Books I've Read

On the book the word "Visit" is struck out. I don't know how to render that here. Miguel's Tia comes to visit from the D.R., he is a bit scandalized by her outgoing personality at first, but eventually realizes how much he wants her to stay. Good story!

James Dixon is a lecturer at a British college in the late 1940s or VERY early 1950s. He is not getting on at his job, and a number of personal difficulties arise. Someone on some social network I can't remember said it was very funny. John Mortimer says on the back cover that "Amis was a genuine comic writer, perhaps the best after P.G. Wodehouse." I do like me some Wodehouse, as they say - my Jeeves Omnibus has been read several times. Well, I could see where this OUGHT to be funny, but it didn't work for me.

A young Korean girl comes to America with her parents. Very good.

Mostly humorous stories showing getting old can be, well, humorous, with inspirational bible-stuff to go with each one. Nice stories.

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!

Matilda, along with thousands of others, gets yellow fever in Philadelphia.

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.

Glossary is hidden at the end of the book.

Guy loves girl, girl is unfaithful with burger jerk, guy plots revenge. MUCH less cussing than Feed.

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.

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation #2.
More astonishing adventures of slave during the Revolutionary War, this time mostly in the South.

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation #1. A story of the Revolutionary War from the point of view of a slave, mostly. Pretty good, I'm reading #2 right now!

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?

A murder in San Francisco is investigated by a college professor. Good story!

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.

Three stories about David Falkayn, a young trader in the Polesotecnic League. Good space opera.

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.

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!

The author tells about her early life, mostly in a small town in Arkansas.