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Gathering Blue
Crippled Kira is lucky she has a valuable skill, else she would have been tossed on the trash heap, as it were, when her mother dies. Good story of a cruel world.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Cott (pg.2) -- Short for cottage, a dwelling.
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5/2008
Messenger
Village is changing, Forest is turning bad, Matty goes to fetch Kira. Moving, but seems incomplete.
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5/2008
The Giver
Jonas is nearly Twelve, and he is going to find out assigned vocation. I like how the story builds, but I was disappointed by the ending.
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5/2008
The Silent Boy
An old woman tell about the events of a year when she was a young girl and the tragedy that ensued. Very good story. I like it when a charactor is a reader and the books she likes are mentioned, I become interested in reading those books too.
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6/2003
The Willoughbys
A parody of all those too-sweet orphan books. A splendidly useful glossary of words such as odious, obsequious, glutinous, and lugubrious is included, along with summaries of novels about "pitious but appealing orphans."
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"They are dolts indeed," Nanny said. She stared at the postcard and murmured, "I myself am Presbyterian."Read:
5/2008
Lengend
Book one in the Legend series. As I got nearer and nearer to the end I realized, yes, this was gonna be a series. Well, I liked it anyway.
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6/2014
The battle of the red hot pepper weenies
Yes, and other warped and creepy tales! Very nice, my favorite, of course, is Book Banning.
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11/2009
Hideout
Alice Vega #3. Alice is hired to find a football player who disappeared some thirty years ago. Once again I must say I admire the relationship of Cap and his daughter Nell.
Quote:
"Still," said Ameyo, shrugging a muscular shoulder, "that's a touch creepy."...
"I'm somewhat creepy," said Vega, not at all trying to be cute.
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10/2023
The Janes
Alice Vega #2, I believe. Alice calls Cap to partner up on an investigation into two unidentified bodies in the Salton Sea area of California. OK story, I'm reading #1 now.
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Don't look at the saw on the table, Cap told himself.Quote:
And there they were: twenty-four-inch, steel-jawed bolt cutters. -- Steel-jawed, that's the best kind!Read:
10/2023
Two Girls Down
I can never remember all the amazing things I was going to mention... This is Alice Vega #1. She comes out from California all the way to Pennsylvania, I think, to find two missing/kidnapped young girls. Pretty good story, some very disturbing images, some very funny lines.
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Machs nixQuote:
"Ah hell, Lyssie, looks like I peed," he said, shifting around. -- We are all getting older.Quote:
"Hey--" started McKie.
"Don't speak unless you're spoken to, please. You're a moron, and it grates on me," said the Fed, getting angrier.
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"You remind me of my late wife," he said thoughtfully. -- Funniest line in the book!Read:
10/2023
Service: A Navy SEAL At War
Lots of action in Iraq, mostly.
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12/2014
Curse Of The Spellmans
Second book in the series. Lots of footnotes! Izzy investigates a suspiciously-acting new neighbor, among other things.
Words I Had To Look Up:
I defenestrated myself (pg. 250) -- The act of throwing someone or something out of a window. Still.
My sister's hyperbolic response...(pg. 332) -- Seems not the curve, but using hyperbole, that is, overstatement.
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7/2011
Revenge Of The Spellmans
Book three finds Isabel in court-ordered therapy, someone is blackmailing her, her parked car keeps moving around, and Rai is accused of cheating on the PSAT.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Erased de Kooning Drawing (pg. 284) -- Those wacky artist types!
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7/2011
The Last Word
Spellman Document #6. I laughed and I cried, then laughed some more. This one was better than #5. But it might be the last! Be sure to read them in order.
On page 263 I might have caught an spellcheck error. The character says "Once I coded a logarithm that made your computer run at the pace of the J train." I think that should have been "...coded an algorithm that made..."
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8/2014
The Spellman Files
A dysfunctional family of private investigators goes about its business in San Francisco.
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7/2011
The Spellmans Strike Again
Book four, the third one was checked out already. Better to read them in order, I think. There's romance and sadness, and disappearing doorknobs.
Words I Had To Look Up:
spelt pretzels (pg. 170) -- Spelt is a healthful kind of wheat. Isabel doesn't care for healthful food.
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7/2011
Trail Of The Spellmans
Isabel has all SORTS of family problems, and they with her. I enjoyed reading it very much. Oh, this is Document #5, as Isabel puts it. OH, and I like Morgan Freeman, too. And, bannana!
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8/2014
Vietnam: Book I: I Pledge Allegiance
Four school chums join different branches of the military during the Viet Nam war.
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3/2012
The Lies Of Locke Lamora
An orphan gets sold to a fake religion. A really really good story, lots of cussing though.
Quote:
"Ila justicca vei cala," said Locke. -- pg. 457Read:
1/2017
The Republic Of Thieves
Really good, lots of blood and cussing, still discordant. Really looking forward to the next one, if it ever gets published.
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"I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha... "are we smarter than that woman's chicken?" -- pg 584
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2/2017
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