Books I've Read

Cap, an home-schooled boy from a former hippie commune, is forced to attend eighth grade when his grandmother breaks her hip.

A boy finds a rare baseball card and is ripped off by a dealer. By about $ 980,000!! Boy recruits friends to get card back. Chaos happens.

The gang rescues animals from a private zoo on a paddle-wheel boat. Then things go wrong...

Great pictures, very interesting.

Lady Astronaut Novel #1. Meteorite wipes out Washington D.C., climate change, better get some off-Earth colonies started! Set in the 50s. I really liked it a lot, read the darn thing in one 24-hour period!

Second book in the Wings trilogy, odd story of the boy Peter, and later the man Peter, making an odd trip in an odd America.

The author's account of the terrible events on his ascent of Mt Everest in 1996. Very Excellent!

On a planet far far away, women are recruited for a special unit to defend their small country from belligerent neighbors. Gosh, wish the two appendixes had been listed in a table of contents so I could have USED them while reading!

Cork helps and old Indian friend find the son he has only seen in dreams, and solves a mystery, too. Pretty good stuff. Read the Readers Digest Condensed version.

Thirteen Holmes stories by various authors, mostly none I've heard of. Very good.

A biography of Mike May, who, blinded at age three, had his sight partially restored in the 90s. An extremely interesting story! Ham radio, bicycling, laser record players, good-looking women, it's all there!

Explains that God does not micromanage.

The author has cranked out a zillion of these 150 page books, and they are great little stories. And no sex, very little cussing, if any, but a bit of violence. In this one, "Pronto" Pike gets beat up and left for dead by vigilantes and falls in love with an Irish girl. I wonder why the bad guy who was detailed to kill him did not do it, though?

An orphaned girl, Maggy, comes to stay with the Austin family. Very nice family story.

Sequel to the classic novel. Interesting, but not great.

Elise starts off badly in sixth grade at middle school, but eventually things get better. An extremely charming story. Parts of it seemed very familiar, like I had read a galley edition, but I would have noted that before. Odd. So I enjoyed it very much. But I'd like to know what the deal is with Amanda. Maybe a sequel?

Two brother in India and what happened to them. Very very good, but very very slow. I was in tears at the end.

Notes on hope, it says. Good book.

This was a very wonderful book that I enjoyed very much. I wish I could hold her words in my heart, but I don't seem to work that way.

Ginny is now fifteen, which means the man she was wed to when she was ten years old is coming to take her to live with him on his farm. A tale of the settlement of the Oregon Territory.