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The Gangster We Are All Looking For
A young Vietnamese refugee comes to San Diego with her father. Too lyrical for my tastes, but I liked parts of it.
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5/2010
Surviving The Applewhites
A deliquent juvenile is sent to a family-run private school, a family of very accomplished artistics. Very good. Read 11/2004
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11/2004
The Hobbit
How many times have I read this since the first time circa 1968? Five? Six? Seven? I may even have read it to my kids, I don't know. Read it again.
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9/2013Read:
10/2021
A Fraction Of The Whole
A rather amusing tale of an Australian boy, his wacky father, and his criminal brother. And Eddie.
Quote:
"That's not insect repellent," I said.
"I know. You don't tink I recognize melted chin fat when I see it?" -- pg. 460
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4/2010
A Confederacy Of Dunces
Ignatius Reilly vs. New Orleans. Very good!
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8/2004Read:
6/2022
A Gentleman In Moscow
I enjoyed reading about the Count and the women in his life.
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7/2019
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Not as good as the first book, seems to be a lot of British in-jokes.
QUOTE:
She said, 'he made love to some of the most beautiful women in the world, so why would he want to hang off a door?' Ivan said, 'Because it's less complicated than having a relationship with a woman. One doesn't have to tell a door twenty times a day that one loves it.Read:
10/2000
The Fall
Thieves of Fate #2, pretty good, the story is moving right along, a lot of it takes place in Nippon. Huh, sounds familiar...
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"You have this fascination with the word 'we,'" Master Meteron drawled.-- pg. 103Read:
9/2021
The Nine
Thieves Of Fate series, book 1. I BOUGHT it because the author was talking about it on the John Scalzi blog. I like fine, let us see where it goes. I was disappointed in the early demise of a character, though.
Quote:
..."I suppose drinking before breakfast is doctor's orders?"
"I don't have the benefit of a rather generous dose of morphine. So I'm making do, thank you." -pg. 348
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12/2017Read:
8/2021
Lost It
A not-too-bad teen romance with complications. Tess explains how she came to have sex with Ben, how her friend is planning to blow-up a poodle, and how her grandmother buys her a car.
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11/2011
They Call Me Super Mex
With co-author Sam Blair. Autobiography of the golfer. Very interesting, and I don't even care much for golf. Boy, he sure drinks a lot.
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3/2012
A Bit OnThe Side
Twelve stories that I'm sure are very good, but did not interest me at all.
Words I Had To Look Up:
apposite (pg. 32) -- Apt in the circumstances or in relation to something.
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9/2011
The King of Attolia
Despite a couple of incredibly boring paragraphs, I think this is a wonderful book, full of court intrigue, sly humour, exciting sword play, and fully-developed charactors. Many twists and turns. I STILL think the series needs a map! Book three of the series.
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12/2007
The Queen of Attolia
Eugenides is caught and punished as a thief is. Very good. Book two of the series.
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12/2007
The Thief
Gen the thief is let out of prison to steal something valuable for the king. Pretty good story, took a while to build up interest.
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3/2007
Curious Notions
Germany has won World War One. Paul and his father have come Crosstime to trade for vegetables.
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...didn't use German shepherds, though. They used Alsatians, which were bigger and meaner. (pg. 98) -- They are the same dog, at least in OUR timeline!Words I Had To Look Up:
Brunet (pg. 173) -- I guess that is how they spell "brunette" in that timeline.
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2/2009
Gunpower Empire
In book one of the Crosstime Travel series Jeremy and his family travel to an alternate timeline where the Roman Empire never fell. Jeremy and his sister get stranded there, during a war. Yikes!
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11/2008
In High Places
Annette is kidnapped by crosstime slavers as she travels with her family to Marseilles in a alternate timeline.
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2/2009
The Big Switch
Book three in The War That Came Early alternate history series. World War II in Europe progresses, then the British and French join up with the Germans to fight the Russians.
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11/2012
The Disunited States Of America
Justin visits Virginia in an alternative, meets Beckie from California. Then Ohio attacks Virginia, there's a bio attack. Pretty good.
Quote:
They would figure the rifles were bound for the black guerrillas down in the lowlands. (pg. 8) Lowland guerrillas, indeed!Quote:
Beckie stared after him till ambush tears scalded her cheeks. (pg. 190) Never heard of ambush tears, nothing on internet.Words I Had To Look Up:
Fasarta (pg. 57) -- Turkish for "mat", use here is a homage to Robert Heinlein's Door Into Summer, where "subflexive fasarta" is used. (SOURCE: A posting by Leoorionis on Enworld.com)
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12/2008
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