Books I've Read

A continuation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.

12-year-old Aretemis plans to steal the Elves gold using modern technology, to restore his criminal family's fortune. Clever!

Artemis and Holly have dealing with the 8th family of fairies, AND, Artemis meets a girl as smart as him, probably. Read again in 2009, by misteak.

The world's youngest arch-ciminal genius is now 13. He finds out his father is being held for ransom, and in the Lower Elements the goblins are revolting. Enjoyably clever!

The boy criminal has to get the technology he stole back from the fiend who stole it from him, to save the fairy land from being discovered. Very good.

Artemis and Holly match wits against Opal again.

Benny's Da is transferred to Tunesia. Benny misses Ireland, and hurling, but makes a friend in Omar, a poor local. Tramatic events ensue.

An Irish boy with a badge investigates thefts at his school.

Nifty science fiction story. Cosmo gets zapped and gets the ability to see blue creatures that seem to be sucking the life out of people!

A bad girl dies and has do some good deed to avoid going to the bad place. Read 3/2005

Revolutionary War story about Tim who admires his older brother who has joined the army.

Hitler wanted Paris destroyed, this book shows how chance and decisions, and even non-decisions, thwarted the German leader's desire.

A P.I. investigates the murder of a comic bigshot. Boy, a lot of the names sound vaguely familiar. Wonder Guy?

Contains the books Fly Paper and Hush Money. In the first one Nolan has the bad luck to be on an airliner that is highjacked. In the second Nolan goes to Des Moines to maybe clean up a problem there, smooth some things out, and said things go bad, to my mind.

Quarry is a hitman. After completing a hit he finds that someone had killed his partner and stolen their money. He decides to find out who it was. First book in the series.

Quarry goes on a job to some disreputable town on the Mississippi River to make a bit of money. I didn't see anything coming of what happened. I especially liked the ending.

Some author shows up to interview Quarry, and some other day some hit guys show up to off him, so then he goes off to find out who they are, teams up with the author, and makes a surprising discovery.

Quarry ends up in Biloxi killing everyone, it seems like, and getting beat up a lot. Boy, I can read two of these a day!

Quarry accidently runs into his ex-wife while on the job in Nevada.

Quarry's first job, eliminating a college professor.