Two Novels

Large Print

Beach Trees by Karen White. Those are beach bushes on the cover. Not trees.

Fiction

Ideal Man by Julie Garwood. Cover has a manly man photoshopped with a pistol and badge.

Split Second Dexter Has to Suck It and See This Morning

Large Print

Split Second by Catherine Coulter. No author photos on most large print books.

DVD

Dexter: the fifth season starring James Remar. Remar was always good at playing the bad guy. I watched season one of this but kept getting the plots from novels and tv episodes confused. The gal who plays Dexter's sister was rail thin.

Digital Music Even If No One Refers to CDs as Digital Music

Suck It and See by The Arctic Monkeys. [Comment withheld]



This Loud Morning by David Cook. [No comment to withhold]



The guy with the ear? Man, I have no idea...

Books, Music, Tom Piccirilli

Fiction

Every Shallow Cut by Tom Piccirilli. This novel has received very good reviews. I know because Piccirilli always links to them. I think the story has something to do with a road trip and murder. Since this is a Piccirilli book I almost guarantee a muscle car in the story.

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. This won a Big Time Novel Award. Two guys grow up as friends until one is suspected in a girl's disappearance. Twenty years later the same guy is suspected in another disappearance and the other guy is a cop.

With A Little Luck by Caprice Crane. The cover says: Teenage romance. The back says: Adult romance in Los Angeles radio station.

Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan. Irish woman travels to New York in 1920s to make money for injured husband at home. Will she return to Ireland or stay in the U.S.?

Set the Night on Fire by Libby Fischer Hellmann. Hellmann's books check out here. This one came out last December. Don't tell anyone I missed the pub date. Hellmann Fact: She's a nice lady and does not look like her vertically smooshed author photo.

Spiral by Paul McLuen. Thriller with nanorobots, scientists, and a lousy cover.

Only Mine by Susan Mallery. Paperback contemporary romance.

Angela Sloan by James Whorton, Jr. 14-year-old girl's CIA agent father disappears. She tries to find him in post-Watergate D.C. "A priceless coming-of-age story about stealing diner food and salvaging lost identities."

Music on CD

The Harrow and the Harvest by Gillian Welch. Old-time country music fans rejoice by wearing straw hats.

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Fiction (With Plot Descriptions Based on Cover Art)

One Dog Night by David Rosenfelt. Something about dogs.

Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry. Something about old London.

Death in High Places by Jo Bannister. Something about mountain climbing.

A Bad Day for Scandal by Sophie Littlefield. Something about a frying pan.

Mr. Monk on the Couch by Lee Goldberg Something about Monk being insane.

Back of Beyond by C.J. Box. Something about campfires. EDIT: Holy Carp! Box has a picture of himself without his hat!

Disturbance by Jan Burke. Something about moths.

Gentlemen's Hour by Don Winslow. Something about water.

Misterioso by Arne Dahl. Something about darts.

Scott Phillips Writes Creepy Sex, Donald Ray Pollock Writes Depressing Rural

Fiction

The Adjustment by Scott Phillips. Post-War Wichita, KS is an airplane town. Built on cattle drives, the town now runs on airplane manufacturing. Army vet Wayne Ogden is out to destroy Collins Aircraft and its founder. But, in return, Wayne is being blackmailed. Corruption, violence, illicit sex and booze, innocent romance. Phillips does real good work.



The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock. Rural residents of Southern Ohio and West Virginia followed over 20 years. I read Pollocks short story collection Knockemstiff after reading a recommendation from author Craig Davidson. Knockemstiff was good.

Cold Vengeance by Preston and Child. Revenge and international settings.

The Sixes by Kate White. Lame cover with a motif you have seen a million times.

Victory and Honor by W.E.B Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Spy operations at the end of world war two.

Darkness My Old Friend by Lisa Unger. Cover has a girl running through foggy, dark woods.

The Pack by Jason Starr. Starr does suspense and crime novels. Laid off dad meets other dads in a park. Joins them for drinks. Starts to change...

Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly. Romance.

Devil Colony by James Rollins. My enthusiasm is fading.

Iron House by John Hart. I am almost finished.

Death Factory by Joe Domenici. Ah, finished. Now to add italics and and post this thing.

French Gunfights, Medieval Swordfights, Modern Day Bombfights

DVD

36th Precinct starring That Other Gerard, Frenchmen. Armed robbers are on a crime spree. The first police lieutenant who catches the gang gets the police chief job. Competition ensues. Shotgun violence follows.

Jesse Stone: No Remorse starring Mustache, William Sadler. Jesse Stone story based on Parker's characters but penned by Mustache and Michael Brandman. Bill Crider says, "[nothing]". Well, I guess he either did not watch it or never blogged about it.

Source Code starring Jake Welsh-y. Soldier goes back in time to stop a bombing on a railway and get a date with a passenger.

Ironclad starring Brian Cox, Derek Jacobi, Armor, Swords, CGI. "The devastating battle for Rochester Castle is a true story of honor, action and excitement."

Music Inscribed Onto... You Get the Idea

Join Us by They Might Be Giants. Songs.

Legendary Weapons by Wu Tang. My brother once bought me a Wu Tang Clan CD. I have no idea why he did that. I kinda liked it but could not understand what the guys were saying.

Musical Interlude

Musical Interlude

Another Neil Finn edition.

1980


1991


2001 (quality is below average)


2011

I'm on Vacation

I'm on Vacation

Come Back Later by Library Director.

Ooh La La. Now THAT Is A Book

NonFiction

German Automatic Weapons of World War II by Robert Bruce. Neat close-up photos of the mechanisms and how the parts fit together. Dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy nazis had some mechanically fascinating weapons. The Fallschirmjaegergewehr is fascinating. I should take this on summer vacation.

Music Translated Into Binary, Digital Language, Written Into a Thin Sheet of Metal, Then Layered Into a Plastic Disc

Gold by Steely Dan. "Expanded edition includes 4 additional recordings over 60 minutes worth of music."

Packers, Commandos, Witches, AC/DC, Jockeys, Mobsters

NonFiction

Rockers and Rollers: a full-throttle memoir by Brian Johnson. Lead singer of AC/DC remembers his life after recalling whatever cars he owned at the time. "Now I know I take the piss out of Porsches a lot, but it;s only because racing against them is so difficult, because they never break, sort of."

Family Secrets: the case that crippled the Chicago mob by Jeff Coen. Shootings, bombings, loansharking.

Aaron Rodgers: leader of the pack by Rob Reischel. Lots of big color photos.

Return to Titletown: the remarkable story of the 2010 Green Bay Packers edited Joe Funk. Game by game with many color photos.

The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals edited by Gail Damerow. Providing nests for your ducks and geese to lay their eggs in helps keep the eggs clean and protects them from being cooked by the sun.

Pavement Chalk Artist: the three-dimensional drawings of Julian Beever by Julian Beever.

Rights of the People: how our search for safety invades our liberties by David K. Shipler. How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost?

Boy Who Came Back From Heaven by Kevin and Alex Malarkey. Is that last name a kind of joke? I'm late on buying this one, I should have noticed it's absence earlier.

Heaven is for Real: a little boy's astounding story of his trip to heaven and back by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. Same story, different kid.

10 Commando by Ian Dear. Ten Commando was composed entirely of men who came from Nazi-occupied countries such as Holland, Poland, and France.

Enter Night: a biography of Metallica by Mick Wall.

Fiction

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher. Magic in Chicago.

Gamble by Felix Frances. Felix finished this one his father and he started.

Missed One: Hobo With a ShotguA

DVD

Hobo With A Shotgun starring Rutger Hauer. A recommendation from novelist Tom Piccirilli.




I wonder if they reference Hitcher.

The Return of Christa Faust (and Lee Goldberg) Plus Rural Murder

DVD

Small Town Murder Songs starring Peter Stormare, Jill Hennessy, Martha Plimpton. Cop whose small town has not had a murder in decades has one now. Cop is determined to find the killer even with mistrust of state cop in charge of the investigation.

Doctor Who: Series Six, Part One starring The Scrawny Doctor, English People. The Doctor lands in 1960s America and other places with aliens.
My family spends way too much time watching Doctor Who and Top Gear on BBC America. Then Boys #1 and #2 tell me about the horsepower ratings and top speeds of exotic sports cars. "If Top Gear reviewed the Hyundai Sonata they would call it the Hyndai Snot-ta!" [Hysterical laughter]

The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, John Leguizamo, Bryan Cranston, Marisa Tomei. Impressive cast list, huh? The book was good and this film version is supposed to be pretty decent. I wonder how they work in a topless McConaughey. Maybe exiting the shower? At the beach? Wearing a tank top?

Fiction

Supernatural: Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust. An original novel featuring characters from the television show. Let's look at the back... Guided by the tattooed, pistol-packing bandita on a motorcycle, Xochi Cazadora, the brothers are plunged into a terrifying world of Aztec gods and monsters. Yep, that sounds like a Faust novel all right.

Justice by Karen Robards. An uninspired cover.

The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines. A good cover. Teen girl in 1942 secretly works her PI dad's recent case when she hears a boy at her school is involved. Sneaking out of the house, dancing at the Savoy, double-crossing her friends...this one sounds like a Megan Abbott novel.

Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore. This may be a YA novel. Girl from family of witches prefers to separate that from "normal" life. While ranch-sitting for an aunt a dangerous ghost is more than she can handle.

NonFiction

Tied In: the business, history, and craft of media tie-in writing edited by Lee Goldberg. I used to sneer at tie-ins until I read what G0ldberg had to say. I have not, however, read what the other Goldberg (Tod) has to say. I can now find out because his is the first piece in here, Does a Real Writer Write Tie-Ins?, and directly addresses my past distaste for tie-ins.

The Deer and the Naturalist: dreamwork and the soul's journey by Mary Edwards.

Large Print

Monument to Murder by Margaret Truman.

Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver. James Bond novel with bigger type.

Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy.

AudioBooks on CD

Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich. 7 CDs at 8.5 hours. Guy steals moon rock for his girlfriend. Gets arrested.

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson. 10 CDs at 12.6 hours. Robots eat people. Or something.

Music on CD

Nina Simone: 17 masters by Nina Simone. 17 selected tracks.

CDs by Gordon Lightfoot, David Bowie and other, lesser beings

Music on CD

Sleeps with Angels by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Waiting for the Sun by The Doors.

Strange Days by The Doors.

Young Americans by David Bowie.

The Best of Earth Wind and Fire: Volumes 1 and 2 by Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Broken Arrow by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Morrison Hotel by The Doors.

L.A. Woman by The Doors.

John Lennon Collection by John Lennon.

The Band by The Band.

Gord's Gold by Gordon Lightfoot.







Talking Book by Steve Wonder.



Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Willie and the Poor Boys by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

One of Those Nights by The Eagles.

Greasy Little Punks And Their Electrified Guitars, Wiggling Around and Grunting. Howling!

Music on CD

Time in a Bottle: Jim Croce's greatest love songs by Jim Croce. Plane wreck death? I don't recall.

GP/Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons. Parsons was supposed to be highly influential in the late '60s and early '70s by mixing country and rock. His musician pals dug his sound and went on to man popular and big selling bands. Parsons killed himself with booze and drugs.

Band of Gypsys by Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix killed himself with drugs, too.

The Soft Parade by The Doors. Also dead by drugs. This album does not have any famous tunes.

Time Out of Mind by Bob Dylan. Dylan pre- and post-dates all those dead guys. I saw him play in Champaign, IL last fall. His guitarist was Charlie Sexton. Sexton was a guitar prodigy in Texas and had this tune rotate on MTV for a time in about 1985.

Six More CDs of Idolatrous, Devil Music LEading Our Nation Into Communism and Fluoridation

Music on CD - We received a box of donations and I added several older, famous albums that are not elsewhere in the catalog.

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival.



Mirror Ball by Neil Young. I've never much cared about Young but do like a few tunes.

Music on CD (that was incorrectly processed and needs to be redone)

Vauxhall and I by Morrissey. I was going to get a haircut this coming week. Maybe I should just add more hair "products" and Morrissey it.



Nilsson Schmilsson by Harry Nillson.

Diamond Dogs by David Bowie. This is one of the re-releases from Ryko that came out 20 years ago.



whitechocolatespaceegg by Liz Phair.

Music: Mormons, Ivers, Hitchcock, Weird Al, Secret Sisters

Plastic Discs, Upon Which Is A Thin Layer of Metal Unto Which Special Digital Signals Are Recorded And Then Translated, Using Special Equipment, Into Audible Musical Notes, and Singing Human Voices, And Amplified Through Special Equipment For Your Hearing Pleasure.

O Holy Night by Jackie Evancho. I bought this? Maybe this is the current "Little girl with "voice of an angel'" kid. Two discs.

The Book of Mormon by Original Broadway Cast. Includes a thick booklet full of lyrics and photos that does not want to STAY IN THE DANG CASE!

Codes and Keys by Death Cab For Cutie. Death Cab For Cutie was recently awarded the prestigious Stupidest Band Name Ever award.

Jagjaguwaa by Bon Iver. This dude was in some magazine, and on tv, getting shilled by Michael Perry, promoted through media in Madison. I have not idea who he is.

Propellor Time by Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3. I like Hitchcock's work.



The King is Dead by The Decemberists. Is this a hipster band? I think it might be. You know, ironic or "vintage" t-shirts, PBR beer, aviator sunglasses, sideburns... Oh, maybe not. Glenn, regular library patron and music fan, just now expressed interest.

Alpocalypse by Weird Al Yankovic. One CD and one DVD. Parodies of Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and a Doors parody about Craigslist.



The Secret Sisters by The Secret Sisters. Two gals I heard on the CBC one day. One of them tried out at a performers showcase in Nashville and was invited back. She brought her sister along for the second performance. The first song is the best. The rest are well done but are covers of tunes you've already heard a bunch of times.

Now That's What I call Music!: 38 featuring [Who? What? Does no one own a dictionary?]

Fiction

Split Second by Catherine Coulter. 419 pages.

Happy Birthday by Danielle Steel [supposedly]. Queen... gracious... arbiter... divorce... penthouse... hairdressers... bone structure... truth... prospect... consumes... thirty... football... memorable... whack... upside... brimming... insight... itself... always.

Large Print

When Passion Rules by Johanna Lindsey. Half-naked dude in tight pants on the cover.

Summer Reading Program

Summer Reading Program (SRP)

This year's SRP had almost 350 registrations. This is the last week of programming and ends with a Scholastic Book Fair. Kids who finished the reading program receive a five dollar credit towards the book sale.





Therapy Dogs

We had a few therapy dogs join us through the summer. Kids signed up for 15 minute segments to read to the dogs.

This Whippet listened to kids for two hours and then volunteered to shelf read.




Portuguese Water Poodles prefer regency romances.

Warped, Tavern Going Dragons Occupying Iraq for Geothermal Work

Fiction

A Dance of Dragons by George R.R. Martin. Book five in the series adapted into a SEAN BEAN vehicle by HBO.

NonFiction

The Smart Guide to Geothermal by Donal Blaise Lloyd. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's "green". Did you also know it saves a crap load of money? Lake Mills Middle School has a geothermal set-up and it is very neat-o.

Tavern League: portraits of Wisconsin Bars by Carl Corey. No Lake Mills representation. I gotta tell you though, some of the pictured people just look like bar owners. There is a location index in the back of the book but this is really crying out for a map. I was going to link to some online photos but the publisher does not have any good ones. You can watch the PBS NewsHour piece about the book.

Iraq War and Occupation: a struggle for democracy by D.C. Everest Area Schools. Oral history project edited by students in Weston, WI. Okay. I admit I was sneering at this book when I first saw it. I expected an amateurish publication. I just looked through and was impressed. I'll probably read this.

The Book of U.S. Government Jobs, 11th edition by Dennis V. Damp. I want a job in Australia with free airfare for my family, a nice house, and allowance for two cars. Nice cars, too. One of those souped up Holdens. And beer money. And allowance for four trips back to the U.S. per year. And two months vacation. And a gun license and ammo allowance so I can shoot IPSC.

Music on CD

Vans Warped Tour: 2011 featuring Paramoure and 49 other bands that I never heard of.

Now That's What I Call Country: Volume 4 featuring Lady Antebellum, Carrie Underwood and many other pop singers masquerading as country music.

DVD

Forager's Harvest: a guide to identifying , harvesting, and preparing edible wild plants by Samuel Thayer. Two discs. The boys and I should watch this and take a guidebook into the woods the next Saturday my wife works.

What to Read 43: Author events for November, 2011

What to Read 43: Author Events for November, 2011

November 5th, 10 AM to 3PM: Crime novel writing workshop with Anthony Neil Smith. $25 per person, lunch included.

November 12th, 1 PM to 3 PM: Larry Watson.

November 19th, 6 PM to 7:30 PM: Susanna Daniel.

November 26th, 1 PM to 3 PM: Margot Peters.