Fiction
Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rendell. We have two copies of this due to an order error. An error in ordering. Erroneous orders. Arachnid owners. Aardvark orchids.
Lime Creek by Joe Henry. A short novel. Family drama in the West with a headstrong son and his father trying to "impart the wisdom of this way of life."
One Summer by David Baldacci. Baldacci writes family reconciliation novel.
Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy with Peter Telep. Clancy's latest doorstop. "America's enemies...rendezvous...Taliban...horrific turn...Pakistani colonel...forces more powerful and cunning...failure not an option...secrecy is the ultimate weapon...shocking revelation...unholy alliance...vicious Mexican drug cartel...bring the fire of jihad to the hearts of the infidels...ultimate terror and destruction...heart-stopping thriller."
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares. An adult follow-up to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Because wearing the same pants connects people. What about other clothing items? Socks? Underwear? Earplugs?
Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver. Deaver is an Ian Fleming fan. Deaver was hired to write a James Bond novel. Here it is. Here is page 294:
"A hostile."
The man had a mobile but wasn't making a call; he was taking a picture of bond with Jordaan - proof that Bond was working with the police.
Bond snapped, "Get your weapon and stay inside with your grandmother."
He sprinted hard across the street as the man fled up a narrow alley leading toward Signal Hill, through the deepening dusk.
When Passions Rule by Johanna Lindsey. Cover has some shirtless guy in tight pants with his back to the camera.
The Profession by Steven Pressfield. The Middle East in 2032 with privately held armies across the region.
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson. This should be a good one. Woman loses her memory each time she goes to sleep. Her loving husband may not be so loving. Madison PL has a review of this on their blog.
NonFiction
William and Catherine: their romance and royal wedding in photographs created by David Elliot Cohen. Photos of wealthy people. What's the sister who became a big deal? Pippa?
UPDATE: Motorhead's cover of God Save the Queen is playing. That reminded of this book which I just hand sold to a former Library Page who loves Prince William.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Four Young Adult Books
YA
Can I See Your I.D.?: true stories of false identities by Chris Barton. Frauds and fugitives.
"Gerard, if this is a true story why is it shelved in fiction?"
"Because we do not have a YA nonfiction section. There is no room."
Alex Rider: Scorpia rising by Anthony Horowitz. Ninth in the series. I don't know what these are about but there was a movie version.
I'll Be There by Holy Goldberg Sloan. I'll make a guess off the cover illustration. Mom forgets to pick-up kid after soccer practice and finds him at sunset.
Theodore Boone: the abduction by John Grisham. Did you know subtitles are not supposed to be capitalized? They're not. Nope. Not at all: Not One Bit.
Can I See Your I.D.?: true stories of false identities by Chris Barton. Frauds and fugitives.
"Gerard, if this is a true story why is it shelved in fiction?"
"Because we do not have a YA nonfiction section. There is no room."
Alex Rider: Scorpia rising by Anthony Horowitz. Ninth in the series. I don't know what these are about but there was a movie version.
I'll Be There by Holy Goldberg Sloan. I'll make a guess off the cover illustration. Mom forgets to pick-up kid after soccer practice and finds him at sunset.
Theodore Boone: the abduction by John Grisham. Did you know subtitles are not supposed to be capitalized? They're not. Nope. Not at all: Not One Bit.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Four Books By People Who Write Books
Fiction
The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey. Interesting fact about Sakey: he looks like Neil Gaiman. So, when you're in between espresso breaks at the annual ALA convention and see Neil Gaiman all dressed in black browsing the publisher booths it might not be Neil Gaiman. It might be Marcus Sakey pretending to be Neil Gaiman. Don't buy any "signed" books.
The Ridge by Michael Koryta. Interesting fact about Michael Koryta: he once at 1.5 pounds of butter at the Indiana State Fair. Koryta was a teenager and ate the butter on a dare when he was showing pigs at the Fair.
Knockdown by Sarah Graves. Interesting fact about Graves: Graves has only one finger and a thumb on her right hand. Her missing fingers were bitten off by a dolphin while SCUBA diving in the Virgin Islands.
NonFiction
Burned: a memoir by Louise Nayer. Nayer's mother and father were almost burned to death in a natural gas explosion when Nayer was a child. Nayer grew up to become a super-hero fighting for justice and rural ambulance services on the East Coast.
Interesting Fact
Don't Believe Everything You Read. On the Internet.
The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey. Interesting fact about Sakey: he looks like Neil Gaiman. So, when you're in between espresso breaks at the annual ALA convention and see Neil Gaiman all dressed in black browsing the publisher booths it might not be Neil Gaiman. It might be Marcus Sakey pretending to be Neil Gaiman. Don't buy any "signed" books.
The Ridge by Michael Koryta. Interesting fact about Michael Koryta: he once at 1.5 pounds of butter at the Indiana State Fair. Koryta was a teenager and ate the butter on a dare when he was showing pigs at the Fair.
Knockdown by Sarah Graves. Interesting fact about Graves: Graves has only one finger and a thumb on her right hand. Her missing fingers were bitten off by a dolphin while SCUBA diving in the Virgin Islands.
NonFiction
Burned: a memoir by Louise Nayer. Nayer's mother and father were almost burned to death in a natural gas explosion when Nayer was a child. Nayer grew up to become a super-hero fighting for justice and rural ambulance services on the East Coast.
Interesting Fact
Don't Believe Everything You Read. On the Internet.
Sean Bean KIlls, Wilderness With Weir, Singing
DVD
Black Death starring Sean Bean. A knight investigates rumors that a marshland village is immune to the plague.
Country Strong starring Gwyneth Paltrow, other people. Singer sings songs on tour.
The Way Back starring Ed Harris, Colin Farrell. Prisoners escape from a gulag. You can read the book, too.
Love and Other Drugs starring Anne Hathaway and WhatsHisFace. People have sex.
Morning Glory starring Indiana Jones, Annie Hall. Famous news guy takes job on a morning show. Hates it.
American starring George Clooney. Clooney builds a rifle.
Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning. Famous actor has estranged 11-year-old daughter show up to live with him.
Hereafter starring Jason Bourne. Psychic does psychic psyghtings.
127 Hours starring James Franco. I think my brother, or one of his friends, met Aron Ralston before he cut his arm off. They figured him for a nitwit who was heading into trouble by acting like a nitwit.
Green Hornet starring Chubby GuyWho UsesLotsofMarijuana. This looks incredibly stupid.
The Switch starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. Friend of gal switches sperm donation without her knowing.
Books on CD
Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld. Novel of the 1920 bombing of Wall Street.
Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman.Psychologist and a cop investigate a murder.
Lost and Found: unexpected revelations about food and money by Geneen Roth. "Conflicted relationship with money."
Music on CD
Born This Way by Lady Gaga. Woman turns into motorcycle.
Goodbye Lullaby by Avril Lavigne. Is she divorced yet?
Black Death starring Sean Bean. A knight investigates rumors that a marshland village is immune to the plague.
Country Strong starring Gwyneth Paltrow, other people. Singer sings songs on tour.
The Way Back starring Ed Harris, Colin Farrell. Prisoners escape from a gulag. You can read the book, too.
Love and Other Drugs starring Anne Hathaway and WhatsHisFace. People have sex.
Morning Glory starring Indiana Jones, Annie Hall. Famous news guy takes job on a morning show. Hates it.
American starring George Clooney. Clooney builds a rifle.
Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning. Famous actor has estranged 11-year-old daughter show up to live with him.
Hereafter starring Jason Bourne. Psychic does psychic psyghtings.
127 Hours starring James Franco. I think my brother, or one of his friends, met Aron Ralston before he cut his arm off. They figured him for a nitwit who was heading into trouble by acting like a nitwit.
Green Hornet starring Chubby GuyWho UsesLotsofMarijuana. This looks incredibly stupid.
The Switch starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. Friend of gal switches sperm donation without her knowing.
Books on CD
Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld. Novel of the 1920 bombing of Wall Street.
Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman.Psychologist and a cop investigate a murder.
Lost and Found: unexpected revelations about food and money by Geneen Roth. "Conflicted relationship with money."
Music on CD
Born This Way by Lady Gaga. Woman turns into motorcycle.
Goodbye Lullaby by Avril Lavigne. Is she divorced yet?
10 Inch Pile of Large Print
Large Print
Hardscrabble Chronicles by Laurie Bogart Morrow. Lousy painting on cover.
Stay With Me by Sandra Rodriguez Barron. Photo of ocean with inset of infant's hand.
One Was A Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming. Flag at half staff on cover.
A Turn in the Road by Debbie Macomber. Bare feet propped on a car's dash.
Mobbed by Mary Higgins Clark. Mob of people on a beach.
Swim Back to Me by Ann Packer. Pool water with overlay of two hands.
Nowhere Near Respectable by Mary Jo Putney. Flowers and a castle.
Dead by Morning by Beverly Barton. Lady in a bath robe laying down on carpet.
Hardscrabble Chronicles by Laurie Bogart Morrow. Lousy painting on cover.
Stay With Me by Sandra Rodriguez Barron. Photo of ocean with inset of infant's hand.
One Was A Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming. Flag at half staff on cover.
A Turn in the Road by Debbie Macomber. Bare feet propped on a car's dash.
Mobbed by Mary Higgins Clark. Mob of people on a beach.
Swim Back to Me by Ann Packer. Pool water with overlay of two hands.
Nowhere Near Respectable by Mary Jo Putney. Flowers and a castle.
Dead by Morning by Beverly Barton. Lady in a bath robe laying down on carpet.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Two Novels On Order
Two Novels On Order
I ran across this interview with Megan Abbott and Jason Starr promoting their latest novels.
Let's not mention that missing video interview I did with Abbott. Or the one with Scott Phillips. Or Tasha Alexander. Or Brent Ghelfi.
I ran across this interview with Megan Abbott and Jason Starr promoting their latest novels.
Let's not mention that missing video interview I did with Abbott. Or the one with Scott Phillips. Or Tasha Alexander. Or Brent Ghelfi.
Monday, June 06, 2011
War and Robert Redford
Fiction
Kingdom by Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood. I rolled my eyes.
Echoes of the Dead by Sally Spencer. Some kind of Limey mystery. A distant relation called from the UK last night to see if my mother was around. The relation and her pal were going to visit here again in a few months but the pal bonked her head bad enough to be hospitalized. So, they may not make the trip.
Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton. More vampire sex orgies with a serial killer hunt.
Camouflage by Bill Pronzini. This had a very positive review. Another Nameless Detective novel. Pronzini has a much improved author photo.
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Scientist gal is sent to the Amazon to find a missing researcher.
NonFiction
SEAL Team Six: memoirs of a Navy SEAL sniper by Howard E. Wasden and Stephen Templin. This book was already in the publishing pipeline when Osama got shot in the head. The timing could not have been better for the publisher. So, now, the words "SEAL Team Six" are plastered across the cover in extra large type. The book is supposed to be pretty good.
Robert Redford: the biography by Michael Feeney Callan. I read all the picture captions.
Wisconsin's Own: twenty remarkable homes by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman, photos by Zane Williams. Supposed to be very neat and, no, it is not just filled up with Frank Lloyd Wright designs.
Kingdom by Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood. I rolled my eyes.
Echoes of the Dead by Sally Spencer. Some kind of Limey mystery. A distant relation called from the UK last night to see if my mother was around. The relation and her pal were going to visit here again in a few months but the pal bonked her head bad enough to be hospitalized. So, they may not make the trip.
Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton. More vampire sex orgies with a serial killer hunt.
Camouflage by Bill Pronzini. This had a very positive review. Another Nameless Detective novel. Pronzini has a much improved author photo.
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Scientist gal is sent to the Amazon to find a missing researcher.
NonFiction
SEAL Team Six: memoirs of a Navy SEAL sniper by Howard E. Wasden and Stephen Templin. This book was already in the publishing pipeline when Osama got shot in the head. The timing could not have been better for the publisher. So, now, the words "SEAL Team Six" are plastered across the cover in extra large type. The book is supposed to be pretty good.
Robert Redford: the biography by Michael Feeney Callan. I read all the picture captions.
Wisconsin's Own: twenty remarkable homes by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman, photos by Zane Williams. Supposed to be very neat and, no, it is not just filled up with Frank Lloyd Wright designs.
Friday, June 03, 2011
It's a Beautiful Spring Day in Southern Wisconsin
I Am Inside
Staring at The Computer Screen for The Afternoon. I can leave early today since I work a few hours tomorrow morning. I was going to try and replace some missing shingles on the library roof but do not have a ladder tall enough to get there. Getting someone to come over and replace just a few shingles is not easy.
Fiction
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville. Short stories. Tales of people disconnected from others and themselves. The stories are interconnected. My advice? Skip the first story and read the rest. I liked Easy Love, Vaara, and The Peach but I am only half-way through my copy.
Staring at The Computer Screen for The Afternoon. I can leave early today since I work a few hours tomorrow morning. I was going to try and replace some missing shingles on the library roof but do not have a ladder tall enough to get there. Getting someone to come over and replace just a few shingles is not easy.
Fiction
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville. Short stories. Tales of people disconnected from others and themselves. The stories are interconnected. My advice? Skip the first story and read the rest. I liked Easy Love, Vaara, and The Peach but I am only half-way through my copy.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
3 Chick Novels, 1 Guy Novel, 6 NonFiction
Chick Novels
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal. Los Angeles film editor goes back to Nebraska to find her old love.
An Unlikely Countess by Jo Beverly. A well reviewed romance. Beverly is well liked.
Centuries of June by Keith Donohue. I sit corrected. Not really a chick novel. "A romp through history, a madcap murder mystery, an existential ghost story, and a stunning tour de force at once ingenious, sexy, inspiring, and ultimately moving." Moving? Yeah, I'm really moved by that description.
Guy Novel
Trader of Secrets by Steve Martini. Attorney Paul Madriani fights evil again.
NonFiction
Pioneer Woman: black wheels to tractor wheels by Ree Drummond. Girl marries Oklahoma cowboy and writes book WITHOUT ANY PICTURES! Where is the photo section?!
The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure. A biography of both the Laura Inger Wilder family and the author's reading of the novels. I think a review was in the Madison newspaper.
At the Dark End of the Street: black women, rape, and resistance - a new history of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power by Danielle L. McGuire. Not a new history so much as a history that focuses on events and people that usually get missed. The rape and abuse of women and the many women who organized and stood up against the sexual abuse and, accordingly, the racial nonsense that kept it going.
Hitman: the untold story of Johnny Martorano by Howie Carr. I bought Carr's book The Brothers Bulger about the Boston mobster and his powerful politician brother. Since Brothers has been successful here I figure those readers might like this.
In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror and an American family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. William E. Dodd was given the job of Ambassador to Germany in 1933. Dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy nazis. I refuse to capitalize the word nazi.
Psychopath Test: a journey through the madness industry by Jon Ronson. Author was on television. No self-diagnosis test included.
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal. Los Angeles film editor goes back to Nebraska to find her old love.
An Unlikely Countess by Jo Beverly. A well reviewed romance. Beverly is well liked.
Centuries of June by Keith Donohue. I sit corrected. Not really a chick novel. "A romp through history, a madcap murder mystery, an existential ghost story, and a stunning tour de force at once ingenious, sexy, inspiring, and ultimately moving." Moving? Yeah, I'm really moved by that description.
Guy Novel
Trader of Secrets by Steve Martini. Attorney Paul Madriani fights evil again.
NonFiction
Pioneer Woman: black wheels to tractor wheels by Ree Drummond. Girl marries Oklahoma cowboy and writes book WITHOUT ANY PICTURES! Where is the photo section?!
The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure. A biography of both the Laura Inger Wilder family and the author's reading of the novels. I think a review was in the Madison newspaper.
At the Dark End of the Street: black women, rape, and resistance - a new history of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power by Danielle L. McGuire. Not a new history so much as a history that focuses on events and people that usually get missed. The rape and abuse of women and the many women who organized and stood up against the sexual abuse and, accordingly, the racial nonsense that kept it going.
Hitman: the untold story of Johnny Martorano by Howie Carr. I bought Carr's book The Brothers Bulger about the Boston mobster and his powerful politician brother. Since Brothers has been successful here I figure those readers might like this.
In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror and an American family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. William E. Dodd was given the job of Ambassador to Germany in 1933. Dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy nazis. I refuse to capitalize the word nazi.
Psychopath Test: a journey through the madness industry by Jon Ronson. Author was on television. No self-diagnosis test included.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Lake Mills Farmers Market
Lake Mills Farmers Market
Wednesdays are Farmers Market days at Commons Park in downtown Lake Mills. There are always many dogs at the Farmers Market. None are for consumption.
I gave the camera to a five-year-old.
Wednesdays are Farmers Market days at Commons Park in downtown Lake Mills. There are always many dogs at the Farmers Market. None are for consumption.
I gave the camera to a five-year-old.
Lake Mills High School Graduation, 2011
2011 High School Graduation
I did not attend. One of the library's Pages shows up in the beginning at 1:28 into the video.
Video streaming by Ustream
I did not attend. One of the library's Pages shows up in the beginning at 1:28 into the video.
Video streaming by Ustream
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Leaning Tower of Fiction and Musical Interlude
Leaning Tower of Fiction
From the previous post.
Musical Interlude
From one of the first CDs I bought. I just heard this on the radio.
The Godfathers (Another try, if anyone is paying attention.)
From the previous post.
Musical Interlude
From one of the first CDs I bought. I just heard this on the radio.
The Godfathers (Another try, if anyone is paying attention.)
Gerald Seymour, Westerns, Sara Gran
Fiction
Bloodmoney by David Ignatius. Ignatius was on the radio talking about this "CIA in Pakistan" novel and how current events match much of the plot. Plot: CIA agents getting killed and lady looking into it finds they are funded by insider trading.
Ambush Creek by Phil Dunlap. U.S. Marshall in Arid-zona is looking for three shifty bounty hunters. Cover photo has a really shiny revolver.
Spur and the Sash: Middle Tennessee, 1865 by Robert Grede. Wounded Union soldier is assigned to protect a farm in rural Tennessee at the end of the Civil War. Wisconsin author is from Milwaukee area. I think.
The Collaborator by Gerald Seymour. I like Seymor's thrillers. He does good work. This one has an Italian college student in London willing to give up her brother, a killer for the Naples mafia.
Troubled Man by Henning Mankell. "A Kurt Wallender Novel." Stockholm, Sweden cop looks into the disappearance of a naval officer.
Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen. Must be a chick book. The cover model has her back to the camera, her hair is tied up, she is wearing some summer dress with thin shoulder straps. There are flower blossoms all over the cover.
Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Romance by a popular author. Her other books have checked out 222 times.
Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. This must be about my wife and her siblings. Ha! That joke doesn't get old.
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran. Gran does good work. She and Abbott, Junior share a blog. A mystery novel.
Detroit Electric Scheme by D.E. Johnson. A good review from Booklist "The surprise ending leaves you gasping and shaking your head at Johnson’s masterful plotting and the menacing tension that forces otherwise good characters to behave despicably. Every bit as powerful as Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley series, this gem of a debut showcases an author to watch very closely."
Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward. Here's info on the book tour.
Bury Your Dead by Louis Penny. Another murder mystery in Quebec.
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe. I did not know he may have died from rabies.
Quick and the Thread by Amanda Lee. Paperback mystery. I was Entertainment Weekly's summer issue and they were listing upcoming paperbacks. Each one was the paperback printing of a hardcover. No original paperbacks listed at all.
My One and Only by Kristan Higgins. Romance with a small dog on the cover.
Bloodmoney by David Ignatius. Ignatius was on the radio talking about this "CIA in Pakistan" novel and how current events match much of the plot. Plot: CIA agents getting killed and lady looking into it finds they are funded by insider trading.
Ambush Creek by Phil Dunlap. U.S. Marshall in Arid-zona is looking for three shifty bounty hunters. Cover photo has a really shiny revolver.
Spur and the Sash: Middle Tennessee, 1865 by Robert Grede. Wounded Union soldier is assigned to protect a farm in rural Tennessee at the end of the Civil War. Wisconsin author is from Milwaukee area. I think.
The Collaborator by Gerald Seymour. I like Seymor's thrillers. He does good work. This one has an Italian college student in London willing to give up her brother, a killer for the Naples mafia.
Troubled Man by Henning Mankell. "A Kurt Wallender Novel." Stockholm, Sweden cop looks into the disappearance of a naval officer.
Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen. Must be a chick book. The cover model has her back to the camera, her hair is tied up, she is wearing some summer dress with thin shoulder straps. There are flower blossoms all over the cover.
Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Romance by a popular author. Her other books have checked out 222 times.
Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. This must be about my wife and her siblings. Ha! That joke doesn't get old.
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran. Gran does good work. She and Abbott, Junior share a blog. A mystery novel.
Detroit Electric Scheme by D.E. Johnson. A good review from Booklist "The surprise ending leaves you gasping and shaking your head at Johnson’s masterful plotting and the menacing tension that forces otherwise good characters to behave despicably. Every bit as powerful as Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley series, this gem of a debut showcases an author to watch very closely."
Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward. Here's info on the book tour.
Bury Your Dead by Louis Penny. Another murder mystery in Quebec.
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe. I did not know he may have died from rabies.
Quick and the Thread by Amanda Lee. Paperback mystery. I was Entertainment Weekly's summer issue and they were listing upcoming paperbacks. Each one was the paperback printing of a hardcover. No original paperbacks listed at all.
My One and Only by Kristan Higgins. Romance with a small dog on the cover.
Music Magically Embedded Into Thin Plastic Discs
Plastic Discs
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong by [same people]. Compilation album. A donation. ALso features Oscar Peterson. I really enjoy Oscar Peterson, his Canadiana Suite is a favorite.
Best of the Song Books by Ella Fitzgerald. 16 songs.
Love? by Jennifer Lopez. Remember when she used to be a big deal? Or, am I just out of the loop in popular culture?
Hillbilly Joker by Hank III. More punk country by Hank III. I think that's what it is. I've never listened to him before. His other disc here, Straight to Hell, circ'ed 31 times.
Move Like This by The Cars. Paulina Porizkova's husband gets the band back together. Fans have been waiting 20 some years for this. How can the band meet those expectations? Parade Porizkova around on stage? Good idea.
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong by [same people]. Compilation album. A donation. ALso features Oscar Peterson. I really enjoy Oscar Peterson, his Canadiana Suite is a favorite.
Best of the Song Books by Ella Fitzgerald. 16 songs.
Love? by Jennifer Lopez. Remember when she used to be a big deal? Or, am I just out of the loop in popular culture?
Hillbilly Joker by Hank III. More punk country by Hank III. I think that's what it is. I've never listened to him before. His other disc here, Straight to Hell, circ'ed 31 times.
Move Like This by The Cars. Paulina Porizkova's husband gets the band back together. Fans have been waiting 20 some years for this. How can the band meet those expectations? Parade Porizkova around on stage? Good idea.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Audio and Three NonFic
Audiobook on CD
Doc by Maria Doria Russell. 14 CDs at 16.5 hours. Tubercular John Henry Holliday leaves Georgia for the dry Southwest. Holliday ends up a professional gambler and his whore girlfriend finds him high stakes games. They travel to Dodge City for the money and meet Wyatt Earp.
NonFiction
Computing for Seniors by Marty Matthews, et al.
Birds of North America: the complete photographic guide to every species edited by Francois Vuilleumier. This is by Dorling Kindersley so you know the photorgraphs are very high quality. You also know that the Marbled Murrelet relies on marine and forested habitats. And that the Canyon Towhee has a stubby, conical bill. Did you know there is a bird called the Philadelphia Vireo? I wonder if that bird made it into Birdy. Boy Number Two will like this book.
Vogue Knitting Mittens and Gloves by editors of Vogue Knitting Magazine. Nice pictures of pretty girls wearing wool.
Doc by Maria Doria Russell. 14 CDs at 16.5 hours. Tubercular John Henry Holliday leaves Georgia for the dry Southwest. Holliday ends up a professional gambler and his whore girlfriend finds him high stakes games. They travel to Dodge City for the money and meet Wyatt Earp.
NonFiction
Computing for Seniors by Marty Matthews, et al.
Birds of North America: the complete photographic guide to every species edited by Francois Vuilleumier. This is by Dorling Kindersley so you know the photorgraphs are very high quality. You also know that the Marbled Murrelet relies on marine and forested habitats. And that the Canyon Towhee has a stubby, conical bill. Did you know there is a bird called the Philadelphia Vireo? I wonder if that bird made it into Birdy. Boy Number Two will like this book.
Vogue Knitting Mittens and Gloves by editors of Vogue Knitting Magazine. Nice pictures of pretty girls wearing wool.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Bunch of AudioBooks and Three NonFiction
AudioBooks
Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. 9 CDs at 10.5 hours. A novel about my wife and her siblings. Ha! That one slays me. (I can write that because no one reads this. Well, my mother-in-law reads it sometime but maybe she won't go back far enough and read this.)
Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag. 11 CDs at 13.75 hours. Woman is murdered.
Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. 8 CDs at 9.5 hours. 1st in the YA zombie series. A good book but fairly chick-centric.
Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan. 10 CDs at 12 hours. 2nd in the YA zombie series. This is just a rehash of book one.
Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan. 9 CDs at 11 hours. 3rd in the YA zombie series. I don't know if this is any good. My wife read it but I have a pile of stuff already and have not gotten to it yet.
Laughed 'Til He Died by Carolyn Hart. 8 CDs at 9 hours. Laughed? He must have seen that joke I made above. Ha!
Red on Red by Edward Conlon. 14 CDs at 17 hours. Author is a NYPD detective who has been written a lot of nonfiction. This is a novel. That means Conlon made everything up. Well, not everything. You can assume he took past experiences and stories from colleagues and added them into the mix.
NonFiction
Top 10 Dublin by Polly Phillimore. 10. Beer. 9. Whiskey. 8. Drunk writers. 7. "Those darn Brits". 6. Potatoes. 5. Blarney. 4. Easter Uprising. 3. U2. 2. That one library. 1. Greyhound racing.
Origin of the Bible: a guide for the perplexed by Lee Martin McDonald. The author is Canadian.
Photo and Video Editing for Seniors edited by Mara Kok, et al.
Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. 9 CDs at 10.5 hours. A novel about my wife and her siblings. Ha! That one slays me. (I can write that because no one reads this. Well, my mother-in-law reads it sometime but maybe she won't go back far enough and read this.)
Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag. 11 CDs at 13.75 hours. Woman is murdered.
Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. 8 CDs at 9.5 hours. 1st in the YA zombie series. A good book but fairly chick-centric.
Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan. 10 CDs at 12 hours. 2nd in the YA zombie series. This is just a rehash of book one.
Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan. 9 CDs at 11 hours. 3rd in the YA zombie series. I don't know if this is any good. My wife read it but I have a pile of stuff already and have not gotten to it yet.
Laughed 'Til He Died by Carolyn Hart. 8 CDs at 9 hours. Laughed? He must have seen that joke I made above. Ha!
Red on Red by Edward Conlon. 14 CDs at 17 hours. Author is a NYPD detective who has been written a lot of nonfiction. This is a novel. That means Conlon made everything up. Well, not everything. You can assume he took past experiences and stories from colleagues and added them into the mix.
NonFiction
Top 10 Dublin by Polly Phillimore. 10. Beer. 9. Whiskey. 8. Drunk writers. 7. "Those darn Brits". 6. Potatoes. 5. Blarney. 4. Easter Uprising. 3. U2. 2. That one library. 1. Greyhound racing.
Origin of the Bible: a guide for the perplexed by Lee Martin McDonald. The author is Canadian.
Photo and Video Editing for Seniors edited by Mara Kok, et al.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Make Believe and POW Nurses
Audio Books
Troubled Man by Henning Mankell. 14 CDs at 17 hours. Stockholm policeman Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of a Swedish naval officer who was to be his daughter's father-in-law.
Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig. 13 CDs at 15.5 hours. A long serving governess to English aristocracy quits to be a spy. She is assigned to spy on Napoleon's minister of police by being her governess.
Fiction
Final Storm by Jeff Shaara. "A novel of the war in the Pacific" Cover has a painting of a flamethrower tank.
Embassytown by China Mieville. China is a guy's name? This is a "moving personal drama...gripping adventure...sentient beings...years of deep-space adventure...distant political machinations...fragile equilibrium...violently upset...catastrophe looms."
NonFiction
We Band of Angels: the untold story of American Nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman. Short description: they are lucky to be alive. Read and find out what happened.
Troubled Man by Henning Mankell. 14 CDs at 17 hours. Stockholm policeman Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of a Swedish naval officer who was to be his daughter's father-in-law.
Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig. 13 CDs at 15.5 hours. A long serving governess to English aristocracy quits to be a spy. She is assigned to spy on Napoleon's minister of police by being her governess.
Fiction
Final Storm by Jeff Shaara. "A novel of the war in the Pacific" Cover has a painting of a flamethrower tank.
Embassytown by China Mieville. China is a guy's name? This is a "moving personal drama...gripping adventure...sentient beings...years of deep-space adventure...distant political machinations...fragile equilibrium...violently upset...catastrophe looms."
NonFiction
We Band of Angels: the untold story of American Nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman. Short description: they are lucky to be alive. Read and find out what happened.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Great News! A New Brent Ghelfi Novel! A New Lawrence Block Novel!
Fiction
The Burning Lake by Brent Ghelfi. The fourth Ghelfi novel featuring Alexei "Volk" Volkovoy. Volk is a troubleshooter for the the Russian Army and his shadowy general. Ghelfi takes the modern Russian problems of graft, corruption and crime and perfectly ties them into each Volk novel.
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo. A crime novel set in Oslo. A woman goes missing in November and police investigator Harry Hole is on the job. Nesbo has gotten some great reviews by Anthony Neil Smith.
I have had a recent compulsion to type in Anthony Neil Smith. I think it is because I know that every time I type in "Anthony Neil Smith" the real Anthony Neil Smith will improve my website statistics by reading what is being written about him. Anthony Neil Smith. I used to have this same compulsion for Bill Crider. Bill Crider.
A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block. A new Matt Scudder novel. Everything I know about Alcoholics Anonymous I learned from Block's Scudder novels. Scudder attends at least one AA meeting a day while working as an unlicensed PI in Manhattan. Block has a new author photo. The photo has Block without glasses and sporting a van Dyke beard and mustache.
Buried Prey by John Sandford. Is Sandford getting ghost help on these? He is certainly cranking them out. Someone mentioned to me that they heard a Sandford interview recently. I think it was on Minnesota Public Radio but I am not sure.
Get Maitland by James Patrick Hunt. Another novel featuring former bounty hunter and current art dealer, Maitland. Maitland takes a job to rare antique in London. Maitland gets framed for murder instead.
Large Print
The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice.
Buried Prey by John Sandford.
Quicksilver by Amanda Quick.
Southern Comfort by Fern Michaels.
Bel-Air Dead by Stuart Woods.
Sixkill by Robert B. Parker.
The Burning Lake by Brent Ghelfi. The fourth Ghelfi novel featuring Alexei "Volk" Volkovoy. Volk is a troubleshooter for the the Russian Army and his shadowy general. Ghelfi takes the modern Russian problems of graft, corruption and crime and perfectly ties them into each Volk novel.
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo. A crime novel set in Oslo. A woman goes missing in November and police investigator Harry Hole is on the job. Nesbo has gotten some great reviews by Anthony Neil Smith.
I have had a recent compulsion to type in Anthony Neil Smith. I think it is because I know that every time I type in "Anthony Neil Smith" the real Anthony Neil Smith will improve my website statistics by reading what is being written about him. Anthony Neil Smith. I used to have this same compulsion for Bill Crider. Bill Crider.
A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block. A new Matt Scudder novel. Everything I know about Alcoholics Anonymous I learned from Block's Scudder novels. Scudder attends at least one AA meeting a day while working as an unlicensed PI in Manhattan. Block has a new author photo. The photo has Block without glasses and sporting a van Dyke beard and mustache.
Buried Prey by John Sandford. Is Sandford getting ghost help on these? He is certainly cranking them out. Someone mentioned to me that they heard a Sandford interview recently. I think it was on Minnesota Public Radio but I am not sure.
Get Maitland by James Patrick Hunt. Another novel featuring former bounty hunter and current art dealer, Maitland. Maitland takes a job to rare antique in London. Maitland gets framed for murder instead.
Large Print
The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice.
Buried Prey by John Sandford.
Quicksilver by Amanda Quick.
Southern Comfort by Fern Michaels.
Bel-Air Dead by Stuart Woods.
Sixkill by Robert B. Parker.
Monday, May 16, 2011
One Audio and Five Large Print
Audio Book on CD
Firewall by Henning Mankell. 13 CDs at 16 hours.
Large Print
Devious by Lisa Jackson.
Daughters-in-Law by Joanna Trollope.
Wedding Promise by Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer.
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin.
Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen.
Firewall by Henning Mankell. 13 CDs at 16 hours.
Large Print
Devious by Lisa Jackson.
Daughters-in-Law by Joanna Trollope.
Wedding Promise by Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer.
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin.
Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen.
Montreal, Reloading, Civil War, Medicare
NonFiction
Florida Keys, 2nd Edition edited by Carolyn Galgano. That's a long drive away.
Montreal and Quebec City, 2011 edited by Jess Moss. I wish I could go to Montreal this summer. The F1 race is less than a month away.
Farmer's Wife Harvest Cookbook edited by Lela Nargi. Curse you ring bound cookbooks!
Managing Your Medicare: an insider's guide to maximizing benefits and lowering costs by George Jacobs. I'm young enough I don't have to worry about this stuff.
The ABCs of Reloading edited by C. Rodney James. I want to but the cost and time of start-up are intimidating.
Big Book of Civil War Sites edited by Cynthia Parzych. I don't much care about the Civil War but even I think this is a neat book.
Simply Necklaces: 20 beading projects by Lark Crafts.
Simply Earrings: 20 beading projects by Lark Crafts.
Warman's Antiques and Collectibles, 2012: 45th Edition by Mark F. Moran. Very nice color photos.
Florida Keys, 2nd Edition edited by Carolyn Galgano. That's a long drive away.
Montreal and Quebec City, 2011 edited by Jess Moss. I wish I could go to Montreal this summer. The F1 race is less than a month away.
Farmer's Wife Harvest Cookbook edited by Lela Nargi. Curse you ring bound cookbooks!
Managing Your Medicare: an insider's guide to maximizing benefits and lowering costs by George Jacobs. I'm young enough I don't have to worry about this stuff.
The ABCs of Reloading edited by C. Rodney James. I want to but the cost and time of start-up are intimidating.
Big Book of Civil War Sites edited by Cynthia Parzych. I don't much care about the Civil War but even I think this is a neat book.
Simply Necklaces: 20 beading projects by Lark Crafts.
Simply Earrings: 20 beading projects by Lark Crafts.
Warman's Antiques and Collectibles, 2012: 45th Edition by Mark F. Moran. Very nice color photos.
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