Popular Movie and BIG WORDS

DVD

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








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Reacher is Reachs Wisconsin

Reacher

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

Fiction

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

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

NonFiction

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

Here Are Some Books

Fiction

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

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

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

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

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

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

NonFiction

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

Photos

DVD and a Novel and Photos

Novel

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

DVD

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

Photos

Library is Very Busy: Photo Edition

New Books





No Dogs Allowed in the Library

Pigs are OK.




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

Gischler Rejected Capone

Gischler

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

NonFiction

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

Joe R. Lansdale Returns!

Lansdale

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

Fiction

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

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

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

The Rooster Bar by John Grisham. Meh.

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

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

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

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

NonFiction

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

Pictures

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

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

Rainy afternoon from last week.

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

3 Books + 1CD = Acoustic Weather Game of Wisconsin

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

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


NonFiction

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

Fiction With Photo Critiques

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

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

Sights and Sounds

DVD

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



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

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


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


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

One DVD and Musical Interlude

DVD

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

Musical Interlude

Songs with the word "drive" in the title.

Bunch of Things

DVD

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


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


Fiction

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

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

NonFiction

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

Plain Witche's Tree to Eternity

Fiction

The Witche's Tree by M.C. Beaton. I was thinking Beaton passed away. Let's check... Nope, she seems to be alive and well. This is one of her Agatha Raisin novels.

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. Huh, Egan was awarded a Pulitzer for a previous novel. That must have been nice.

A Plain Leaving by Leslie Gould. Another Amish book. Man, maybe I should write an Amish book. I'm not a writer so the book would be awful, I guess I an skip that.

NonFiction

From Here To Eternity: traveling the world to find the good death by Caitlin Doughty. Great cover. Mortician travels the world to investigate burial rituals.

Library Display

The library is hosting a traveling exhibit.

Crossing the Line: The Milwaukee Fair Housing Marches of 1967-1968 commemorates the 50^th anniversary of Milwaukee’s civil rights marches by examining the practices and prejudices that led to segregation in Milwaukee and chronicling the school desegregation and fair housing movements of the 1960s.

We will have the exhibit until October 24.

 

 

 

Stolen Ballad on the Left Behind Solstice. With snark!

Fiction

The Deep Dark Descending by Allen Eskens. Wintry image on the cover with a black hole in the ice that reminds me of two things: 1. Coffee and 2. Hole in the Ice.


Ghost on the Case by Carolyn Hart. I don't like the cover. Too vague. Hart was a founder of Sisters in Crime. That's cool.

Origin by Dan Brown. Is this latest novel tearing up the bestseller list? I'm serious. I do not know the answer and will not check.  Brown was clean shaven for his author photo.

Merry and Bright by Debbie Macomber. Christmas theme novel. Macomber wore red for her author photo. Is this a special Christmas theme photo or the same photo for her other novels?

All She Left Behind by Jane Kirkpatrick. The cover says Mennonite Romance on the Western Prairie. Back cover says, "1870 Oregon and single mother gets lovey dovey with older widower."

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash. The cover says, "Dirt poor miners barely get by in 1926." The dust cover says, "Close, Mr. Saylor. 1929 woman works the North Carolina and starts unionizing."

The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain. The front cover says, "I don't know what is going on." Dust cover says, "Pregnant woman marries guy and moves to North Carolina in 1944."

Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand. Another one of those Novels on Beach novel.

The Relive Box and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle. Boyle still has crazy hair.

Audiobook on CD

Two Nights by Kathy Reichs. 

Three Books Of Fiction? Non!

NonFiction

Exorcising Emma: a childhood memoir by Margot Peters. Famed biographer Peters writes about her own grandmother. Her grandmother was unpleasant. Peters mentioned to a library staffer that Peters only wrote the book after other relatives passed away to not have the family difficulties the story involves.

Logical family: a memoir by Armistead Maupin. Maupin spoke at an ALA conference I went to several years ago. He had some fascinating stories. He grew up in NC and worked as a reporter for Jesse Helms's newspaper. Maupin heard that a local bigwig was secretly gay and wanted to print the scoop. Helms said something to the effect of, "Oh no. You can never print anything so awful about a person. That is beyond the pale." Maupin, who is gay, was really struck by that. You can write a story about people who murder, rape, steal, rob, abuse children, cannibalize, etc. but saying someone is gay is too rough? (Actually, the Helms job may have been a TV station but the story remains the same otherwise.)

The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the winning of World War II by Winston Groom. Triple biography.

Big Pile of Stuff

Fiction

The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille. Army vet takes a job to go into Cuba and recover millions in dollars left there when Castro took over.

The Christmas Room by Catherine Anderson.  Christmas themed romance with a dog and a trailer on vacation trailer on the cover. A horse, too, there is a horse in the background.

Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben. There seems to be a lot of Coben titles with the word 'go'. Let me check... well, I sit corrected. This is the only title with 'go'.

Sleep Like A Baby by Charlaine Harris.  Aurora Teagarden solves crime. I heard Harris speak a few years ago. Her talk was entertaining and interesting. I had all the coffee I could drink and sat next to a nice lady from Chicago who writes mysteries, Clare O'Donohue.

Holly and Ivy by Fern Michaels. Lonely heiress makes a connection before Christmas.

Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart. Woman Deputy Sheriff in 1916 New Jersey fights against anti-women laws concerning "waywardness".

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Aristocrat in 1922 Moscow is under house arrest.

The Essence of Malice by Ashley Weaver. Is Ashley male or female? Let's see... Ashley is a she and works in tech service in Allen Parish Libraries. You what that means? Yep, she is a cataloger. I do so love making jokes about catalogers. The novel sounds interesting: Man and wife travel to Paris when his old nanny suspects murder in the death of her current employer. Great title, too.

A Casualty of War by Charles Todd. Bess Crawford meets an English Army Officer as she travels back to the front in WW1. She meets him a couple more times in medical facilities and wonder if his brain injury is causing his belief that his cousin shot him.

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King. 700 pages. Owen should have just sat there with a red pen to cut down on all the pages his dad keeps typing up.

Comic Book Novel

Batman, the Dark Knight: master race by Frank Miller, et al. "Third chapter" in the Dark Knight series.

NonFiction

Altered Traits: science reveals how meditation changes your mind, brain and body by Daniel Coleman and Richard J. Davidson.

One Book

Fiction

Three Truths and A Lie by Brent Hartinger. This is a YA novel but I want to read it so I am listing it. Mystery novel with four friends going on a weekend trip to a cabin.  Hartinger was nominated for an Edgar Award for this.

Wait a minute... four friends in a weekend cabin?

Poetry and Cartoon "Dogs"

NonFiction

If My Dogs Were a pair of Middle-Aged Men by The Oatmeal. Cartoonist pretends his dogs are middle-aged men.



You Took the Last Bus Home by Brian Bilston. Fun poems, often with a twist at the end.



A Torch Kept Lit: great lives of the twentieth century by William F. Buckley, Jr. Collection of eulogies, correspondence, other stuff.

Fiction

Wicked Deeds by Heather Graham.

Caroline: Little House, revisited. Re-imaging of the Ingalls Wilder family.

To Be Where You Are by Jan Karon. "A Mitford novel". Cover image has a dog on a porch with a pickup parked in the driveway.

Haunted by James Patterson Literary Industries Amalgamated and James O Born. I read a Born book and I liked it.

The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas. Popular novel.

The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille. According to the map on end papers this involves Southern Florida, Cuba, and the Andros Island. Andros Island? Oh, it's part of the Bahamas.

An Echo of Murder by Anne Perry. "A William Monk novel". Anne Perry's photo is not her posing next to a horse. Didn't earlier photos have her posing by a horse? Or maybe it was a horse barn.

3 NonFic + 2 Fic = Read A Book

NonFiction

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton has a new book? Gee, I never heard that news.

Your Patient Safety Survival Guide: how to protect yourself and others from medical errors by Gretchen LeFever Watson. Page 138 says, "Letting go of unrealistic expectations."

Exorcising Emma: a childhood memoir by Margot Peters. Peters wrote several acclaimed biographies. This about her unpleasant grandmother.

Fiction

Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss. Something about a retired guy seeking enlightenment. I think.

Savage Country by Robert Olmstead. There is the silhouette of a buffalo on the cover.

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I am busy

I Am Busy

I am busy, but I am also completing a lot of tasks. One task is to post this photo of some new books.