Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[Invoice]

 

[screened porch]

Jacques Pepin worked for Franey for Howard Johnson's, I was surprised to learn.

 

[mbkr]

How did you like Ocean Prey, Mike? I didn't enjoy the half-Davenport, half-Flowers approach as much as I usually enjoy a novel entirely about either one of them. Here's another "joint" novel that was OK, but Virgil didn't seem to be his "usual self" when working as Davenport's partner.
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- GT

It was ok. I enjoyed it, but I'll admit I like Virgil's character more. I like quirky I read False Witness by Karin Slaughter while I was in Tennessee, and one character asserted that her cat, Binx, keeps his money in Bitcoin to hide it from the IRS

 

[Invoice]

Jacques Pepin worked for Franey for Howard Johnson's, I was surprised to learn.

He was really a funny guy. He came to my school to do demos and signed his books.
That was a long time ago.

 

[TheIncredibleHoke]

NOS Schrade Old Timer and Happy 89th Birthday to Wendell Berry!

 

[Johnnythefox]

 

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I started to read that once. I think something on page one put me off.

 

[Johnnythefox]

I started to read that once. I think something on page one put me off.

I started and stopped once before I couldn't understand it all.

 

[5K Qs]

It was ok. I enjoyed it, but I'll admit I like Virgil's character more. I like quirky I read False Witness by Karin Slaughter while I was in Tennessee, and one character asserted that her cat, Binx, keeps his money in Bitcoin to hide it from the IRS

Thanks for your input, Mike.

On an unrelated topic (other than Mike may relate to it), we drove up to Michigan's U.P. last Saturday to start a couple of weeks at a rented cottage in Cedarville. Took us 90 minutes to cross the 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge!! Never had that experience before.
(I suppose I could make that info slightly book-related in that Sandford once wrote a Davenport novel in which Davenport spent much of the book in Michigan's U.P., but Sandford didn't seem to have a very good grasp of the geography.)

- GT

 

[mbkr]

Thanks for your input, Mike.

On an unrelated topic (other than Mike may relate to it), we drove up to Michigan's U.P. last Saturday to start a couple of weeks at a rented cottage in Cedarville. Took us 90 minutes to cross the 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge!! Never had a that experience before.
(I suppose I could make that info slightly book-related in that Sandford once wrote a Davenport novel in which Davenport spent much of the book in Michigan's U.P., but Sandford didn't seem to have a very good grasp of the geography.)

- GT

90 minutes?! What was going on? I crossed the bridge many times and never had a problem. Riding a motorcycle across it was fun and a little scary

P.S. I vaguely remember the Sandford book. I can't remember the details, but I remember thinking he hadn't been there.

 

[Prester John]

I started to read that once. I think something on page one put me off.

That happened to me with a Henry James novel I was supposed to read for class. Never got to page 2.

 

[Just Tom.]

I started to read that once. I think something on page one put me off.

There is indeed something so offensive in one of the first few pages of that book that I clearly remember going outside and pitching it in the dumpster outside the apartment where I lived at the time .

 

[meako]

 

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There is indeed something so offensive in one of the first few pages of that book that I clearly remember going outside and pitching it in the dumpster outside the apartment where I lived at the time .

I think mine is still in the house somewhere, but I don't know where. It might be worth getting past that bit. At least he doesn't go into details.

 

[screened porch]

Here's a book.

I have three more A-fib books, and one by the Cleveland Clinic on heart stuff in general. I have to become an expert on this stuff, because although my electrophysiologist is quick and cheerful about answering questions, the questions he answers are often not the questions I asked.

 

[5K Qs]

90 minutes?! What was going on? I crossed the bridge many times and never had a problem. Riding a motorcycle across it was fun and a little scary

P.S. I vaguely remember the Sandford book. I can't remember the details, but I remember thinking he hadn't been there.

What I heard is that every other year, starting in 2015 (but not in 2021 due to COVID), Mini Cooper owners meet in August in a big St. Ignace parking lot, get lined up by 10am, then drive en masse south across the bridge to Mackinaw City, turn around, and drive back north across the bridge back to St. Ignace for lunch. The goal is to set a Guinness Record for largest Mini parade, which apparently requires about 1500 cars. It was scheduled for last Saturday, and I imagine 1400-1500 cars all getting on the bridge in unison is going to fill it up while traffic behind them (especially northbound traffic on a Saturday afternoon) backs up for miles. I'd never heard of this before.
https://www.minionthemack.com

I think the book is Gathering Prey about a Manson-like cult of killers looking for victims at a Juggalo gathering in the U.P. (I'd never heard of Juggalos before that book.)

Here's a book I read again recently about murder and political primary madness involving the Iowa State Fair.


- GT

 

[screened porch]

I'm getting therapy for an otolith in my ear canal. They usually call the otolith a crystal, which reminded me of a book called The Crystal Singer, which I read some decades ago. Turns out there are two others, one of which is still en route.

As I recall, she uses her perfect pitch channelled through that gun, to harvest the crystals on which civilization depends for something really important.

 

[Jolipapa]

I'm getting therapy for an otolith in my ear canal. They usually call the otolith a crystal, which reminded me of a book called The Crystal Singer, which I read some decades ago. Turns out there are two others, one of which is still en route.

As I recall, she uses her perfect pitch channelled through that gun, to harvest the crystals on which civilization depends for something really important.

She's got nice boots!

 

[tdkfm]

Been meaning to read this one forever. Finally almost through it. My favorite case pattern to go with it.

 

[Jack Black]