Young Jody is growing up in quire rural Florida, gets a pet fawn. Sad but pretty inevitable ending.
Words I Had To Look Up:
feist (pg. 2) -- A small mongrel dog. plenitude (pg. 180) -- An ample amount or quantity; an abundance.
Her brain barrels were empty. (pg. 210) -- Probably a typo...
Empty promises / Anne Rule -- Fifty acres and a poodle / Jeanne Marie Laskas -- The rescue season / Bob Drury -- Believing it all / Marc Parent -- Who wants to be me? / Regis Philbin. Rule good, Laskas interesting, Drury good, Parent very excellent, Philbin lame. Sorry!
A young girl in Afghanistan, who has a cleft lip, goes through a lot of life changes. I thought the story was a little slow at the start, but stuff got real in the second half. I highly recommend reading it!
Fever is an apprentice Engineer in pre-traction London. She doesn't know who her parents are. She is sent to assist the archaeologist Kit Solvent. Several originations of people and things from the Mortal Engines series are explained here.
Book three of the Mortal Engines series. I was half-way through book four when this come in at the library. And I was lost. I recommend reading them in order, and not waiting YEARS between books. Get the cast of characters from Wikipedia, too. I'm a lot of trouble remembering who is who.
Nifty Names of Flying Things:
Damn You, Gravity
Jenny Haniver (The body of a devil fish mounted to look like something magical or human.)
Bad Hair Day
Contents Under Pressure
Sword Flourished In Understandable Pique
Visible Panty Line
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Poka-Dot Machiney
and my favorite..
Combat Wombat -- I wonder if he got that from the Hodaka motorcycle?
Book 1 of the Hungry Cities Chronicles, in which Tom and Hester meet when she tries to kill Valentine. Tom gets a crush on Valentines daughter. Everybody who isnt necessary for the next book in the series dies, pretty much. Including the city of London.
Book 2 of the Hungry Cities Chronicles, Hester and Tom end up at Anchorage, run across the Lost Boys, and battle it out with the Green Storm troops. Pretty good stuff.
Prof. Thomas Theron prowls the porno industry to find out why porno stores are being bombed, and particularly the one he was in at the time... Interesting ideas on the porno problem presented.
QUOTE:
The Dewey Decimal System of Desire. Everything in the shop had been arranged according to taste, women categorized by sexual activity or physical attribute, then divided and subdived, again and again, until every permutation of lust had been addressed. ... It was unsettling to contemplate what confluence of genes or experience might provoke such minutely specific expressions of desire.
Space opera. Wilson Cole joins the crew of the starship Theodore Roosevelt guarding a back-water, as it were, area of the Rim. Moves right along, dialogue seems oddly anachronistic, and the sexual references seem out of place, to me.
I really really hate it when I finish a book and find a bunch of appendices at the end. Am I suppose to look through the book and discover this stuff on my own, and take a chance on reading the ending? Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a way to let the reader know what the different parts of the book were...
In Book Four there is lots of space fighting as Cole's armada grows. A bit of cussing. The "About The Author" section seems to go on and on with all the author's many accomplishments and awards. Perhaps I'm jealous, but I think the extensive list would be more appropriate in an encyclopedia article rather than four pages in the appendix of a novel.
I guess this is #1 of the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency series. It is pretty good. I like how the author used the word "conjour".
Quote::
'...But the rules say you can't have quickmatter anywhere near a polling core.' 'I like rules,' Thalia said. 'Rules are good.' 'Let's unwrap the baby.' -- page 319