Stephanie Plum looks for her missing uncle Fred and finds out why the garbage isn't being picked up.
QUOTE:
Grandma stared at my chest. "You look different. Are you wearing one of them sports brassieres?" She look more closely. "Hot dog, I know what it is. You're wearing a bulletproof vest. Ellen, look at the," she said to my mother. "Stephanie's wearing a bulletproof vest. Isn't that something?" My mother's face had turned white. "Why me?" she said.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in her sixth outing helps her buddy Ranger nail a gun runner.
SMOKE QUOTE:
Sometimes I envy people who smoke. They always look so happy when they suck that first lungful of tar. I can't think of many things that make me that happy. Maybe birthday cake. [pg. 137].
Finally I am reading a book with very little violence and sex... whoops, spoke too soon!! Very little violence, anyway, compared to my usual books! This is a "chick" book, I think. No guy would ponder the motivation behind an act of fellatio! Anyway, except for the one long, boring sex act description (and one short one), and the totally unbelievable ending, it was a very good story. Somebody ought to make a movie out of it...
Tod goes from KP duty to a secret mission to Tibet, due to his knowledge of the local language, having lived in China/Tibet for many most of his life as a missionary's child. Lots of action, an odd ending.
A remarkable book about a boy name Alex who gets hit in the head by a meteorite. And that is just the start! A warm and loving story of two friends facing difficult times.
Quote:
The bathroom was so pokey that you could use the sink, the shower and the toilet all at the same time, though not without consequences.
Quote:
"Forget about the methane?"
Quote:
"Autobiography," I corrected
"What?"
"A biography is when you write someone else's story. When you write your own, its called an autobiography."
"Fuck you. Do you want a drink?"
A food writer in El Paso gets involved in yet another murder-to-be-solved, the death of an opera director. She teams up with a tough-as-nails retired lady police officer to solved the case. Lots of recipes!
Long standing grievances among sandhogs in New York, more or less, lead to murder.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Redwelds (pg. 3) -- A type of expandable file-folder. bacalitos (pg. 165) -- Bacalaítos are salt cod fritters filled with minced cod fish and garnished with cilantro, tomatoes and onions. Agita (pg. 214) -- Heartburn, acid indigestion, an upset stomach.
Alex investigates the murder of an art dealer, Denise Caxton. Interesting historical stuff about the High Line railroad in New York. Check out this informational website http://www.thehighline.org/. I read the large print edition.
Words I Had To Look Up:
...in his atelier (pg. 291) -- an artist's or designer's studio or workroom.
Quote:
Like my pal Scanlon says, 'The camel shits. The caravan moves on.' (pg. 221) -- That's life!
Quote:
"the lid on the gas tank was controlled by the door locks. To fill it with gas, you had to unlock the car doors. (pg. 257 -- Rich art dealer, can't afford to have someone hook up a separate switch for the gas filler lid?
Alex and the crew investigate a murder at the Met.
Quote:
"What the drop?"..."Thirty feet, easy." (pg. 53)
...slamming into the the fan casing at about a hundred twenty miles an hour. (pg. 88) -- I couldn't believe a body would accelerate that quickly in so short a distance, but I did the math, and it seems to be correct. Huh.
Quote:
"Looks like about fifty-five volts of electricity ran up the side of the...manhole cover... More than enough to kill you." (pg.92)
"...Usually it's only twenty or thirty volts, enough to give you a good scare..." (pg. 93) -- Hey, it's the amperage, not the voltage!