Books I've Read

While Clarice is quite taken with the heroine of the adventure/mystery series she is reading, she doesn't seem to notice the mysteries around her.

Funny story about a woman who murders her husband, and her nephew who witnesses racial problems in Alabama in 1965. Rated "R" for violence, langauge, sexual situations.

70's folk rock star gets stoned while flying his plane to a gig, crashes somewhere in Central America.

Moose's apartment on Alcatraz catches fire while he is baby-sitting his sister Nat. They escape, but how did the fire happen? Did Natalie start it? Questions to be answered. Natalie is such an amazing girl, and Moose is an amazing brother.

Boy moves to Alcatraz with his guard father, mother, and autistic sister. A touching story. Two weeps.

Three children fly to Colorado, but land in a very strange place. Things get weirder and weirder, until the end, when they get VERY intense. I should have foreseen the ending, but I did not! And I still don't know what is with all the birds!

A very excellent book about a 12-year-old girl named Ant and her scraggly little dog. Two weeps.

Pretty good story of a new quartermaster weathering a huge storm on a destroyer during World War II. Written in 1970, the author drops the N-bomb in the subplot involving the heroic efforts by tne Negro CPO mess guy to save the ship during the big blow. A Withdrawn book.

The Emir plans to blowup a nuclear device down in Yucca Flats. Among other things. Jack Jr. is on the job, along with the rest of the gang from previous books. Very long. Some odd typos. Lots of action!

John Clark and Jack Ryan deal with some nasty Japanese that pull another Pearl Harbor.

Jack Ryan is president, the Iranians try to kill the USA with Ebola virus, the Indians are irritating, and the Chinese are inscrutible. Follows Debt of Honor, precedes Rainbow Six.

With co-author Mark Greaney. Terrorists steal a couple of nukes from Pakistan. Jack Jr. dates a woman who inexplicably turns out to be spying him. Some annoying right-wing views. Everyone who is liberal is bad, everyone conservative is good. Tedious. But not as bad as that John Ringo book. But, I keep reading 'em!

Op-Center series. A Russian Op-Center is manipulated to help overthrow the democratic Russian government.

In the year 2010 the head of Net Force is assasinated as part of a plot to extort big bucks from owners of sabotaged computer systems.

In 1999 politcal intrigue in Russia leads to a terrorist bombing in Times Square on New Year's Eve.

John Clark starts up an anti-terrorist squad in England, ends up fighting tree-huggers that want to kill everyone on the planet.

In early 1980's Ryan is assigned to London, help get a defector out of Russia, doesn't quite save the Pope from getting shot, as we all know!

Jack Ryan is now the elected president. China invades Siberia much to Russia's consternation.

Ryan Jr. retaliates against terrorists who shoot up shopping malls in the U.S.

The Infernal Devices, Book One. Good story of magic and such in Victorian London. Prequel series to the Mortal Instruments. I don't know if I want to read any more, though.