Books I've Read

A rather long (469 pages) and slow to read book about various pirates through history. It took me nearly three months to finish. I found it very hard to read, and very uninteresting, mostly. But, some parts WERE interesting. I spent a lot of time looking at maps of the Lynn Massachusetts area to see where the action of the chapter about the Lynn pirates took place.

Peter and Elise save the king of Denmark in book six of the gently Christian adventure series The Young Underground. The story was good, but the children seem oddly contemporary in several ways. I would have liked to see some Danish words used in the story. I did learn several interesting things, for instance that the kings of Denmark were all named either Frederick or Christian for four hundred years.

Thomas Black gets blown up, Kathy dies in a plane crash. A disjointed tale of tin-hat paranoia. Or is it?

Some notes:

Page 110 "The first of the next two bodies was one of the pilots..."
Page 112 "...Around noon a fishing boat had found the second pilot's body..."
Page 116 One of the pilots...were unaccounted for.
Page 141 Two pilots made the case for pilot error or drunkenness less likely.
Page 151 Why did they seem confused about the number of pilots?
Page 161 ...about find the second pilot's corpse yesterday...

I think the author lost track of his pilot count on that page 116 quote.

Thomas Black investigates the disapperance of his old police partner Luther's daughter, Balinda. Thomas rides a Merckx.

Thomas Black, P.I., investigates a rich client being blackmailed. Whoops,

Small town fire chief Jim Swope has a problem, his troops are coming up brain-dead and he might have the same problem. A little confusing and far-fetched, great chapter headings.

Fire Chief Mac Fontana insvestigates a fire in Seattle that killed three firemen.

A group of mountain bikers (three are firemen) encounter jealousy, death, murder, fire, and lactic-acid overload. Not in that order. Very exciting story.

Good story. Fire Chief Mac Fontana solves a couple murders, although I figured out who the mystery dead person was before he did!

P.I. Thomas Black solves a wierd murder involving aliens!! Good story, and he is a bike rider. Good bike stuff.

P.I. Thomas Black has to locate the "dream women" of four businessmen.

Humerous stories about the extended families created by divorce and remarriages.

Bill and Monica and Hillery and all the rest. Rock and Roll! Not for the fainthearted!

Stephanie quits the bounty hunter job, sort of, eventually gets a job with Ranger. Someone is blowing up her cars again...

Stephanie Plum searches for Maxine Nowicki on a FTA but as usual everything go awry. .

Stephanie gets chased by a rabbit.

Stephanie Plum looks for her missing uncle Fred and finds out why the garbage isn't being picked up.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in her sixth outing helps her buddy Ranger nail a gun runner.

Stephanie Plum becomes a bounty hunter, meets Lulu, a psychotic boxer.

Stephanie looks for Eddie DeChooch, a senior citizen semi-retired mobster. This story has a lotta heart!