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The Fields of home
Ralph goes to live with his Grandfather on the family farm. And meets a girl!
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And I wished that Uncle Levi hadnt said anything about kisses and red hair ribbon going together.Read:
5/2006
The Home ranch
Ralph spends the summer working for Mr. Batchlett at his ranch.
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I couldn't help thinking he and I were a good deal alike. Maybe he was trying to do things too big for him so people wouldn't call him an old man. Maybe he bragged about things he used to do because he couldn't do them any more, and because he wanted the same thing I did: to have other people think he was as smart and able to do things as they were.Read:
5/2006
Command And Decision
Kylara Vatta commands the Third Fleet of the Space Defense Force in the fourth book of the Vatta's War series.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Latrine (pg. 33) -- I thought it would be called the "head" on a ship.
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"The rule with hypothermia: they're not dead until they're warm and dead." -- pg. 129.Read:
9/2008
Crown Of Renewal
Lots of traveling around in Book 5 of Paladins Legacy. I was getting near the end and thought that there wasn't enough book to clear everything up, but it did.
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8/2020
Divided Allegiance
Book II of The Deed Of Paksenarrion. Since there is another book I guess she hasn't done the Deed yet. Ha ha. I liked reading this book very much, but the print is too small in paperback, 522 pages worth of small!I am looking forward to book three.
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5/2020
Echoes Of Betrayal
Book three in the Paladin's Legacy series. Very good, always the "did not see THAT coming!" going on for me!
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8/2020
Engaging The Enemy
Book 3 in the Kylara Vatta series. Ky learns something about Stella, escapes from a space battle with pirates. Aunt Grace loses her grip for a while...
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"...For one thing, they don't break. They never require cleaning. They never need repair or adjustment. Anything that damages one of them will destroy the house around it. They all monitor for a wide range of health concerns. And they have the most comfortable seats..." (pg. 59) -- Sounds like quite a toilet!Read:
9/2008
Kings Of The North
Paladin's Legacy book 2. I find myself starting off slow, then getting all enthused. Now I've finished this one and I don't have the next. What shall I do?
Glad to see a "loose end" may be getting tied up soon.
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6/2020
Limits Of Power
Paladins Legacy #4. I can't remember a scene that Kieri remembers about the traitor. It's really bugging me!
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Tell me: are you wise? -- pg. 473Read:
8/2020
Marque And Reprisal
Further adventures of Kylara Vatta. Her family and their business are attacked by persons unknown, she meets a fellow name Rafe, and gains a new understanding of Stella, and her aunt Gracie. A rotten pun on page 311. Be forewarned!
Words I Had To Look Up:
Inchoate (pg. 211) -- Not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
Relative Vee (pg. 63) -- Still I don't know what relative vee and delta vee are!
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9/2008
Oath Of Fealty
Paladin's Legacy #1. I wasn't real motivated by the book in the beginning, but all of a sudden I was nearing the end and I'm think, "I really like this!" So there you are.
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6/2020
Oath Of Gold
Book Three in the Deed of Paksennarrion series. Very good, some weeps at the end.
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5/2020
Sheepfarmer's Daughter
(The Deed of Paksenarrion #1). I liked this very much, looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
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3/2020
The Speed Of Dark
In the near future, an autistic man has to decide whether to risk an experimental procedure. Very interesting.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Ameliorate (pg. 151) -- To make or become better; improve.
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"Once is accident, twice is coincidence, and third time is enemy action." (pg. 191)Read:
9/2008
Trading In Danger
Kylara Vatta is kicked out of Space Academy and is sent by her family on a trading voyage. Good space opera, but the print is too small! I was noticing there was no cussing in the book, but near the end there was a B**** and a ***hole. Why?
Reminiscent of The President's Analyst, we learn do not mess with the Phone Company!
Words I Had To Look Up:
Ansible (pg. 93) -- An instantaneous communications device. First noted usage by LeGuin in 1966. http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/16
Gorked (pg. 147) -- Medical slang for a terminal patient whose brain is nonfunctional.
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The old woman was still angry. Not scared a bit--well, the old were like that, if they weren't scared of everything. (pg. 180)
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"How well do you know that old code they used in the war?" -- (pg. 222) This is why we learn Morse code, folks!
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8/2008
Victory Conditions
Ky Vatta, excuse me, ADMIRAL Ky Vatta, wins the war, and finally "goes to the drive-in", as it were...
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9/2008
Fluke, Or, I Know Why The Winged Whale Sings
Very funny, clever dialog, whale stuff, loved it!
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"That's not very professional," Nate said, "that snorting-laugh thing you do."Quote:
"I have vodka and a shower in my cabin," she said.
"I have a shower in my cabin, too," Nate said.
Libby just shook her head and trudged up up the path to the lodge. Over her shoulder she called, "In five minutes there is going to be a naked woman in my shower. Do you have one of those?"
"Oh," said Nate.
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She's small, yet she contains so much evil, Quinn thought.Quote:
Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.Read:
9/2024
Practical Demonkeeping
Travis and his Demon come to Pine Cove--Travis to find a way to get rid of the Demon; the Demon to find a better master. Or mistress...
I wondered why there so much talk of the Polaroid back on the Nikon, but then I realized this was written in 1992, before digital SLRs.
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The small hours of the morning found them naked on the kitchen floor after Travis had played a rampaging Godzilla to Jennifer's unsuspecting Tokyo. -- (Pg. 149) Good stuff!
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8/2011Read:
6/2012
The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove
A huge prehistoric beast finds its way to, where else, Pine Cove. Did I mention a HUNGRY prehistoric beast?
Words I Had To Look Up::
coldcocked (pg.2) -- To knock unconscious, but from whence does it come? First noted use 1918.
Sneaky Pete (pg. 8) -- The ol' booze bottle in the paper bag ploy, but in the novel it is a smokeless pot pipe.
...especially from fornication with woman or man... (pg. 32) -- One of a number of interesting things in the Hippocratic Oath.
two-tops (pg. 116) -- Tables at a restaurant that seat two people.
Ubermensch (pg. 235) -- Literally, "Superman". The ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, originally described by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra.
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...even brought in some paintball guns to try to gain the pupils' interest, but the latter only backfired into several incidents of drive-by abstract expressionism...(pg. 38) -- Love that sentence!
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Mavis moved behind the bar with a grim, if wobbly, determination, drinking coffee from a gargoyle-green mug while a Tarryton extra long dangled from her lips, dropping longs ashes down the front of her sweater like the smoking turds of tiny ghost poodles. -- (pg. 238) A good Smoke Quote is, uh, good to find!
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8/2011
You Suck : A Love Story
This seems to be a sequel, a lot of back-story is recounted. Tommy is a new vampire in San Francisco, thanks to his hot girlfriend. It certainly is a change from Indiana, he says.
Words I Had To Look Up:
The Big Book Of Death (pg. 123) -- Described in the text as a how-to, but seems more of an encyclopedic on Amazon.
...smokin' one-handed H.O.R.S.E. player (pg. 218) -- A basketball game variation.
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They watched the coffee dripping out of the filter like they were distilling nitroglycerine (pg. 117)
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8/2011
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