Books I've Read

Biography of John Harrison who built an extraordinary clock accurate enough to calculate the longitude of a ship at sea. Interesting story.

Well, things don't quite end up as planned, but there ya go. I hear there's a prequel?

A prequel to the Maze Runner series. Too much killing just made me glaze over in the last twenty pages.

Thomas wakes up in an decrepit elevator to a strange place where boys try to solve a maze, hoping to escape. Volume one of the series.

Second book in the series. Thomas and the boys (and girls) have to cross The Scorch, after which they are promised a cure for The Flare. The cake is a lie, my friends.

Thirteen fairy tales retold by authors I've actually heard of. Very good. I esspecially liked the girl who recommended learning how to use the card catalog for research as fairy godfathers were sometimes rather undependable.

Thriller with time-travel. Mostly thriller. Author pushes buttons of feelings towards helpless children. Pretty good story.

Goldie Bear deals with problems at her son's prep school.

Data missing.

Goldie goes to Hyde's castle to cater her son's fencing team's banquet. Reaed 12/2001

Goldy's on PBS with her own cooking show!

Jessie and her older brother Evan enter into a war of lemonade stands at the ending of summer. I felt so sorry for little Jessie and her bewilderment at how cruel some of her classmates were to her. A great little book.

Ten stories (non-fiction) by authors of children's books telling how travel affected their lives. Very good.

Falco travels to Britain with an entourage to see what is causing problems at a palace construction site. Very good.

Falco, a P.I. in ancient Rome, tracks down the killers of a young girl and stealers of silver ingots.

Novel about a Lesbian tv network. One would have thought more interesting... Too boring. Quit 8/2003

Pretty well done story of deaf schoolgirls kidnapped by escaped prison inmates and the hostage negotiator trying to save them. Or not. Lots of action!

Chuck stows away on the first mission to Mars. It is implied that radar is used for communications. How do that work?

Nineteen-year-old Jim is a top hand in the space race, in this 1956 story that culminates with a landing on the moon. Great "retro" jacket painting!

In volume 1 of the Wardstone Chronicles (The Last Apprentice in the US) series Thomas Ward is apprenticed to the Spook John Gregory to learn the trade of protecting the people from witches and boggarts and demons, oh my!