Books I've Read

Mossa & Pleiti, #1. Hugo award nominee for best novella 2024. From the goodreads description, a "cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance". Oh, I thought the romantic interest was a guy. Ha ha on me! I don't know about the "Holmesian" part, though. I enjoyed it, will read more.

Love is illegal in future America, and Lena finds she has caught the disease. Recommended for middle school by a parent, I find too many f-bombs, and unnecessary ones at that. Otherwise I would add it to the collection, as it has some good messages.

Matt is a cabin boy on an airship and has a great adventure fighting pirates. Very good!

Matt has another adventure involving dirigibles, ornithopters, and Kate.

San Diego children's librarian Clara Breed wrote and sent books to the Japanese-American children that she knew who were removed to the camps during World War II. I like the book, but disagree with her characterization of the camps as 'concentration camps'.

This is the best non-fiction book (that I can remember) that I have ever read. It is about the 80s fire at the Los Angeles Public Library Central, a bit of the history of the Library, and glimpses of the workings.

Violet is planning for her quinceanera that her abuela insists she should have. Interesting, funny. ALA Notable.

Another fine entry (#3) in the Thursday Murder Club series.

Thursday Murder Club #2. Really really good!!!

I really enjoyed this, so many red herrings! I thought I knew who done it, but each time I was wrong!

Non-fiction, a U.S. Army surgeon recounts his time in Korea during the war. Very interesting.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It was very easy to read, which to me means it was very well written. I've read a number of books by famous authors that are very choppy, it's like no one edited them. This flows very nicely. I learned a bit about marshes and North (It WAS North, wasn't it? I always forget!) Carolina. The ending/reveal, though. No spoiler, but I just don't believe it.

Auggie has been home-schooled up to now, but this semester he going to start fifth grade in a regular school. Well, it's a private school, but it is going to be rough because Auggie has a birth defect that makes him look very scary to children. And adults. A really excellent book, I highly recommend it.

Well, I read it. I didn't much care for it. I don't know what the author is trying to say. I know he is trying to say something, and I respect that, but I'm not getting it.

Finder Chronicles, #2. Really really enjoyed this one, just like the book one. Now on to book three!!

Finder Chronicles, #1. Repo man in space? Well, it's more than that! I liked it very much. Humor helps, some snappy patter, too. I've started book two already!

(Finder Chronicles, #4). Fergus finds himself shipwrecked on a planet in an improbably place. Lots of nifty dialogue!

Finder Chronicles, #3. Ferris has to gather all the pieces and put them back together again.

A very long book, but not as tedious (in the middle) as I was led to believe. I was not able to discern the tedious part, actually. I've thought the series is rather reminiscent of a poor-man's Tolkien, as it were, but then that makes it more accessible to a younger reader, too. I've certainly enjoyed reading it. There seems to be more humor in this, volume 3 of what is now a "cycle" instead of a trilogy. Or maybe I'm just more sensitive to it. I really enjoy the character of Angela. I wonder if there is any fan fiction about her?

Eragon gets a make over.