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The President's Brain Is Missing
A very very short (48 e-pages or so) story about the brain disappearing, yet the president is still alive! What is going on?
Good, but short, story.
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1/2024
Zoe's Tale
A very excellent story of colonization from the POV of a fifteen-year-old girl named Zoe.
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4/2009Read again:
4/2016
The Godmother's Apprentice
What if a high school girl was an apprentice Godmother? I liked the idea of this book, but four-letter words and some uncomfortable scenes make it suitable for high school readers. Second book in a series. I don't know when I read this.
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No date
Glory Be
Glory is almost twelve in 1964 Mississippi. A great story of a young girl's growing awareness of segregation in the South.
Quote:
Don't be calling that our letter (pg. 84)
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11/2012
The swarm
Too many pages. 881. But I finished it. Story is ok, supposed to be really accurate science, but I couldn't tell. I would have hooked up with a ham radio operator when the fishies cut the trans-Atlantic internet cable, they gots connections to the internets that bypass cables.
Smoking Quote:
Set the scene: The ship they are on is sinking:
Tarry black smoke drifted towards them. "Have you got any cigarettes?" she asked.
..."They're Lights," he explained.
"Oh, the healthy option..."..."Very sensible."Read:
7/2006
Bluefish
Travis has a lot of problems in his life and at school, but things start to change when he meets Velveeta. I really really liked this one!
Quote:
"I can pull my own wagon." -- (page 184) Metaphor? Simile? Velveeta IS pulling a wagon, and she is not going to let Travis or anyone else help!
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8/2014
Okay For Now
Doug Swieteck moves to a small town. Although it takes a while to get going, this is such a great book I can hardly stand it!
Quote:
"Why don't we all sit down and have another bowl of raspberry sherbert?" said Mrs. Windermere.Read:
2/2012
Lizzie Bright And The Buckminster Boy
Turner finds when he moves to Phippsburg, Maine, that life is very different from Boxton. They don't even pitch baseball the same. His only friend is a Negro girl from Malaga Island. And talking to Negro girls is not the kind of behavior expected of a minister's boy.
A very good historical novel. A bit wordy, sometimes I had to go back a re-read a paragraph. Some sly humour, some tragedy, some growing.
Quote:
"Oh hell," said Mrs. Cobb, "it's warm here. Get me a ginger ale."
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5/2009
The Wednesday WArs
Holling has to stay in school alone on Wednesday afternoons because he isn't Jewish nor Catholic. Hard to read the last quarter, as I was crying so much.
Quote:
Faster, you dang slug! (pg. 204)Read:
2/2008Read:
2/2012
The Witches Of Karres
How can this not already be in here? I own the book, and have for many years! I first read it back in the 60s, and I've read it several times since then. I enjoyed it very much.
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9/2012Read:
10/2021
The Salt Marsh
Sixteen little poems about a salt marsh, with drawings by the author. Rather charming.
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11/2008
Grass Angel
Frances plans to go to summer camp with her best friend Agnes, but her mother decides to go to a retreat in Oregon. Frances has to stay at her nerdy Aunt Blue's for the duration. I liked the book a lot.
Quote:
"Some mistakes are worth making."
"How do you tell which mistakes those are?"
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3/2009
Cycling's Greatest Misadventures
Also edited by Paul Diamond. Twenty-seven repudiatedly true stories of cycling adventures gone bad. Some are funny, some are sad, some are exciting. Twenty-five Count and Spin Cycle were very funny, but my favorite was It's All In A Name, in which we learn how Carla earns her nickname from her bike club.
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12/2007
Contents: The home front / Brian Stableford -- Aboard the beatitude / Brian W. Aldiss -- Odd job #213
/ Ron Goulart -- Agamemnon's run / Robert Sheckley -- Grubber / Neal Barrett, Jr. -- Sandman, the tinman, and the Betty B / C.J. Cherryh -- The big picture / Timothy Zahn -- A home for the old ones / Frederik Pohl -- Not with a whimper either / Tad Williams -- The black wall of Jerusalm / Ian Watson -- Station ganymede / Charles L. Harness -- Downtime / C.S. Friedman -- Burning bridges / Charles Ingrid -- Words / Cheryl J. Franklin -- Read only memory / eluki bes shahar -- Sunseeker / Kate Elliott -- The heavens fall / S. Andrew Swann -- Passage to shola / Lisanne Norman -- Prism / Julie E. Czerneda. Expecially liked the cat story by Franklin and the story by Zahn.
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7/2004
Knucklehead
Biography of the author, with lots of pictures and very interesting stories from his family of five brothers, with cautionary notes.
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12/2009
Guys Write For Guys Read
A bunch of very short stories written by popular authors.
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5/2005
Isaac Asimov's Masters Of Science Fiction
Twenty-six or so stories, some real good ones like "Air Raid" and "Low-Grade Ore".
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4/2005
HardScape
Real Estate salesman Benjamin Abbott III is hired to photograph a dallying wife. Very good story.
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11/2001
StoneDust
Benjamin Abbott is hired by the widow of a friend to find out how he really died. Very good story.
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11/2001
The Alchemyst
Twins Josh and Sophie become embroiled in a war for the survival of humanity, to their dismay. Book one of how many to come? The author says many of the characters are based on historical and mythological figures. Pretty good!
Words I Had To Look Up:
sigils (pg. 314) -- Signs, words, or devices held to have occult power in astrology or magic
pergola (pg. 366) -- An arbor or a passageway of columns supporting a roof of trelliswork on which climbing plants are trained to grow.
Quote:
...Sophie leaned over and hit the windshield wiper switch. The heavy blades activated...and simply swept the bird off the hood in a flurry of feathers and a shrill croak of surprise. (pg. 98) Mere mortal SUV wipers can sweep a Dire-Crow, "huge" bird, right off the hood? A bird that can peck through windshield glass? I think NOT!
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3/2009
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