Download is Delicious

[captainsblog]

Enough about music downloads. Today it was back to books, since I finished Sarah's Key in relatively record time and needed new noms for my eyeballs for cardio this afternoon.

I'd seen an interesting book in BN yesterday: The Other Wes Moore, a non-fiction tale of two young men of the same name, time and almost-place who wound up living  very different lives through little if any fault of either.  The library branch didn't have it, but for the first time, the catalog offered a 7-day ebook download, in the very epub format I found to work so beautifully with Broken.

I now have something called Overdrive on both PC and iPhone.  I will have to fiddle to see if Stanza can get at the beastie, since I rather liked its functionality, but if not, this is pretty nonsuckiality, too:)

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Still and all, I needed to goey homey to do all this, and I needed to find something else in paper for the elliptical.

Georgia Bottoms, the latest to be recommended by Joss from a fellow suthinah authah named Mark Childress? Out.

Evenfall, from another of Joss's recs? 30-odd branches no even gots.

Fine, I said, I'll just go A to Zed in the new books. And there in the D's, or rather the L's for the author, was the latest novel of my favorite fine young almost cannibal: Dexter is Delicious.

Six miles and a thousand calories later, I was hooked. I've never read any of the original Lindsay books before, and the differences from the series are surprising, yet surprisingly easy to take. Among them:  Captain Matthews is still in charge, LaGuerta has yet to show, Deb knows, Cody and Astor are there but very different, Rita is still very much alive, as is Dex's brother, and there's no Harrison but rather a Lily Anne, and a very different dynamic between her and her sibs.

Reading this does remind me that I dreamed a perfectly delicious Dexter/SFU crossover the other night. In it, our Dark Passenger took a trip out to the West Coast to stalk a deserving victim: a seemingly sweet and innocent, and yet brutally evil, killer who used his mad skillz as an undertaker to dispose of his murder victims. And thus we get the chance to see Michael C. Hall meticulously, fiendishly, and, yes, deliciously (and I described the dream with that word on Facebook before even seeing the novel title) setting out to kill himself.

I feel a drabble coming on- if not far, far more. Anyone want this?

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I'm also taking requests for my mp3 downloads for next week. They say that (ba ba ba-ba, ba-ba ba ba-ba) I'm gonna be sedated,  but just in case I thought I should have some music in place to help the meds and the backward-counting.  Here's what I've got so far on my Symphony for a Colonoscopy mixtape:

Baby Got Back
I Want to Kiss Her But (She Won't Let Me)
Fat-Bottomed Girls
Ass Time Goes By
Crack-lin' Rosie

And pretty much anything by Anal-og Rebellion or Willie Colon.

Comments

[whyaduck.livejournal.com]

Evenfall. Is that a book? A book by someone named Liz?

If so, I've met her dogs.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

That would appear to be she. (http://www.amazon.com/Evenfall-Liz-Michalski/dp/0425238725)

[whyaduck.livejournal.com]

My wife used to board her horse at Liz's place. I've got a postcard somewhere inviting us to a booksiging she'd doing locally soon-ish.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Pretty dog, too, part of her bio picture if you click the link on that Amazon page:)

[whyaduck.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. That's a new dog. When we boarded at her place whe had two Rhodesian Ridgebacks. Granted that was 10 or so years ago, so they probably passed by now.

[murrday.livejournal.com]

There's the traditional folk song Jimmy Crack Corn, and Carbon Leaf's Shine for the line, "Lit a, fire, under, my ass-ets." *grin*

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I don't believe you'll be able to access an Overdrive eBook with Stanza, but I could be wrong. Overdrive has some very complex DRM that deletes the book from your hard drive after 7 days, and I think that prevents you from opening it in a number of programs.

But I haven't tried it with Stanza, so I dunno. Worth a go!

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Overdrive works okee, at least so far. Haven't tested it beyond page-forward and a back or two, but if it's legible on a phonescreen, I'll take it.

You want that drabble or what?

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

My public library system uses Overdrive. But some of the books only work on the version of Overdrive that does not work on any of the devices I own, which is a pain. Oh, DRMs and media distribution technology, you have such a long way to go! (Which is good because I figure the machines can't enslave us until they're better at stupid crap like that.)

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

I think I heard about that Wes Moore book on NPR. It's on my Goodreads list; let me know how you like it. We've got Overdrive here too, and so far I have been unable to change formatting from it (it doesn't lend books compatible with Kindle). The books have DRM something-something attached, and while there are apparently third party tools to remove it, I haven't bothered, my ebook stack being approximately as tall as I am. That said, I'm using Calibre for conversion, though, not Stanza. maybe Stanza has greater super powers than Calibre...

[nonspecific.livejournal.com]

Kick Your Ass from the Brak show? It's a lovely number by Zorak. Or a creature inhabiting Zorak's vocal cords, anyway.