Ok, it is book give-away time again! Local people can get them for free, anyone I would have to mail them to will need to pay shipping (except Weiss, I don't mind paying her shipping!).
In no particular order we have 3 non-fiction books:
Fireplaces and Wood Stoves: It is a Time-Life book. It shows various types of woodstoves/fireplaces and how to install and care for them.
Complete Book of Hunting, by Clyde Ormond: It talks about preparing for hunting, equipment and clothes, guns, how to camp, how to locate and track game, various game, and how to dress and skin. There is a chapter on bow hunting as well as a section devoted to birds. There is an appendix about caring for firearms and stuff.
The New Singer Sewing with a Serger: Title pretty much says it. This is a basic serger sewing book, goes over the basics, has tension charts, shows how you can use it in various projects, etc. It's in the get rid of pile because I have a different serger book I actually like better (Serger Secrets) and I never refer to this one anymore.
Now for the fiction books, again in no particular order, just whatever hits my hand first when I delve into the pile:
For the Defense, by Ellis Rubin: This book, as well as a lot of the other crime books, came to us through Victor having received a bag of various books for free before I even met him, and I thought they were things he wanted so I have packed them up and dragged them around with us so it's time to get rid of them. It is missing it's front cover page. But the description on the back basically says it's about a lawyer who plays by his own rules and shows a few cases he did. Sounds exhilarating.
Disturbed Ground, by Carla Norton: It's about a granny who kills. That actually might be interesting, lol.
Innocent Blood, by P.D. James: Ah, as best I can figure from the cover it's about a child who is alone in the world and finds her mother and it's shocking for some reason.
The Revenant, by Brana Lobel: I reviewed this one a while back. It starts out as a horror book where there's ghosts and stuff but then it turns out that there's actually just a time-shifting spot where the "ghosts" are actually people from the past just living their lives.
The First Man in Rome, by Colleen McCullough: I am actually interested in this book, and I did start reading it. But there are sooo many characters, and all their names are so alike and there's a new set of characters with a new backstory and life and point of view like every chapter and I read like 5 chapters. I still had no clue what was going on or who I was reading about and people I had been introduced to in previous chapters showed up and I didn't even recognize them because I had forgotten about them already or confused them with someone else who's name is only slightly different.
Innocent Blood, by Terry Ganey: Ok, that is kinda weird that two books have the same name, this one does have a subtitle that says "A true story of obsession and serial murder" so I guess that makes it different. This one tries to grab your attention by name dropping but turns out it's just about a murderer who tries to twist the legal system and of course it talks about the customary fbi agent who nearly loses his job to win the case.
Independence Day, by Amy Frazier: I have no idea where this book came from. But here it is. It's a romance book about a middle aged woman having a midlife crises, as far as I can tell. I didn't read it.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: This one I'm getting rid of because I have 3 copies so I picked the one I wanted least. This one has the original pictures, and the golden afternoon poem as well as a letter from Lewis Carrol dated from Easter 1876. This one is the Aladdin Classics version. And it only has Alice's Adventures, it does not have Through the Looking Glass.
Wolf's Lady, by Mary Butler: I reviewed this one a while back too. The picture on the cover has more action in it than the whole book put together. And that's fine and all but why lie about what's inside the book? It is a pretty decent story though, except for a little bit of some things being just too convenient.
Blacklist, by Sara Paretsky: Someone's trying to solve a murder, it leads her into a tale of sex, money, and power, blah blah something about darker aspects of the patriot act, oh, apparently the character's name is V.I.
Final Option, by Gini Hartzmark: This lawyer finds her client dead, she becomes a suspect and tries to solve the murder and becomes a potential victim herself.
Time After Time, by Constance O'Day-Flannery: It is a hardback and there is no cover sleeve and no preview inside the book so I had to go to amazon to see what this was about. A time travel tale of a woman in modern times who lost her husband and is now in the civil war era and finds a man who lost his wife. The man looks so much like her dead husband and she looks so much like his dead wife. Yeah, I can almost see the incestuous side of things if they find out that the man is her great grandpa or something. I'll pass, thanks.
