Landline--#45 finished

 A couple in CA are struggling with marriage and wife is breadwinner & at last minute has to stay in town for work at Christmas.  Husband and two girls head back to Omaha, NE for his family.  Book then goes into the sort of strange person husband is and how they first got together.  She thinks marriage is over and is struggling and letting down people at work she stayed back with.  She starts spending her days at her mother's home and calls husband on the landline and when he answers it is her husband from right before he proposed.  They have long conversations but she is worried she is messing with timelines, etc.  It is a nice story with some interesting characters.  Nothing too great but not a bad read.  Since writer lives in Omaha and story included Omaha and I grew up in NE, now you can see the reason I picked up the book from a library sale.

There were no copies in system so I posted it & it is already requested.  I will mail off this weekend or early next week.

Sun, Stone and Shadows--#44 finished

 This is a short story book, rest of the title is:  20 Great Mexican Short Stories.  Some were interesting and some were just not.  I have had this book for a while & figured this a good time to read it and like I said some stories were enjoyable.  Some just a little to mystical type things going on for me to enjoy.  Not bad overall.

I have posted it on PBS, it is the only copy in system but who knows when if ever it will move.

Monsters--#43 finished

 The rest of the title is: History's most Evil Men and Women.  Basically short little write-ups about people in history that were very very bad people.  Starts in way back when times and goes forward to Osama Bin Laden, book written in 2008.  Sort of interesting but you almost get dulled the terrible things done through history.  Lots of bad people and those bad people seem to rise to leadership far too often.

There is 1 WL for this book so I will post it now & see if can get it mailed out right away.

Too Much is Not Enough--#42 finished

 This is by Andrew Rannells, an actor mostly on Broadway but some movie & TV credits too.  I don't know him from anything.  I saw he was from Omaha so have to read up on NE people.  He left Omaha and went to New York for college and talks about all of his life--what he did in Omaha the local theatre and high school and then coming out to his parents right before leaving for New York.  A lot about the struggles in New York and his relationships and problems with those as well.  By the end of the book he sounds like he was in a good place & had landed in a show on Broadway.  An interesting read about the struggles of a young person getting into show biz.

There are 2 WL for it so I plan to post & hopefully mail off soon.

Blood Money--#41 finished

 This is the next in series of Jane Whitefield.  She had tried to quit helping people disappear a couple books ago but just keeps at it.  This time a very young looking young lady finds Jane and she decides to help and also has to help her companion, a money guy for all of the big mafia outfits.  The guy has an eidetic memory--or whatever it is called--and the mob used him to stash away their money in investments because he didn't have to write anything down.  His murder was faked and the mob are after the young lady since she was his housekeeper, the other guy along was killed early.  Jane gets them safe but then they decide with the 10 billion or so in hiding to give it all away to charities.  Jane gets a guy to help out and they setup fake corporations, etc to transfer money & then send out checks from them to charities.  This book written in 1999 so computers/internet still too new, lots of printing & mailing going on.  Bad guys realize Jane helping but don't know her name just have a sketch and she has to avoid these bad guys. A big scene toward end where she takes down one of the big mob bosses but no one knows about it.  Lots of mistrust in the mob bosses but looks like Jane and others got away clean.

There are 2 WL for this book so will get it posted & mailed probably pretty soon.

Fierce Kingdom--#40 finished

 A different sort of book.  A mother & her young son are at the zoo right before closing time and as they are walking toward the exit, she hears gunfire.  She sees bodies that were shot and she goes hiding in the zoo and it takes hours before the police are able to get through and take out the young Columbine type killers.  The mom & son have to move hiding places at one point & come upon a couple others and then face to face with one of the killers as well.  A good interesting read, kind of scary to think about and while I didn't get why took police so long to get inside zoo and put down the killers, still a good read.

There are 7 WL for this book last I looked so I will be posting it at some point & sending off.

The Gamer--#39 finished

This is Gary Carter's autobiography that he wrote right at the end of his playing career in 1993, his last year playing was 1992.  It is sort of a sad read because I knew he passed away young & looked it up he died at age 57.  He talks a lot about his family & his mother dying young.  He talks about the strong bond he has with his wife & kids.  He also talks a lot of baseball.  Overall a good read but again sad because he did die young too.

I have posted it on PBS & it is the only copy in system so I would guess it will get requested at some point.

From the Corner of the Oval--#38 finished

 A different sort of insider book, the author needing a job while in DC, applies & gets hired as a stenographer for the White House under President Obama.  Interesting to read about the inside from a different perspective and the interactions with people especially on trips.  The book is a mix of things with the Obama presidency and also her personal life--I am sure she changed up names of some of the people because she has intimate relations with one in particular that was also dating, engaged & then getting married during this time.  Her life was sort of screwed up relationship wise but as a writer good to see she put this out there too--makes for an interesting read.

There are 25 WL for this book, sort of surprising since new author and different sort of insider type thing going on.  I will post it & mail off at some point.

After Dark--#37 finished

 I have a bunch of books that I have finished but just now getting around to logging in.  First is this book about 2 sisters, one seems locked in her room but is known as the beautiful sister and the other is a loner type out on the town overnight.  She is the one the action mostly moves around while once in a while jumping back to sister in her bed in her room.  Probably more to this than I got out of it or maybe something lost in translation but overall not really something I enjoyed.  Oh well.

There are 7 WL for this book so I will post on PBS at some point & get mailed off.  Plenty of credits right now & a few others will mail ahead of it so no hurry.