P.I. Sonny Baca battles Raven in his third outing, I think. Raven is building a nuclear weapon, as a distraction.... I'm not totally comfortable with the author's style, but I did like the second half of this book.
Three girls move into the city, as it were, so they can attend their high school after bus service to their area is canceled. It being WWII there is a lot of turmoil, a large munition factory has come to their little town and brought lots of workers. A fourth girl, a refugee from the UK, moves in with them. Pretty much life goes on, with an adventuresome conclusion. This book was published in 1944.
Earthquakes, comet strike, sun exploding, core meltdown, everything happens to Krypton! I feel very little nostalgia for the Superman of my youth, but this book fleshes out the story lines I remember. Geez, I mispeled Krypton in the title!
Curzon is an escaped slave who joins the Continental Army (Again, in this second book of the series.) and spends the winter at Valley Forge. Great Hardships are endured.
Titus goes to the moon on school break and meets Violet. Their brain feeds are hacked at a nightclub, and Violet suffers feed degradation. A very sad story. Has more "f" words than a Rogue Warrier™ novel, too.
Read:
1/2010
Words I Had To Look Up:
intercrural (pg 127) -- A type of sex act. Learn something every day!
remarkable verdure (pg, 134) -- The lush greenness of flourishing vegetation. sestina (pg. 201) -- A medieval verse form of six six-line stanzas.
First of the series. Very Space Opera. Sex interplay seems weird. On reading again, the writing seems stilted. Poor editing, or was the author going for some kind style?
Read:
5/2006
Quote:
If we must exterminate the Terrans, we will at least have rid the universe of much empty chatter. (pg. 130)
A Project Gutenberg e-book. A guy, who was defeated during a war with the Terran Imperial Navy, is taken to some black hole sort-of-place where some aliens have magic-like powers, this place being where said guy is in love with one female alien, but then falls in love with the Terran captain lady, and then defeats the aliens and takes the captain back to his planet to get married and have babies.
I didn't much care for this book.
How can this title not be in here already? I have read this quite a several times! Along with most of the rest of his books! I even have the reply from him to a letter I wrote. Anyway, I have enjoyed reading his stories of the adventures of his family, and this is one of my favorites, being about bicycling in Europe.
Smoke Quote:
Walthour chuckled. "Never smoked a cigarette in my life. That's why Camels never hurt my lungs."
Mattie McCulloch is assigned to boss a big forest fire. Real good story about fighting forest fires and murder by a sex- crazed nutzo. I kept thinking it was different other people, must have been the misleading clues!
Space Opera with a little bit of everything: murder, incest, rape, wanton killing, child molestation... did I mention rape? Murder? I am SO looking forward to volume two!! Actually, it's a pretty good book, with a very uplifing love story that caused me to shed a little tear. But it IS pretty violent!
First off, I enjoyed reading this pretty much. Especially the violin stuff, and donuts! This was the #2 for the 2022 Hugo. I read some comments about the book that showed me some problematic areas I had not thought about.
Quote:
There is a reason that most luthiers never let players see what they do to their instruments. They would faint. -- I've seen it on YouTube. Brutal!
Quote:
Why was he taking shit from backward shits who had never even left their shitstain planet?
A mom (with a boob job, mentioned many times)in Lake Elsinore runs a dating service, with some detecting on the side. I kept comparing it to the Evanovich's books.
Words I Had To Look Up::
"Chunks."
(pg. 186) -- I didn't know highlights in hair were called chunks. See, you CAN learn stuff, even from a book as lightweight as this!
Thriller involves Anna, an art expert, with a Van Gogh and murder. And there is an Romanian ex-gymnast hitwoman, too.! Did I mention the 9/11 backdrop?
Fourteen pretty darn good little stories. Some have an art background, and some are based on true events.
Quote:
'Henry Moore,' the curator continued, in a voice that made it clear he believed he was addressing an ignorant bunch of tourists who might muddle up Cubism with sugar lumps [...].