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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Steve Solomon
New Society Publishers, 2006
Detailed, Valuable Advice
Gardening When It Counts is truly a book for our times. There's already a well-deserved buzz about this book among home gardeners I know. For one thing, it firmly refutes the supposed advantages of mulch gardening. In the burgeoning nationwide return to growing our own ...
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Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)
John Sandford
Putnam Adult, 2008
Lucas is still hot as every.
John Sandford is still holding his space as best selling author and it shows in his work. Phantom Prey is another Lucas Davenport crime novel. Lucas as always is strong, tough and confused by the madness of the killer or killers. This one takes you through a maze of ...
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Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Man oh man, how I love Burke
I cannot say loudly enough how much I enjoy reading James Lee Burke. Every new novel seems to be better than his last, and Swan Peak is no exception. (And I'm not saying this just because I'm from Louisiana.) In this book, I particularly loved:
- his pacing
- his ...
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Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Alex Harris, Brett Harris
Multnomah Books, 2008
dizzydax
I loved this book! These two incredible teen authors break the mold of the "typical teenager" and share their wonderful advice to other teens on how to prove the "lazy teenager" stereotype wrong.
A MUST READ FOR ALL TEENS (AND SOME ADULTS TOO!)
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Rough Weather
Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult, 2008
A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible? the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past . Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected ?and she needs Spenser?s help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious gold digger recently separated from her latest ...
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Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole)
Robert Crais
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Another great book
This is another great book in the sreies. you dont need to start with the first book. Worth your money
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Bantam, 2008
Excellent memoir
Little Heathens by Millie Kalish is a wonderful book about the author's life on an Iowa farm in the 1930's. She makes the setting and times come alive and I especially enjoyed getting a glimpse of my parent's generation and what their childhood might have been like.
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The Last Good Kiss
James Crumley
Vintage, 1988
Great Read
This book is amazing. It kept me turning the pages. Great summer read with lots of twists and surprizes. Enjoy!
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
Mariner Books, 2006
The American dust bowl and the grit and gumption of those who will never forget
Subtitled "The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl", this 2006 non-fiction account of this American tragedy is historical writing at its best. The author is a Pulitizer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times. I loved his simple but ...
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The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way
Diahann Carroll
Amistad, 2008
The sequel is even better
Back in the 80s when she was appearing on Dynasty ,one of the hottest shows in the country, Diahann Carroll wrote "Diahann", her first autobiography detailing her life, careers and loves up until that point. Although interesting and informative, the book's prose seemed ...
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Every Last Drop: A Novel
Charlie Huston
Del Rey, 2008
The New "Vein" of Pulp Style
Take the unlikely combination of Elmore Leonard and Bram Stoker and you get Charlie Huston and Joe Pitt, Huston's vampire-heavy who prowls the streets of New York City's boroughs in "Every Last Drop", the fourth installment of the most hip, irreverent, and darkly ...
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The Turnaround
George Pelecanos
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Uplifting Noir?
'The Turnaround' is based on an actual event that occurred in the Washington DC area in the summer of 1972. Three white kids out partying take a turn down a road into a small black enclave looking for a little trouble. They tossed a firecracker into a crowd in front of ...
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Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time
Valerie Bertinelli
Free Press, 2008
An entertaining book especially if you grew up in the 80's
I grew up watching little "Barbara Cooper" on One Day at a Time like many did so I was looking forward to the read to get "the dish." Even when Valerie married Eddie (which seemed like such an odd couple to me back then) and got into the height of her weight ...
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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
Lee Child
Jove, 2006
Jack Reacher Is A Believable Super Hero
This is my second Jack Reacher read. I think the author does a great job creating page turning excitement. Even though many of Reacher's exploits may seem over the top. They are achieved in a plausible way. Reacher's brother was a top level treasury department boss ...
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The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
James Lee Burke
Pocket, 2008
The TinRoof Blowdown
Great story line and characters - James Lee Burke just gets better and better. His research is excellent and I should know as I live in SW LA.
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