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Welcome To Paradise
A guy on vacation is mixed-up with a mafia guy by two what will be hit-men.
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1/2005
Too Far
Young boy meets neighbor girl, explores woods in Alaska. Weird stuff happens.
If you read this as a horror story, it all makes sense. Although the ending is lame. These two never Googled each other when they grew up? The love of their life, married at six?
I didn't care for this story. Maybe you will.
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11/2011
The Berlin Boxing Club
Jewish teen in Berlin during World War II endures harassment from Nazi youth, takes boxing lessons from legend Max Schmeling.
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3/2012
The illuminatus! trilogy
All is revealed. 23 skidoo! Additional author Robert Anton Wilson. Hadas recommended this...another of her attempts to elevate (illuminate?) me
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3/2006
Bomb
A history of the development of the atomic bomb during World War II in the United States, and a bit about other countries. And the spies who stole the secrets. Very good!
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5/2014
The Notorious Benedict Arnold
Set in a charming typeface, we have here a very good account of the life and times of the notorious traitor.
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4/2012
Of Books And Bagpipes
"A Scottish Bookshop Mystery", it says, and it is either number two or number two-and-a-half in a series. I am reminded of the television show "The Book Group", since both took place in Scotland and both have books. But that is about all that is the same.
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12/2018
The Cartographers
The New York Public Library, maps, what more could you want in a story?
Quote:
"I hope the maps are good where you are."Read:
9/2024
Letters from Wolfie
Teenage boy in 1969 donates his dog to the Army to be trained for use in Vietnam. Very good, good capture of the spirit of the times, I think.
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10/2006
Hidden Figures
Good story about the black women computers of NACA/NASA.
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3/2020
The Tour
A novel about the Tour de France. Very informative about how the race works, but the charactors seemed one-dimensional to me. But then again, so am I! For some reason I thought this was a mystery when I selected it, but it's not. Probably got it confused with the guy that writes bicycling mysteries.
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7/2006
So Much For That
Shep was going to split to Third World as he has planned his whole life so to do when his wife tells him she has cancer and needs the insurance, as crappy as it is, from his work. So he stays. So much for that! Very slow for me to read, but very well written with lots of clever observations. I really enjoyed this book very much, and would recommend it to everyone who knows someone who is chronic ill or dying.
Words I Had To Look Up:
fundoplication surgery (pg. 24) -- A surgical procedure in which the upper portion of the stomach is wrapped around the lower end of the esophagus and sutured in place as a treatment for the reflux of stomach contents into the esophagus
illiberality (pg. 127) -- Bigoted.
prize his little girl's fingers(pg. 130) -- To move or force with or as if with a lever; pry.
concomitant (pg. 131) -- One that occurs or exists concurrently with another.
imprimatur (pg. 161) -- An official permission to do something.
tare (pg. 169) -- An adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods.
fugged (pg. 203) -- To make stuffy and odorous
Branola (pg. 292) -- Either Post Bran'ola cereal or Orowheat Branola bread.
elegiac apathy (pg. 350) -- Expressing sorrow often for something past.
preternatural composure (pg. 368) -- Surpassing the normal or usual.
sedulous (pg. 425) -- Marked by care and persistent effort.
Quote:
The fact that homelier and homier shared so many letters didn't seem a coincidence. (pg. 33)
Read:
8/2010
The Grimm Legacy
Elizabeth, a high school student, takes a job in an odd sort of library in New York. I enjoyed reading this magical tale very much!
Quote:
"Sorry," said Aaron. "It's not my fault, it's geometry." -- p. 243.
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5/2014
Antsy Does Time
Antsy's friend is dying of some weird disease. Antsy has a crush on the guy's sister, too. Lexie is dating some guy who clicks. And Antsy's ad is working too hard at the restaurant. Things snowball.
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4/2010
Everlost
Two kids die in a car accident and end up in a sort of in-between world of dead kids and ghost buildings. Nicely done. Especially liked the Hindenburg/Roswell throw-away line.
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12/2010
Ship Out Of Luck
Antsy goes on a birthday cruise, with his family, paid for by, and for, Mr. Crawley. Very good, I enjoyed it very much, and there were even a few tears here and there.
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6/2014
The Schwa Was Here
Good story about a New York boy who is effectively invisible to many people.
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2/2010
On The Beach
Everybody dies of radiation poisoning. Great book!! No Nukes!!
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2/2000
Stephen Morris
Good story about a man involved in flying back in the 20's .
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3/2001
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
Interesting little novel about two Chinese boys sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" and a girl they meet there. Didn't quite "get" the ending.
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5/2003
20 books displayed
[Saberhage - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Schonborg] [Schumacher - Scottoline] [Scottoline - Shames] [Shames - Sijie] [Silver - Smith] [Smith - Spencer] [Spiegelman - Stark] [Stark - Stephenson] [Stern - Stross] [Stross - Swanson] [Swee - Sweeney]