Reading anything?

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es! 6 of 1. 6 mystery novels and 1 mystery short story collection.

Gil North
Brit
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm
1st in the Cluff series
Hero: Brit
Place: North Yorkshire (U.K.)
Time: Past
And if you'd rather see it, then read it, then check out the TV series Cluff with Leslie Sands.


M.J. Arlidge
Brit
Little Boy Blue
5th in the Detective Helen Grace series
Heroine: Brit
Place: Southampton (U.K.)
Time: Present


Kjell Eriksson
Swede
award winner
Stone Coffin
Ebba Segerberg, translator
7th in the Ann Lindell series
Heroine: Swede
Place: Sweden and Spain
Time: Present


Gavin Fossum
Norwegian
award winner
Hell Fire
12th in the Inspector Sejer series
Hero: ex-pat Dane
Place: Norway
Time: 2010s


Penny Richards
American
An Untimely Frost
1st in the Lilly Long series
Sequel: Though There be Madness (May, 2017)
50 more fiction
Heroine: American
Place: Illinois (U.S.A.)
Time: 1880s


Rob McCarthy
Brit
1st novel
The Hollow Men
1st in the Dr. Henry Kent series
Hero: Brit
Place: London (U.K.)
Time: Present

And the short story collection

Serpents in Eden :
Countryside Crimes
Martin Edwards, editor
Heroes: Brits
Place: U.K.
Time: Past

Next time: A half dozen more or a half dozen graphic novels

[Rev. Powell]

Basically an advertisement for Cult Epics line of movies, mostly just reprints of the liner notes. But there are a lot of movies here that would appeal to this crowd (including DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS, DRILLER KILLER, SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST, the NEKROMANTIC series...). A former contributor here (not me) wrote one of the essays.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es!

And a half dozen of the other or graphic novels.

All-new, all-different Avengers.
v.1. The magnificent 7 -- v.2. Family business

The teenagers
Sam "Nova" Alexander, Miles "Spider-man" Morales, and Kamala "Ms. Marvel" Khan
join forces with . . .

The adults
Jane  "Goddess Thor" Foster, Tony "Ironman" Stark, Sam "Captain America" Wilson, and Vision.

v.1. Combining issues #1-#6 + Free Comic Book Day 2015 -- v.2. Combining issues #7-#12 + Free Comic Book Day 2016.


Assassins Creed : Templars
v.1. Black Cross
collecting issues #1-#5


Ms. Marvel
v.1. No normal -- v.2. Generation why -- v.3. Crushed -- v.4. Last days -- v.5. Super famous
v.1. issues #1-#5 -- v.2.  issues #6-#11 -- v.3. issues #12-#15 + SHIELD 2 -- v.4. issues #16-#19 + Spiderman #7-#8 v.5. issues #1-#6 (2015)


Moon Girls and Devil Dinosaur
v.1. BFF collecting issues #1-#6
With Phobos the youngest characters in the Marvel Universe


Rocket Raccoon and Groot
v.2 Civil War II collecting issues #7-#10 + the 1st appearance of Rocket.


Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
in the Magna Classic series
And if you'd rather see it then read it, it has been made into several films and TV series.


Next time: 6 of 1 or 6 non-fiction and 1 fiction

[indianasmith]

THE FISHERMAN'S TOMB - THE TRUE STORY OF THE VATICAN'S SECRET SEARCH by John O'Neill

I've been wading through two very hefty books of late, so when this slim title I ordered from Amazon came in I ditched the bio of James Madison and finished O'Neill's book in three days!  This is like one of my novels come to life, a true story of a dangerous and highly secret excavation carried out beneath the massive Basilica  of St. Peter in Rome to determine the answer to a question that had plagued the Church for centuries:  Did the mortal remains of St. Peter really reside there, on Vatican Hill?  Full of intrigue, wartime drama, personal feuds, and amazing discoveries, this is a first rate, real life Biblical archeology thriller!

[lester1/2jr]

[316zombie]

rereading" lamb: the gospel according to biff, christ's childhood pal "  by christopher moore.
   

[Rev. Powell]

Maybe I shouldn't list this as it's mostly a recipe book, but there are a lot of stories, history and techniques. I want to get into mixing more cocktails.

[316zombie]

rev, you should check out " the dead rabbit" and " the drunken botanist", both have recipes and lots of history, and both are pretty funny at times too.

[Rev. Powell]

rev, you should check out " the dead rabbit" and " the drunken botanist", both have recipes and lots of history, and both are pretty funny at times too.

Thank you for the recommendation. What I really want to start out is a quick recipe guide with all the common drinks in an easy to locate format! I'm enjoying "Death & Co." but its definitely aimed at professionals. Many of the cocktails require ridiculously rare ingredients (infused agave nectar or somesuch).

[316zombie]

ah, i see. for that you want what is known in the biz as the red book. the real title is mr. boston's official bartender's guide. check ebay, there's usually used copies at a decent price. mine was published in the late 70's, it's beat to death and filled with scraps of paper with recipes i invented, i should probably get a new copy, lol!

[FatFreddysCat]

"Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Most Iconic Flops" by James Robert Parish

[BoyScoutKevin]

6 of 1 or 6 non-fiction and 1 fiction

Dave Smith
Disney Trivia from the Vault Secrets Revealed and Questions Revealed
4 more non-fiction

From one film archivist to another film archivist. The House of Mouse was the 1st Hollywood studio to realize it needed an archives to preserve its past, its present, and its future. And this was the man given the task of creating the archive, and its 1st head archivist.


Sepinwall and Sesitor
TV : the Book
Two ex-pats pick the greatest American TV shows of all time.


Kevin Smokler
Brat Pack Americana : a Love Letter to '80's Teen Movies
I can't believe how much I hated those Love Letters. Of the 53 movies listed, seen 17 or 32.1%. Hated 14 or 82.4%. Loved 3 or 17.6%.


David Bianco
The Platinum Age of Television.
Another writer picks the best shows on American TV.


Ed Ward
Brit
The History of Rock and Roll
v.1. 1920-1963
3 more non-fiction. 1 more fiction.
Looking forward to v.2.


Jane Wisley
Animal Record Breakers
Rev. ed.
1st published as Book of Animal Records by Mark Carwardine.


Fiction
Kevin Lee Street
American ex-pat
1 more short story collection and 1 more non-fiction
Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster
1st in the Poe and Dupin series
Heroes: American and French
Place: U.K.
Time: 1st half of the 19th century


Next time: a half dozen of the other or 6 graphic novels.

[indianasmith]

I recently finished Lynne Cheney's JAMES MADISON: A LIFE RECONSIDERED.
This was an excellent biography of our fourth President, the "father of the Constitution," detailed enough to be scholarly and brief enough to be interesting and easy to follow.  One takeaway for me is finding out that Madison suffered from epilepsy, something I was unaware of until now.  All in all, a nice addition to my library of Presidential biographies.  4.5/5

[BoyScoutKevin]

A half dozen of the other or 6 graphic novels.

Vote Loki
collecting Vote Loki #1-#4
+ Journey into Mystery #85 (1st appearance of Loki)
+ Avengers #300
It'd be funny, if it was not so true to life.


Attack on Titan Anthology
a official collection of a dozen stories by 35 artists and writers from over a half dozen countries.
based on Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan


The Haunted Mansion
artwork by the Walt Disney Imagineers.
collecting issues #1-5
from Marvel's Disney Kingdom series
Other titles in the series:
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad -- Dream finder and Figment -- Enchanted Tiki Room -- Seekers of the Weird.


Guardians of the Galaxy
v.3. Civil War II
collecting issues #11-#14
Sequel: Grounded


Gotham Academy
v.3. Yearbook
18 stories from 25 artists and writers


Assassin's Creed
issue #3
v.1. Trial by Fire
+a brief history of the Salem Witch Trials
Sequel: v.2. Setting Sun


Next time: 6 of 1 in reverse or 6 fiction + 1 non-fiction

[BoyScoutKevin]

6 of 1 or 6 fiction and 1 non-fiction


M. J. Arlidge
Brit
Liar, Liar
4th in the Detective Helen Grace series
Heroine: Brit
Place: Southampton (U.K.)
Time: Present


Christ Nickson
Brit
The Iron Waters
4th in the Inspector Tom Harper series
5 more fiction in 1 more series
Hero: Brit
Place: Leeds (U.K.)
Time: 1st half of the 19th century


John Bude
aka Ernest Ellmore
Brit
The Lake District Murder
in the Inspector (later Superintendent) Meredith series
Hero: Brit
Place the Lake District (U.K.)
Time: 1930s


Rennie Airth
ex-pat South African
award winner
The Death of Kings
5th in the John Madden series
Hero: Brit
Place: U.K.
Time: 1940s (flashback to the 1930s)


Elly Griffiths
Brit
Smoke and Mirrors
2nd in the Magic Men series
8 more in 1 more series
Hero: Brit
Place: Brighton (U.K.)
Time: 1950s (flashback to the 1910s)


Camilla Lackberg
Swede
The Lost Boy
translated by Tiina Nunnally
in the Patrick Hedstrom series
Hero: Swede
Place: Sweden
Time: Present (flashback to the 1870s)
Published in Swedish in 2009 and in English in 2016.


Sharon Eliza Nichols
Delusions of Grammar :
the Worst of the Worst [or] 350 Pictures of the "Best/Worst" Examples of Bad Grammar from the 8000 Pictures Found on the Facebook Page "I Judge You When You Use Bad Grammar"
Combining Delusions of Grammar (2009) + More Badder Grammar (2011)
Published in 2017


Next time: and a half dozen of the other--graphic novels