Co-authored by Virginia DeMarce. Thanks goodness for the eight pages listing the characters, and the page of family trees, and the maps. But I still got confused.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Propinquity (pg. 97) -- Nearness in place or time.
...balancing with sidecars (pg. 155) -- I thought sticking someone in the sidecar would stabilize it. catechumens (pg. 369) -- One who is being taught the principles of Christianity.
Fiction and factual articles related to the 1632 world, by Eric Flint and others. My favorite was the train-related Elizabeth. The factual articles were interesting, but went into WAY too much detail for me!
Short stories by several authors continue the saga of the 1632 universe. Several of the stories are very excellent, some confused me.
Read:
3/2008
Words I Had To Look Up:
Morganatic (page 372) -- f, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of the parent of higher rank
Irenic (page 536) -- favoring, conducive to, or operating toward peace, moderation, or conciliation.
Joe's World #1. I read the Baen Free Library e-book edition.
A professional strangler and his manager have a lot of adventure, including the underworld!
Quote:
“Hadn’t been for that fucking comet,” I heard him mutter, “we’d still be running the show. Wouldn’t be any of this derring-do nonsense, let me tell you. Just loll about in the swamp, gobbling insects.” -- Chapter 24.
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The salamander’s eyes bugged even further, and he hissed with outrage. “That’s Frankenstein’s monster, you ignoramus!” -- Chapter 28.
Co-author Dave Freer. The Witches of Karres #4. The captain and The Leewit head off one place to do something, Goth heads off to another, and everyone meets up eventually. The universe (or something) is saved, the lost are found, sad farewells are said, new skills are learned, and there we go again.
Quote:
"You're not going to put a little girl in jail, are you?" asked the Leewit, doing her best to look like a little girl, sweet and harmless...in a way that would have frightened Pausert into blocking his ears. But then, he knew her.
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"The two of you look like stunned breadfish," said the Leewit in disgust. "And I'll have my rochat back, you pet thief."
[Goth says to her sister] "...Look after the captain for me, Leewit..." -- It's the Leewit!!! The Leewit will emphatically correct anyone who forgets the "the".
Quote:
"Who are you calling a bumbling idiot, ma'am?" demanded the bumbling idiot...
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It looked like a trumpery bit of stuff to Goth. -- Heh he, "trumpery...
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"I really don't think so," said Goth. She hadn't known before that frost could actually form on words.
Co-written with Marilyn Kosmatka. An Illinois maximum security prison is transported 50 million years back in time,more or less, along with Cherokee Indians from the Trail of Tears, Spanish conquistadors, and various other people. And dinosaurs. Yikes!
Smoke Quote:
No matter how different they were in other ways, they shared the smoker's sense of withstanding a bitter and relentless siege shoulder to shoulder. -- pg. 419.
Interestly story of a boy coming to terms with the death of his father in 9/11. Lots of pictures and some colored pages, rather different for a fiction book.
The story of Bering's second expedition, to Alaska, focusing on Georg Steller, the naturalist.
Quote::
Brigitte was only a year older than Steller, of German peasant stock, big-boned and buxom and full of animal vitality. Her plump warm body was always moist with perspiration, and patches of damp powder were caked on her neck and between her breasts, brazenly revealed by a low-cut bodice. (pg. 31) That's the paragraph that got me to read the book.
I read the Project Gutenberg e-book edition. Which did not include the Appendix that the author wrote many years later. I didn't get very excited by this Edwardian romance. Some parts were good, some clever, some even funny. But mostly not.
Quote:
Chapter III: Music, Violets, and the Letter “S”
“She oughtn’t really to go at all,” said Mr. Beebe, as they watched her from the window, “and she knows it. I put it down to too much Beethoven.”