Tuesday, June 28, 2011

'Lunch Reads Volume 3': Quick Bytes of Crime Fiction



Review: LUNCH READS, VOLUME 3 (Istoria Books 2011)
Authors: Edmund X. DeJesus and Ellen B. Holzman


LUNCH READS VOLUME 3 is pretty much as the title describes it. A book with two stories you might be able to read over the course of a lunch hour (or two, depending).

The ebook is part of a series (that's why it says "Volume 3") of ebooks with two short stories -- one shorter than the other -- or so it seems based upon my review of LUNCH READS VOLUME 1.

In any case, here's my review.

First, there's the short story called "Shoplifting" by Edmund X. DeJesus. In this story, the world's most crotchety shopper has some interesting interactions with a young shoplifter. There's a manager, too, but the less said about him, the better. Anyway, the story is short, really funny and ends with a twist. So ... nicely done!

The second story is "Call of the Riled" by Ellen B. Holzman. This story is most creatively told in a series of letters to the editor of a community newspaper. It seems the editor of the Mountain Telegraph has been killed in a most awful and untimely manner. This nasty death provokes a lot of letters to the editor of said paper. (Who's dead, so who's reading them? Some other editor, I guess. An assistant. Whatever ...) Many of the letters offer condolences as to the untimeliness and tragic nature of the editor's demise. Some of them are a bit less sympathetic. Even so, eventually it comes out that, in fact, the editor was murdered. This leads to fresh speculation and a flurry of correspondence from the various crazies who read the paper.

Clearly, Ellen Holzman drew on her background as a community journalist in writing this one. Each letter is basically a character in the story. And this community is chock full of interesting characters, ranging from an intrepid young stringer to an ex-Marine who never fails to sign off with the words "Semper Fi!" The letters convey a narrative that keeps the reader guessing, builds suspense and has as many twists, turns and red herrings as any story with a straight narrative I've ever read. Now that's saying something.

Based on what I've read so far, I'd say Istoria Books has carved out a nice niche with its series of Kindle mystery shorts.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Berlin Wall Artwork and Graffiti | Berlin Wall Graffiti Art Today | Fall of Berlin Wall Political Cartoon

In this cartoon you can observe in the socialist economic system so defined the most common problems. Capitalism's political leaders refused to open, but the performance of their private capitalists.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the socialist economic system in the world is almost extinct. Here is a country on this system is still "living" in comics.

Berlin Wall Artwork and Graffiti and Political Cartoon Today

Berlin Wall Artwork and Graffiti and Political Cartoon Today

"Mikhail Gorbachev is the real hero of the Cold War, if not Mr. Gorbachev, who made much-needed reform of the social and political structure of the former Soviet Union, has a keen insight, the wall will still be standing here near the Brandenburg Gate, but will seriously disturb the aesthetics of our beautiful city. no one likes an ass, ugly wall, anyway. YAY, Gorbachev! "Gorbachev, his government is to build a wall in the first place responsible, to accept his report on the role of communism in Russia will fall to Berlin and one year of key supply fried steak.

Berlin Wall Artwork and Graffiti and Political Cartoon Today

Kennedy's speech, "intangible cultural heritage Bin EIN Berlin" and later Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech is a key point in the history of many people's lives. Polish Solidarity movement and the pressure generated by the Pope on the communist system, then there is no economic openness and the introduction of Gorbachev and perestroika opened cracks. 

1989 Hungary opened its first partner, the Austrian border, to allow refugees to flood into the West. Increasing pressure led to the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 8 / 9 people flood to the West a decisive moment. In the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, followed by a unified Germany in 1990 and the establishment of Berlin as a new united Germany's capital.

Berlin Wall Artwork and Graffiti and Political Cartoon Today

Berlin Wall Artwork and Graffiti and Political Cartoon Today

Berlin Wall Artwork and Graffiti and Political Cartoon Today

Berlin Wall Artwork and Graffiti and Political Cartoon Today

Destruction of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago November 9, 1989. In several pictures gallery to commemorate the occasion of the third, we compare today with the city of Berlin Wall


Free Cute Funny Easter Bunny Clipart Images For Your Wall

Here are some more fun cartoon Buny clipart for kids to download and enjoy and to add art on your wall. Here is a lovely Easter flowers clipart.

Free Cute Funny Easter Bunny Clipart Images

Free Cute Funny Easter Bunny Clipart Images

Free Cute Funny Easter Bunny Clipart Images
It's a fun family holiday when you and your kids can await the arrival of the Easter Bunny, and enjoy eating chocolate bunnies and eggs. I used to love having Easter Egg hunts when I was a kid. So to celebrate Easter, have a look at these Free Easter clip art pictures. First up are some Easter Bunny clipart.

Free Cute Funny Easter Bunny Clipart Images

Free Cute Funny Easter Bunny Clipart Images


I hope you found these free Easter clip art useful and fun! Have a great holiday.
 This is very funny images, you can take it at living room or your contemporary kitchen

Friday, June 24, 2011

Window Blinds Designs | Window Blinds Themes


Energy efficiency and insulation may be the second most important factor to consider in addition to price. Cellular curtains or blinds are best for this plant. They will continue to the extreme cold of the sun, but at a higher price. Cloth shutter is also great insulation, and unparalleled privacy. If you live year-round mild climate, this may not be an important consideration for you. If a moderate breeze constantly running through the area, and then open a window and other considerations will be the first will be your best choice.

Window Blinds Designs Themes
Bedroom Window Blinds Designs

Window Blinds Designs Themes

You need to carefully select the most suitable blind setting the main design of your home. You can go to a local store or online store to make your curtains. Different types and manufacturers available, and you can also choose to have your request of your curtains. If you want to get the blinds will be fully in line with the region to build and design required an exact match for your appearance settings, then this should be your best choice.

Window Blinds Designs Themes
Window Blinds Themes

Window Blinds Designs Themes

Elegant combination of skylights versatility, ease of operation of the shutter and the light filtering into the sunny room entirely to the desired results. Light control is easily achieved with exquisite control and ultra-thin integral curtain beads to ensure a neat appearance when fully improved. For a perfect fit every time, and achieve, make the weigh, fully renovated and cutting instructions have been included in a special template designed to ensure a perfect result.

Window Blinds Designs Themes

Blinds are the classic and the "empire" for internal use elements of the recent era. They can be soft or hard lambrequins and decorative accessories such as edges, tassels, curtains windows line combining the conditions are always together: whenever canceled, pulled down. Length and width allows the manufacture of luxury linen collection. These blinds are theaters, ballrooms, restaurants and casinos gorgeous perfect.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Kolluru Bamboo Huts Designs

Bamboo is the most environmentally friendly resources known to man. This is due to the fact that it is the world's fastest-growing plants. It can be an incredible growth in almost a foot high rate every day. Now take and compare it to a day-foot tree growth, it is easy to see why this could be the future instead of wood.

Kolluru Bamboo Hut Designs

Kolluru Bamboo Huts Designs

In addition to its environmental and cost-friendly natural bamboo with a beautiful and unique appearance, works more than perfect wedding theme. It works entirely in line with the theme of the summer, due to bamboo huts and coconut drinks like the idea of ​​traveling. Bamboo can easily use the Oriental-style wedding, because it is often a key component in the east part of the design.

Kolluru Bamboo Hut Designs

Kolluru Bamboo Huts Designs

Kolluru Bamboo Huts Designs

In addition to the traditional light bulb strings you can also hang in the outdoor seasonal image of the string. Light to create the connection string, such as the shamrock, holiday bells, snowflakes and more precise image of Santa Claus and reindeer certain types. 

You can also find indoor / outdoor bamboo hut light strings have their mini-huts, butterfly lantern is made of copper and copper leaf butterfly light construction light. As a traditional light bulb, you can get hung icicle outdoor lights, snowball lights flashing lights and miniature lights instead. You can also have round paper lanterns in the garden, flowers, and even lobster orange string lights. You can also purchase solar garden string lights.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults Ever

As you may know, if you read this blog with any degree of regularity, I like to post links to articles with lists. This particular article seemed most interesting for reasons that'll become obvious once you start reading it.


Any article that starts with the words,"Sigh. Authors just don’t insult each other like they used to," surely must be worth reading, wouldn't you think? :)

Bamboo Furniture Designs India


Bamboo is one of the oldest materials that is known to man. It is used to make almost all household items, from furniture to furniture, carpets and rugs, curtains, heritage, and so on. In fact, bamboo is a grass plant with a rope, but hollow dry. The results showed that, in the East part, but now bamboo is grown in the world, except Antarctica and Europe. Bamboo has been sent to the Western world in the 16th century. Bamboo from "Banwu" named after the southwestern Indian Ocean, the long-term. From the bamboo forest in India is exported to Indonesia by the Dutch exporters.


Indian Design Home


Indian Furniture for Living Room

Antique bamboo furniture in India's traditional style and home decor with the traditional gel very well. This furniture is environmentally friendly, and made ​​a very simple way. Antique bamboo furniture polish, and some dark shades to give its natural texture. Bamboo coffee table and sofa, can be the perfect addition to your living room because this material can be made to give an attractive design and elegant.



Artist With India Bamboo Chair Photo

We want to be a real stimulus for indoor use some unusual materials, the design of new solutions to the different shades of use or unusual attempt. Typically, home space can be filled with exotic parts are different, so do not buy it over the oceans and the students will mnogobroinite shops sell African or Indian masks and jewelry.


India Interior Design Idea

Bamboo Kitchen Cabinets Review

Many people want to have their own bamboo curtain is not dyed or natural, rather than allowing them to instinctively look to keep bleaching stain. Elegant wine produced wood for your house comfortable atmosphere. Civilization in Asia, bamboo has been used in a good split, or blinds of housing in the soft cool air in.


Bamboo cabinet is very elegant and the artistic in the bathroom or kitchen. If you are a unique and modern style cabinet, you will find that bamboo is all the rage these days. Stronger and more durable than wood with its own order, bamboo helps make a lasting, beautiful and stylish cabinets, providing plenty of room to store your household items. These days, bamboo is your kitchen and bathroom cabinets a wise choice!



Bamboo Interior Design Concept

Many people want to have their own bamboo curtain is not dyed or natural, rather than allowing them to instinctively look to keep bleaching stain. Elegant wine produced wood for your house comfortable atmosphere. Civilization in Asia, bamboo has been used in a good split, or blinds of housing in the soft cool air.



interior design that combines tradition and modernity, have amazing results here we can see the neatly arranged bamboo and wicker have a roof like that belongs in the Chinese tradition. The entrance also follow the theme of bamboo. walls covered with bamboo materials that follow the original line of the wall, turning it into a wavy surface.





This is a complicated singular bamboo for interior decorating suggestions for Tang Palace Restaurant was combined by Chinese organisation Atelier FCJZ and is located in Hangzhou, China. Therefore, a structure needs to reshape a space with a vast hollowed-out roof that is built from interweaved spare bamboo play and fluctuating from a wall to a ceiling. The waved roof formula in a thespian visible countenance in a hall. The hollowed-out bamboo net maintains a authentic story tallness and so formula in an interactive propinquity among a amounts. We also wrapped a core mainstay with light-transmitting bamboo play to arrange a light-box, that transforms a progressing critical petrify retard into a light and sharp-witted concentration object.

Monday, June 20, 2011

kids interior design ideas | Kids Wall Wood Furniture | Colouring Wall

In the design and decoration of the children, one of the advantages is that you often can choose color schemes and combinations, you do not often use in the adult environment. In fact, you can always go to the colors brighter, and more daring you to choose for their children. You can also arrange in different ways, so you usually will work with most adults room. For example, the blackboard or the child may be a toy in the center of the room, which will far exceed the seating arrangement of the focus, not appropriate.






Your choice for the child's room than those you will be completely different for the adult selection. Toys and collectibles for a large children's room accessories. However, the child may have to play with these toys instead of leaving only display them. In this case, it might be best to buy toys, accessories repeat. A group can be used to display, and the other can be used as an actual toy. It is not the best use of high-value collection in a child's room. Remember, kids just want to have fun. They do not consider price or cost of collection. So, whether you choose to use collection in your child's room decoration should not be so expensive, which causes a problem if it became broken.

Kids Room Decorating Ideas Boys | Cookey Cat Wall For Kids

Kids Room Decorating Ideas Boys | Cookey Cat Wall For Kids

Kids Room Decorating Ideas Boys | Cookey Cat Wall For Kids

A mural there are many inexpensive way to get a lot of this done and you do not become a master painter, in order to achieve your child's room / corner interesting and fun murals. A mural can be a simple picture drawn on the wall, or just hovering up some interesting colors. Many shops sell small sample pots of paint a few pounds, but remember to use lead-free paint to use. You can even let your child help you if you feel it appropriate.
A blackboard wall paint now sold in many places, the wall can become part of the blackboard or wall. Children can then write, paint, and clear the core.

Kids Room Decorating Ideas Boys | Cookey Cat Wall For Kids


Child's room can be the most challenging in the home. Through a few simple tips you can consider while designing a children's bedroom and some creativity, anyone can decorate their child's room. Select an item or color, it will be the main focus of the room, and around your renovation plans. This may be a cartoon character, your child truly love, or you can choose bright spring colors and from there.

Kids Room Decorating Ideas Boys | Cookey Cat Wall For Kids

Kids Room Decorating Ideas Boys | Cookey Cat Wall For Kids



Animal is a right way to stimulate the young child. This decorative idea is also very suitable for a nursery job. The animals can range from realistic decorative art and wall murals of cartoon animal cute animal picture. In addition to the range of animals, you can add vines, trees and other plants for the green leaves of the picture. If you do not want to paint the walls you can go to the animal portraits, canvas prints, wall hangings to decorate your son's room. Children's reading room painting ideas. For other decorative bedding and accessories can be selected and wild animals, zoo, wildlife park toy box and a cute little animal chairs and table set up colorful applique quilts. A wonderful story of jungle animals silhouette shade and carpet to complete your child's room decoration. Read the children bedroom decoration and so on.

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