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The Authenticity Project
I always start one of her books thinking "Why am I reading this, there are no space ships, no murders, no dragons." Then she drops one of her fabulous sentences and I am hooked.
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"She used to hate it when people talked about 'fighting' or 'battling' the disease. She'd say, How am I expected to fight something I can't even see? It's not a level playing ground, Monica." Quote:
Sometimes you didn't want a room to make a statement or to say anything about you, you just wanted it to shut up and be a room.Quote:
Rather confusingly, there were three Elsas currently registered. That film, Frozen, had a lot to answer for.Quote:
"You can't put food that's been on the floor back on the plate! Think of the bacteria," said Monica
"You see. You have standards."
Don't you?" she asked.
"Oh yes, of course I do. But they're low. Barely off the ground." Read:
2/2025
The Perilous Gard
Kate Sutton is sent off to live in the odd fortress of Elvenwood Hall when her sister Alicia (the pretty one) innocently sends a critical letter to Queen Mary. Good story! A Weeded Copy.
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4/2013
Lark
A high school girl is abducted and left to die in the woods. The story is told alternately by herself and two girls she knew. I really enjoyed reading this, but I wonder who the other girls in the trees were, and why Eve and Nyette (and Ian) went to the island. I guess I'll have to read it again! I read the Uncorrected Proof edition.
Words I Had To Look Up:
fauxhawk (pg. 44) -- A type of hairstyle, a fake mohawk.
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2/2011
Gringos
Some guy in Mexico is looking for some other guy.
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2/2005
Norwood
Some guy named Norwood goes to New York to recover seventy bucks some guy owes hiim.
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2/2005
The Dog Of The South
Some guy goes to Belize via Mexico to retrieve his Ford Torino and maybe his wife.
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2/2005
Playing With Trains
The former race car driver talks about his hobby of model railroading.
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2/2005
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Julie acknowledges she has a potty mouth, which I could have done without, but I liked the book rather much. I felt ashamed of myself for judging Julia Child (and others) so superficially on looks and, in Julia's case, her raucous laughter. I hereby acknowledge that I am an ass, and I know it.
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12/2010
Expiration Day
In a time when humans are having great difficulty conceiving babies, a teen girl finds out she is actually a robot. Nicely written story.
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2/2015
Bahamas Blue
Tiller Galloway is shanghaied by a former boss.
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"To San Rasario in the fall, the ganja came down from the mountains in two-hundred-poiund bales. Even covered with ripe bananas in the backs of the trucks, it sweetened the dusty air with the autumnal aroma of marijuana." BONUS QUOTE:
"Ought to learn some Spanish, he thought. No, to hell with that. If he got out of this, he wasn't even going to Taco Bell anymore."Read:
7/1999
Hatterass Blue
Tiller Galloway is hired to find a nazi submarine.
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"To San Rasario in the fall the ganja came down from the mountains in two-hundred-poiund bales. Even covered with ripe bananas in the backs of the trucks it sweetened the dusty air along the roads with the autumnal aroma of marijuana."Read:
7/1999
As The Wolf Loves Winter
Old timer C.T. Halverson finds corruption in oil-country Pennsylvania.
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"That was the worst part of getting old. You got so goddamned setimental. Nobody cared about the stuff he remembered. It wasn't important, just people who worked and had kids and got old and died. So why did it feel important, precious and irreplaceable, and as if somehow it must mean something?"Read:
7/1999
Black Storm
Dan Lenson goes into Baghdad during the Gulf War looking for Saddam's ultimate weapon. The Laws Of Patrolling 1. Look cool. 2. Don't get lost. 3. If you get lost, remember to look cool.
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7/2002
Deep War
Dan Lenson #18. The war continues, a massive Chinese AI dominates.
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9/2023
Down To A Sunless Sea
Tiller Galloway goes cave diving in Florida. Trapped in small places, drowning, asphixiation, the dark...all my fears in one book!
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7/1999
Hunter Killer
China nuked a U.S. Navy task force in a previous book, and the war continues on.
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9/2023
Korea Strait
Dan Lenson ends up you-know-where on the TAG Bravo team evaluating a joint naval exercise. Then the North Koreans get all cranky.
Words I Had To Look Up:
the tallest, strackest Korean (pg. 131) -- Squared-away, ready, looking-good soldier. Or sailor, in this case.
eductor (pg. 256) -- Some sort of fancy device for pumping flooded compartments in a ship, in this case.
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9/2009
Louisiana Blue
Tiller Galloway finds work diving on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
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"It's a aiguillette, sir, not a fourragere."Read:
12/1999
Overthrow
The war rages on, but the United Statians are taking it to China. Then SPOILER, America gets nuked.
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"And FDR ran concentration camps too, remember that."
Blair had to nod, "I do, touché" -- Yeah, well...Read:
9/2023
The Circle
Ensign Dan Lenson's first assignment is a destroyer named U.S.S. Ryan. Third book in the series, prequel to the first two.
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8/1998
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