Books I've Read
Books Listed by Author
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All
Slake's Limbo
Teen boy Aremis Slake runs away from his awful life to live in the New York subway. Pretty good book!
Words I Had To Look Up:
...he turned up such a surprising amount of trash, truck, and treasure... (pg. 62) -- Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish. I remember this word from my elementary school reader, and I've always like it!
Read:
10/2008
Operation YES
Bo's dad is commander of an Air Force Base. His new sixth-grade teacher teaches the class improv. His cousin Gari comes to live with them when her mother is sent to the middle east. Good story. How come whenever there is a kid who dad is in the military, dad is the commander of the base?
Quote:
Oh, Winn-Dixie, thought Miss Candy. We're in for it now. (pg. 147)
Read:
12/2009
Holt Anthology Of Science Fiction
Stories by authors such as Simak, Yolen, Le Guin, and even Robert Louis Stevenson.
Read:
9/2012
When Zachary Beaver Came To Town
Toby and Cal visit "The Fattest Boy In The World" when he is stuck in their small Texas town.
Read:
3/2011
Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin, a teen in Montgomery, Alabama, who wouldn't give up her bus seat to a white person.
Read:
3/2012
Courage & Defiance
Non-fiction about the resistance in Denmark during WWII against the German occupation.
Read:
10/2015
Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur
A Project Gutenberg e-book, a group of Campfire Girls go on a camping trip. Mysterious things happen. Horses are ridden. Fires are put out. Radio stuff comes into play. VERY flowery language, but then it's a from 1923.
Quote:
"Then--be a dear boy and do this for me," Pemrose looked up at him, sidelong, coaxingly; "loop this aerial around that tree." -- Is that a pun?Read:
6/2022
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Guy goes on a sea cruise, is only survivor of the fire/sinking, then things get weird.
Quote:
...as he threw away the cigarette that I am tired of mentioning, and put the last touch to a fresh one with his tongue.Read:
12/2022
Mr. Justice Raffles
I rather like these stories of Raffles the gentleman thief. Of course I started with the last book first!
Read:
12/2022
Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
I believe this is book two of the series. I read the Project Gutenberg EBook edition. Good crime stories, lots of words to look up!
Read:
12/2022
The Amateur Cracksman
More Raffles stories, this is the first book.
Read:
12/2022
Magpie Murders
A book within a book, or outside it, or something. Two books, with various murders, or not murders, intertwined. Very good, I though.
Read:
7/2019
Moonflower Murders
Pretty convulsed story for the likes of me, I had no idea how it was going to turn out!
Read:
2/2022
Stormbreaker
First in the Alex Rider series, teen Alex is recruited to save the world, or at least the U.K., from free poison computers. Quite a lot of graphic violence, I thought, for a teen book. Get off my lawn, you kids!
Read:
10/2007
The Falcon's Malteser
A thirteen-year-old lad and his somewhat dim older brother run a rather unsuccessful detective agency. Somewhat bloody for middle school, I thought. But then, thousands are killed in The Lord Of The Rings.
Read:
1/2009
Science fiction, best of the year 2006
Rich Horton edited this collection of sixteen stories. There is a story by Joe Haldeman, but my favorite was The Fate Of Mice by Susan Palwick.
Read:
4/2007
Everthing On A Waffle
Primrose lives in a small fishing village in Canada. Her parents are lost in a storm, but she never gives up believing they are still alive. Several interesting recipes. Cherry Pie Pork chops sounds the best!
Read:
6/2008
The Kite Runner
A series of staggeringly brutal events recounted by a man from Afghanistan. I can't say I would care to see the movie, but I do feel like going kite flying.
Read:
11/2007
Adventures of Blue Avenger
David (Blue Avenger!) grapples with questions of life and love. Really good. The "s" word comes up in a hilarious classroom discussion of vocabulary.
Read:
3/2008Read Again:
1/2016
Blue Avenger and the Theory of Everything
Blue has to decide whether to fund PBS in broadcasting Fawlty Towers to a new generation of viewers, or help his girlfriend pay the rent. He makes the right choice!
Words I Had To Look Up:
Running-head (pg. 84) -- Text that appears in the top margin.
Contumacious (pg. 100) -- Willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient.
Quote:
On several occasions car doors had opened unexpectedly while he was riding past, but this was the first time the door was attached to a Mercedes 500 SLC. I must be coming up in the world, he thought wryly, and it's about time.Read:
3/2008
20 books displayed
[Haddix - Hale] [Hale - Hallinan] [Hallinan - Harrison] [Harrison - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Heley] [Heley - Henry] [Henry - Hess] [Hess - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Himes] [Hines - Holm] [Holman - Howe] [Howe - Hyman]