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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Not as good as the first book, seems to be a lot of British in-jokes.
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She said, 'he made love to some of the most beautiful women in the world, so why would he want to hang off a door?' Ivan said, 'Because it's less complicated than having a relationship with a woman. One doesn't have to tell a door twenty times a day that one loves it.Read:
10/2000
The Nine
Thieves Of Fate series, book 1. I BOUGHT it because the author was talking about it on the John Scalzi blog. I like fine, let us see where it goes. I was disappointed in the early demise of a character, though.
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..."I suppose drinking before breakfast is doctor's orders?"
"I don't have the benefit of a rather generous dose of morphine. So I'm making do, thank you." -pg. 348
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12/2017
Lost It
A not-too-bad teen romance with complications. Tess explains how she came to have sex with Ben, how her friend is planning to blow-up a poodle, and how her grandmother buys her a car.
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11/2011
They Call Me Super Mex
With co-author Sam Blair. Autobiography of the golfer. Very interesting, and I don't even care much for golf. Boy, he sure drinks a lot.
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3/2012
A Bit OnThe Side
Twelve stories that I'm sure are very good, but did not interest me at all.
Words I Had To Look Up:
apposite (pg. 32) -- Apt in the circumstances or in relation to something.
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9/2011
The King of Attolia
Despite a couple of incredibly boring paragraphs, I think this is a wonderful book, full of court intrigue, sly humour, exciting sword play, and fully-developed charactors. Many twists and turns. I STILL think the series needs a map! Book three of the series.
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12/2007
The Queen of Attolia
Eugenides is caught and punished as a thief is. Very good. Book two of the series.
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12/2007
The Thief
Gen the thief is let out of prison to steal something valuable for the king. Pretty good story, took a while to build up interest.
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3/2007
Curious Notions
Germany has won World War One. Paul and his father have come Crosstime to trade for vegetables.
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...didn't use German shepherds, though. They used Alsatians, which were bigger and meaner. (pg. 98) -- They are the same dog, at least in OUR timeline!Words I Had To Look Up:
Brunet (pg. 173) -- I guess that is how they spell "brunette" in that timeline.
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2/2009
Gunpower Empire
In book one of the Crosstime Travel series Jeremy and his family travel to an alternate timeline where the Roman Empire never fell. Jeremy and his sister get stranded there, during a war. Yikes!
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11/2008
In High Places
Annette is kidnapped by crosstime slavers as she travels with her family to Marseilles in a alternate timeline.
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2/2009
The Big Switch
Book three in The War That Came Early alternate history series. World War II in Europe progresses, then the British and French join up with the Germans to fight the Russians.
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11/2012
The Disunited States Of America
Justin visits Virginia in an alternative, meets Beckie from California. Then Ohio attacks Virginia, there's a bio attack. Pretty good.
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They would figure the rifles were bound for the black guerrillas down in the lowlands. (pg. 8) Lowland guerrillas, indeed!Quote:
Beckie stared after him till ambush tears scalded her cheeks. (pg. 190) Never heard of ambush tears, nothing on internet.Words I Had To Look Up:
Fasarta (pg. 57) -- Turkish for "mat", use here is a homage to Robert Heinlein's Door Into Summer, where "subflexive fasarta" is used. (SOURCE: A posting by Leoorionis on Enworld.com)
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12/2008
The Gladiator
So Fanta is the soda of choice for young Socialists in the Italian People's Republic. Book five of the Crosstime Traffic series. Pretty good, but not what one would call "exciting". No cuss words, interestingly enough, but some rude Russian. And Russians.
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9/2007
The House Of Daniel
A guy joins up with a traveling baseball team so he can get out of town quickly. They travel the West playing baseball, in great detail, with nearly every small town team. Seems like, anyway! Lots of good baseball, with a touch of werewolves, zombies, and vampires. With a Sasquatch fan or two.
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7/2016
The Valley-Westside War
Liz is digitizing records at a UCLA library in a post-holocaust time line, meets a local soldier named Dan who suspicions she ain't all what she seems. Book six in the Crosstime Traffic series.
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11/2008
Worldwar: In The Balance
Gotta be book one of a series, as nothing much is concluded by the end of 488 pages, except one jerk is righteously knocked off! Anyway, during WWII aliens invade, so all the warring humans must join forces to repel the invaders.
Words I Had To Look Up:
be kriegies by now (pg. 100) -- POW.
Geh kak afen yam (pg. 184) -- Go take a poop in the sea.
mamzrim (pg. 401) -- Bastard, probably.
tukhus-lekher (pg. 402) -- Butt-something.
cri de coeur (pg. 402) -- A cry from the heart.
opprobrium (pg. 438) -- Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct.
oleaginously (pg. 439) -- The state or condition of being oleaginous; oiliness, unctuousness.
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10/2010
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
A "modern day" American somehow finds himself in Arthurian times, tries to change everything. Interesting story, hard to read sometimes. A bit of weeping at the smallpox hut. On the circulation card I found it had been checked out twice by someone I had dated several decades ago. Isn't that interesting?
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6/2014
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Good story, good ending. Fingerprints are fun!
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9/2013
The Celebrated Jumping Frog And Other Stories
Since I was in Angel's Camp a few weeks ago AND I ran across this little (86 page) book I decided to read it. Fun stuff!
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8/2015
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