Books I've Read

Squid, with her daughter, returns to the island where she and her dead brother were raised.

John sails on his father's new ship, but encounters smugglers in the crew!

John is cast ashore when the sailing ship he and his father are on is lured to wreck by evildoers on the shore.

Guidebook to interesting, wierd, and possibly disturbing places in the Golden State.

Firefly, #4. Mal wins a map in a card game. River is the only one who can read the map.

I read the Project Gutenberg EBook edition of this. Good story, depressing ending, though!

I read the Project Gutenberg EBook edition. Good stories! Poor Mr. Wilson!

In which there are twelve chapters/stories. Mostly pretty good, too. I wish I knew in what order these books are supposed to be read!

This is book one, and I'm reading it second. Oh well, good stories, not always sure who is narrating them, though!!

A French mystery story, translated of course, of the rascal Arsène Lupin and his confrontations with a schoolboy who is matching wits with him, trying to solve the great mystery.

Breq, formerly a starship, is on a quest. Good story, will read the sequels. I am still confused about who is male and who is female. Or maybe it doesn't matter.

Imperial Radch #3. Well, the third book. I found some very funny humour, some confusing stuff. Must be my old age. My favorite character was Translator Zeiat.

The second book in the series. I'm still confused by the lack of gender references, but the story is good. Story got a bit dusty at the end.

A complicated tale of political machinations that takes place in the Ancillary universe. It starts out with Ingray trying to retrieve a thief from a prison planet to help her in a plot to impress her mother, but things rapidly go awry.

I don't know if this is gonna be a series, if so, it is the first one volume. Anyway, the narrator is a big rock, recounting the adventures of Eolo, who is aide to Lord Marat. I like it a lot, I'd read the next no problemo.

I think I understand more of this book than the first two. I think that I shall have to read them over!
In a rough search I found that the word "coffee" is used fifty-nine times. The word "tea" is used a lot too, but I couldn't make an accurate count.

Interesting book about names. I've heard the author speak on the radio and television so many times that I read the book in the author's voice. And I think I've heard a lot of this material before.

An abandoned cat is rescued by a boy. Rather disturbing in parts, all is resolved happily.

Before World War II a Korean girl comes to live in Japan and raises her children there. Very good book.

A Liaden Universe novel. I found the romance lame. Spy Val Con and mercenary Miri Robertson eventually team up to fight their common enemies. Good story...except for that romance!