May 14 - 20, 2017

Every Day Is a Holiday by George Mahood - George begins to feel his life has become mundane and as a way to make things more interesting decides to celebrate the odd holidays on the calendar. He decides to devote six months to celebrating such days as Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, Inane Answering Machine Message Day, and National Curmudgeon Day. He's fortunate his wife mostly tolerates his experiment. Just the thing when you want a quick, humorous read.

3 stars
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Life's a Beach by George Mahood - George continues celebrating odd holidays the last six months of the year. But his family also moves to Devon and this book is much more about his family life and how much he enjoys them.

3 stars
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Harry Benson's America by Harry Benson - I watched a documentary about the photographer and wanted to see some of his pictures better. A large book with lots of photos. In the back is a thumbnail of each picture and the story of its being taken.

3 stars
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Fallout by Sara Paretsky - the 18th V.I.Warshawski book finds Vic out of Chicago for the first in Lawrence, Kansas. She's gone there to find an aging actress and the filmmaker who have gone there to make a movie. What she keeps finding instead are dead people and women in danger. Government secrets and race relations figure largely in a story that seems to go on just a little bit too long.

3 stars
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Operation Ironman: One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathalon by George Mahood - shortly after Life's a Beach, George began experiencing debilitating back pain. While recovering from surgery to remove a tumor from his spinal cord, he decided he would begin training for a triathalon to prove to himself he would get better. So he entered one that was only four months away, a detail that is mentioned many times. This book is all about his training. I will admit I got teary eyed when he crossed the finish line.

3 stars
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Golden Prey by John Sandford  - in the 27th Lucas Davenport book, Davenport is now working for the U.S.Marshall's office as a sort of special agent able to pick his own cases. Someone has robbed a drug runner's money handling operations, killing five people in the process and he decides to go after them. Unfortunately, the drug runner is after them too, using two people with no qualms about killing and torture to get information. Now it's going to be who can find the robbers first. Typical Prey book, lots of shooting and swearing.

3 stars
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Harry Benson: The Beatles by Harry Benson - photographs from 1964-1966 by the author of the group as they began their world tour. Lots of casual photos he was able to get because he traveled with them. (Boy, did this make me feel old.)

3 stars