hours. Jack Reacher fights evil.
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich. 7 CDs, who knows how long. New Jersey bounty hunter fights evil.
Still Life by Louise Penny. 8 CDs, 9.5 hours. Quebecois cop fights evil.
Relentless by Dean Koontz. 8 CDs, 9.25 hours. Author fights evil book reviewer.
Fiction
Shoot the Lawyer Twice by Michael Bowen. Milwaukee lawyer and his professor wife fight evil.
Blindman's Bluff by Faye Kellerman. LAPD homicide investigator fights evil.
Intervention by Robin Cook. Doctor fights evil.
Large Print
Diamond in the Rough by Diana Palmer. Library Director fights evil by fighting against ugly book covers.
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand. Married couple drowns in evil ocean.
Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn Wall. Lady in Kentucky finds that something evil is killing wolves.
Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah Strohmeyer. Kat becomes obsessive about cutting costs to fight evil.
Dexter the Third Season starring [actors]. Evil guy does evil things.
AudioBooks
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child. 12 CDs, 14.5 hours. Jack Reacher fights evil.
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich. 7 CDs, who knows how long. New Jersey bounty hunter fights evil.
Still Life by Louise Penny. 8 CDs, 9.5 hours. Quebecois cop fights evil.
Relentless by Dean Koontz. 8 CDs, 9.25 hours. Author fights evil book reviewer.
Fiction
Shoot the Lawyer Twice by Michael Bowen. Milwaukee lawyer and his professor wife fight evil.
Blindman's Bluff by Faye Kellerman. LAPD homicide investigator fights evil.
Intervention by Robin Cook. Doctor fights evil.
Large Print
Diamond in the Rough by Diana Palmer. Library Director fights evil by fighting against ugly book covers.
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand. Married couple drowns in evil ocean.
Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn Wall. Lady in Kentucky finds that something evil is killing wolves.
Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah Strohmeyer. Kat becomes obsessive about cutting costs to fight evil.
Saturday, August 08, 2009
What to Read 29: Jim Oliver's Motorcycle Journey
I'm still in Lindsborg, KS. Today was the Thor's Roar motorcycle rally. Jim Oliver spoke in the meeting room at the local bank about his around the world motorcycle trip he made in 2004. Oliver wrote about it in Lucille and the XXX Road available from his website at: http://www.raymondjames.com/JamesOliver/. We'll have the book available from the Library once I can order it and get it cataloged.
Oliver and a pal rode their BMW GS bikes west from Vladivostok, Russia through Europe. Oliver then air-shipped his bike to Montreal and drove the rest of the way home.
Isn't it nice how I can legitimately add "XXX" to the subject heading (tags) without using it to try and grab attention? If Jim Oliver went to Nagocdoches would people mistake him for Joe R. Lansdale?
Oliver and a pal rode their BMW GS bikes west from Vladivostok, Russia through Europe. Oliver then air-shipped his bike to Montreal and drove the rest of the way home.
Isn't it nice how I can legitimately add "XXX" to the subject heading (tags) without using it to try and grab attention? If Jim Oliver went to Nagocdoches would people mistake him for Joe R. Lansdale?
Thursday, July 30, 2009
What to Read 28: Marcus Sakey
What to Read: Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge.
Also, an introduction to my magical box of books.
Also, an introduction to my magical box of books.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Two CDS by Two Different Bands
Music CDs
The other day I read an online comment by an author I follow, Anthony Neil Smith. His discussion on literary versus popular fiction touched on the similarity of Top 40 vs. "artist" music. Here we have two albums that fit that comparison. Wilco has a been a successful band but is more of a critics' darling than a stadium filler. Dave Matthews sells lots of records, gets airplay, and sells out concerts. I like a lot of Wilco's stuff but I do not consider feedback to be an instrument. Dave Matthews I couldn't give a rat's ass about - but I'll be fair and say I have not heard many songs.
Wilco (the album) by Wilco. This Wilco album is supposed to be more accessible; that means it probably doesn't have that artsy noise crap.
Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King by the Dave Matthews Band. Who was it from their band that died? Some horn player? All I know is that the fella was fairly young and it's a dang shame about that. (I'm not being sarcastic.)
The other day I read an online comment by an author I follow, Anthony Neil Smith. His discussion on literary versus popular fiction touched on the similarity of Top 40 vs. "artist" music. Here we have two albums that fit that comparison. Wilco has a been a successful band but is more of a critics' darling than a stadium filler. Dave Matthews sells lots of records, gets airplay, and sells out concerts. I like a lot of Wilco's stuff but I do not consider feedback to be an instrument. Dave Matthews I couldn't give a rat's ass about - but I'll be fair and say I have not heard many songs.
Wilco (the album) by Wilco. This Wilco album is supposed to be more accessible; that means it probably doesn't have that artsy noise crap.
Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King by the Dave Matthews Band. Who was it from their band that died? Some horn player? All I know is that the fella was fairly young and it's a dang shame about that. (I'm not being sarcastic.)
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