Dead and Gone
by Charlaine Harris ( $
$15.57), ninth in the Sookie Stackhouse series.Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps—and nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works—and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it. But there’s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings—older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves—is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.
: Amazon's New Addition To The Kindle Family
(yes, this one ships naked as well and so far this is the only cover available) and may want to consider the 
(some early reports on the Kindle 2 are showing excessive stress on the hinges for the case and any new product can have problems that don't show up right away).
(yes, you can get one delivered by then, with overnight or second day delivery). Chances are, you got your love of reading from one or both of your parents, who read to you when you were young (if you don't like to read, you probably will never see this blog, so that segment of the population can safely be ignored).
game (seriously, after the Kindle and the computer, this occupies her free time much more than television). The biggest problem, though, is that the one title coming out that I think she would really like (
) won't be out until May 19 (that and she is likely to have already ordered it herself). She already has (and uses) 
, 
, 
(I and my nieces beat my brother soundly on this one when he came to visit last month), 
and she recently mentioned she was ordering both 
and 
(no, she isn't Supermom, although I like to think so).
came out, we went to a midnight sales event (Sam's Club - no one thinks to go there and we had no problems getting one). The 
(with the balance board) was pre-ordered the day it was available at Amazon (good thing, as they sold out nearly immediately and stayed that way for a long time). She is past retirement age and not only enjoys many of the games, she finds that they are good exercise (except for the boxing, which tends to make her upper back ache), especially the ones that use the balance board. She also avoids some of the titles geared towards the very active younger set (cheerleader games, for example) and has a few that just don't work well (
, for example, which I can't make recognize the controls, either, and strongly recommend you avoid). The cool thing about 
should be called Cardio Boxing Workout), but looks like it 
later on. More exercises will mean that the "game" will be less likely to get boring, resulting in abandoning her (or your) workouts (not that she'll quit the WII - last I heard, she had caught every single fish in 
and was starting on 
; too bad we can't get her to enter one of the local bass tournaments and win us all a new boat).
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, you should enjoy this one, as well.