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Bankok 8

Burdett, John
Thai police detective investigates the death of an American Marine, with the help of an FBI agent. Lots of Buddhist thoughts. Snakes. Observation on the Thai sex industry.

Words I Had To Look Up:

Glyph -- A symbol, such as a stylized figure or arrow on a public sign, that imparts information nonverbally. (pg. 307)

Quote:

The new age of biotechnology will require a highly developed intuition which operates outside of logic, and anyway the internal destruction of Western society will have reached such a pass that most of your resources will be concentrated on managing loonies. -- pg. 153

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6/2007

A Clockwork Orange

Burgess, Anthony
I thought I saw the movie in 1968 or '69, which would have meant I saw it with Maureen, but it turns out that it was released in 1972. Which complicates things, as I was dating four or five women that year, three of whom I could have taken to the movie. I wish I had kept a diary!
The author, in his introduction, mentions a glossary. At least, I thought he did. Now, I can find no mention of it.

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9/2024

The Return Of Tarzan

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Tarzan repeatedly must foil the machinations of the evil Monsieur Thuran/Rokoff. Rescues Jane from the frightful men of Opar, too. This has been my bathroom reader at work for four months!

Words I Had To Look Up::

bowlder (pg. 210) -- Alternative spelling of 'boulder'.
ulster (pg. 215) --a man's heavy double-breasted overcoat with a belt or half-belt at the back, so-called because it was first produced in Northern Ireland.
Sapristi! (pg. 219) -- Good Heavens!

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3/2011

Shadowed Souls

Butcher, Jim
Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes, editors.
The Dresden Files (#14.5 - Cold Case), Cal Leandros (#10.5 - Impossible Monsters), Greywalker (#9.2 - Peacock in Hell), Simon Canderous (#4.4 - Solus)
Contents:

Cold Case by Jim Butcher
Sleepover by Seanan McGuire
If Wishes Were by Tanya Huff
Solus by Anton Strout
Peacock In Hell by Kat Richardson
Eye Of Newt by Kevin J. Anderson
What Dwells Within by Lucy A. Snyder
Hunter, Healer by Jim C. Hines
Baggage by Erik Scott de Bie
Sales. Force. by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Impossible Monsters by Rob Thurman

I liked most of these stories.

Quote:

"Dammit, man. I'm a Faerie princess, not a forensic analyst."

Quote:

'Get him! He's the one we've got a contract out on,' says the rock monster. And the golem says, 'Don't end a sentence with a preposition.'

Quote:

A poster i one of the dust-specked windows said "Come for fun in the library!" in dripping-blood letters.

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8/2025

Kindred

Butler, Octavia E.
Dana, a black woman in 1976, is "inexplicitly wretched" back in time to 18-something Maryland and saves a drowning white boy.

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5/2023

Lost In America

Buzzell, Colby
Colby travels around the U.S. in his old car, mostly in Detroit, in a kind Kerouac-y mode.

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3/2012

Remainders Of The Day

Bythell, Shaun
Diary of a Bookseller, #3. Very enjoyable read of the life and goings-on of a seller-of-books in a small town in Scotland.

Quote:

...Granny told me, 'I can't cycle a stupid fucking bicycle, my eyesight is too shit and I too uncoordinated.'

Quote:

How can a woman cook her husband's potatoes properly when her mind is filled with romance?

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12/2023
7 books displayed
[Babbit - Baker] [Baldacci - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beagle] [Bear - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beck] [Beck - Black] [Black - Block] [Block - Blunt] [Bo-Reum - Boulle] [Bourdain - Brillant] [Brin - Bryson] [Bryson - Bujold] [Bujold - Bunting] [Burdett - Bythell] 

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