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The Fallen
SDPD Detective Robbie Brownlaw has an unusual gift. Ever since he survived being thrown out of a six-story building, he sees colored shapes when people talk, indicating the emotional state. He is investigating a possible murder under the Cabrillo Bridge in Balboa Park.
I enjoyed this book very much, the San Diego locations rang true. There is so much sadness, though. Reading the author's biography, you see he has personal knowledge of extreme loss. It comes through in all the books of his I have read.
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7/2009
The Jaguar
Charlie and Bradley travel their seperate ways to rescue Erin in Mexico, who is held by a music-loving drug lord. Also, to teach Bradley a lesson...
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5/2012
The Renegades
Charlie Hood is a Los Angeles County Sheriff assigned to Antelope Valley. His partner is gunned down right in front of him. He finds out who done it. Good police story.
Quote:
We make our own luck. Character is fate. (pg. 77)
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6/2009
Hook, Line & Sinister
Edited by T.J. Parker. Sixteen fishing/mystery stories by authors of which I have read several already. Some of the stories were pretty darn good, some I didn't care for.
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9/2016
Getting mother's body
In 1962 Texas a Negro teen gets pregnant. Pretty good, interesting charactors.
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6/2006
Bridge To Terabithia
A charming story of a fifth-grade boy growing up, experiences with life and death. Two weeps. I thought I had read this already, but I think it was Jacob Have I Loved I read back when it was a television movie.
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10/2007
The Same Stuff As Stars
April fills as parent to her little brother Bernie in place of their negligent mother Verna and jailed father. When Verna drops the children off at their estranged great-grandmother's farm April meets a mysterious man with a telescope who tells her about the stars. I enjoyed this book very much.
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12/2012
The Curious Charms Of Arthur Pepper
A charming story about a British man who is coming up on the first anniversary of his wife passing away. I really liked it a whole bunch.
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6/2018
The Higher Power Of Lucky
Lucky lives in a very small town (pop. 43) in the high desert of California. When her mother died her father's first wife was appointed Guardian. Lucky has never met her father (as far as she knows). She runs away during a desert sandstorm, but all turns out well. A very good little book. I teared up a bit at the end.
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4/2010
Alex Cross, Run
I characterized this book as being one where the author's name on the cover was much larger than the title, but I'm wrong. I CAN say I felt creepy and slimy reading it. And I must admit I read it in one sitting.
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4/2015
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
Took me about two-hundred pages to get into it. Lots of action. One might say... too much action! Short chapters move things right along. Since NOTHING is resolved in this four-hundred and forty page story, I guess I shall have to read the next book in the series!
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11/2010
Middle School The Worst Years Of My Life
Rafe, with the help of his friend Leo, decides to break every rule in the handbook. I wasn't too excited with this book until near the end when things are revealed that change everything.
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2/2012
Private
With Maxine Paetro. Jack investigates the serial killing of a number of schoolgirls. Also, his friend's wife is shot to death. And, he keeps getting mysterious phone calls saying "You're dead". Oh, and he looks into professional football game cheating. Moves right along, but I lost track of who various characters were at points.
There are 124 chapters in 385 pages. Works for my short attention span!
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7/2012
Private Games
With Mark Sullivan. A topical thriller about a psycho eking his, as it turns out, revenge on the London Olympic Games. I figured out the bad guy before the big reveal, much to my surprise. I also figured out that Patterson wrote the Alex Cross series that I read so many years ago it is not even in this list!
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8/2012
The 6th Target
With Maxine Paetro. A shooting on a ferry and kidnapping of little girls gives the Women's Murder Club something to do.
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12/2011
The 8th Confession
With Maxine Paetro. A schoolbus/meth lab blows up, several well-to-do folks die for no discernible reason, and a homeless man is shot to death, THEN beat severely.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Foreign Cinema's marquis (pg. 35) -- I think it should be either "marquee" or "marquise".
antivenin antivenom (pg. 247) -- Text says first spelling is preferred, wikipedia says the second spelling is preferred in English.
Quote::
pink lace demibra...flimsy fabric of her panties (pg. 189)-- OK, pink bra, but what color are her panties? More information needed. Dropping a brand name is always good. Product placement! Which author writes the sex scenes, I wonder?
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1/2012
The Big Bad Wolf
New FBI agent Alex Cross is involved in a search for a violent Russian Mafia guy.
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2/2005
East
Rather long (400 pages) charming fairy tale about a girl name Rose leave her family to stay with a polar bear. Sort of a Beauty And The Beast sort of story. Nicely done, but would have appreciated a map. Plus, maybe it's just me, but STOP putting the glossary at the back of fiction book unless you've a table contents to remind us it is there!!!
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10/2007
Caught By The Sea
A small book recounting the author's adventures in his first boat. Very good, and very funny the first time he sets sail.
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12/2002
Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass
Four seasons of vintage farm life in a "lyrical" style. Reminded me rather of a Lake Wobegon tale, without the humor.
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5/2011
20 books displayed
[Palacio - Park] [Park - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Paulsen] [Paulsen - Pease] [Pease - Peyton] [Peyton - Pope] [Porter - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pronzini] [Pronzini - Pullman] [Pullman - Pynchon]