Not long after reading the latest digest with Bill's reminder
about this month's theme, I decided to take a last look at a
box of books ready to be donated to our annual Children's
Hospital Book Market. The sale, which starts next Thursday
and runs for 10 days, attracts dealers from across Canada and
the Upper Midwest. Lots of 40 cent paperbacks and cheap
mysteries, but you have to fight off the book scouts for
Pandora Books, one of the North America's largest PB
dealers.
Getting back to that box, I found two books by authors on
Bill's list: Doug Swanson's Dreamboat (Texas) and The Desert
Look by Bernard Schopen (Reno, Nevada). I also found one set
in Texas titled Needles by Jerry Allen Potter. The following
is from the dust jacket:
"Then he met Jolene, his perfect woman - or so he thought
until she turned his life into a screaming hell. He entered a
nightmare of brutal murder, bizarre sex, and mistaken
identity, the consequences of which put him face to face with
Huntsville's executioner."
Any of these worth rescuing? In the same box was a Countryman
Press reprint of Russell James' Payback, which I did rescue
after reading that it is out-of-print and will be reissued by
Point Blank.
One "theme-of-the-month" book on the list that I did read was
Dia de los Muertos by Kent Harrington. I greatly enjoyed
Harrington's first novel, Dark Ride, but was disappointed by
this one. Without saying too much, I just couldn't accept
that the main character could do so many things, be in so
many places, and have so much happen to him during the "Day
of the Dead." Anyone else read it?
Kent Morgan in Winnipeg
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