The Fruits of History: The Popular Kids.

The Fruits of History: The Popular Kids. Volume 1. Part 1.

Dennis Santaniello

In fact, a Kindle Version the app doesn't like.

Everything from slavery to the Banana Boat Song to going bananas.

The one negative repetition of much of the material.

Bananas, Apples, Oranges, and now cherries all appear to have originated in China.

And if life is a bowl of cherries why am I living in the pits.

Grapes in Iran. White grapes and wines in Germany as the growing season too short for red grapes to ripen.

Getting drunk on wine goes back to Noah and Lot. Then there was the drunk fest at Cana.

And Concord Grapes and Catalpa Plonk.

Strawberries. Grow wild over much of Canada. They're intensely sweet. Oakville was once the strawberry growing capital of NA, Canada gets no mention. Urban growth wiped out the strawberry fields.

Tomatoes and coconuts are fruit. Just don't be bonked by one.

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Two Friends

Two Friends

Guy de Maupassant

Or more properly Deux Amis.

In the movie Paradise Ben claims that every hour spent fishing adds years to your life. Such may not be the case here.

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The Telltale Heart

The Telltale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

First read this in high school and heard a version on 78 RPM Record.

And the moral of the story if such you would find is: Be sure your sins will find you out.

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Wish You Were Dead

Roy Grace #17.5

Wish You Were Dead

Peter James

The Graces go on vacation. I've stayed at campgrounds that resembled the haunted mansion they arrived at here. Web sites often guild the lily. Prospects are often daunting. Like the screened in veranda at the visitor's centre with a long aisle of insect repellents or the O fic sign with the missing letters and the washroom with the non-functional plumbing or the trailer surrounded by hundreds of empty Bud Light Cans and the nearby sewage lagoon.

But nothing the match of this horror show.

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The Lady, or the Tiger?

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank R. Stockton

What do you call it? Modern Fairy Tale or horror story.

Door number one or door number two. Either a live tiger or forced marriage. No word on the damsel's willingness to participate in this weird procedure. In a sense a trial by ordeal in an arena packed with an audience.

The only question here is does the princess want her lover eaten by a tiger or married to her competitor for his affections.

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Open Season

Joe Pickett #1

Open Season

C.J. Box, David Chandler (Narrator)

Sounds like a pen name. The author is male. There are 26 books in the series.

Local cops accept the easy, lazy explanations for a crime that lands a dead outfitter on Joe's woodpile and another in a cabin with two dead hunters. In a town where everyone hunts a game warden is not the most popular man in town.

Twelve Sleep is fictitious, Ten Sleep is a real city. An endangered ferret in Wyoming is about as popular as Spotted Owls in BC.

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Dead Simple

Roy Grace #1

Dead Simple

Peter James

Depending on the edition this book runs to nearly 500 pages. That's quite a commitment. That the writer and his detective is old horse-faces' favourite is hardly a recommendation to this reader. Not something that appealed to me when I commended this book to my local library's attention. The series is set in Britain where Bobbies were traditionally an unarmed service.

What those outside the police service tend to forget is that detectives are people with insecurities, hopes and dreams, egos, and hungers just like everyone else. The stag party in progress as the book begins goes horribly wrong and the collision at the centre of the tale makes Roy Grace miss his latest dating opportunity.

The groom at the centre of the stag stunt is buried in a coffin with an air hose, bottle of rye, flashlight, walkie talkie. Three of his four buddies are killed in a collision, the fourth unconscious in intensive care. The matching walkie talkie picked up by a tow truck driver's retarded son.

Roy Grace is a detective superintendent with a past, a missing spouse, and a mystery with little to go on as the clock is ticking on Michael, the groom. Always the suspicion that the people who are interviewed know more than they're telling.

And like all good murder mysteries this one has plot twists, car chases, and double dealing.

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