Friday, July 25, 2014

Erotica For Women Is None of Your Business

Singing Combined With Music And Made Digital

World Peace Is None of Your Business by Morrissey.  Singers sings songs of vegans and Istanbul with guitars.



Fiction

Can't Get Enough: erotica for women edited by Tenille Brown.  The cover has no capitalization. Page 61 says, "It's those damned cobbles."

NonFiction

America's Most Wanted Recipes At the Grill by Ron Douglas.  Page 307 says, "1/2 cup red wine vinegar."

10-Minute Makeup: 50 step-by-step looks from fresh and natural catwalk chic by Boris Entrup.  Page 79 says,"Carefully apply lipstick using a small, rounded lipstick brush."

Love Your Leftovers by Nick Evans.  Page 155 says, "People are always taking cheap shots at it and laughing behind it's back."

Stylish Kids' Parties: recipe and decorations for 12 festive occasions by Kelly Lyden.  Page 97 says, "Golfers get thirsty!"

Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 projects you can build in a weekend by Steve Cory.  Page 176 says, "Treated lumber is used here, because it will stay rot-free the longest."

Digital Photo Editing With Picasa For Seniors by Studio Visual Steps. Page 153 says, "The collage will be created."

Modern Quilt Perspectives by Thomas Knauer.  Page 84 says, "Bind using your preferred method."

100 Organic Skin Care Recipes by Jessica Ress.  Page 11 says, "Probably."

Me and My Sewing Adventure: an intermediate guide by Kate Haxell.  Page 127 says, "Molly Small was the lovely model."

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

War Conspiracy Mistakes

Fiction

Supreme Justice by Max Allan Collins.  A disgraced Secret Service agent is hired by a task force investigating the murder of a Supreme Court Justice.  What seemed a botched robbery is revealed as a planned murder.

Landline by Raibow Rowell.  Marriage drama with wife time traveling.  Or something.  The fly leaf is unclear.

Large Print

Power Play by Catherine Coulter. 

NonFiction

Windows 8.1: tips, tricks, and shortcuts by Stuart Yarnold.  Page 157 says, "Let's say you like to dabble in stocks and shares."

Mistakes I Made At Work: 25 influential women reflect on what they got out of getting it wrong edited by Jessica Bacal.  I read the piece by Lisa Lutz.  Lutz spoke sat on a panel at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego. Lutz was entertaining, I thought she did well.  Her piece is on her panic and stress at her first big speaking engagement as an author.
Page 91 says, "It could also cover twelve months of student loan payments."

The Things They Cannot Say: stories soldiers won't tell you about what they've seen, done or failed to do in war by Kevin Sites.  Page
 200 says, "At night, believing he was in Iraq, he would sometimes roughly shake his wife and tell her it was her time for guard duty."

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Rest, Fiction M-Z and NonFic

Fiction

California by Edan Lepucki. Post-apocalyptic couple are pregnant and join a community for the help a community should bring.

Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai.  Hundred year house?  Let me tell you about 110 year houses.  Filed stone foundation, old windows, old wiring, poor to little insulation in the walls, weird outlets in the baseboards, old plaster, cramped layout, small kitchen.

I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum.  American painter tries to woo his wife after the wife learns of his mistress.

The Quick by Lauren Owen.  I like the title.  Sister goes looking for her brother in 1893 London and finds a supernatural, and dangerous, side of the city.

Eden in Winter by Richard North Patterson.  Not to be confused with Richard Price.  Or James Patterson. Or T. Jefferson Parker.

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman.  Something about a woman who was kidnapped as a child and raised by mysterious group.

The Heist by Daniel Silva.  The movie with the same title was good.



Cut and Thrust by Stuart Woods.  Sounds like a Bernard Cornwell novel.

NonFiction

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman.  Anthropologist Goffman lived in in a disadvantaged Philadelphia neighborhood for six years.  Many residents were "caught up in a web of warrants and surveillance" by police and Goffman studied how the neighborhood residents lived and worked.

Perfect Theory: a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira. 

Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo by Jack Cheevers.  No surprise that the crew were tortured.

After A Long Delay: New Fiction, A-J

Fiction

Inside Man by Jeff Abbott.  Thriller by a guy who is not related to Megan Abbott.  But, if we were to argue, we could say everyone is related, couldn't we? Abbott and Abbott would be related.  I would be related to both Abbotts.  Is this familial relationship close enough that I would try to crash at their NYC or Austin pads and ask to borrow fifty bucks to go drink beer?  No, probably not.

Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews.  Andrews lives in Atlanta.  I was listening to the car radio this morning and Wisconsin Public Radio was talking to Jeff Shaara about the Civil War.  He said people in Atlanta still don't like to talk about General Sherman.  Sore losers.

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian.  Orphaned teen girl lives on her own in Vermont when her dead engineer father seen as responsible for a nuclear meltdown.

Shots Fired by C.J. Box.  Cover image is a road sign peppered with bullet holes. I was in the Kettle Moraine State Forest- Southern Unit a couple weeks to go walking with my kids.  After our walk I drive over to see where the public shooting range is.  Along they way I saw a road sign that some dope shot up.  Really?  You're one mile from a range and shoot a road sign?

High Druid's Blade Terry Brooks.  Swords.  Cloaks.  Wizards.  Etc.

Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke.  Something about drama in post-World War II Texas and the oil business.

The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo.  Police Chief investigates murder disguised as suicide in house where Amish family was killed 35 years previous.

Power Play by Catherine Coulter.  The usual, I suppose.  I've never read a Coulter novel but she has a loyal following and sells a lot of books.  I think her author photo is the same.  I wonder if the photo budget included a hair and make-up person.  I wouldn't know the difference about the make-up but her hair looks sharp.

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. Her books do well here.  Something about witches and time travel.

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. Then look for her.

Sight Unseen by Iris and Joy Johansen.  Not to be confused with David Johansen.


Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Nothing New, Here is a song.

Musical Interlude

From a group that I think disbanded, Ex-Lovers.




The dudes starting at 2:34 have to be trained dancers because they are sharp on that routine.

Wednesday, July 09, 2014

I Never Told You QuickBooks, Len Price

Fiction

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.  A family starts to fall apart after a daughter dies.  Ng attended the University of Michigan.  Bleah. 

NonFiction

Setting Up and Running QuickBooks 2014 by Thomas E. Barich and Philip B. Goodman CPA. Page 348 says, "Proceed through the wizard one step at a time until you've configured all the necessary items."

Musical Interlude

There is no Len Price in the Len Price 3.

Thursday, July 03, 2014

More Items

DVD

Freedom Riders.  Produced by The American Experience.  1961 freedom ride brought federal attention to desegregation efforts.

Slavery by Another Name.  After slavery was outlawed people were legally forced into unpaid labor as part of imprisonment.

The Abolitionists.  "What began as a pacifist movement fueld by persuasion and prayer became a fiery and furious struggle that forever changed the nation."

The Loving Story.  Tale of the landmark 1967 court decision legalizing interracial marriage.

Fiction

Night Searchers by Marcia Muller.

Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear.

The City by Dean Koontz.

One Plus One by Jojo Moyes.

For All Time by Jude Deveraux.

Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock.

Large Print

For All Time by Jude Deveraux.

The City by Dean Koontz.

Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

First-Degree Minecraft Arsonist

Fiction

Nine Lives to Die by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown.  Another cat mystery.  The author phot is a picture of a cat.  Not this photo.


Invisible by James Patterson Literary Industries and David Ellis.  I'm pretty sure I read an Ellis novel before.  Let me check...nope.  The dude won an Edgar Award though, that's a big deal.  Patterson has a new author photo, I cannot see his watch in this one.

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter. I've never read a slaughter book.  I think this is her 17th novel.  Unless she did some ghost writing.  Oh, I remember her author photo.  He photographer did that thing where the face is in focus and everything else is in soft focus.  That's a neat effect.

The Arsonist by Sue Miller. A guy I know on the local volunteer fire department never joined the fire department until after he stopped working for the Sheriff's Department.  He used to investigate arson crimes and since arsonists may, and sometimes are, be firefighters he wanted to avoid that entanglement.

First-Degree Murder by Christine DeSmet.  Doesn't DeSmet teach at UW-Madison.  Let me check...yep, she does screenwriting and fiction and her author photo is a small black and white one.

NonFiction

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Jeez, she stepped in it when saying her family was broke after Pres. Clinton left office.

Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins: create flying Creepers and Flaming Cows in JAVA by Andy Hunt.  Page 97 says, "List listOfStrings = new ArrayList();"

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Pseudonym Slings Silkworm

Fiction

Silkworm by Robert Galbraith.  English private eye Cormoran Strike hired to look for missing novelist. Novelist is killed and Strike has to stop the killer.

Monday, June 23, 2014

Dyeing in the Hole

DVD

True Detective starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.


Ace In the Hole starring Kirk Douglas.  "One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker...a no-holds-barred expose of the American media's appetite for sensation that has gotten only  more relevant with time."


Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume 1: your dye kitchen and equipment; dyeing basics.

Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume 2: how to dye with acid dyes; spots and textures, pots and casseroles.

Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume3: dyeing without dye; marrying and marbleizing colors.

Audiobooks on CD

White Fire by Preston and Child. 11CDs at 13 hours.

Robert B. Parker's Bull River by Robert Knott.  6CDs at 7.5 hours.

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett.  10 CDs at 12.5 hours.

Killer by Jonathan Kellerman.  9 CDs at 11 hours.

The Chase by Lee  Goldberg and Janet Evanovich.  8 CDs at 9 hours.

Blossom Street Brides by Debbie Macomber.  9 CDs at 11 hours.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Seventeen with KoKo Kieran

Fiction

Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea. SciFi with guns.  Former mercenary runs a island holiday resort and a former colleague sends assassins after her.  No author photo.

Red Room by Ridley Pearson.  Espionage in Constantinople, Turkey with private security guy.  Wait.  Istanbul, I meant Istanbul. Small black and white photo of author.

Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry.  Some stuff about President Lincoln, modern day Utah and some secret.  Color author photo across the whole back cover with Berry leaning on a pillar.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon.  Part of her Outlander series in 1778 during the Revolutionary War.  Color photo on back with Gabaldon in the snow.

One and Only by Emily Giffin.  Didn't Giffin just have another book come out? Nope, last one was 2012.  Why is her name so familiar.  Oh, well.  Her author photo covers the back and I like her photographer's work.  The photo has nice color and her face is in focus but her hands and shoulders seem to be just slightly out of focus drawing your eye to her face.

The Dog Year by Ann Garvin.   Tightly wound surgeon has to go into twelve step program.  Garvin teaches at UW-Whitewater and has a black and white author photo.  But, who cares about the author photo when there is a dog nose on the cover.  Woof!

One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern.  Woman researches a list of names left behind by her dead friend.  Ahern has a fancy author photo but it's a real tiny one.

Goodnight June by Sarah Jio. Fictionalization of the writing of Goonight, Moon.

Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson.  Social worker in Montana helps out feral kid with crazy, survivalist dad.  Author has Henderson in a pocket T looking unhappy.

What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins.Girl in 19th Century loses four sense to Scarlet Fever and becomes famous.  Elkins has a small color photo like Ahern does.

Smoke at Dawn by Jeff Shaara.  More Civil War.  This novel has some nice, heavy paper.  Shaara lives in Gettysburg.  Brett, the Library Director for Waupun Public Library, went with his re-enactor group to Gettysburg last year.

Hot Fudge Frame-Up by Christine DeSmet.  Cozy mystery set in Door County.  We conversed with DeSmet about her teaching a writing workshop here but she was unavailable.

The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.  Some sort of SciFi with Yellowstone erupting.

The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett.  Boy Charlie not a girl Charlie.



Large Print

Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler.

Resistant by Michael Palmer.

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Nine Garfields and Two Marvels and No Gischler

NonFiction

Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 5 by Jim Davis.  Includes Food for Thought, Swallows His Pride, Worldwide.

Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 2 by Jim Davis. Includes Weighs In, Takes the Cake, Eats His Heart Out.

Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 14 by Jim Davis. Includes Survival of the Fattest, Older and Wider, Pigs Out.

Marvel Encyclopedia Updated and Expanded edited by Alastair Dougall.  2014 update.  We bought two copies, one for children and one for adults.  No mention of Victor Gischler in the index.

Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit: a step-by-step legal guide, 3rd edition by Peri Pakroo, JD.  Replacing an old copy.  No mention of Victor Gischler in this one either.

Audiobooks on CD

Bill Cosby ...Far From Finished by Bill Cosby.  This is actually a comedy album, not an audiobook.  But, I put comedy albums in the audiobook section.  I doubt Victor Gischler is mentioned.

Obsessed by Jim Gaffigan.  Another comedy album.

White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.  11 CDs at 13 hours.  Some sort of mystery or thriller.

DVD

Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg.  Shoot-em-up in Afghanistan.



Robocop starring Shoot-em-up in Detroit.



Jack Irish: set 1 starring Guy Pearce.  Noir-em-up in Australia.

Veronica Mars starring Kristen Bell.  Noir-em-up in Neptune.

Loves Her Gun starring Trieste Kelly Dunn.  Shoot-em-up in Austin.



The Hobbit: desolation of Smaug starring Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves.  Sword-em-up in Middle Earth.  Still no Victor Gischler.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Megan Abbott's New Book, Other Stuff, Smiths Obsession

Abbott

The Fever by Megan Abbott.  A mysterious illness strikes the girls in a small town high school.  Panic happens when no one can diagnose the cause.  Another assuredly engrossing Abbott novel.

Wait a Minute

Did you say Panic?


Panic - The Smiths from Larry Darrell on Vimeo.

Fiction

Stormy Persuasion by Johanna Lindsey. Muscular male model with long hair has blond
woman groping him on a rainy sailing ship as they hang the blessed DJ.

All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner.  Roller coaster in the clouds of a provincial town.

The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings.  Nice illustration by Christopher Lin who slides down leaf lined streets.

That Night by Chevv Stevens.  Leaf in water.  Burn down the disco.

Nantucket Sisters by Nancy Thayer.  Large fabric bags on the beach with flip flop shoes.  It says nothing to me about my life.

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman.  Womans legs from the shins down with fallen ice cream cone on pavement.  But, Honey Pie, you're not safe here.

Mystery

Terminal City by Linda Fairstein.  Elevated view of big stone building in some city.  So you run down to the safety of the town.

Prayer by Philip Kerr.  Wind vane with a dragon on top of the provincial towns you jog around.

Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich.  But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Whoops, More Music, More Music, More Music

Compact Discs Continue To Spin and a Laser Continues to Read Digital Signals

Nobody Knows by the Len Price 3.  British singer sings more great rock tunes.


Ready Steady Go by Jake Bell.  Former kid actor sings songs of modern rockabilly.  I saw a reference of this guy on the Allmusic.com page.


Stockholm by Chrissie Hynde.  Ohio woman sings songs of Sweden.


Platinum by Miranda Lambert.  Country pop singer sings songs country twang.


Music old and new

Compact Discs Are Decoded by Lasers and Computers To Play Music

The Best of Three Dog Night by Three Dog Night.  1970s singing by 1970s singers.  This is a replacement copy for the one that went out all the time.


Repeat After Me by Los Amigos Invisibles.  Peruvian Disco Men From Outer Space sing songs in Spanish.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Sam Hawken Repeat

Fiction

Tequila Sunset by Sam Hawken.  I ordered a second copy by mistake.  Since all paperbacks are processed by the vendor I cannot send them back.  Oh well.  More opportunity for you to read this crime novel set in Northern Mexico.  I read Hawken's first novel but cannot recall which characters survived or if they appear in here.

Audiobook on CD

Hollow City: the second novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.  11.5 hourson 10 CDs.  Weirdness with last books characters traveling to London.  Includes a disc of PDF images.

Monday, June 09, 2014

Many New Things. Package 3 of 3.

NonFiction

I Don't Know Where You Know Me From: confessions of a co-star by Judy Greer.  I know her from Archer for which she voices the character Cheryl Trunt.  Page 138 says, "Like if you see a photo of a celeb walking down the street holding an Arby's shake, first of all, those shakes are delicious, so celebrities should walk around with them, but second of all, they were probably paid by Arby's to do it.  They, most likely, had their hair and makeup done too, and I'll bet you my entire brass snail collection that there is water in that shake cup (Smartwater because Coca-Cola has deals with celebrities, and celebrities don't eat dairy).  I know that some oft-papped stars drive miles and miles out of their way so they can be photographed at pre-arranged locations."

Social Security, Meidcare and Government Pensions: get the most out of your retirement and medical benefits by Joseph Matthews.

Mayo Clinic Book of Alternative Medicine and Home Remedies, second edition edited by Brent Bauer, M.D.

Everything Guide to Online Genealogy, 3rd edition by Kimberly Powell.

Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Volume 8 by Jim Davis.  Because kids love Garfield.

Large Print


Many New Things. Package 2 of 3.

Fiction

Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst.  More excellent European espionage in 1938.

Mr. Merecdes by Stephen King.  Megan Abbott wrote a review

Euphoira by Lily King.  Huh, this King lives in Maine.  I don't think there is a connection unless it's one of Tabitha and Stephen King's kids or kids-in-law.  Anthropologists in 1930s New Guinea.  Sounds neat as lonely scientists are wearying of their work.

The Vacationers by Emma Straub.  Former Wisconsinite writes another novel.  A family on vacation in Mallorca bring their problems along.

Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes.  What color is that sweater Grimes is wearing in her author photo?  Violet?  Pink?  Pink-Violet?  Mauve?  It's a nice color but I should cannot name it.

The Keeper by John Lescroart.  I can name Lescroart's shirt colors.  Grey and black.  Because the author photo is black and white.

Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch.  Famous actor dies on operating table and the doctor tells tale of doctor's bad vacation in France at actor's home.

China Dolls by Lisa See.  Ethnic Chinese women meet in 1939 San Francisco.  Lisa See wore blue and white for her photo.

The Farm by Tom Rob Smith. Adult child is split between his father and mom and father says mom is psychotic and mom says dad is a villain.

A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton. Same photo for Hamilton.  She is dressed in black and sitting sideways in a director's chair.  One over the knew, high-heeled boot is kicked up high.

Mystery

Tequila Sunset by Sam Hawken.  Crime novel set in Ciudad Juarez.  I read the first in the series and it was fairly decent. 

Strangling on the Stage by Simon Brett.  Brett's books have been big here.

Many New Things. Package 1 of 3.

DVD

Easy Money: Life Deluxe starring [Swedes].  More Swedish crime based off the Swedish series of Swedish novels by a Swede.  I really enjoyed the first novel in the series.  I bet the second would have sold better in the U.S. if the translated title was not kept as Never Fuck Up.


Anchorman 2: The legend continues starring [comic actors].  Dang, I missed pre-ordering this one.


Pompeii starring Keifer Sutherland and [bunch of B actors].  Muscular guy plays gladiator saves girl as volcano Explooooodes!



Jack Irish: Set 2 starring Guy Pierece and [Australians].  Recommended by Max Allan Collins.  I read one of the original books, Bad Debts, and this series is based off the novels featuring an Australian P.I. Set 1 (Season 1) is in transit to us


Eastbound and Down starring Danny McBride.  Washed up major league pitcher still a jackape.



Audiobooks on CD

Joe Ledger: Special Ops by Jonathan Maberry.  More mad scientists, terrorists, assassins, and evil politicians are defeated by Captain Joe Ledger.  Ledger should go after Maberry for Maberry's  Facebook posting mania.  The Ledger series is fun and the narrator, Ray Porter, really chews up the narration.

Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus. I'm not sure what this is.  Something about a serial killer in Frankfurt.

Sniper's Honor by Stephen Hunter.  Sniping snipers snipe.

Suspicion by Joseph Finder.  Guy needing money for his daughter's tuition accepts personal loan and DEA goes after him for taking drug money.

Thursday, June 05, 2014

Wisconsin Stuff and WWII

DVD

Monuments Men starring Bill Murrary, John Goodman. Famous actors pretend to be museum curators and art historians while carrying guns.


NonFiction

One Room Schools: stories from the days of 1 room, 1 teacher, 8 grades by Susan Apps-Bodilly.  APage 89 says, "However, he came to the school's program each year."

Wheel Fever: how Wisconsin became a great bicycling state by Jesse J. Gant and Nicholas J. Hoffman.  Page 106 says,"Not all clubs were competitive."

Indian Nations of Wisconsin: histories of endurance and renewal by Patty Loew.  Page 150 says, "As had occurred following the Pequot War, surviving Natives who had opposed the colonists were sold into slavery or absorbed into other tribes."