HYGIENISTS IN PRINT=========FICTION & NON-FICTION–APRIL-2013 [[AUTHORS’S
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On Jan. 23, 2013, the LA Times reported on the Lone Star College-N. Harris in Houston, TX, shooting.
the paragraph to the right of the map 3rd paragraph
"Pedro Cervantes, 19, a dental hygiene student in his 2nd semester said there were gangs in the suburban area, mostly Bloods.
'You notice it because of the tats," or gang tattoos, he said, and some gang clothing on campus."
"But Cervantes said he hadn't felt unsafe at Lone Star until the shootings. Now he worries abut his safety & the value of his
degree ."I’m paying for this," he said. "I don't want this college to have a bad reputation."
HOW GEORGIA BECAME O’KEEFE = Short stories REBEL—Karen Karbo—Skirt! NF
(THE WHOLE THING) REBEL: the author speaking--- “But I do share one thing in common with her: Unlike my savvier &
more--successful peers, I’m doomed to follow my interests. It cannot be helped. If someone told me I could not continue to do
so, or, if someone said, ‘Here’s $100.000 a year for the rest of your life to write an annual quirky love story set in the world of
NASCAR,’ I couldn’t do it. I would have to become a RDH.” [[“I think it's because when I was in college all my smartest, most
even-tempered, achievement oriented friends were studying to become dental hygienists, and when I think of a responsible,
"adult" type job, that's what always come to mind. A little silly, but it amuses me. (And you too, I hope.)”]]
OTHER TIDBITS:GROW-1. P. 15 “I deconstructed their lives with my special, somewhat eccentric, fine-toothed comb.” 2.
ADOPT p. 51 “She could get away with wearing her customary black clothes & flat men’s shoes, take daylong walks out on the
prairie & then come home to the Magnolia Hotel where she would beat windburned cowboys & gap-toothed prospectors at
dominoes, because no 1 saw her anyway.
NOTE: Karen added: “And by the way, I love my dental hygienist. She always compliments me on my flossing, which puts me
in a good mood all day!”
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH Stephanie Jaye Evans- —(Mystery) 2012- In Sugarland, TX, protagonist/ ex-college football
player now minister, Walker “Bear” Wells is used to dealing with famous athletes & ranchers, not murder. Now due to factors
hitting close to home, he’s hunting for a killer.
SWEET TIDBITS: 1. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth.” p. “Rebecca’s coffee is so strong it can take the enamel off your
teeth.” 2. “He left me in the dust & I was hoping it was a nutria he was after & not some poor, lone jogger who was abut to get a
toothy, slobbery, Hound-of-the Baskervilles surprise.” 3. “In the first place, Jo, you’re already grounded until your wisdom teeth
come in, & that’s going to be when your around 25-“ “And in the 2nd place,’ I said, ignoring Annie Laurie’s helpful comment on
Jo’s upcoming dental expenses,’ we need to go over our WW 2 history again if you think I’m being a Nazi—.” 4. “Wanderley
put the tab back in his mouth. I could hear it ‘scritch, scritching’ over his perfect white teeth.” I wanted to ask him to trade the
metal tab for the plastic guitar pick & stop wreaking such havoc on all that expensive orthodontia his parents had paid for.” 5. “I
was already feeing nibbled on by those small white teeth. “ 6. “A gap-toothed Alex looked about 6 years old---“ 7. “His eyes
were slits & he was talking through his teeth.” 8. “All teeth & nails from what I hear, I’m certain it wasn’t Jo using her teeth.”
HICKORY SMOKED HOMICIDE—Riley Adams =—(Mystery) =Protagonist Lulu Taylor is the owner of Aunt Pat’s
barbeque restaurant in Memphis. Tristan Pembroke, once a beauty queen, is now a beauty queen coach since Steffi her daughter
never made the grade to be 1. She’s mean, snooty, & gets along with no one including Steffi whom she kicked out of her house.
Lulu took her in & gave her a waitress job. Because of what she over heard in DeeDee’s dress shop that sell clothes to the
pageant contestants, Lulu’s sure something is going between Tristan & DeeDee involving money. Tristan’s having a charity
auction/ party at her house & is killed there before the party is over. She isn’t the only 1to die.
HUNGRY TIDBITS: 1. P. 11 “You’re not turning onto 1 of those stage mamas, are you? The kind we’re always laughing at for
putting fake teeth in when their little precious has lost a front tooth?” 2. p. 12 “They’re called flippers, not fake teeth.’ said
Colleen in a put-out voice.” ‘And if they’d been around 8 years ago when Pansy 1 st started out, you better believe I’d have stuck
them in her mouth fast as lightening.”[[ “I was doing research on beauty pageants and watched a documentary that followed
elementary-aged contestants. I was stunned that some pageant moms invested in what were called 'flippers:' partial dentures used
for cosmetic reasons by little girls who had lost front teeth. To me, lost teeth are just a sweet part of childhood. For some reason,
I just couldn't forget the flippers!”]] They ended up being included in the book. 3. p. 145 “Here-put some Vaseline on your teeth
so your lips won’t stick onto your teeth.” 4. p. 239 “It started out as a way to rebel against my mother, who hated smoking-said
it gave people leathery skin & yellow teeth.”
NOTE:Riley added “I think what you're doing is really cool & never thought of the fact that dental references in books could
remind someone (even on a subconscious level) to schedule their cleaning.”
FINGER LICKIN’ DEAD—Riley Adams =—(Mystery) =Protagonist Lulu Taylor is the owner of Aunt Pat’s BBQ restaurant
The Memphis restaurants are being injected with bad reviews including Aunt Pat’s by anonymous food critic Eppie Currian (get
it). One restaurant closed down because of the reviews. Lulu’s wealthy friend Evelyn frequently comes to the restaurant with
their other friends. She’s dating 1 of her ex-husbands, who’s still sponging off her & technically is still married but separated
from Ginger who wants to be with him. When 1 of their friends spots the ex at another restaurant kissing a woman, she
maneuvers Evelyn to the restaurant to see for herself. The real Eppie Currian is exposed, which gives a number of people motive
to murder him. The man never stood a chance of living.
WIPED TIDBITS: 1. “Adam Cawthorn was a nice-looking man, thought Lulu. If you were to describe him to somebody, you
would use only the finest adjectives-broad shoulders, thick, blond hair, perfect teeth.” 2. “Five years ago the child had had a
mouth full of braces & thick glasses.” 3. “Besides, I had a long dental appointment that afternoon, And believe me, I’d rather
have been hanging out in a parking lot than getting that dental work done.” 4. “Lulu’s mouth dropped at this melodramatic logic.
“But what about his dental appointment? Oliver says he went to the DDS that afternoon.” “Trudy’s face darkened. “Except the
DDS’s office called to tell us they were assessing us with a $25 missed appointment fee. So wherever he was, it sure wasn’t
getting his teeth cleaned.” 5.“No, I wasn’t at the doctor. I forgot all about that appointment after Ginger & I had that argument.”
TOWN IN A LOBSTER STEW= B.B. Haywood=—(Mystery in Maine.) Because of big city problems, Candy Holliday has
moved back & lives with her father Henry “Doc” Holliday, running Blueberry Acres, a farm, mainly dealing with vegetables.
She bakes pies for a few places, & writes the Community Corner column for the local paper Cape Crier & is dating editor Ben
Clayton. Mr. Sedley, an elderly gentleman, is murdered in his next door neighbor/friend Mrs. Wendell’s house. The murdered
was dressed to look like him. Only a ledger, which included Mr.Sedley‘s lobster stew recipe that had won the Lobster Stew
Cook-off for 13 straight years, is missing. Both Mr. Sedley & Mrs. Wendell decided not to enter this year. Memorial Day & the
cooking contest are coming up. When Mrs. Wendell discovers the ledger & Mr. Sedley missing, she asks Candy to probe into
that situation. Mrs. Wendell & Mr. Sedley were to be judges at the Lobster Stew Cooking Contest, so Candy takes his place.
Mrs. Wendell faints after eating a bowl of stew placed in front of her. It’s Mr. Sedley’s recipe that someone entered. Inject
another murder.
TASTY TIDBITS: 1. [[“I once saw a woman flossing her teeth while she was driving through town. Elsie Lingholt now has
that particular skill !”]] “Although she’s best known for flossing her teeth while driving, Elsie Lingholt is heading to New
Brunswick, Canada, to compete in the Women’s International Hula-Hoop Competition.” 2. “Roger flashed his white teeth as his
grin grew.”
THE CASUAL VACANCY—J.K. Rowlings –
TIDBITS: 1. P. 58 “Kristal had once hit Lexie Mollison so hard in the face that she had knocked out 2 of her teeth.” 2. p. 62
“His objection was both principled & personal; he had not yet forgotten how his granddaughter had sobbed in his arms, with
bloody sockets where her teeth had been,…” 3. p. 66 “When she spoke, she seemed much older; several of her teeth were
missing.” 4. p. 102 “Everyone in the Fields knoew Obbo, with his bland puffy face & his gap-toothed grin,…” 5. p. 109
(…&without methadone, they would return again to that nightmare place where Terri became feral, when she would again start
opening her broken-toothed mouth for stangers’ dicks, so she could feed her veins.” 6. p. 137 “His tongue down between his
lower teeth & his lip, so that his chin bulged out stupidly.” 7. p. 283 “Her lip split against his front tooth, Simon’s knuckle
behind it….” 8. p. 499 “Krystal ought to have been given a gold merit star, & perhaps a certificate at assembly as Pupil of the
Week, but the bery next day (Andrew remembered it as clearly as his own collapse, she had hit Lexie Mollison so hard in the
mouth that she had knocked out 2 of Lexie’s teeth.”