Monday, February 26, 2018

Bad Behavior--#9 finished

A good short story book.  Originally published in 1988 so has an '80s feel to it, which is just different from today.  The whole no cell phones, rarely a computer mention, etc was kind of a nice change to bring back the memories of then.  Some weird people and stuff going on and stories that just kind of go no where and then end, just kind of what is thrown into some of the short story books I have read. Overall a good read.

The book is not postable for PBS, there is some water damage to the back pages, not much but is there & cannot mail off in PBS.  I will hold onto it for now and put in my donate pile that will eventually go somewhere.

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Joyland--#8 finished

A hard case crime paperback that was written by Stephen King.  It was a good read and a good reminder that King can really write just good stories.  Many of his novels are the supernatural world has changed--likely for the worse--or other type of large epic things happening to a person or world.  This was just a kind of coming of age story with a crime that was in the background for most of the book.  Just a good read.  It has been a long time since I read his short story book Different Seasons or something like that and from what I remember this was kind of the same feeling to it.

I will post on PBS, there are no WL for it but there was 1 a few days ago so figure it will probably move at some point.

Monday, February 12, 2018

On Par--#7 finished

On Par: The Everyday Golfer's Survival Guide, a good golf read.  The author has a column in the NY Times, I don't read the times & rarely read about golf but I know there are some good golfing stories so thought I would try this.  I had picked it up on a library sale so for probably a dollar.  It was more about golf than golfing stories but still a good read generally.  I have golf but the last few years has been a 1 or 2 times a year thing.  Now more into Disc Golf, frisbee as some would say.  No cost to use the course and try to get the kids involved with it, price is certainly right.  Can do 9 holes in under an hour & 18 in under 2 hours.  I just don't have the time & money to put toward golfing regularly so Disc Golf fits much better.  Oh well, book was good read.

There were no copies on PBS so I posted it & it got requested today so will be mailing it off this week.

Friday, February 9, 2018

Seventh Plague--#6 finished

A Sigma Force novel series book.  Author James Rollins finds things that kind of lean to some truths and string together a nice and exciting fiction novel where some of this could point to some this could really happen.  This one is just a little too far out there but I am guessing this isn't the easiest thing to do either so still have to give him some credit.  The plagues of Egypt with Dr Livingston & Stanley and then Tesla and throw in Mark Twain and others too.  Weird mix of people and stories.  I guess what I don't like is how all this stuff had gone unnoticed for years and now all the sudden comes up and this group of Sigma people quickly figure it out and do battle with the bad people trying to cause lots of trouble, etc.  Oh well, at least usually makes for quick interesting read.

I will post on PBS probably pretty soon since a paperback book, there are 14 WL for it so will try to move soon on it.