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Care Of Wooden Floors
An un-named fellow goes to a distant un-named city in an un-named country to house-sit for his college friend Oskar. Stuff goes wrong. Blurb on the back from the Daily Telegraph says "Fawlty Towers crossed with Freud." Well, shit gets real on page 90, but I didn't guffaw till page 221. All that blood!
Lou Reed Sunday Morning mention on page 14, always a plus.
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2/2013
Mirrorscape
In a world where the privilege to use color must be purchased as a "Pleasure" (and there are many other "Pleasures" one must purchase, too), a young apprentice artists discovers a secret world in paintings that he can enter into. First of a series, good stuff!
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1/2011
Wild Wives
P.I Jake Blake has quite the wild (and some have called it "sleazy") time in this book. Copyright 1956, to help set the stage!
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"We Aliens are made of sterner stuff than that." -- Looks like a typo, Mr. Allen is the speaker. Quote:
In my life I'd been hit and nearly hit with a variety of weapons, but this was the first time anybody had ever used a fire extinguisher on me. Read:
5/2024
One Crazy Summer
Three sisters go to Oakland in the 60s to visit the mother who abandoned them when they were babies. Interesting view of Black Panthers from the children's viewpoint.
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2/2012
A Lot Like Christmas
A collection of wonderful stories with a Christmas theme. Five star!
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1/2023
All Clear
A continuation of the story from Black Out, of the historians who time travel back to study WWII. Read on Libby.
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"Oh, no, it's a flying bomb!"Read:
2/2023
Bellwether
A science fiction romance. Lots of historical references, many of which I looked up and were...suspect.
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8/2023
Blackout
Time travel by historian back to World War II days. Something goes wrong...
I read the eBook version, eISBN 978-0-345-51964-1
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2/2023
Crosstalk
Briddey and her boyfriend get an brain operation to enhance their relationship by being able to share emotions more better. Yeah, well, that didn't work out so well. Good book, my usual complaints about Willis's obstinate characters.
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6/2023
Doomsday Book
Oxford Time Travel #1. Kivrin goes back in time to study Medieval times for a couple of weeks. Things, of course, go wrong. On both ends.
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"My father comes soon," Rosemund said.Read:
11/2023
Passage
I was liking this book very much, then the author stepped on the gas. Woah!
Why the hate for Dances With Wolves, I like that movie. I liked the book Pollyanna, too, but I read it as an adult of maybe forty or so. I liked the movie Titanic, too!
I didn't realize Vielle was a black woman until chapter 32. Shows my reading comprehension level, I guess!
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9/2023
The Road To Roswell
Francie goes to Roswell (New Mexico) to attend the wedding of her best friend from college. There is some sort of UFO event going on in town, too.
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"SHOW LAP DANCING," Indy scrolled.
"Not now, Indy," Wade said. "Francie's busy," Quote:
Even though this whole thing had been Indy's idea, Francie automatically looked down at her bouquet, which was still, thankfully, silent.Read:
10/2023
To Say Nothing Of The Dog
I didn't read Three Men In A Boat until I was like, forty, or so. My son said, "Dad, Heinlein mentions it in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel." Well, I read that when I was in junior high school, I didn't realize those book mentions were actual books I should read. Anyway, my thanks to Mr. Lampedusa for recommending Three Men to me!
This was a good book, the third I've read in this world/setting, and this fun is much more fun!
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"It makes the rounds from year to year. Like fruitcake." -- Hey, I like fruitcake! A lot!Quote:
"You need to switch to a safer habit, like smoking." -- Said to a cat.Quote:
And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years. -- I teared up a little bit!Read:
2/2023
Sunflower Dog: Dancing The Flathead Shuffle
A very enjoyable book about some folks in a small town in North Carolina whose lives intertwine interestingly.
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8/2021Read:
12/2021
The Men Who United The States
The trouble with this book was that every couple of pages I had to stop to look something up on the internet. Then, a few hours later, I'd get back to the book. Very slow going!
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5/2017
The Professor And The Madman
Subtitled "A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary". Good book.
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The policeman, plodding and imperturbable, replied that if he did have another gun, perhaps he would be so kind as to keep it in his pocket for the time being.Read:
1/2000
Detectives In Togas
Students in Rome solve a mystery. First published in 1956, I'm sure I read it when I a lad. I see the author also wrote "Castaways In Lilliput", which I remember was one of my favorite books in elementary school.
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10/2012
Christopher Mouse
Charming tale of a white mouse who has some adventures in New York City.
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11/2006
The Virginian
I rember Mr. Lusk in college telling me this was the classic western story. It took me ten years to get around to reading it, but it was worth it! First published in 1902.
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Carry On, Jeeves
Part of the Jeeves Omnibus. Great stuff!
Words I Had To Look Up:
Eftsoons (pg. 352) -- 1. Soon afterward; presently. 2. Once again.
From the O.P. to the Prompt Side (pg. 380) -- Stage directions. The Prompt Side (P.S.) is stage left, O.P. is Opposite Prompt.
Excrescence (pg. 382) -- 1. An outgrowth or enlargement, especially an abnormal one, such as a wart. 2. A usually unwanted or unnecessary accretion
Bally (many instances, pg. 396 for one) -- Informal intensifiers; "You bally idiot!"
The Carmantle (pg. 396) -- A ship. probably fictional.
Jimmy Mundy (pg. 431) -- Not the jazz musician, probably a fictional charactor.
Mens sana in corpore sano (pg. 470) -- Latin, a healthy mind in a healthy body
Ris de veau à la financière (pg. 496) -- Calf's sweetbreads in a sauce of wine, olives, truffles and mushrooms (from Blandings: Anatole.)
Consommé pâté d'Italie (pg. 497) -- Soup of italian pasta .
Paupiettes de sole à la princesse (pg. 497) -- Rolled fillets of sole garnished with asparagus tips.
Caneton Aylesbury à la broche (pg. 497) -- Aylesbury duckling on the spit.
Lady Bablockhythe (pg. 513) -- Fictional author created by Wodehouse, see the Wikipedia List Of Fictional Books.
Gaspers (pg. 520 ) -- Slang for cigarettes, OBVIOUSLY, probably a lesser brand.
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She was rather like one of the innocent-tasting American drinks which creep imperceptibly into your system so that, before you know what you're doing, you're starting out to reform the world by force if necessary and pausing on your way to tell the large man in the corner that, if he looks at you like that, you will knock his head off. (pg. 365)
'Mens sana in corpore sano,' observed the Prof.
'I shouln't wonder,' I said cordially. (pg. 470)
My daughter Bootles has just developed mumps. (pg. 483)
Young Bingo uttered a frightful cry of agony.
'What! Is that - that buzzard trying to pinch our cook?'
'Yes, sir.'
'After eating our bread and salt, dammit?'
'I fear, sir,' sighed Jeeves, 'that when it comes to a matter of cooks, ladies have but a rudimentary sense of morality.' (pg. 500)
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[Waldman - Weber] [Weber - Weir] [Weir - West] [Westerfeld - Westlake] [Westlake - Wiles] [Wiles - Wodehouse] [Wodehouse - Woods] [Wouk - Wroblewski]