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Books books books...
Bloody Bonsai by Peter Abresch: Murder mystery/cozy; entertaining but not enough to make me want to buy more.
Summer Knight and Death Masks by Jim Butcher: Damn you Jim Butcher! LOL!
Murder at Midnight by Elliott Roosevelt: Another good installment in Roosevelt's stories of his mother (Eleanor) as an amateur detective. In this one she butts heads ( Read more... ) -
Darn you Jim Butcher!
Have finished Fool Moon and Grave Peril, books two and three of the Dresden Files series. All I can say is...ARGH!!! Fun, sometimes scary, hilarious, well-written, and engaging...to the point of I don't want to put them down. GRRRRRR! -
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday shadow359!!! :) -
Lots and lots of reading...
Too tired to comment on everything...
Susanna Gregory: An Unholy Alliance and A Plague on Both Your Houses. Books 1 and 2 of the Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles; medieval England, etc. etc.; well done & enjoyable.
Carl Hiaasen: Native Tongue and Basket Case. Hiaasen is nuts, brilliant, and hilarious. As always.
Jim Butcher: Storm Front. Book 1 of ( Read more... ) -
Alegria!
Alegria... WOW WOW WOW!!!! Saltimbanco, another Cirque du Soleil show that we saw two years ago in Des Moines, was wonderful. Alegria lived up to our expectations for Cirque shows. Wonderful music, phenomenal acrobatics, and even two of the techs must enjoy defying gravity, as they were sitting on two very small platforms above the audience, ( Read more... ) -
Suggestions please - alternatives to onion family
Ok - I am trying to create a dip that won't have anything from the onion family in it, but will still have a nice flavor. The usual ingredients are cream cheese, sour cream, green onions, and dried beef. The green onions are not an option (severe allergy in one of the people who will be there) and I'm trying to come up with other ideas. Basil? ( Read more... ) -
Books books books and more books...
Them Bones and Hallowed Bones by Carolyn Haines: set in the Mississippi Delta, single woman who has a haint named Jitty (that's a ghost for the uninitiated), trying to solve mysteries. She gets into it by accident after kidnapping a friend's dog for a ransom to make a down payment on bills, including trying to keep her family home. Discovered after ( Read more... ) -
Happy belated...
Happy belated birthday to ophelia_nw!!