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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

Shadowed Souls

Butcher, Jim

Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes, editors.
The Dresden Files (#14.5 - Cold Case), Cal Leandros (#10.5 - Impossible Monsters), Greywalker (#9.2 - Peacock in Hell), Simon Canderous (#4.4 - Solus)
Contents:

Cold Case by Jim Butcher
Sleepover by Seanan McGuire
If Wishes Were by Tanya Huff
Solus by Anton Strout
Peacock In Hell by Kat Richardson
Eye Of Newt by Kevin J. Anderson
What Dwells Within by Lucy A. Snyder
Hunter, Healer by Jim C. Hines
Baggage by Erik Scott de Bie
Sales. Force. by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Impossible Monsters by Rob Thurman

I liked most of these stories.

Quote:

"Dammit, man. I'm a Faerie princess, not a forensic analyst."

Quote:

'Get him! He's the one we've got a contract out on,' says the rock monster. And the golem says, 'Don't end a sentence with a preposition.'

Quote:

A poster i one of the dust-specked windows said "Come for fun in the library!" in dripping-blood letters.

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8/2025

Kindred

Butler, Octavia E.

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

Buzzell, Colby

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

Bythell, Shaun

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?

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12/2023

Mildred Pierce

Cain, James M.

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.

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7/2024

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Cain, James M.

I don't know what the title has to do with anything. I looked it up and I still don't understand. So I say, "WhatEVER". The story was OK, the female character is just weird.

Quote:

"You think I'm going to cash that? I am like hell. I'm going to frame it. It goes up there, right over my desk."

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9/2024

Dear And Glorious Physician

Caldwell, Taylor

Story of St. Luke. Pretty long. I might not have read the third third quite as throughly as the first two thirds.

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12/2002

Honey Baby Sweetheart

Caletti, Deb

Ruby meets a boy who is trouble. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend to teenage girls, but there is a bit more profanity than I would like for middle school students. Although no one will notice as I am only the second person to read it in since it was acquired in 2006.

Quote:

"I love that Heart of Darkness. Steinbeck's a genius," Frank said.
"Joseph Conrad," my mother said. "Heart of Darkness is by Joseph Conrad."
"I'm sure it's Steinbeck," Frank said. "I remember it from high school."
"She's a librarian," Harold said. -- Pg. 287

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1/2015

Sportbike Performance Handbook

Cameron, Kevin

In a form of self-torture I perused this book. Can't way I READ every word, though. Lots of interesting "how stuff works" information. I remember the author's column and articles from Cycle magazine. I don't see much "how to do it", though. I've got to get a bike...

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6/2009

Andorra

Cameron, Peter

Strange story, a mystery fantasy. I didn't know there was a beach in Andorra...

SMOKE QUOTE:

I sat next to her and watched her smoke. I liked how she did it: a little greedily, narrowing her green eyes and sucking in her cheeks as if smoking were very hard work.

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3/2000

A Dog's Purpose: A Novel For Humans

Cameron, W. Bruce

Took me a while to get into this story, about a hundred pages. A dog recounts his various lives (dogs are reincarnated). Damn book is so dusty, my eyes keep watering...

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10/2010

The Tequila Worm

Canales, Viola

A very enjoyable story of a Mexican-American girl winning a scholarship to a exclusive boarding school. Full of wonderful family and cultural stuff.

Words I Had To Look Up:

cascorones (pg. 18) -- Hollow-out eggs filled with confetti or small toys.
H.E.B. (pg. 129) -- A supermarket chain in Texas and Lousiiana.
pendeja (pg. 168) -- Idiot.

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10/2010

God Save The Queen

Cannell, Dorothy

A butler dies in the john, a young girl might inherit, a silver tea strainer has been missing for two hundred years. A very nice little mystery, very enjoyable.

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4/2001

The Thin Woman

Cannell, Dorothy

Ellie Simons must lose 63 pounds, among other requirements, to inherit. Funny story.

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4/2001

Blood On The River: James Town 1607

Carbone, Elisa

For some reason I don't care much for books about Early America, but this historical fiction novel was pretty good. Orphan/accused thief Samuel Collier comes to America with Captain John Smith (as his page).

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10/2010

A Planet Called Treason

Card, Orson Scott

Lanik Mueller is heir to one of the ruling families on a planet called Treason. His family grows extra body parts to sell off- world. I found the story to be offensive at first, but it develops into an ok story. Certainly not an "Ender's Game" by any stretch.