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Laika
A graphic novel about the first dog in space. One weep.
Read:
10/2011
Catch me if you can
A fairly fascinating tale of a teen who impersonates air line pilots, a doctor, and a lawyer. Leads quite a life. I think they made a movie about him.
Read:
11/2006
The Monkey Wrench Gang
A book from the seventies about a group of eco-terrorists. Pretty good.
Read:
6/2000
The Postcard
Jason goes to awful Florida to help his dad after his grandmother passes away. A mystery unfolds with a postcard he finds, and a mysterious telephone call. An odd but mostly interesting tale, although I tended to forget who was who.
Read:
12/2009
Go And Come Back Again
Told from the point of view of a teenage girl of the Isabo people in Peru, two female anthropologists come to study a village in the 1970s. Very good story, the more I think about it.
Read:
2/2015
Saying It Out Loud
A high school girl deals with her mother's death. A really good story.
Read:
3/2015
Down The Rabbit Hole
I thought this was going to be a scary horror book, but it turned out to be a mystery story. It took a while to get going, I felt it come alive around page 214. The author has laid a lot of groundwork for future books.
Words This Guy Had To Look Up:
Manolo Blahniks (pg. 306) -- A VERY expensive brand of shoes.
Quote:
Waffles, such a great invention, and all because of those little squares, like rice paddies, perfect for filling up with a melted butter and maple syrup combo. Another example of what made America great--the nation that turned plain old rice paddies into syrupy butter paddies. -- (pg. 315)
Quote:
Her bike, a Univega mountain bike, red of course, with fat knobby tires and twenty-three gears, of which she used one, stood against the back wall. -- (pg. 222) She has three chainrings and 7.666 cogs??
Read:
1/2009
The Hitchhiker's Guide ToThe Galaxy
Read the series many years ago, but the principal told me to read this again, so I did.
Read:
9/2011
Selections from The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A selection of really good Sherlock Holmes stories by modern authors. Really good!
Read:
9/2022
The Witness For The Dead
The Goblin King Book 2. A priest (of sorts) investigates deaths in the course of their duties. A really good read, I'm looking forward to reading the other ones in the series.
Read:
7/2021
Black Hearts In Battersea
Simon adventures in London while attending art school. Those Hanorverian rascals!
Read:
3/2015
Cold Shoulder Road
Is is in the south of England with Arun looking for his mother when they run afoul of smugglers whose use the Channel tunnel for their nefarious deads.
Read:
5/2015
Dido And Pa
Dido is back in London and "reunited" with her dad, who is again involved in a plot against the king, although it's a different king now. Very exciting, and the wolves make an appearance.
Read:
5/2015
Go Saddle The Sea
Felix Brooke series, #1. Felix runs away from his home in Spain to England where his deceased father is from. Pretty good story, once it gets started.
Read:
2/2019
Nightbirds On Nantucket
Dido ends up in the U.S., if you can imagine, and what does she run into? Pretty much what she ran into back home.
Read:
4/2015
The Stolen Lake
Dido hitched a ride back to the U.K., Great Britain, or whatever it is called in this alternate history book, but ends up in South America, as near as I can figure, where she may be tossed into a lake (the stolen one, after it is returned) to extend the life of someone with a oddly familiar name. There, I don't think that's a spoiler.
Read:
4/2015
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
"Wicked wolves without and a grim governess within threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia..." Read pre-1998, read again, 'cause it's good. Many words to look up!
Read:
3/2015
The Boy Fortune Hunters In Alaska
Written by L. Frank Baum under a pseudonym.
A boy ends up on a cruise to Alaska during the gold rush days. Good story.
Interesting how the author using "negro" dialog to portray what the natives from the Philippines are saying.
Read:
8/2022
The Boy Fortune Hunters In China
After rescuing a Chinese man from a sinking ship Sam Steele heads off to China, with his pals, to, Essentially, steal valuable ancestral jewels and such.
Read:
9/2022
The Boy Fortune Hunters In Panama
Written by L. Frank Baum under a pseudonym. I read the Project Gutenberg e-book edition.
A decrepit steel-hauling ship is damaged in a storm and is run up on a beach in Panama to save the cargo. Angry natives are encountered. A Princesses heart is stolen, as are a bunch of uncut diamonds.
Read:
8/2022
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[Abadzis - Akers, pseud.] [Akers, pseud. - Anderson] [Anderson - Arnow] [Ashcraft - Avi]