![]() ![]() ![]() I hadn't read any of her books, so this was my intro.Los Angeles, California is Jaine Austen's home turf. This is the quickest solve she has done."The Dangers of Candy Canes" by Laura LevineJaine Austen is Laura Levine's sleuth. Merry Christmas.While the adult Christmas party is in full gear, Hannah has to quickly work her way through her list of suspects and find the killer before the party is over. True to form, Wayne says no and pockets them.A short time later, when Hannah looks outside, she sees a trail of candy canes leading away from the building. Tight is also a good discriptive for Wayne Bergstrom, who is playing Santa.After all the toys are given out and Santa is on his way out, Hannah asks if she could have the leftover candy canes for making cookies. Hannah has been recruited to play one of Santa's elves complete with a costume that is a tad too tight. It is a traditional Christmas setting, complete with mounds of snow on the ground. Set at the Lake Eden Inn, it is the yearly Christmas party, complete with Santa and gifts for the kids. The stories are short and complete."Candy Cane Murder" by Joanne Fluke leads of the set. It is a triple mystery book of three stories by three different female mystery writers. Candy Can Murder should be titled Candy Cane Murders. ![]()
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![]() from “Eulogy on the Flapper”, by Zelda Fitzgerald She had mostly masculine friends, but youth does not need friends – it needs only crowds … Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart. She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure, she covered her face with powder and paint because she didn’t need it and she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. How can a girl say again, “I do not want to be respectable because respectable girls are not attractive,” and how can she again so wisely arrive at the knowledge that “boys do dance most with the girls they kiss most,” and that “men will marry the girls they could kiss before they had asked papa?” Perceiving these things, the Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next biography on the biography shelf is Zelda: A Biography, by Nancy Milford ![]() ![]() ![]() The kids, now in over their heads, must try to retrieve the treasure first. The mystery deepens and the danger unfolds as the four of them discover that the magical strangers have all come to town in search of a legendary, hidden treasure-one that could be used for great evil if it fell into the wrong hands. But what about the mysterious man in the dark overcoat and fedora hat? And why are all these “magicians” trying to recruit Nate and his friends? Who can they trust? Stott, has arrived with a few enchanted sweets of his own. In addition, the ice cream truck driver, Mr. Chocolate balls that make you a master of disguise. ![]() White, owner of the Sweet Tooth, and soon learn about the magical side effects of her candies: Rock candy that makes you weightless. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. In this start to the series, four young friends-Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon-meet the grandmotherly Mrs. Welcome to the Sweet Tooth Ice Cream & Candy Shoppe, where the confections are a bit on the…unusual side. And so begins The Candy Shop War, a trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Beyonders and Fablehaven series. ![]() Magical candy that gives kids superpowers? Sweet! The possibility of evil overtaking the world? Not so tasty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() !themed 2011 reading progress month #1 anime an arrow at this stupid book at least the cover is cool at least the pages were numbered author last names a-f author last names g-l author last names m-s author last names t-z bad children's books because sometimes it's not just the book books in the media books that were originally movies fail booksnarks buddy can you spare me an editor? buy this or you die says company character development fail classics cliff hangers aren't fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nearly 50 years and several wars later, “The Card Counter” stars Oscar Isaac as an Iraq vet anguished by the atrocities he committed at Abu Ghraib, self-sentenced to a purgatorial, joyless existence haunting the tables of mid-tier casinos like a ghost. His first produced screenplay, 1974’s “The Yakuza,” starred Robert Mitchum as an ex-GI returning to Japan and cutting off a finger to try and make things right with the husband of a woman he romanced during WWII. “Is there a limit to how much it takes to reach expiation?” asks the protagonist of Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter.” It might be a better question for Schrader himself, who has spent the past five decades chronicling sinners struggling to find their own paths to atonement in the silence of an absent God. Oscar Isaac as William Tell in "The Card Counter." (Courtesy Focus Features) This article is more than 1 year old. ![]() |