Gun Monkeys--#44

This was my beaten up pocket book paperback that I have been reading.  It has a few stained pages so cannot send out through PBS so will be donating if off elsewhere.  A good read about a mafia kind of group in Orlando that is getting shoved out of the way and the main hit man didn't like being pushed out.  Most around him are dead but the leader Stan was MIA and since hit man is mostly used to taking orders wants to know from Stan what is going on.  Throw in a few interesting characters and lots of violence along with some corrupt agents, it makes for some interesting reading.

Like I said cannot send through PBS so I will donate it away elsewhere.

The Fifth Petal--#43 finished

The author writes about Salem, MA with the witch trails way back when still influencing the town today.  This is her 3rd book on the town with I think some cross over characters but basically their own books.  This one is like around 20 years ago 3 young women were killed and a young girl left alive--one of the women was her mother.  Also another lady survived but had blood on her from the murder--this lady Rose went crazy and while never charged many thought she did it.  Well now 20 years later the young girl is grown up & comes back to help Rose & fill in blanks of what happened.  A good story, maybe a little too much holding on to the history but that is sort of the writer's thing on this.

There are 14 WL for the book so at some point I will post it & mail it off but not much of a hurry.  Not getting too many of the books on my WL sent to me at this point.

Yes, My Accent is Real--#42 finished

Kunal Nayyar, the actor on The Big Bang Theory that plays Raj wrote about his life not really a biography but more of a how I got to where I am--if the difference makes sense.  A lot in the book at coming to the US for college and how he took to acting.  An interesting read and I really enjoyed it.  Not much about Big Bang, just more about his life.

I have already posted it on PBS, there was 1 WL for it and it has been accepted so I will be mailing it off hopefully later today.

The Life We Bury--#41

It started as a college paper, interview someone and write a paper.  Because the main character's home life is a mess & he is a couple hours from his hometown, he goes to a nursing home.  He is introduced to a man with only months to live that is out of prison for the rape & murder of a young teenage girl.  He starts to get the story & also gets evidence folders & boxes for his research and finds out the man is innocent.  His screwed up mom and his younger brother with autism keep popping in and he meets & is now with the girl in the apartment next door.  It is kind of a roller coaster type feel to the book.  I questioned his decision making and of course how everything just fell into place a little too easily.  Also as a full time college student & works full time--well just doesn't seem possible could do all this in a semester.  Overall though a good read that I enjoyed.

I have posted it on PBS, there was a WL for it but I just checked & it was 0 WL but also 0 copies in system.  So mine is the only copy out there in PBS so I would expect it will get requested.

Scandalous Women--#40 finished

A short writeup about famous & notorious women.  Many of these I had heard of Mara Hari, Joan of Arc, Amelia Earhart, Josephine Baker, Zelda Fitzgerald but even these were mostly names to me, nice to get a quick sketch of their life.  Many were women that I had never heard of and was nice to be introduced to them.  Nice quick read.

There is a WL of 13 for the book but since is on auto-request and I can mail it out today will probably post it & do so just to get it moving.

Sex in the City--#39

It says this is the book that started the series.  I never watched the show so don't know the characters from that.  From the book, well it is a quick kind of read but only short bits at a time on the characters.  It is about rich New Yorkers and their lives, don't really care for more of this--sometimes seems like half the books out there are about New York.  Not a bad read though.

There are already like 35 copies in PBS so I will donate this one away somewhere else.

The Regional Office is Under Attack!--#38 finished

A goofy and sometimes hard to follow futuristic book about setting up a team of women fighters and oracles.  The women for some reason have extraordinary powers and fight bad people and aliens from other worlds I guess all while it seems most peoples lives just kind of flow on by.  They call it a Regional Office that is also a travel agency as a front.  There is a splinter group from this regional office that then attacks it & the fight is on.  Every other chapter bounces so it is hard to follow and big gaps in what all this means are there.  Entertaining idea and maybe a little to ambitious for a single book--could be a series but not sure I would jump on that either.

There are 6 WL for it so I will be mailing it off at some point probably in near future--no reason to keep it around longer.