Books I've Read

Great title! Kind of a philosophical story of ecological disaster in the not-all-that-far away future. Some pretty funny lines, many things I had to look up. I DID figure out where the Hermit Kingdom was before the author revealed it, but it took WAY too long for me to do so.

Jane da Silva finds out if an imprisoned jerk punk really killed a pharamacist's wife. At the end she seems to have been approved to receive her inheritance, but in "Electric City" she doesn't have it.

Jane da Silva is trying to convince the Foundation For Righting Wrongs that she deserves to get paid on her latest case, a missing woman that worked for a clipping service.

Ted is the assistant manager of a Seattle grocery store where bodies start turning up. MacNab and Lukowski investigate.

Professor Charles doesn't get tenue, takes over his uncles's car repair shop in Seattle. Said body is discovered. MacNab and Lukowski investigate.

Single dirvorced mom Alice gets a job at a decrepit AM Classical radio station, taking the place of Ed, who is lying dead in a hide-a-bed. Funny.

An alligator makes friends with a duck. Extremely excellent picture book!

I did not find this book on dating and relationships humorous or useful. I only found two funny parts, the old guy story on pages 196-197, and another one that couldn't find again, so I guess it wasn't that good. Since I flunked the Man Test at the beginning I guess these book isn't for me.

Richard Belzer, the actor, searches for clues to his Russian friend's disappearance in New York. "Belz" constantly meets people who misidentify him, and several people who want to kill him. Not as engaging a story as I hoped, given Belzer's rep as a comedian, but maybe it was because I was reading it in the emergency room.

Rose can taste the emotional base of whoever prepared the food she eats. This is very disconcerting to her as a child. Later she finds out her family, on her father's side, seems to have various talents along this way. I did not get the pink Pegasus pen humor.

Co-author Victoria Christopher Murray. Novel about the friendship and work of Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune. I enjoyed it very much.

I can't believe this is the first Benford book in the data base, I am certainly familiar with the name. Interesting story of first manned expedition to Mars.

Probably the first in a series, a young thief gets into a lot more trouble than she ever imagined. Clef the key was one of my favorite characters.

With Janet Benrey. Glory, North Carolina #1. B&B owner Emma works with fellow church choir singer Rafe (who is deputy police chief) solve a possible murder in their small town. Cozy Christian Mystery Romances aren't really my thing, but this one was OK.

Non-fiction stories of Savannah, Georgia. I particularly thought the Conrad Aiken bench story was charming. Chablis the drag-queen is quite the character!!

Reinhardt #3 in the series. Published in 1971, author of Little Big Man, I thought I would really like this. I just didn't get a lot of it, very clever writing though. A lot of the humor went over my head.

Science Fiction/Crime novel from the early 50s, first Hugo award. "Jazzy" jargon was kind of irritating, but this was probably pretty hot stuff back then. Wikipedia artilce helped me to appreciate it a bit more. I like his "The Stars My Destination" more.

Three eco-nuts blow up a nuke to save the world, destroying Seattle and a mansion owned by a very Bill Gates-like parody. Some humour, but wiping out Seattle is kind of a bummer, dude.

A charming story of a family on summer vacation. "Four sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting boy."

A boy finds out that his small town is more interesting than he thought. I liked this book a lot!