Books I've Read
Recent Books
Before They Are Hanged
The First Law, #2. Good story, lots of action. Some characters die that I kinda liked, but that's war, I guess.
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"Just once," he murmured, "I'd like to take someone else by surprise."Quote:
"Heads on spikes, eh?" He dragged the head on the table by its long beard. "Never goes out of fashion."Read:
4/2025
Highfire
This was described as "hilarious", and while it had much humor, "hilarious" would not be the word to pop in my little brain. I did enjoy it very much, and I think it could make a cute movie if handled correctly.
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Now he was king of jack shit in Mudsville, Louisiana. But he'd lived in worse places. The water was cool, and the alligators did what they were told, for the most part.Quote:
Then Vern dropped his cargo pants, magicked his dragon tackle out of somewhere, and pissed all over Squib's arm.
Mostly his arm.Quote:
If there was one thing the species could come together on, it was balls ache, and the desire to avoid same.Quote:
[...] and a slice of lemon pie submerged in whipped cream fresh from the nozzle.Read:
3/2025
The Ghost Machine
Firefly, #3. Wow, that was different! Good story!
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"And you're the smart one in the family," Matty said. "God help us."Quote:
He just wasn't an ottoman sort of guy.Quote:
She might have been a woman, but a steel-reinforced toecap in the crotch was still a steel-reinforced toecap in the crotch [...]Read:
3/2025
Machine
White Space, #2. I enjoyed this story of space-going EMTs/Doctors very much, except for some of the parts where the characters are thinking.
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Eat carrots and you'll get nice clean poops. If we lived on a plane, I'd tell you about apples--"
"What's an apple?"
"What you eat every dia to keep the doctor away,"Quote:
" [...] Adulthood begins when you look at the mess you've made and realize that the common element in all the terrible things that have gone wrong in your life is you."Quote:
There's something professionally gratifying about being able to gross out a tentacular tree stump who also happens to be one of the galaxy's most experienced trauma surgeons.Quote:
If the truth destroyed it, it needed to go.Quote:
maybe Tsosie is right and I do float through, a little above and to the left of the real world.Read:
3/2025
Sherlock Holmes: Gods Of War
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Titan Books, #5. Holmes and Watson come out of retirement to solve a nasty murder. Good story, almost like reading Arthur Conan Doyle, I thought.
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Aged bones like mine needed the consolation of upholstery.Quote:
"My bedding plants. Trampling them without a care in the world. Horticultural Philistines."Quote:
"Are they by any chance near the beehives?" Holmes asked.
"Five or so yards away."
"Excellent." -- Possibly said in a Mr. Burns voice... Quote:
"You know how to drive?" I asked.
"Not as such." he replied.Read:
3/2025
Life Signs
Firefly, #5. Inara turns out to have cancer. There is a possibility that a certain doctor may have a cure, but he is on a prison planet. Mal decides to go fetch him. What a plan!
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"Tomato, potato," said Jayne with a shrug.Quote:
"A shive," River offered helpfully.Quote:
"Yeah. So really there's only one thing I can say to you, and don't take this the wrong way, but screw you."
"Well now," said Annie, "that's plain uncivil."
"Ain't it just."
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3/2025
What Makes Us Mighty
Firefly, #7. The crew make a delivery on the planet Kerry to Duke what's-his-name. Zoe has an feeling something is wrong. It sure is!
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Shepherd Book shot a look at Jayne, hoping to convey that he believed in Jayne's ability to do the right thing. He wasn't sure he did, actually, but expressing a little belief in folks often went a long way toward them stepping up as they should.Read:
3/2025
The Last Graduate
The Scholomance, #2. El finally gets to graduate, right on the very last page. Lots of magic, very exciting.
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She wasn't a committed suck-up like [...], just too sensible to do anything that--well, that stupid. Unlike certain other people who will remain me.Quote:
"Holy shit, El,"Read:
3/2025
The Blade Itself
The First Law, #1. Story of a number of people whose stories are intertwined. I thought it was pretty good. I WILL read the next one!
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They'd been through a lot together, him and that pot.
"Fare you well, old friend."
The pot did not reply.Quote:
Better to have it, and not want it, than to want it, and not have it. -- Not unlike a certain bail bondman, eh? Quote:
"So," said Bayaz brightly, "that went well." -- Well, no one died, anyway! Read:
3/2025
How The Penguins Saved Veronica
Veronica McCreedy, #1. A crabby old lady goes to Antarctica to see a penguin research station, even though the scientists there told her stay away as they didn't have facilities for tourists, much less an 86 year old person. Very heart-warming story.
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He know no more about respect than an aardvark knows about St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians.Read:
3/2025