Laurell K Hamilton goes old school with Anita Blake in the 20th book in the series. Hit List is more monster hunting and vampire slaying and a lot less wicked sexual powers and Ardeur induced orgies. This is a good thing. The story opens up with Anita and Edward investigating a series of murders where weretigers are the victims. It seems that the Harlequin are following the orders of Marmee Noir and that they are still after Anita. The story takes place far from Jean Claude and Richard and the rest of the cast of thousands that make up Anita’s…
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The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten
I’ve been a fan of Prairie Home Companion for about twenty years. The show is a nice mixture of the silly, the maudlin, and downright brilliant. But I have never been able to sit down and read one of Garrison Keillor’s novels about Lake Wobegon-where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are all above average. So I was a bit surprised when I saw a book, which on first glace-and many subsequent glaces- appeared to be a zombie story set in Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor. It was not overly surprised by this book,…
Hurricane Katrina-The Best Thing That Ever Happened To New Orleans
What if you lived in a city filled with crime, corruption, and crushing poverty? What if you had a magic wand that would not only remove the crime and poverty from your city, but leave the city in such a condition that the undesirable elements of your population could never return? Would you wave that wand? What if the magic wand also made the rest of the world feel sorry for you and send you millions of dollars in donations-and millions more in supplies and free labor? What if you were one of those poor people who got to live in…