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The Burglar On The Prowl

Block, Lawrence
Bernie gets a girlfriend, loses his stash. Maker's Mark reference.

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8/2004

The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons

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

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7/2023

The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling

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

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7/2023

The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown

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

Quote:

"Girl Scout Cookies," he announced. "There is a child in this building, just a little bit of a thing, and it is her ambition to outself all the other members of her coven."
"I think they call it a troop," Carolyn said.

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7/2023

The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondarian

Block, Lawrence
Mondrians everywhere! What's a burglar to do?

Quote:

The last hike boosted the sales tax to 8 1/4 percent, and there are people who can figure out that sort of thing in their heads, but they probably can't pick locks. God gives us all different talents and we do what we can with them.

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7/2023

The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza

Block, Lawrence
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.

Quote:

"...An old man like that, you worry about his heart, or maybe he had a fall, things like that. The guy was seventy-one."
"I didn't realize he was that old."
"Yeah, seventy-one..."

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7/2023

The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart

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

Smoke Quote:

She took another deep drag on her cigarette. When she smoked, she really smoked.

Quote:

Or maybe she'd Just raise her eyebrows the slightest bit and give me that look of skeptical amusement. -- My Camellia would do that!

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7/2023

The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams

Block, Lawrence
Bernie Rodenbarr accused of stealing baseball cards.

QUOTE:

"Marginal?" He nodded. "Like you wouldn't want your sister to marry one, but it'd be okay for your cousin. Marginal..."

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6/1999

The Canceled Chezch

Block, Lawrence
Evan Tanner goes to Chezchoslovakia to rescue an old Nazi.

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10/2001

The girl with the long green heart.

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

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12/2005

The Sins Of The Fathers

Block, Lawrence
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!!

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10/2024

Time To Murder And Create

Block, Lawrence
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!

Quote:

I got to my feet and brushed myself off. I was shaking, and badly rattled. She said, "Mister, if you could spare..." then her eyes clouded slightly and she frowned at some private puzzlement. "No," she said. "You just gave me money, didn't you? I'm very sorry. It's difficult to remember." -- So touching!!.

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9/2024

Manhattan Noir

Block, Lawrence, editor/author
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

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9/2024

Story Time

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

QUOTE:

"[Library] Forgiveness Days are about leaving the past behind and moving on to the future". Page 417.

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4/2004

Tangerine

Bloor, Edward
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.

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4/2009

Memory Prisoner

Bloor, Thomas
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?

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6/2007

By The Time You Read This

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

No Such Creature

Blunt, Giles
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.

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6/2009

Quote:

...home had turned into a house made of knives; there was nowhere he could move that did not hurt. (pg. 255) -- Now, there's a phase after my own heart.

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6/2009

Welcome To The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

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

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11/2024

Fallout

Bodeen, S. A.
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.

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10/2014
20 books displayed
[Babbit - Baker] [Baldacci - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Bear] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beck] [Bedard - Blackmore] [Blackwood - Block] [Block - Bodeen] [Bodeen - Bova] [Bova - Brin] [Brin - Bryson] [Bryson - Bujold] [Bujold - Burroughs] [Butler - Bythell] 

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