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Penric's Travels
Three Penric stories. Penric's Mission, Mira's Last Dance, The Prisoner Of Limnos. Very enjoyable!
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8/2021
The Curse Of Chalion
A washed-up wreck from the wars begs a job in the scullery at the castle where he used to be a page. Gets job as tutor to princess. First book in Chalion series.
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5/2012
Vorkosigan's Game
Three stories about Miles Vorkosigan.
QUOTE:
"Where are you?" Ivan demanded suspiciously. "Stuck in limbo." "Well, I don't want any of it stuck to me," said Ivan roughly, and punched off-line. BONUS QUOTE:
I can't believe this. Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex- starved teenage werewolf. There was nothing about this in any of my Imperial training manuals...Read:
1/2000
Young Miles
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#2)
Contents:
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Mountains of Mourning
The Vor Game
Author's Afterword
Quote:
It isn't easy, being Vor...Read:
3/2023
SOS Titanic
A boy travels from Ireland to America, part of the way, on the good ship Titanic. Good story, but why do I not have any other Bunting books on my list, eh?
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5/2015
Bankok 8
Thai police detective investigates the death of an American Marine, with the help of an FBI agent. Lots of Buddhist thoughts. Snakes. Observation on the Thai sex industry.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Glyph -- A symbol, such as a stylized figure or arrow on a public sign, that imparts information nonverbally. (pg. 307)Quote:
The new age of biotechnology will require a highly developed intuition which operates outside of logic, and anyway the internal destruction of Western society will have reached such a pass that most of your resources will be concentrated on managing loonies. -- pg. 153Read:
6/2007
The Return Of Tarzan
Tarzan repeatedly must foil the machinations of the evil Monsieur Thuran/Rokoff. Rescues Jane from the frightful men of Opar, too. This has been my bathroom reader at work for four months!
Words I Had To Look Up::
bowlder (pg. 210) -- Alternative spelling of 'boulder'.
ulster (pg. 215) --a man's heavy double-breasted overcoat with a belt or half-belt at the back, so-called because it was first produced in Northern Ireland.
Sapristi! (pg. 219) -- Good Heavens!
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3/2011
Kindred
Dana, a black woman in 1976, is "inexplicitly wretched" back in time to 18-something Maryland and saves a drowning white boy.
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5/2023
Lost In America
Colby travels around the U.S. in his old car, mostly in Detroit, in a kind Kerouac-y mode.
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3/2012
Remainders Of The Day
Diary of a Bookseller, #3. Very enjoyable read of the life and goings-on of a seller-of-books in a small town in Scotland.
Quote:
...Granny told me, 'I can't cycle a stupid fucking bicycle, my eyesight is too shit and I too uncoordinated.'Quote:
How can a woman cook her husband's potatoes properly when her mind is filled with romance?Read:
12/2023
Dear And Glorious Physician
Story of St. Luke. Pretty long. I might not have read the third third quite as throughly as the first two thirds.
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12/2002
Honey Baby Sweetheart
Ruby meets a boy who is trouble. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend to teenage girls, but there is a bit more profanity than I would like for middle school students. Although no one will notice as I am only the second person to read it in since it was acquired in 2006.
Quote:
"I love that Heart of Darkness. Steinbeck's a genius," Frank said.
"Joseph Conrad," my mother said. "Heart of Darkness is by Joseph Conrad."
"I'm sure it's Steinbeck," Frank said. "I remember it from high school."
"She's a librarian," Harold said. -- Pg. 287
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1/2015
Sportbike Performance Handbook
In a form of self-torture I perused this book. Can't way I READ every word, though. Lots of interesting "how stuff works" information. I remember the author's column and articles from Cycle magazine. I don't see much "how to do it", though. I've got to get a bike...
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6/2009
Andorra
Strange story, a mystery fantasy. I didn't know there was a beach in Andorra...
SMOKE QUOTE:
I sat next to her and watched her smoke. I liked how she did it: a little greedily, narrowing her green eyes and sucking in her cheeks as if smoking were very hard work.Read:
3/2000
A Dog's Purpose: A Novel For Humans
Took me a while to get into this story, about a hundred pages. A dog recounts his various lives (dogs are reincarnated). Damn book is so dusty, my eyes keep watering...
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10/2010
The Tequila Worm
A very enjoyable story of a Mexican-American girl winning a scholarship to a exclusive boarding school. Full of wonderful family and cultural stuff.
Words I Had To Look Up:
cascorones (pg. 18) -- Hollow-out eggs filled with confetti or small toys.
H.E.B. (pg. 129) -- A supermarket chain in Texas and Lousiiana.
pendeja (pg. 168) -- Idiot.
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10/2010
God Save The Queen
A butler dies in the john, a young girl might inherit, a silver tea strainer has been missing for two hundred years. A very nice little mystery, very enjoyable.
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4/2001
The Thin Woman
Ellie Simons must lose 63 pounds, among other requirements, to inherit. Funny story.
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4/2001
Blood On The River: James Town 1607
For some reason I don't care much for books about Early America, but this historical fiction novel was pretty good. Orphan/accused thief Samuel Collier comes to America with Captain John Smith (as his page).
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10/2010
A Planet Called Treason
Lanik Mueller is heir to one of the ruling families on a planet called Treason. His family grows extra body parts to sell off- world. I found the story to be offensive at first, but it develops into an ok story. Certainly not an "Ender's Game" by any stretch.
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8/1999
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