Little Thoughts About Books and Stuff

The book from my brother and sister-in-law: Librarian's Night Before Christmas by David Davis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Got this as a Christmas gift.  So cute! One of my favorite presents this year! View all my reviews The book from my mom: Can't wait to see if anyone else got me a book...a few more gift exchanges to go.  

Here are the rules: *Read nine books in the following categories. 1. A book with "Blue" in the title . -   Blue -eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas 2. A book with "Red" in the title. - Red shirts by John Scalzi 3. A book with "Yellow" in the title.  - Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte 4. A book with "Green" in the title . - The Green Mile by Stephen King 5. A book with "Brown" in the title. - Brown -Eyed Girl by Mariah Stewart 6. A book with "Black" in the title. - Black City by Elizabeth Richards  7. A book with "White" in the title. - The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory 8. A book with any other color in the title (Purple, Orange, Turquoise, Pink, Magneta, etc.) . - Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber 9. A book with a word that implies color (Rainbow, Polka-dot, Plaid, Paisley, Stripe, etc.). Midnight Rainbow by Linda Howard

Black City by Elizabeth  Richards My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wow...that was some end to the book! I wasn't too sure about reading this book, it sounded interesting but the reviews already posted were less than positive.  I gave it a shot anyway (hey I needed a book for this color and the year is nearly over!).  It seemed similar to quite a few dystopian novels already out but it has it's own feel. The point of view goes back and forth between Ash and Natalie, each narrating full chapters at a time.  Towards the end it's a quick back and forth of the same events which adds a punch to the unfolding scene.  This really worked for me, I was very choked up while reading the end of the book (which is the reason for my initial response above!). I will be reading the other books in the series, I need to know how this story plays out.  Even though it was similar to other novels, I still got pulled in by the characters and I really wanted to know what happens...

Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I first heard of Marcus Samuelsson when he competed on Top Chef Masters.  That was right around the time, I started to become addicted to The Food Network and other cooking show/channels.  It was the start of my journey on the road towards mini-foodie. This was a look at Marcus' life and the road he took to get where he is now.  It's a great look at the life of a chef especially one of color who has had a hard road to travel. The book is really descriptive in the details of the food and taste experiences.  I wanted to be rollerblading (even though you wouldn't ever catch me on a pair) through NYC and trying the different foods from all the cultures that make up the city.   When he talks about Ethiopian food, I'm back in grad school (1st time) and we're headed to the Ethiopian restaurant for some Doro Wat (mmm yummy). Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety b...

The semester is over and as much as I enjoyed reading those global novels, I can't wait to put a dent in my To Be Read bins in my room! I have a stack ready to go and hope to get through them all before Term 3 starts in January. Here's what I have planned: Play by Play Series by Jaci Burton #3 Taking a Shot #4 Playing to Win Highlander Series by Janet Chapman (this is one I started a long time ago and just recently realized there are 2 more books) Secrets of the Highlander A Highlander Christmas Highlander for the Holidays Puffin Harbor Series by Janet Chapman (again read the first book forever ago) The Dangerous Protector The Windham Series by Grace Burrowes Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal Lady Louisa's Christmas Knight The Courtship Color Coded Reading Challenge Black City by Elizabeth Richards Other Novels A Seal at Heart by Anne Elizabeth Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole Orleans by Sherri L. Smith (ARC book due o...

The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus  by Adam C. English I saw a link for the book trailer in The Shelf Awareness Pro newsletter for Tuesday, December 4th.  After watching the trailer and reading the description thought of  The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn. I enjoyed reading those and I would really like to know more about St. Nicholas.  I have the book on hold now just to wait to read it! The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: The True Life and Trials of Nicholas of Myra   With his rosy cheeks and matching red suit—and ever-present elf and reindeer companions—Santa Claus may be the most identifiable of fantastical characters. But what do we really know of jolly old Saint Nicholas, "patron saint" of Christmastime? Ask about the human behind the suit, and the tale we know so well quickly fades into myth and folklore.   In The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus, religious historian Adam English tells the true and compell...

Mini Reviews of the last two books in the semester! Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez My rating: 3 of 5 stars I liked this book, but it was a bit disturbing.  The whole romance between senior citizens...yeah that didn't go over so well with me. I think I enjoyed it more because I had to analyze it for class. Having to break it down and look at meaning and everything gave me a different way to look at the story.  If not for this, I think some of the descriptions would have had me closing this book and not picking it back up.  The same can be said for Midnight's Children. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie My rating: 3 of 5 stars OMG I feel like I've been through a war reading this book. I don't know how some of my classmates said it was their favorite book of the semester. There was so much going on in this story.  I think an abridged version was needed for me.  There was just too much talk of excerment, and bodily fluid...

Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte My rating: 4 of 5 stars The last few YA books I've picked up have been directed at boys.  I must say, they are a refreshing break from the drama/love stories of the YA I have been reading.  They seem to focus on a older teen boy who needs to make a choice between two things and they aren't little things, they are major life changing decisions. In Yellow Flag, Kyle needs to decide if he's going to keep racing with his family or keep pursuing his music.  The race scenes were great, I couldn't put the book down.  Not being a big race fan (I've been known to watch a handful of laps of a handful of races) it was a great look at the inside workings of a team/car. As great as those scenes were, I got thrown a few times when the POV changed from 3rd to 1st person.  Normally when I see those changes there is a font change or the changed POV is italicized.  Not so in this book, and there was no warning, it was one sent...

 "Happy kill an Indian and steal his land because God told you to day."

Wide Sargasso Sea: A Norton Critical Edition by Jean Rhys My rating: 4 of 5 stars After giving myself some time to dwell on it, I had to up my rating of this book.  I think this book was my favorite of this class. This book is written as a sort of prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.  It really changes your opinions of Bertha and Rochester (or just mine).  I always felt bad for Bertha, having your husband lock you away in the attic because you went crazy, now I really feel bad for her when you read Rhys' back story of how she ended up the crazy woman locked in the attic.  I had felt bad for Rochester for having the first wife that wasn't the love of his life and who went crazy; I no longer feel bad for Rochester!  Well, I guess I do, but just not as much as I did before reading this novel. Being a big fan of Jane Austen, it's almost required (in a sense) to not be a fan of the Brontes.  Charlotte didn't like Jane, just look at the results ...

Brown-Eyed Girl by Mariah Stewart My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars I read romance, but I tend to stay away from romantic suspense, it's just not my thing.  I find too often that the suspense is just a catalysis to throw the characters together with out ever really contributing to the plot.  There are a few authors who write really great suspense stories and oh yea there's a lot of romance.  Mariah Stewart is now one of those authors I'll read for this reason. I picked up the book because it was the only "brown" titled book that sounded interested in my library system. The plot seemed like it could have been the flip side of a Criminal Minds episode, and I really like that show. Anyway Leah's sister Missy disappeared forever ago and now this serial killer is contacting her with information about her sister's disappearance.  Before she can get any information out of him he's killed in jail (shortly before his execution).  So Leah goes to see ...

In honor of Halloween I had wanted to read some appropriately themed books. (This post is late due to Super Storm Sandy and my own laziness.)   Moon Shadows by Nora Roberts My rating: 4 of 5 stars Just reading Wolf Moon for my Nora Roberts Reading Challenge. I have read everything published since 2004 (except for the books that haven't been released yet). I have to say I like how Nora Roberts seems to write these male characters who just worm their way into the woman's life.  Simone wants to keep her distance since she's been turned into a werewolf but Gabe just nudges his way into her life.  Together they end up working on a way to cure Simone of being a werewolf. Personally it's the first time I've read this concept of trying to cure the werewolf.  I've seen it done in TV shows and it never really goes far, but I like the way Nora worked with the concept.  Simone had been working on it but she just needed Gabe.  A fresh set of eyes, a medical ...

Madly in Love with ME - Self Love Guidebook Trailer   Self love author Christine Arylo releases the official self love guidebook - practical, tangible and fun ways to truly love yourself, for real and for keeps. I don't know if I'll really get this book, but it's one that will be added to my list of books that I'll consider.  I'm picky about which self help books I'll pick up, the writing style of the author has to sound like me.  I want to read the book and feel as if I'm telling myself these things, as if I'm pushing myself to make the changes and helping myself.

I have three books left in the Color Coded Reading Challenge - brown, yellow, and black.  I've been struggling with picking which books to read.  I finally picked some books! For Brown For Yellow For Black

The Grass Is Singing: A Novel by Doris Lessing My rating: 3 of 5 stars What a depressing novel.  I'm a little confused by the ending, did she have a relationship with him or didn't she?  Lessing never writes that she does, but I guess that's part of this story.  As I read the novel, I kept wishing the characters were different.  I wanted Dick and Mary to at least attempt to work out their differences and try at their marriage. As depressed as I was reading this book, I have to say it's been my favorite so far in this class.  I really liked Lessing's writing style and I thought the story was formatted great!  You know from the first few lines that Mary is dead, the story is how she winds up that way.  The story is about identity and the struggles that we all face in finding who we are and where we belong.  Sadly Mary never found where she belongs. View all my reviews

Season 8, Vol 1-4  The only two books I purchased besides the Buffy Graphic Novels. Two free paper backs Timonthy Zahn was there signing his book and I'm never one to pass up a free signed copy of a book. The five ARCs I was able to get my hands on at different booths. "special" ARCs.  I got Blood Gospel when I purchased the Douche  Journals and Obsidian Mirror was handed out only to librarians. 

I'm currently reading two books for school: For the last two weeks our book for discussions/reaction paper is The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing. It's a good book, but it's depressing. Midnight's Children by Salaman Rushdie is a book we'll be discussing later in class but it is the book I picked for my final project so I need to read it now. I'm moving a lot slower than I would like to be, but it's a difficult read and I want to get as much out of it as I can! My current audio book is: So far I'm really liking Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. It really is a book that I think I wouldn't have been able to get through if I was reading the print book, but listening to the audio book on my commute to and from work I have time to listen and process the information. Being an Introvert I'm really interested in a lot of the information that basically explains why I am the way I am. ...

The Maverick (Long, Tall Texans) by Diana Palmer My rating: 1 of 5 stars I was kind of excited about this book, I've been waiting for Harley to have his own story and even though I didn't finish reading this series during the summer I was going to keep reading to fill in the gaps since I had read Jon's book and had holes to fill in. However this book was the biggest let down.  I didn't like the characters, the dialogue or the story.   There have been a few books that I've waited for with bated breath. Books that are finally telling the story of the character who has been in each previous books, or a romance that has been building up for a number of books.   Acheron  by Sherrilyn Kenyon was one and I wasn't let down by this book, nor was I let down by  Kiss of Snow  by Nalini Singh.  They were just what I was expecting, the epic stories they had been built up to be. I wasn't expecting Harley's story to be epic, but I was expecting to at lea...

In order to catch up with the current weeks in the semester I'm combining weeks 2 & 3 into one post. The Stranger by Albert Camus My rating: 2 of 5 stars It was okay, I don't think I would have picked this up on my own. I've always thought that Camus was a bit heavy and I tend to avoid heavy reading unless it's assigned to me. That being said I thought it was a deep book, and it really made me step back and take a look at how I react to and interact with the world around me. View all my reviews Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe My rating: 3 of 5 stars I liked this book. I was starting to think that I wouldn't like anything we were reading this semester. I was surprised that this would be the book that I liked, since I don't have a favorable opinion of Chinua Achebe. (Long explanation involving earlier Literature classes.) There were things that frustrated me about this book, but it got bumped up to "like" because I can see myself rec...

This semester I'm taking Graduate Seminar in Global Literature.  We have a great line up of books and I wanted to share some mini-reviews here.  Here is the list of books I'll be reading: Week 1 - The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Death in Venice by Thomas Mann Week 2 - The Stranger by Albert Camus Week 3 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Weeks 4 & 5 - The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing Week 6 - Wide Sargasso Sea Weeks 7 & 8 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Weeks 9 & 10 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie I chose Midnight's Children as the book I'm going to focus on for my final project/report.  I'll be finishing that up sooner rather than later. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka My rating: 2 of 5 stars It was okay, I don't understand what all the fuss is about with this book.  I thought it was disturbing. View all my reviews Death in Venice by Thomas Mann My rating: 2 of 5 stars It ...

I really don't have anything interesting to post about so I'll just share these two images Pinterest thought I would be interested in this week. First up Lego Librarian! Source: manliuscoralreef.blogspot.com via Biblioteca CC. da Comunicación on Pinterest This is a great PSA of sorts! Source: via Veronda on Pinterest

Wrap-up!  The first day of Fall was 9/22 and I fell four book short of my challenge goal.  I'm happy I said I'd only read the books listed on FictFact because there are more book associated with the Long Tall Texans series than listed here.  I'm going to keep reading now, I need to finish these four books! Series list from  Fictfact.com  Titles highlighted yellow have been read before this challenge.  Titles highlighted in purple have been read for this challenge.  Clahoun Justin Tyler Sutton's Way Ethan Connal Harden Evan Donavan Emmet Regan's Pride That Burke Man Redbird Coltrain's Proposal Paper Husband A Long Tall Texan Summer Christmas Cowboy Beloved Callaghan's Bride Love with a Long, Tall Texan Matt Caldwell: Texas Tycoon A Man of Means Lionhearted Man in Control The Founding Father Cattleman's Pride Carrera's Bride Boss Man Winter Rose Iron Cowboy Heart of Stone Heartless The Maverick Tough to Tame Dang...

This book fills the "any other color" requirement. The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars I was sad to see the Ceder Cove series end, but I understand Debbie's reasons (shared in a note to readers in this book) and I think it was wise.  Too often I find that an author seems to just push out books in a series and the stories end up stale.  While I was sad, I was also happy to see that this book was set in Ceder Cove, a nod to her long time readers, Debbie heard our requests to still be kept up to date with the characters we've grown to love (again mentioned in the note to readers). From the first book it looks like the series will focus on the individuals who come to stay at the Rose Harbor Inn.  The book also sets up to follow Jo Marie as she deals with the changes life has dealt her and her new start in Ceder Cove.  The first two guests, Josh and Abby, are both returning to Ceder Cove to face their pasts. There w...

Tap Out by Eric Devine My rating: 4 of 5 stars I've been struggling with writing this review.  As a librarian I have one view of the book and as a reader I have another, and they don't match up and I don't know how I should review the book. I finally decided to just write this review as a reader, because when I think about the library in and our readers, I don't think this book would fit in with what our YA readers are interested in reading. This book was full of things that shocked me, especially since I was reading a YA book.  The language was the first shock. There were just too many curse words for my tastes, I think the language could be toned down and still have the gritty feel that the author wanted to achieve. The second shock was the story line involving Charity.  I know things like that do happen, but it was just not what I'm used to reading.  It was a bit disturbing, but it fit in with the story, again I think it could have bee...

This book fills the "word that implies color" requirement. Midnight Rainbow by Linda Howard My rating: 3 of 5 stars The cover of this book has a quote from Booklist that reads: Contains all the ingredients of a classic Howard romance. To me a "classic Howard romance" is one that with a few updates can be set in a more modern setting and still be just as good.  While this wasn't one of my favorite books by Linda Howard, it was a quick and enjoyable read. Originally published in 1986 there are a few changes that would update this story quite easily.  The missing microfilm turns into a flash drive, Vietnam becomes Afghanistan, there's either no connection or something happens so there's no cell phone service, and he wears a condom. This is also a classic story line, a girl gets held hostage somewhere in Central/South America and a super special elite former/current military guy goes in and rescues her.   I liked Jane, she was a grea...

The Green Mile by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this story.  Stephen King and I have a so-so relationship. He likes to write stories that scare the bejeebus out of me and I like to read his books. I have only read a handful of his books and I'm always careful about which ones I pick up I tend to stay away from the books that were made into movies since the movies scare me. I read this book in the six serialization format it was originally published in and I have to say, it was worth reading that way.  If I had read the books when they were first being published I don't think I could have waited a month between books, especially between books 4 - 5 - 6.   I didn't initially get into the story, the first book kind of dragged so I did wait a bit in between books.  I really started to get into the story by book 3 and from there I breezed through the rest of the books. ...

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Rigaud My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars At the start of August I mentioned in a guest post at Roof BeamReaders that I consider myself to be an “In betweener” when it comes to the reading of Jane Austen inspired books.  I like my books to be believable in the realm of Jane Austen’s World.  I’ve read, but not really enjoyed, some of the modern adaptations of her books (they average about 3 of 5 stars).  That being said, this book came way out of left field for me! To start, I was pulled in by the cover first and the premise second.  Darcy as a rock star?  I can read that! Darcy or Will as his friends call him is a guitar virtuoso.  He lives music.  He started a band, Slurry, with his cousin Richard Fitzwilliam (drums) and his college friend Charles Bingley (guitar and vocals).  They are a huge hit, but like any rock band they come with a bad boy reputation.   They need a n...

Redshirts by John Scalzi My rating: 4 of 5 stars Goodreads Book Description - Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship  Intrepid , flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations, and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed. Not surprisingly, a great deal of energy below decks is expendedon avoiding, at all costs, being assigned to an Away Mission. Then Andrew stumbles on information that completely transforms his and his colleagues’ understanding of what the starship  Intrepid  really is…and offers them a crazy...

Love is a Battlefield by Tamara Morgan My rating: 3 of 5 stars It was a really cute read, but I don't know if it impressed me enough to have me keep reading the series.  I originally decided to read it when I saw that Kate is a member of a Jane Austen Regency Reenactment Society (JARRS) and I just love Jane Austen (JASNA member!) That being said there was just something about the story that didn't work for me and I can't even really put my finger on what it was, but there was just "something".  I feel like the problems the characters kept facing could have easily been solved with simple conversations, I tend to like when things are harder to solve and they really have to work at overcoming their problems. The Jane Austen Guide to Life: Thoughtful Lessons for the Modern Woman by Lori  Smith My rating: 3 of 5 stars As with any interpretation of an author's work, Lori Smith uses what we know about Jane from her letters and those of her family to a...

This review contains spoilers! The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine My rating: 3 of 5 stars I'll admit, I cheated. Since I was listening to this, I sought out reviews with spoilers so I could see where the story was heading because the first disc interested me, but I didn't know if I wanted to keep listening.  After reading the review with spoilers, I kept listening and I'm happy I did, this was a refreshing adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. I'll also admit that Sense and Sensibility is my least favorite Jane Austen work, I've read it once and will probably never force myself to read it again.  So when I saw in the spoiler reviews that the plot doesn't perfectly follow Jane's tale, I knew it would be worth my time to finish listening to this story. The ages of the characters bothered me at the beginning of the story, but as the story went on I found that it worked with the direction of the plot.  I liked Annie and Miranda more tha...

Forbidden Pleasure by Lora Leigh My rating: 2 of 5 stars This was the second book we have all disliked.  The first still goes by "the book that shall not be named" and we avoid that author's books all together when picking books each month. We all had similar feelings about the story, the characters, and the sex.   I have mixed feelings about the book. Normally I want to go back and read the books in the series but I'm just not feeling compelled to do that with this series. I feel that if I had started with book one I may have liked the book/series more. When books in the middle of series have been picked in the past I've gone back and read those that came before, but I never got around this time and just read the book.  I kind of regret doing that, but there's no going back now! This was our book club pick and the woman who picked it didn't realize what it was really about, she thought Keiley was torn between the two men, not that she'd be ...

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning My rating: 4 of 5 stars I know this review is late, but I needed to read all the books in the series and then I felt I had to give myself time to digest the awesomeness that was that series.   I was addicted to these books! No sooner had I finished one than I picked up the other and dove right in, and I didn't even really like the first books when I started reading.  That bothered me because I had be dying to read this series.  I read her Highlander series and I love it, it's one of my constant weekend re-read series. When I heard that the Fever series was a kind of crossover I knew they would be read.   Like I said, I got worried because I didn't really like Mac, she bothered me and that worried me since she's the star of the books. Then I realized that I didn't understand why everyone was so OMG over Barrons.  But I knew that I would finish the series, I needed to know the fate of the world, I needed to know th...

This book just looks really, really cute! I might have to pick it up for baby girl. She's going to have more books than she'll know what to do with by the time she starts reading!

Mommy says she has "writer's block" I don't know what that means but she said I could take over for her.  Not that I really want to, but if you're going to allow me to do something, I'm going to do it! So the other day Mommy and I were laying around and she was reading a book. She gets done and mutters something like "Now what?"  I should have just kept my head down and pretended like I didn't hear her.  But no, I lifted my head, cocked it to the side and she took that as me being interested in what she was saying. Here's Mommy's problem.  She's got this issue when reading books, she doesn't like to read just one book in a series.  She likes to read them in order, or as close to in order as possible.  She's got done reading one book and in that book it linked two more series so now she wants to know if she should read those other two series?  I say no, more reading means more non pug cuddle time! Then she won 4 books, and ...

I've read a few Stephen King books, I'm cautious with what I read of his, we don't always get along.  My dad was a big Stephen King fan, so I've tried to read some of his stuff, it hasn't always turned out well.  It took me almost two years to read "Hearts in Atlantis" it was one of those "pick it up - put it down" routines. For the next book in my color coded reading challenge I decided to go with The Green Mile.  I have always seen the six part serial books at my local library and had always wanted to read them, what better chance than now! The Green Mile, Part 1: The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars I wasn't sure what to expect. I haven't seen the movie, and know very little about the story.  It was a lot of set up and background information.  It was just enough to hook you in and make you wait for the next book.  I would have been one of those people who each month would have gone to get the next part as...

This book is on my TBR List.  It sounds like a really interesting concept and I can't wait to read it! Published on  Jun 1, 2012  by  LaurieFrankel Sam Elling is taking social networking to the next level: the afterlife. "Goodbye for Now", the second novel from Laurie Frankel, is already an international sensation, selling in 26 territories and having film rights optioned by Lionsgate/Temple Hill. "Goodbye for Now" hits stores on August 7th, 2012. Like Laurie on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/lauriefrankel.author ) and get access to exclusive content, including an excerpt from the book.

There is nothing my Mommy loves more than me, but reading comes in at a close second.  I love to cuddle with my Mommy but sometimes her books get in the way of how I want to lay on her.  I think the books need to go. I like books, Mommy read me part of a Harry Potter book once when I was sick.  I'm not saying she needs to get rid of them, but when it's cuddle time, they need to go!  There is a certain way I like to lay on top of her when I decide it's cuddle time and it's hard to do that when she's holding a book. Sometimes she will put the book down, but there are some she just won't put down.  It doesn't matter how I push myself in front of the book or how much I give her "the stare" she just won't put them down. What more can I pug do to get the attention of her Mommy? -Lola

This is my kind of wedding...plus wait til you see their cake! I want a cake like that! Published on  Jul 11, 2012  by  bookmansTV Loyal customers who met in our store tied the knot on July 7, 2012 at Bookmans Mesa. We are honored to be part of their story. The Bookmans family wishes Daphne and Andrew a lifetime of happiness and dragon slaying in their marriage. Special thanks to artist Pitx for the song "Chords For David" "Chords For David" by Pitx (feat. jlbrock) http://ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/30638 is licensed under a Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/