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Miles Errant
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#4)
This omnibus edition is fun to revisit Bujold's wonderful stories.
Contents:
The Borders of Infinity
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance
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3/2023
Miles In Love
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#6)
I love reading these stories over and over again!
Contents:
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Winterfair Gifts
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8/2023
Miles Mutants And Microbes
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#5)
Contents:
Falling Free
Labyrinth
Diplomatic Immunity
I enjoyed this omnibus very much, even with the repeat of Labyrinth!
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4/2023
Miles, Mystery, And Mayhem
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#3)
Contains:
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Labyrinth.
Great stories, I am re-reading them in the omnibus edition.
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4/2023
Mirror Dance
Miles Vorkosigan goes to Jackson's Whole to help his brother
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12/1999
Paladin Of Souls
Ista goes on a pilgrimage.
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5/2012
Passage
Book three in The Sharing Knife series. Fawn, Dag, and the rest of the crew (and captain) are in the south.
Words I Had To Look Up:
towhead (pg. 318) -- A sandbar or low-lying alluvial island in a river, especially one with a stand of trees.
Quote:
Not a tidy heart shot, but that straw bale sure wasn't getting away. (pg. 197)
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8/2010Read Again:
8/2016
Penric's Progress
Three Penric stories, very good!
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8/2021
Penric's Travels
Three Penric stories. Penric's Mission, Mira's Last Dance, The Prisoner Of Limnos. Very enjoyable!
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8/2021
The Curse Of Chalion
A washed-up wreck from the wars begs a job in the scullery at the castle where he used to be a page. Gets job as tutor to princess. First book in Chalion series.
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5/2012
Vorkosigan's Game
Three stories about Miles Vorkosigan.
QUOTE:
"Where are you?" Ivan demanded suspiciously. "Stuck in limbo." "Well, I don't want any of it stuck to me," said Ivan roughly, and punched off-line. BONUS QUOTE:
I can't believe this. Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex- starved teenage werewolf. There was nothing about this in any of my Imperial training manuals...Read:
1/2000
Young Miles
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#2)
Contents:
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Mountains of Mourning
The Vor Game
Author's Afterword
Quote:
It isn't easy, being Vor...Read:
3/2023
SOS Titanic
A boy travels from Ireland to America, part of the way, on the good ship Titanic. Good story, but why do I not have any other Bunting books on my list, eh?
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5/2015
Bankok 8
Thai police detective investigates the death of an American Marine, with the help of an FBI agent. Lots of Buddhist thoughts. Snakes. Observation on the Thai sex industry.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Glyph -- A symbol, such as a stylized figure or arrow on a public sign, that imparts information nonverbally. (pg. 307)Quote:
The new age of biotechnology will require a highly developed intuition which operates outside of logic, and anyway the internal destruction of Western society will have reached such a pass that most of your resources will be concentrated on managing loonies. -- pg. 153Read:
6/2007
A Clockwork Orange
I thought I saw the movie in 1968 or '69, which would have meant I saw it with Maureen, but it turns out that it was released in 1972. Which complicates things, as I was dating four or five women that year, three of whom I could have taken to the movie. I wish I had kept a diary!
The author, in his introduction, mentions a glossary. At least, I thought he did. Now, I can find no mention of it.
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9/2024
The Return Of Tarzan
Tarzan repeatedly must foil the machinations of the evil Monsieur Thuran/Rokoff. Rescues Jane from the frightful men of Opar, too. This has been my bathroom reader at work for four months!
Words I Had To Look Up::
bowlder (pg. 210) -- Alternative spelling of 'boulder'.
ulster (pg. 215) --a man's heavy double-breasted overcoat with a belt or half-belt at the back, so-called because it was first produced in Northern Ireland.
Sapristi! (pg. 219) -- Good Heavens!
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3/2011
Kindred
Dana, a black woman in 1976, is "inexplicitly wretched" back in time to 18-something Maryland and saves a drowning white boy.
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5/2023
Lost In America
Colby travels around the U.S. in his old car, mostly in Detroit, in a kind Kerouac-y mode.
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3/2012
Remainders Of The Day
Diary of a Bookseller, #3. Very enjoyable read of the life and goings-on of a seller-of-books in a small town in Scotland.
Quote:
...Granny told me, 'I can't cycle a stupid fucking bicycle, my eyesight is too shit and I too uncoordinated.'Quote:
How can a woman cook her husband's potatoes properly when her mind is filled with romance?Read:
12/2023
Mildred Pierce
Mildred starts a restaurant after getting divorced from her philandering husband. Noir. No one is murdered.
Quote:
"The gams, the gams! Your face ain't news!"Quote:
Salad, for some reason, is served first in California.Words I Had To Look Up:
Untrammeled bosom.Read:
7/2024
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