Book, BOOK, BOOK report!!!!

I am going to talk about three books by Charlaine Harris.  She is more famous for her Sookie Stackhouse books.  These books are set in the same "neighborhood" only in that Manfred Bernardo is acquainted with Sookie.The books are titled, Midnight, Day Shift and Night Shift. 

Midnight is the name of a town in Texas, it is small, dusty and inhabited by mostly supernatural beings to whom we are introduced over the course of the books. 

Bernardo is a professional psychic and he is good and occasionally has a true vision.  He moved to Midnight from Tennessee I think.  His neighbors help him unload boxes. Bernardo has many tattoos, body piercings and spiked white hair, he is also short and slight.

One of his neighbors is a young woman named Fiji who is a witch and who has a familiar who is a talking cat.  His speaks mostly in a bitter, snarky voice. 

Bebo is a handsome blond who runs the pawn shop and Fiji is crushing on.  Bebo is oblivious.

Lemuel is the vampire who mostly minds his business unless he needs a refreshing sip of either blood or personality essence. 

Olivia is his human wife who was sexually abused by her stepmother as a child.  Her daddy did not believe her.  Olivia became a professional assassin and makes a fairly decent wage and step mom is no longer a problem. 

Rev is a very spiritual man who offers burial services for both humans and pets.  He is a tiger shifter.  We meet two more tiger shifters a bit later. 

There is a lovely gay couple, Chuy and dammit, Ican'trememberhisname.  They have a Peke who yaps and they are fallen angels and rarely manifest their wings. 

The only other normal couple in town are Madonna, Teacher and Grady their baby.  They are African American.  Madonna cooks at the local diner, Teacher can fix anything.

Over all a swell bunch, first book is getting acquainted and some adventure.  I think you may thoroughly enjoy the books.  As for the NBC series I will reserve judgement as the series has already departed from characters and plot.  Meh....

BOOK REVIEW FROM THE CORNER OF THE EYE (made have mangled the title)

Ok, spent the night reading a fairly recent book by Dean Koontz
Title" From The Corner of The Eye".  Without giving away too much of the plot; involves two very remarkable children, their parents, a truly evil villain who seems unstoppable, some nifty adult friends and the 60's, 70's and 80's.  Maybe a few more years as well.  The bad guy is a serial killer. Koontz reveals more and more of his character over several chapters until we realize that he has not accidentally lost his wife who fell from a wooden fire tower.  Death progresses as does his increasing divide from reality unfortunately his hyper awareness as a true murderous paranoid impinges on more or unrelated victims who just happen to meet his internal requirements for speedy elimination.  Gah.  The children do not meet until they are both three years old.  I guarantee that you will fall in love with the good guys, root for the demise of the bad guy and be charmed by the various characters who show up and their place in the book is revealed.  There are couple of breath taking plot switches so grab a comfy chair, good light and settle in.  You are gonna love this book.

VERY OLD IT JOKE BUT AS IT HAPPENS....

Remember President Obama's 90 minute meeting with President Trump?  Well the agenda was very full but towards the end of the meeting Obama handed three sealed envelopes to Trump, each envelope was numbered one through three.  Obama told him, here these are some solutions that you may find handy if you have a problem that you just can't solve.  Good luck, sir and farewell. Trump tucked the envelopes away and went about his Presidential business.  Things seemed to be going well at first.  But something was bothering him, he finally opened envelope number one.  It said simply,  get the appointments filled.  Hmph, well that project had gotten bogged down so he whistled for a few select members of his staff and had them assemble a whole host of rich white men to be considered for the openings.  That effort kept everyone incredibly busy in addition to keeping the media busy with speculation  A month or so later, things were just getting difficult  again with various firings and investigations so Mr. Trump consulted the second envelope.  It said, "Take a trip."  So he did, several trips in fact.  This was very successful, he pumped up his base, shook hands with foreign dignitaries and everything was pretty hunky dory.  Unfortunately when he got back the budget loomed, the Affordable Care Act loomed and it looked like world war III would start in Congress.  Mr. Trump locked himself in his office and reluctantly took out the third envelope.  He opened it.  The paper inside read, "Prepare three envelopes."

Couldn't help myself, BOOK REVIEW!!

I have been enjoying a new author very much.  Robert Ulurdutch.  I hope I got the name right, it is either English, Welsh and/or Scottish.  Google was not very clear.

He has written a trilogy about Spot and Smudge.  The tiny black puppies were born beneath the chicken coop and the adventure begins.  The family that lives on the farm are of strong Scottish descent.  There is a large quantity of Scottish slang and it gets repeated enough so that you will get the gist.  Also a lot of Scottish jokes.  I will tell one and then you have to read the books to find out where it is.  Why do Scots wear kilts?  Because sheep can hear zippers. Told ja......

The three books are; Spot and Smudge, Glasgow Grey and Let Loose the Pups of War.