Books I've Read

The author has cranked out a zillion of these 150 page books, and they are great little stories. And no sex, very little cussing, if any, but a bit of violence. In this one, "Pronto" Pike gets beat up and left for dead by vigilantes and falls in love with an Irish girl. I wonder why the bad guy who was detailed to kill him did not do it, though?

An orphaned girl, Maggy, comes to stay with the Austin family. Very nice family story.

Fiction story involving a boxcar library (The real one can be see at Fort Missoula, MT), a murder, and a mystery. Pretty good!

Sequel to the classic novel. Interesting, but not great.

Elise starts off badly in sixth grade at middle school, but eventually things get better. An extremely charming story. Parts of it seemed very familiar, like I had read a galley edition, but I would have noted that before. Odd. So I enjoyed it very much. But I'd like to know what the deal is with Amanda. Maybe a sequel?

Two brother in India and what happened to them. Very very good, but very very slow. I was in tears at the end.

Notes on hope, it says. Good book.

This was a very wonderful book that I enjoyed very much. I wish I could hold her words in my heart, but I don't seem to work that way.

Ginny is now fifteen, which means the man she was wed to when she was ten years old is coming to take her to live with him on his farm. A tale of the settlement of the Oregon Territory.

Plum gets in touch with her roots as a Chinook Indian in Oregon. Whoops, I mispeled Potlatch in the title!

Teen girl in a boring Irish town meets a skeleton detective in this rather clever and humorous tale.

FIX THE AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, NO "r"!!

Skulduggery Pleasant, #4.
Skulduggery seems to be lost in a weird world of evil beings. I don't know, I haven't read book #3 yet!

Skulduggery Pleasant, #2. Lots of creepy beings for Valkyrie and Skulduggery to battle!

Skulduggery Pleasant, #3.
Oh no, the Faceless Ones get through! Three of 'em, anyway.

Biography of the creator of the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, and many other book series in the early 1900s.

Story of Shackleton's incredible voyage to Antarctica. These guy were tough!!!

All about the sinking of the Lusitania during WWI. Very interesting, as his books are, very readable, learned a few things, too.

The Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer stories intertwine in this non-fiction book. Very interesting.

Very interesting story of Marconi and the first criminal, a murderer, apprehended with the use of radio, Dr. Crippen.

A girl with no name joins up to be a Princess at the Academy. Lucky they are letting in the non-royal this year. I liked the story, also agreed the criticisms of it that I saw. That it was already planned to be a movie before it was published was disconcerting to me. I'll read the rest of the series, but I'll wait for the book faire and not pay full hardback price again.