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Multiple Wounds
San Diego Police Department investigates the murder of an art gallery owner. Lots of local color.
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8/2001
No Sign Of Murder
P.I. Stuart Winter is hired to find out what happened to a deaf girl. An interesting charactor works at the S.F. P.L. Interesting info about the deaf, and gorillas, and birding
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"I have observed in htis world that there are three types of people. There are the cleaners, and there are those that make a mess, and then there are those who are weathervanes." "Weathervanes?" "Spinning whatever direction the wind blows." [sic] Weathervanes constitute the bulk of our race. They wait for circumstance to change them. They never change circumstances. They never even think of changing it. They'll march for peace. They'll also be part of a lynch mob."Read:
4/2001
Shame
Crime writer Maryelizabeth Line comes to San Diego to find out if someone is recreating the murders from her first book. A highly recommended crime story.
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4/2001
The Fat Innkeeper
Hotelier Am Caulfield takes on murder and Japanese at the Hotel California. A very good story! Just as good in the second reading, too! Just as good in the third reading, too!!
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3/2006Words I Had To Look Up:
truckle (pg. 284) -- Yield to out of weakness.
kusou (pg. 274) -- Kuso is a Japanese curse word. Mispelled?
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4/2009
The Forest Prime Evil
P.I. Stuart Winter finds out why a hero of the save-the-trees movement died. A good story.
TYPO:
'I was about to push by, which was what they wanted me to do, when a loud nose caused everyonein the place to jump.' pg. 20 I HATE those loud noses!!!Read:
4/2001
The Hotel Detective
Murder at the Hotel California in La Jolla. Funny and interesting.
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Sharon had been told that the reason women had difficulty estimating sizes was that they were always being told by men that six inches was a foot.Read:
4/2001Read Again:
4/2018
Caught Looking
Rooster Franklin goes to Kansas City to find a stolen baseball glove. Third book in series.
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3/2001
Doll Eyes
Rooster Franklin goes to Kansas City to restart romance with old lover. Fourth book in series. Rooster doesn't seem to remember he already knows Rick Meza from book three, at least...
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3/2001
Empire Falls
About Miles the greasy spoon owner in a small town he never got out of. Good story.
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12/2001
Everybody's Fool
Police Chief Raymer is still trying to come to terms with the death of his wife Becka some months before. Sully has some bad medical news. There's smelly yellow gunk coming out of the ground. Great story!
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"You probably just remind her of someone," one nurse speculated, to which Sully replied, "Yeah, but the person I remind her of is me."Quote:
"narrative disruptions," -- I think I may be having those, too!Quote:
"...And of course I'm armed. People do respect that, especially in a Negro male." -- The whole paragraph is even better!Quote:
He'd worn briefs his whole life until he disrobed in front of Becka that first time and she'd reacted to them with startled revulsion. "Well," she said, "that's going to have to change."Quote:
He didn't know much about cobras, but he was pretty sure they didn't have three eyes.Read:
7/2023
Nobody's Fool
Sully is getting older in Bath, Maine, and hasn't quite figured out where is life is going.
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"Just because I don't lock my front door doesn't make us friends. What're you doing here, anyhow?"Quote:
"You're a man among men, Sully."
"Thanks," he said.
"It wasn't a compliment," she assured him.Read:
4/2023
Somebody's Fool
Five stars, I really enjoyed this book!
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Raymer wondered if maybe the time had come to walk away from such grizzly details. -- Grisly?Quote:
...he himself had met such a grizzly end... -- Grisly?Quote:
...so she wouldn't see the grizzly photo... -- Grisly?Quote:
"Well, once you're shut of him, we can start a headlong romance of our own." He was enjoying himself now, she could tell. "Maybe try holding hands or something." Read:
9/2023
Straight Man
Funny story about a University professor.
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10/2000
The Risk Pool
Ned recounts the history of his relationship with his adventurous father in Mohawk, New York. Very good story, but took a long time to read.
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He was from the western half of Pennsylvania, "practically Ohio," and you couldn't grow up that close to Ohio with being Ohio. Ohio was that pervasive. Next to Iowa, she couldn't think of a worse influence. --page 309Read:
12/2006
Get That Nigger Off The Field!
A history of African-Americans and other people of color who have played baseball over the last one hundred years.
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4/2012
Becoming Naomi Leon
Naomi lives in trailer in a town very like Lemon Grove, with her grandmother and brother. Family conflicts, trip to Mexico, reunions. Good story.
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11/2006
Esperanza Rising
Story of a young girl coming to America from Mexico back in the 30's. Loosely based on the author's grandmother's life. Very good story.
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4/2002
Missing May
Summer recalls her aunt May who passed away. A nice story, it's the 1993 Newbery Medal awardee.
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5/2009
Berserker's Star
Harry Silver ferryies a woman and to men to the not-a-planet of Maracanda where things are not always what one would expect. LATER: Whats with the typos?
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7/2003
The Berserker Tales
The Berserkers are robotic ships that are programmed to kill all living things.
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7/2002
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