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Soldering Kinks
I read a scanned-in version of the 1915 second edition. Lots of hints and kinks for using non-electric soldering devices!
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4/2023
Tea With The Black Dragon
See a review at www.lostbooks.org
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2/2001
A Bullet For Cinderella
A taut nicely written story. "HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from."
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8/2022
Free Fall In Crimson
Travis McGee EVENTUALLY ends up at a movie shoot and jumps out of a low-flying hot-air balloon.
Quote:
Maybe you got so you were enjoying the ennui."
"The what?"
"Ennui, you illiterate. That is the restless need for some kind of action without having the outlet for any action at all. It is like weltschmerz." (pg. 6)
Words I Had To Look Up:
the little white Prelude 3 System massager. (pg. 141) -- Well! That was interesting to research!
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8/2009
Journey With A Baja Burro
Guy walks a goodly portion of the length of Baja California with a burro. Pretty good, except for the parts quoting history which, while necessary (I guess), I pretty much disliked. Possibly because the typeface was WAY too small for my old eyes!!
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2/2022
Sarah Plain and Tall
A short (50 page) charming story of two motherless children becoming acquainted with the woman who answered their father's ad for a wife. I got a totally incorrect impression of the story from The Simpson's short snark of it.
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2/2009
When Eight Bells Told
British secret agent Calvert solves the mystery of the disappearing ships. Good 60s secret agent stuff.
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12/2009
Prince Ombra
Scored this volume in a pile of books from the school office. Read it MANY years ago, read it again to see if it was as fabulous as I remembered. It is!!
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6/2011
Something in the water
Professor Shandy travels to Maine to check out some lupines, finds murder. An exquisitely charming mystery with lovely verbal bandinage. One tear at the end.
Words I Had To Look Up::
QUODAM -- Belonging to some prior time. (pg. 1)
PANICLES -- A branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes. (pg. 2)
KIND OF A TAKING -- Agitation; excitement; distress of mind. (pg. 16)
DIVERS -- Various; several; sundry. (pg. 21)
MATUTINAL -- Of, relating to, or occurring in the morning; early. (pg. 30)
WELKIN -- 1. The vault of heaven; the sky. 2. The upper air. (pg. 30)
MONEY CAT -- An Asian Leopard cat, because its spots look like Chinese coins. (pg. 40)
SILVICULTURE -- The care and cultivation of forest trees; forestry. (pg. 41)
PANTHER WOMEN -- A Wodehouse reference. (pg. 67)
FRIED CLAM TACOS -- Available at Dos Locos in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (pg. 68)
DOYENNE -- A woman who is the eldest or senior member of a group. (pg. 68)
PERSIFLAGE -- 1. Light good-natured talk; banter. 2. Light or frivolous manner of discussing a subject. (pg. 83)
MAGNILOQUENT -- Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent. (pg. 97)
OBSEQUIES -- A funeral rite or ceremony. Often used in the plural. (pg. 104)
CONTUMACIOUS -- Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate. (pg. 109)
PREPRANDIAL -- Before a meal, especially dinner: (pg. 110)
WITHAL -- 1. In addition; besides. .... Archaic With. Used after its object at the end of a sentence or clause.(pg. 136)
BESOM -- 1. A bundle of twigs attached to a handle and used as a broom. (pg. 154)
MAKE OLD BONES -- To reach a great age. (pg. 205) Read:
8/2006
The Balloon Man
Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn host a wedding and a hot-air balloon drops in!
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5/2000
The Grub And Stakers House A Haunt
A ghost come and tells of a treasure to find.
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12/2000
Learning the world
A generation starship gets to its destination, finds its already inhabited. Interesting story. One would have thought 10,000 years in the future a replacement for the f word would have been found, though.
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4/2006
A Comedy Of Heirs
Torie O'Shea investigates a murder concealed by her family.
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12/2000
A Veiled Antiquity
Torie O'Shea deals with old documents, family trees, and a French connection.
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12/2000
Wheels Of Change
How Women Rode The Bicycle To Freedom. A history of women on bicycles, with many great images.
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4/2012
The Hike
As user Lala BooksandLala on GoodReads wrote "This was quite possibly the weirdest shit I've ever read." She only gave it two stars. I gave it four. I enjoyed reading and the surprise ending.
Quote:
"You're not just a crab, are you?"
"Very perceptive. The fact that I can fucking talk maybe clued you in."
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8/2023
The Night The Lights Went Out
Very funny (in parts) story of the author's traumatic brain injury and his recovery (more or less) journey from it.
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8/2023
Heft on wheels
Fat professor guy loses weight, stops drinking, quits smoking, becomes local hot bicycle rider. Mostly a pretty good book, might read it again.
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2/2007
After Alice
Friend Ada goes down the rabbit hole after Alice. Hard to read, but interesting anyway. Spent a LOT of time looking up words!
Quote: Oh well. Marmalade has to make its way in life, like the rest of us, she thought. -- pg. 24
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7/2016
Confessions of an ugly stepsister
Retake on the Cinderella tale. Surprise twist at end, at least I was surprised. A slow-moving story, but interesting.
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8/2005
20 books displayed
[M.W. - Maguire] [Maguire - Marshall] [Martin - Mass] [Mass - McBain] [McBain - McCrumb] [McCrumb - Mcmanus] [McNab - Mikaelsen] [Mikaelsen - Moon] [Moon - Morressy] [Morris - Myers] [Myers - Mysterious Press]