Books I've Read

Bernie Rhodenbarr #11. Happily visiting this series again! Bernie gets to steal book, then later a spoon.

Well well well, someone gets killed on Bernie's watch, and he gets blamed. Who could imagine?

This alternate universe story was...OK, but I didn't think it was as good as the rest of the series.

Mondrians everywhere! What's a burglar to do?

Well, I kinda figured out who did it, but on the other hand I didn't see those two who were gonna do it. If you know what I mean.

I really enjoyed this one, I even found a couple of really good quotes. I kinda fell in love with Ilona myself.

Bernie Rodenbarr accused of stealing baseball cards.

Evan Tanner goes to Chezchoslovakia to rescue an old Nazi.

Con men swindle a guy with a fake Canadian land deal. May have read before. Sorta sounds familiar. Did I already read this?

Matthew Scudder #1. I must of read this before 1998 because it isn't on my list of books read, and I know I read a ton of the Matthew Scudder books. Well, they are so excellent that I can just read them again!!

Matthew Scudder, #2. Scudder is drinking in this one, I guess he hasn't started AA yet. An acquaintance, a blackmailer, is murdered and Scudder finds himself trying to figure out who done it. Great story!

Manhattan Noir, #1. Fifteen Noir stories taking place in Manhattan, duh! Mostly pretty good!

Contents:
The good Samaritan / Charles Ardai
The last supper / Carol Lea Benjamin
If you can't stand the heat / Lawrence Block
Rain / Thomas H. Cook
A nice place to visit / Jeffrey Deaver
The next best thing / Jim Fusilli
Take the man's pay / Robert Knightly
The laundry room / John Lutz
Freddie Prinze is my guardian angel / Liz Martínez
The organ grinder / Maan Meyers
Why do they have to hit? / Martin Meyers
Building / S.J. Rozan
The most beautiful apartment in New York / Justin Scott
The last round / C.J. Sullivan
Crying with Audrey Hepburn / Xu Xi

Ghosts at the Whitaker Magnet School/library. Didn't move me. Except for the quote below.

Paul's family moves to Florida, where the citrus trees have been cut down for housing developments. Awful stuff is eventually revealed about his jerk older brother. Very good story, I had a good sense of time and place.

Maddie is a teen that hasn't left her house since she was a little girl, for a reason that she cannot name, but WE suspect it has something to do with the sinister town library, don't we? And just WHO could the mysterious prisoner in the library basement be, eh?

John Cardinal's wife jumps off a building. Lisa investigates a child porn case. And Doctor Bell? Well, he's not helping much.

Owen and his uncle (who adopted him after his parents died) rob wealthy Republicans at dinner parties for a living. but uncle Max is starting to lose his mental faculties, and Owen wants to go to acting school. A violent and profane book, with a bit of humor. I enjoyed it.

I liked the bookshop part, but the parts about feelings and stuff I couldn't get into.

A sequel to The Compound, which I have not read. Yet. How to sum up? Teen boy restored, with most of his family, to civilization after living underground for years (see previous book), has a lot to deal with.

Guy meets girl. Girl is a plant or a nudibranch or autotroph or something. More plant, I guess. But not green. Bad Scientist tries to get girl back to The Laboratory. Good/Bad Scientist turns out to be boy's missing father. Good Scientist takes plant girl to a Safe Place.