CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Cheyenne elder Winfield Russell is a real-life Joe Leaphorn. Like the character from the Tony Hillerman crime novels, Russell was a tribal criminal investigator, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. For the past ten years he has lived in a drafty old trailer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana.
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Best-selling mystery author Tony Hillerman was born on this date in 1925. The Shape Shifter is the 18th book in the series centered on Navajo Tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Hillerman had an interesting website with excerpts from all the books, but it has disappeared. There he told us that: Leaphorn emerged from a [...]
Framed and Booked (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Listened to audio book Mom and I picked this Book on CD from a bunch that Cheya was returning to Susan. I have never read a book by Hillerman so I was curious. Here's the basic story. A man turns up missing just after his 30th birthday when he inherits the family ranch. His wife has an ironclad alibi, and the case is never solved. Eleven years later, a skelton is found on a ledge on the face of a sheer...
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
I have been indulging in retail therapy, and since most of what I bought was dirt cheap second-hand books, I got off lightly and didn't even have to use my credit card. I did have to restrain myself from buying all 20-something Ed McBain books I came across at the book section of the charity shop, and instead I only bought 6. If they are still there on Monday I may give in and buy the rest. The Harry...
Why Now? (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
I was thinking about the Dineh situation, having become interested in them through the mystery novels of Tony Hillerman, which made the connections to the Athabascan people I knew from Alaska, and then back to their mutual roots in the Yenesai region of Siberia from my Russian studies. They are all semi-nomadic in that [...]
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
In March I finished reading 10 books. Most I had started reading as far back as December of last year, so pagewise I am definitely below average. One, Guards! Guards! , was a perennial reread (I am now reading the City Watch story arc within the Discworld series), and another, Metamorphosis , was a partial reread. Metamorphosis was also my classic of the month. The Voyage of the Beagle will have to...
Boomer Girl stories (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Beep Beep! These rugged red mountains look awfully familiar. Deja vu! I've seen this tawny scrubland before. On the day you arrive in New Mexico, you will recognize it. And not just from Road Runner cartoons.
VH1 (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
By Harold Goldberg Electronic Arts had Madden in the 1980s. And that game was supremely successful. But the company was on a mission to become a worldwide leader. In this portion of our multi-part interview with Trip Hawkins, the EA...
Chris Well: Learning Curve (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Today, we check in with mystery writer Lonnie Cruse , author of the Metropolis Mystery series . Her latest book is Fifty-Seven Heaven (Five Star), the first in a new series featuring Kitty and Jack Bloodworth and Sadie, their fully-restored, trophy-winning 1957 Chevy. If you're in the Metropolis area this Saturday (March 15), there is a launch party for the book at the Metropolis Public Library, 2-4...
A Reader's Journal (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
by Will Hobbs Another audio book listened to on our Arizona trip. We really felt the juxtaposition of settings: the book setting was the Northwest Territories during the winter with temperatures as cold as -40 degrees; the trip setting was southern Utah, northern Arizona and the Grand Canyon with temps between 60 and 75 degrees. Add to that the great contrast in scenery. It may have been more in keeping...
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
For this author I chose to review one book about each of the two detectives of the series and one about both of them, plus the Edgar award-winning Dance Hall of the Dead , which is the second book in the series. Series detective(s): Navajo tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee -- Title: The Blessing Way Detective(s): Navajo tribal police officer Joe Leaphorn No. in series: 1 Year of publication:...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 02/23/2008
I have already heard from Sylvia Dickey Smith that she and her husband plan to return to Dallas this June for the HHCC http://www.mwasw.org/conf.html conference. I’m looking forward to seeing both of them again at the conference where guest speaker Tony Hillerman will also attend. Beyond the fact that both Sylvia and Bill are good [...]
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
With her new book due out in a few weeks, award-winning author Rhys Bowen took the time to appear at the Velma Teague Library in Glendale, AZ. She had an appreciative audience, eager to hear about her mysteries that have won Agatha and Anthony Awards. Rhys said she normally starts a talk by saying that she kills people for a living. Her Royal Spyness is the first book in her third mystery series. She...
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
Before I begin listing books: For 2008, I decided to make a bit of a change in my reading statistics compilation. Instead of writing my reading reports on loose sheets of A5 paper and inserting them into folders in alphabetical order (by author) like I have been doing for the past couple of years, I used my newly learned bookbinding skills and made a hand-bound reading journal into which I write the...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Years ago, before I went to Africa, I arranged to spend time at the Gallup Indian Hospital, doing high risk Obstetrics. Growing up in a large city with many immigrants, I was aware of cultural differences in treating patients, so I asked the local nurses for a book that would allow me to understand Navajo culture. They [...]
