Books I've Read
Books Listed by Author
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All
Miles Mutants And Microbes
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#5)
Contents:
Falling Free
Labyrinth
Diplomatic Immunity
I enjoyed this omnibus very much, even with the repeat of Labyrinth!
Read:
4/2023
Miles, Mystery, And Mayhem
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#3)
Contains:
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Labyrinth.
Great stories, I am re-reading them in the omnibus edition.
Read:
4/2023
Mirror Dance
Miles Vorkosigan goes to Jackson's Whole to help his brother
Read:
12/1999
Paladin Of Souls
Ista goes on a pilgrimage.
Read:
5/2012
Passage
Book three in The Sharing Knife series. Fawn, Dag, and the rest of the crew (and captain) are in the south.
Words I Had To Look Up:
towhead (pg. 318) -- A sandbar or low-lying alluvial island in a river, especially one with a stand of trees.
Quote:
Not a tidy heart shot, but that straw bale sure wasn't getting away. (pg. 197)
Read:
8/2010Read Again:
8/2016
Penric's Progress
Three Penric stories, very good!
Read:
8/2021
Penric's Travels
Three Penric stories. Penric's Mission, Mira's Last Dance, The Prisoner Of Limnos. Very enjoyable!
Read:
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.
Read:
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?
Read:
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
A Clockwork Orange
I thought I saw the movie in 1968 or '69, which would have meant I saw it with Maureen, but it turns out that it was released in 1972. Which complicates things, as I was dating four or five women that year, three of whom I could have taken to the movie. I wish I had kept a diary!
The author, in his introduction, mentions a glossary. At least, I thought he did. Now, I can find no mention of it.
Read:
9/2024
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!
Read:
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.
Read:
5/2023
Lost In America
Colby travels around the U.S. in his old car, mostly in Detroit, in a kind Kerouac-y mode.
Read::
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
Mildred Pierce
Mildred starts a restaurant after getting divorced from her philandering husband. Noir. No one is murdered.
Quote:
"The gams, the gams! Your face ain't news!"Quote:
Salad, for some reason, is served first in California.Words I Had To Look Up:
Untrammeled bosom.Read:
7/2024
The Postman Always Rings Twice
I don't know what the title has to do with anything. I looked it up and I still don't understand. So I say, "WhatEVER". The story was OK, the female character is just weird.
Quote:
"You think I'm going to cash that? I am like hell. I'm going to frame it. It goes up there, right over my desk."Read:
9/2024
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.
Read:
12/2002
20 books displayed
[Abadzis - Aiken] [Aiken - Alexie] [Alexie - Anderson] [Andreae - Asimov] [Asimov - Backman] [Backman - Balf] [Ballard - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Benford] [Bennett - Block] [Block - Block] [Block - Bond] [Bonham - Bowen] [Bowen - Brooks] [Brooks - Buckell] [Buckley - Bujold] [Bujold - Caldwell] [Caletti - Card] [Card - Carrere] [Carroll - Chambers] [Chambers - Clancy] [Clancy - Clements] [Cline - Cohen] [Cohen - Collins] [Collins - Collins] [Collins - Connelly] [Connelly - Constantine] [Constantine - Corey] [Corey - Cornwell] [Correia - Crais] [Crais - Crider] [Crime - Cushman] [Cushman - Dana] [Dash - Delaney] [Dexter - Doctorow] [Doctorow - Dorsey] [Dorsey - Dozois] [Drake - DuPrau] [DuPrau - Emerson] [Emerson - Evanovich] [Evanovich - Fairstein] [Falkner - Fielding] [Finnin - Fleischman] [Fleischman - Forester] [Forrest - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Frey] [Frey - Galli] [Gantos - Gerber] [Gibbons - Goldstone] [Goldstone - Gramazio] [Granger - Graves] [Gray - Griffin] [Grimes - Grimes] [Grisham - Haddix] [Haddix - Hall] [Hall - Hallinan] [Hallinan - Harrison] [Harrison - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Heinlein] [Heley - Henry] [Henry - Herzog] [Hess - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hillerman] [Hilton - Hochschild] [Hoeg - Horowitz] [Horton - Hyman] [Hyman - Jenkins] [Jennings - Kaaberbøl] [Kaaberbøl - Kaminsky] [Kaminsky - Key] [Khoury - King-Smith] [King-Smith - Kollin] [Konigsburg - Krueger] [Kuang - Larson] [Larson - Leblanc] [Leblanc - LeGuin] [Lehman - Lescroart] [Levine - Linville] [Lippman - Lovegrove] [Lovelace - Lutz] [Lutz - Macleod] [MacPherson - Marcinko] [Marcinko - Martini] [Martini - Mayor] [Mazer - McCammon] [McCammon - McCullers] [McCullers - Meluch] [Meluch - Modesitt, Jr.] [Moffett - Moon] [Moon - Mosley] [Moss - Napoli] [Neville - Niven] [North - Nunn] [O'Brian - O'Brian] [O'Brian - Oppel] [Oppenheim - Paretsky] [Paretsky - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Paulsen] [Paulsen - Pease] [Peck - Peyton] [Pfeffer - Pooley] [Pooley - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pronzini] [Pronzini - Quinn] [Quinn - Read] [Readers Digest - Rhodes] [Rich - Roanhorse] [Roberts - Rose] [Rose - Russell] [Russell - Sacks] [Sagan - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Science Fiction DAW 30th Anniversary] [Scieszka - Scottoline] [Scottoline - Sharenow] [Shea - Silverberg] [Silverberg - Smith] [Smith - Spinelli] [Spinelli - Stead] [Stead - Stewart] [Stockett - Stross] [Stross - Swanson] [Swee - Teague] [Telsep - Turner] [Turner - Ursu] [Vachss - Vande Velde] [Vande Velde - Walter] [Wambaugh - Weber] [Weber - Wells] [Wells - Westlake] [Westlake - Westlake] [Westlake - Willis] [Willis - Wodehouse] [Wodehouse - Yep] [Yolen - Zusak]