In the last couple weeks, there's been some odd Internet buzz to the effect that Warner Bros. and CBS are trying to turn Stephen King's The Stand into a feature film.
A baby chewing on a human rib bone leads to the discovery of a skeleton in a housing construction site.
This enjoyable Czech comedy concerns an aging man named Fanda, retired from the theater, and his sidekick, who refuse to become emeritus vegetables, living corpses. To stay involved in the world they cook up harebrained schemes that dig them deeper into trouble.
Being a public librarian with access to an unending supply of books, it takes something really special to make me want to part with $27.00 just so I can call it my own. Ruhlman has found the secret in Ratio and my copy should be in my mailbox by tomorrow. It's a weird format for a cookbook in that Ruhlman buries his recipes in parts or chapters that explain the basic ratios for, for instance, doughs and batters.
The month of Febraury seemed like a good time to read a romance. So I selected one with good recommendations, A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh. This book is more like a short story or novella, so there's not much detail here.
Any book that is a hit with our mystery book group is worthy of note, and nearly everyone gave this one a “thumbs up.” Wyatt Hunt became a San Francisco private investigator after several years in the military police and then working in Child Protective Services.
This second in the Bess Crawford mystery series, finds the World War I nurse once again embroiled in solving a murder. She has returned to England from the trenches with a convoy of severely wounded men. One of her patients is a burned pilot who insists on having his wife’s picture pinned to his tunic at all times.
The Luxe, by Anna Godbersen, reminds me a little of a Jane Austen novel in that the rules of society can be imprsioning and can cause much tragedy and heartache. The story takes place in Manhattan at the very end of 1899. It is the story of the elite, the upper class, the wealthy.
Elixir by Hilary Duff yes, Hilary Duff aka Lizzie Maguire. Don't let that put you off this intriguing paranormal young adult mystery. Clea is the daughter of a well-known scientist and a politician and has been in the spotlight her whole life. An interest in photography has turned into a career for her and allows her to travel all over the world.
