Kurt's bookshelf: read

The Eight
American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture
A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction
The New Low Carb Way of Life: A Lifetime Program to Lose Weight and Radically Lower Cholesterol While Still Eating the Foods You Love, Including Chocolate
Earth Afire
Earth Unaware
The Prostate Monologues: What Every Man Can Learn from My Humbling, Confusing, and Sometimes Comical Battle With Prostate Cancer
Blood Crime
Americanah
Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road
Oxford History of Board Games
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
The Skull and the Nightingale
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
The Wolves of Midwinter
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks


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03 January 2014

Lula and the giraffe

"Lula slung the bag over her shoulder to take it for a test drive, and a giraffe loped past up."  Takedown Twenty, p. 4

Janet Evanovich has brought us another visit with old friends.  The twentieth installment (not counting the holiday specials) in the Stephanie Plum series brings us the usual cast of characters:  Stephanie, Lula, Connie, Grandma Mazur, Morelli, and Ranger.  Along with these folks, there is a giraffe, which consumes much of Lula's attention throughout the book (I mean, a giraffe in Trenton, NJ??? That's funny, right there). 

This whole series is light and entertaining, with episodes of laugh-out-loud humor.  I recommend for anyone who likes their bounty hunters with unloaded guns and big hair.

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