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Flood
Burke is hired by a chubby buxom blonde who is set on revenge, in this the first of the series.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Judy Henske (pg. 119) -- An American singer, dubbed Queen of the Beatniks.
Fingertip leather jacket (pg. 264) -- A fingertip-length jacket. Who knew?
Quote:
Dewey Decimal System of Dirt -- (pg. 39) Richard Reeves used a similar phrase in Peeping Thomas.Read:
12/2008
Two Trains Running
Came for the title, stayed for the story. The Mob, gangs, corruption, and cars in a town in the mountains back East somewhere. Moves right along.
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"...long number at the bottom. And that ones' a pay phone..." -- (pg. 219) In 1959 I thought it was more usual to have the telephone exchange letters at part of the "number", rather than a string of digits.Read:
11/2008
Space Opera
I quite liked the part about the cat and the rose bush. And I laughed at a couple of other sentences. And I'm glad I learned about Buranovskiye Babushki. And filk, I looked it up, that was interesting.
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4/2019
The Chronicles Of Harris Burdick
Fourteen authors tell their interpretations of the pictures from Van Allsburgs' book. The M.T. Anderson story grabbed me the most.
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4/2012
Flipped
A very cute romance told from opposing points of view. I enjoyed it very much.
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12/2007
Sammy Keyes And The Curse Of Moustache Mary
Sammy meets an odd old lady while delivering flowers to a funeral. Ends up finding a hidden stash of gold coins! The hiding place of which I actually figured out beforehand. Yay me! Good story!
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2/2016
Sammy Keyes And The Hollywood Mummy
Sammy and Marissa take the bus to Hollywood to confront Sammy's mom, er, "Aunt Dominique". Someone who looks just like Sammy's mother is murdered, and Sammy saves the day by discovering just who done it.
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2/2016
Sammy Keyes And The Hotel Thief
Good story with a little mystery. Sammy lives with her grandma in a seniors only building.
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1/2016
Sammy Keyes And The Runaway Elf
Sammy is tasked with finding a stolen dog, or risk being revealed to be living at her grandmother's apartment by a mean old lady. Also, an old woman dies. Good story, a bit weepy in parts.
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2/2016
Sammy Keyes And The Sisters Of Mercy
Another great mystery solved by Sammy, and lessons learned. I kinda suspicioned "who-done-it", which is very unusual for me, but it was still fun. On to the next one!
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2/2016
Sammy Keyes And The Skeleton Man
Sammy and her friends have a run-in on Halloween with a man in a skeleton costume at the mysterious Bush House. Pretty good story!
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1/2016
Swear To Howdy
The shocking revelation in the last third of the book totally blew me away! The two boys are just having fun, when this awful thing happens. I was really enjoying myself with the boy's shenanigans when the story real serious. A very good book.
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12/2007
The Running Dream
High school runner Jessica loses part of her leg in a bus accident. Good read, although running makes my joints hurt.
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3/2012
The Flying Girl
L. Frank Baum wrote this under a pseudonym. Nice adventure of a girl who flies an aircraft in he very early days of flight. I read the Project Gutenberg e-book edition.
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8/2022
Overthrowing Heaven
Jon to goes the planet Heaven to visit a theme park and capture the evil nano manipulating genius who is experimenting on children. Another woman bites the dust, and we learn some interesting stuff about Lobo, the most sarcastic spacecraft in the universe.`
Quote:
"I believe there are washing machines that are more adept with women than you," Lobo said... (pg. 253)
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1/2010
Slanted Jack
Jon Moore provides security for Jack and a boy from the planet Pinkelponker. A proscribed planet that Jon also hails from, secretly.
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12/2009
Slan
Classic science fiction from the 1940s. Not a "Weapon Shops Of Isher", but not bad.
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10/2016
Hillbilly Elegy
Author relates his life from poor hillbilly to Yale lawyer. Pretty good.
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9/2019
Wild Thyme, Green Magic
Twelve stories by the author, with a couple of bios by his wife, Norma, and some editorial commentary. My favorite story was Coup De Grāce.
Words I Had To Look Up:
punctilio (pg. 226) -- A fine point of etiquette.
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10/2009
Magic can be murder
The jacket quote says "A funny and charming story". It is a good story, but it is neither funny nor charming. Goofy romance at end. The last line implies a future book that might BE funny and charming.
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10/2009
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