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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
Montmorency On The Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?
Babies have been dieing on a remote island, Dr. Farcett tries to figure out why. Oh, and someone is bombing London railway stations.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Pootling (pg. 107) -- Move in a leisurely unhurried way.
Tarimond Island (pg. 110) -- A fictional location, but in the search I learned about St. Kilda island which looks like an interesting place.
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12/2008
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?
A thief betters himself by taking to the sewers of London.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Flounce (pg. 132) -- A strip of fabric attached by one edge. A wide ruffle.
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12/2008
A Crooked Kind Of Perfect
Zoe envisions herself as a classical pianist, but her dad buys her a cheap organ and lessons. I really really enjoyed this story.
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1/2010
Into The Beautiful North
A Mexican girl recruits her friends to cross the border into the U.S. to find her father, among others, and bring them back to her village to defend them against bandits. A wonderful book. There were some very humorous parts. And sad ones, too.
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7/2013
Breadcrumbs
I've read The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen) several times, so this was an interesting take on the story.
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3/2012
Flood
Burke is hired by a chubby buxom blonde who is set on revenge, in this the first of the series.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Judy Henske (pg. 119) -- An American singer, dubbed Queen of the Beatniks.
Fingertip leather jacket (pg. 264) -- A fingertip-length jacket. Who knew?
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Dewey Decimal System of Dirt -- (pg. 39) Richard Reeves used a similar phrase in Peeping Thomas.Read:
12/2008
Two Trains Running
Came for the title, stayed for the story. The Mob, gangs, corruption, and cars in a town in the mountains back East somewhere. Moves right along.
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"...long number at the bottom. And that ones' a pay phone..." -- (pg. 219) In 1959 I thought it was more usual to have the telephone exchange letters at part of the "number", rather than a string of digits.Read:
11/2008
Space Opera
I quite liked the part about the cat and the rose bush. And I laughed at a couple of other sentences. And I'm glad I learned about Buranovskiye Babushki. And filk, I looked it up, that was interesting.
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4/2019
The Chronicles Of Harris Burdick
Fourteen authors tell their interpretations of the pictures from Van Allsburgs' book. The M.T. Anderson story grabbed me the most.
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4/2012
Flipped
A very cute romance told from opposing points of view. I enjoyed it very much.
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12/2007
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