Books I've Read

A 75 year old man joins the Colonial Defense Force, gets a new body. I was in tears by the top of the third page. I really enjoyed this book, very Heinelinesque, couldn't put it down. EDIT 20016: This time around I cried a lot more.

I was pretty ho-hum til the codas started, then it was all laughter and tears.

Super villain story with cats and dolphins. Snappy patter. I liked it!

I've heard of sheeple, but this is ridiculous! Good story, interesting to me, quotable quotes, and moves right along.

Human Division #1. e-ISBN 978-1-4668-3051-6 I really really like this story very much. The good ship Clarke is sent on an important diplomatic mission that must not fail!

Book One of a series, the name of which I don't know. Some snappy repartee, several memorable characters. My immediate favorite character gets killed pretty early, so I am VERY displeased by that. I just KNOW I am not going to remember any of the story or characters by the time the next book comes out. I rate this: A Promising OK.

I guess this is book two in the Interdependency Sequence. The author should maybe include a Glossary, I was unfamiliar with some of the words used, especially that one that started with "F"... Who talks like that? Well, except for my friend. Good story as I got more engaged with it in the second half. Laughed out loud a couple of times, even. Hope I remember the story when the next one comes out!

I find that in a series I often forget what went on in previous volumes. So to with this one, but I still enjoyed it about 75%.

I really should have read these in order. I laughed out loud a couple or times, which was odd of me, even though I am such a funny guy. I also cried a couple of times. So this is the story of Jared Dirac, who becomes a Special Forces soldier in Jane Sagan's unit. Good stuff.

Having missed reading this one somehow, I enjoyed reading it after re-reading the previous volumes in the series. And after reading the final book in the series before re-reading all those. So now I can say I don't remember what happens after this one.

Jaimie gets a new job after being fired by his jerk CEO boss. It involves travel.

John Perry, Jane Sagan, and Zoe head off to colonized a new planet. But the Colonial Union has some underhandedness under its sleeve, as it were.

This book was relatively quick to read, nice dialogue, moves right along, and some good lines. Some funny, too. Big surprises near the end.

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.

A very excellent story of colonization from the POV of a fifteen-year-old girl named Zoe.

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.

Glory is almost twelve in 1964 Mississippi. A great story of a young girl's growing awareness of segregation in the South.

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.

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!

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!