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This Book Is Not Good For You
Cass and her friends investigate a plot to discover The Secret using chocolate.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Curate ut Valeatis (pg. 118) -- Take care that you fare well.
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1/2011
A Treasury of Southern Folklore
I FINALLY FINISHED this 776 page book! It is NOT a page-turner! I could only read about 10 pages a day. Very interesting, in parts, not so much, in others. I am NOT READING the Western and New England compilations!
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7/2007
Planet of the apes
A little different than the movie.
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9/2004
Kitchen Confidential
Tony recounts the madcap life of a chef: sex, drugs, rock and roll, drugs, alcohol, and more drugs. Interesting, funny in parts, disgusting in others. Will read his other books. Two references to Lou Reed/Velvets.
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11/2002
Moonwar
Ok, let's get started: Reminded me of Heinlein's "The Moon Is Harsh Mistress". Page 296, "We should have this kloodge put together...". Shouldn't that be "kludge"? Page 317, "Main buss has cut out." My dictionary sez "bus". "Buss" is a brand name for fuses, I think. Page 296 again, "I've saved this freak for private conversations." I don't like "freak", but I found a dictionary that sez it's ok. I like "freq." instead.
QUOTE:
"Yep, I'm absolutely, positively certain. I might be wrong, but I'm sure." BONUS QUOTE:
"I remember a professor of mine saying that if something scratches or bites, it's biology; if it stinks or pops, it's chemistry; and if...it doesn't work, it's physics."Read:
1/1999
Powersat
Terrorists eventually use Dan Randolph's power generating satellite in an presedential assa....crap, too many big words. Technothriller. Sort of Clancyish.
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7/2005
Return To Mars
Sequel to "Mars". Good story.
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3/2000
Collateral Damage
Richard Michaelson solves another locked-room mystery in Washington, D.C. Excellant story!
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8/2000
Corruptly Procured
Richard Michaelson finds out why German nationalists steal the Library Of Congress's copy of the Gutenberg Bible.
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"I wanted to have what they had even though I wasn't like them. I resented them for having what I didn't. My sin was envy, the most useless sin, the only sin that brings evil without pleasure or satisfaction."Read:
7/1999
Washington Deceased
Richard Michaelson tries to find out how a prisoner was killed inside a locked room. This series is humorous and interesting!
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8/1999
Breaking Point
I wonder if the first of two references to a baked potato was a foreshadowing. Good story. Too many brand names mentioned. Someone has an iPhone? How does that advance the plot. Sure wish my local library had all the series titles so I could read them in order!
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9/2016
Off The Grid
Nate and Jack separately end up at a deserted sheep ranch to foil the plans of some terrorists who have take over a patriot's project to incapacitate the NSA installation in Utah. You know, THAT one!
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9/2016
Becoming George Sand
Maria, a Scottish professor and writer, deals with her love and husband, and the death of her friend, while writing a book about George Sand.
Words I Had To Look Up:
girning over trifles (pg. 35) -- To complain in a whining voice. To contort one's face; grimace.
arrived in a caléche (pg. 129) -- A light low-wheeled carriage with a removable folding hood.
leave the door on the snib (pg. 164) -- A snib is a manually operated catch for the internal locking of Yale type locks.
practicing a phrase on the Pleyel (pg. 317) -- Not an instrument, as I first thought, a piece of music by Ignace Pleyel.
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10/2011
Quicker Than The Eye
A bunch of short stories, including Another Fine Mess, maybe my favorite, but the librarian one was pretty good, too.
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11/2012
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants
How four girls spent their summer. Very good, several weepy times.
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3/2003
Flawed Dogs
An abused Dachshund seeks revenge upon the Poodle that set him up. An interesting tale, some obligatory weeps at the end.
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2/2015
Evvy's Civil War
Story of a Southern girl during the Civil War, showing her relationship with the slaves and her growing social consciousnous. A very excellent story. QUOTE (As I remember it, too lazy to look it up.) "South Carolina, too small to be a country, too big to be an insane asylum."
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11/2002
Molokai
A young girl is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to the leper colony on Molokai island. Good story!
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5/2016
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Some Mafia gangs in Brooklyn shoot it out. And some other stuff. The book was OK, I hear the movie was not. Surely I saw it, back in the day. It had Leigh Taylor-Young, for goodness sake! I never heard of her co-star, some guy named Robert DeNiro...
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8/2023
I Try To Take One Day At A Time
But Sometimes Several Days Attack Me At Once. A Pot-Shots™ a day for a whole year. Some of them I liked, but mostly... meh. I guess you have to be in the mood for this sort of thing. I wonder if he did the illustrations, too, and if not, did he managed to copyright them, too?
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10/2013
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