Books I've Read

Very good book about William Mulholland and the building of the Los Angeles aqueduct.

Comedian Stanhope recounts growing up with an alcoholic mother. She was much more than that, though, and it's a great, if profanity-lace, story. I enjoyed it very much. I don't think I'd care to see his act, though.

Parker is on the lam in a small town, helps out a guy with a racetrack robbery.

Parker robs a floating casino.

Parker breaks out of jail.

Parker robs an evangelist.

Parker is trying to recover the money from the armored car heist.

Parker robs a mansion/lodge in Montana.

Parker heads to Florida to recover his share of a job that was "borrowed" by a trio of former partners that are going to pull off a jewel heist there.

Stark is a pseud. of Donald Westlake. Parker, a heister, executes a bank job, but it's going bad.

Parker has just had plastic surgery. Joins in an armored car heist.

Gar and Alea stop off to check out a planet that doesn't seem to have a government, oppressive or otherwise. One weep, plus an ending I didn't see coming.

Georges meets a couple of kids in the apartment building they live in that suspect a neighbor may be up to no good. Stead know how to up the ante, I missed all the clues.

Sixth grade Miranda gets mysterious notes. One of the best books I have read lately, of its kind. I was so much in tears at the end I nearly choked.

Disgruntled astronauts steal intersteller spaceship and head to the possibly Earthlike planet named Coyote. Well, they wuz going there anyway, it is that they replaced the original colonists with other disgruntled citizens. I thought it was pretty good, but the reviews on Amazon.com say the science is erroneous. There are a couple sequels. We shall see...

Consists of The Long Valley, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Log From The Sea Of Cortez, and an appendix with The Harvest Gypsies and Starvation Under The Orange Trees. Lots of depressing stuff here. Some good chuckles in The Sea Of Cortez, but I skipped chapter fourteen, as it made my head hurt.

Thoughtful tale of a librarian in Boston prison.

A spy novel. A guy gets assassinated in front of his wife at a cafe. Four hundred-some pages later we find out what the deal is. A VU reference, and I also learned that Bjork was in the band The Sugarcubes when researching the group.

F.B.I. agent Rachel investigates the possibly radical and possibly dangerous group The Massive Brigade and uncovers corruption and manipulation everywhere. Possibly first of a series this title is.

Bk. 1 in a series, three children find out they are part of a magic prophecy. Good story, needs more funny than it has, though.