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Agatha Raisin and the haunted house
Agatha meets a new neighbor, solves a murder, drives off new neighbor, Charles shows up for a while, annouces at end she is starting a detective agency. About time! CHANGE AUTHOR NAME TO BEATON!!!!
Smoke Quote:
Cigarette?" He pulled out a packet.
You smoke!" exclaimed Agatha with all the delight of one member of an endangered species meeting another.
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7/2005
Death of a bore
Hamish investigates the death of an obnoxious writer who "haf" infuriated all the budding writers in the village. Romantic fluxuation between Hamish, Elspeth, Priscilla, and Freda. A marriage, but not Hamish. Another new pet appears. EDIT AUTHORS NAME!!
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8/2005
Death Of A Gentle Lady
Hamish nearly marries a Russian prostitute.
Boo-boo?:
On page 74, Twinkle says she was at her desk the day her mother was murdered. I thought it was her grandmother?Read:
11/2011
Death Of A Kingfisher
A bunch of people end up being dead over a fairy forest. Some evil children are on the loose at the end. I bet Hamish has to deal with them in a later book. Hamish's romantic life is a mess, as usual.
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6/2012
Death Of A Valentine
Hamish is set to marry the woman of his nightmares, but before that he solves the murder of a local beauty queen. CRUD, I picked the WRONG SPELLING of the author name!
Words I Had To Look Up:
Irn-Bru (pg. 87) -- Very popular fizzy drink sold in Scotland, rivals Coke!
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9/2010
Love, Lies And Liquor
Agatha hooks up again with James, they fight, he splits, she sulks. Oh, yeah, a couple people get murdered, including a would-be rival for Jamesssss affections. Very cute Snot-On-Sea snowball book jacket, with sparklies!! EDIT AUTHORS NAME
Smoke Quote:
Sunbeams were the enemy of smokers, thought Agatha, highlighting hust how much of the poisonous stuff you were sending out into the surrounding air.Read:
11/2006
There Goes The Bride
James is getting married, but his fiancee is found shot to death just before the ceremony. This is almost a sub-plot to Agatha's continuing series of romances and encounters with a killer.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Dessert was that Cotswold favourite--icky-sticky pudding (pg. 235) -- Seems to be a cake-like dessert with a toffee sauce.
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8/2011
Ancestral Night
White Space book 1. Haimy Dz is a partner on a space salvage tug. Good story!
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4/2019
Machine
White Space, #2. I enjoyed this story of space-going EMTs/Doctors very much, except for some of the parts where the characters are thinking.
Quote:
Eat carrots and you'll get nice clean poops. If we lived on a plane, I'd tell you about apples--"
"What's an apple?"
"What you eat every dia to keep the doctor away,"Quote:
" [...] Adulthood begins when you look at the mess you've made and realize that the common element in all the terrible things that have gone wrong in your life is you."Quote:
There's something professionally gratifying about being able to gross out a tentacular tree stump who also happens to be one of the galaxy's most experienced trauma surgeons.Quote:
If the truth destroyed it, it needed to go.Quote:
maybe Tsosie is right and I do float through, a little above and to the left of the real world.Read:
3/2025
Blood Music
A wonderful book. Gave me the same feeling as Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
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6/1998
City At The End Of Time
A big story, full of cats and books and mysterious peoples doing mysterious stuff. And you gotta love a book that starts out with a Firesign Theatre quote!
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11/2008
Darwin's Children
I found this sequel a real page-turner. I always forget to check for a glossory, and there it is at the end!
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10/2003
Darwin's Radio
Made my head hurt, all that biology! Very interesting story, reminded a little of Childhood's End by Clarke.
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7/2002
Dinosaur Summer
Teenage Peter travels to the "Lost World" of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a expedition to return Circus dinosaurs to their natural habitat.
QUOTE:
"Makes you hate nature, doesn't it?" he said in disgust--pg.254Read:
3/2003
Foundation And Chaos
Part of a trilogy based on the books by Isaac Asimov. Pretty good!
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7/1998
Killing Titan
War Dogs #2. Master Sergeant Venn is back on Mars. For a while, then on to Titan!
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5/2023
Quantico
Techno-thriller. FBI agents search for bio-terrorists.
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5/2007
Take Back The Sky
War Dogs, #3. I was very confused for maybe three-quarters of the story, but the last quarter was pretty readable and good for me.
Quote:
..."F-bombs were strictly limited to military use..." -- Very funny! Quote:
"Welcome back, Skyrine!" she says. -- I liked this part! Read:
2/2025
Vitals
Scientist searches for life extension, uncovers big plot. Pretty good. Explains all those hang up phone calls we get, too.
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4/2002
War Dogs
War Dogs #1. Intriguing story of space marines sent to battle alien invaders on Mars. At least, that is the story told by the alien "benefactors" on Earth...
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5/2023
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[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]