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The Wall

Long, Jeff
SPOILER:Crazed chick wall-rat possessed by the spirit of a woman with Altzheimer's disease who was left to die in the Arabian desert (I think it was the Empty Quarter) cuts the rope of the woman's husband while climbing El Capitan in Yosemite. He dies.

The climbing technical stuff was interesting, the story, though, just kinda built into something weird.

Words I Had To Look Up:

Ayurvedic (pg. 87) medicine is the most ancient of the six recognized Indian Systems of Medicine to the Indian subcontinent. From the Wikipedia article.

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9/2008

Rules

Lord, Cynthia
"No toys in the fish tank" is one of the rules Catherine makes for her autistic brother to follow to get along in life.

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10/2008

Fearless

Lott, Tim
Little Fearless is in some kind of juvenile hall/prison after she is taken away from her mother. A kind of 1984 sort of story. Good story, but the resolution kind of happens REALLY quickly!

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10/2009

Fly-fishing For Sharks

Louv, Richard
San Diego Onion Tribunal columnist writes about his love, fly fishing. Meet all sorts of interesting people around the U.S. I personally think fishing is more boring than watching grass grow, but I enjoyed this book very much. .

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8/2000

Big Damn Hero

Lovegrove, James
Firefly, #1. Story concept by Nancy Holder. Serenity is on the planet Persephone, gets a badly-needed job from Badger. Things go very wrong.

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"All this anti-hat talk gettin' to you, huh?" said Zoë
"Yup," Jayne said.

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"... To a snail, a duck in a vengeful god."

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"The magnets on your suit's boots and gloves will be useless." -- Really? Degaussing the ship will do that? Who knew!

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3/2024

Life Signs

Lovegrove, James
Firefly, #5. Inara turns out to have cancer. There is a possibility that a certain doctor may have a cure, but he is on a prison planet. Mal decides to go fetch him. What a plan!

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"Tomato, potato," said Jayne with a shrug.

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"A shive," River offered helpfully.

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"Yeah. So really there's only one thing I can say to you, and don't take this the wrong way, but screw you."
"Well now," said Annie, "that's plain uncivil."
"Ain't it just."

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3/2025

Sherlock Holmes: Gods Of War

Lovegrove, James
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Titan Books, #5. Holmes and Watson come out of retirement to solve a nasty murder. Good story, almost like reading Arthur Conan Doyle, I thought.

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Aged bones like mine needed the consolation of upholstery.

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"My bedding plants. Trampling them without a care in the world. Horticultural Philistines."

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"Are they by any chance near the beehives?" Holmes asked.
"Five or so yards away."
"Excellent." -- Possibly said in a Mr. Burns voice...

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"You know how to drive?" I asked.
"Not as such." he replied.

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3/2025

The Ghost Machine

Lovegrove, James
Firefly, #3. Wow, that was different! Good story!

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"And you're the smart one in the family," Matty said. "God help us."

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He just wasn't an ottoman sort of guy.

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She might have been a woman, but a steel-reinforced toecap in the crotch was still a steel-reinforced toecap in the crotch [...]

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3/2025

The Magnificent Nine

Lovegrove, James
Firefly, #2. Jayne is asked by a former lover to help her town repel a gang of thugs.

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Temperance hit the transmit button on the shortwave communicator in her hand. -- "Shortwave"??

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Some were on motorcycles. Some were on quad bikes. One had a dune buggy. -- I found this not science fiction-ish.

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... tethered to a stunted Joshua tree. -- Really? A Joshua tree on a planet a zillion miles from Earth?

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4/2024

Betsy And Joe

Lovelace, Maud Hart
Betsy graduates from high school. A very nice story.

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5/2005

What Cabrillo Found

Lovelace, Maud Hart
A biographical story of Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo who "discovered" California. A very 1958ish book for children.

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3/2021

Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone

Low, Dene
In 1903 England, Petronella's uncle starts eating bugs, and she becomes embroiled in the kidnapping of Dame Carruthers and Generalissimo Reyes-Cardoza of Panama.

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1/2010

Anastasia Again!

Lowry, Lois
Anastasia Krupnik moves from her cherished Cambridge to the 'burbs.

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8/2008

Anastasia At This Address

Lowry, Lois
She corresponds with a "Singles" advertiser, goes to a wedding and buys a sloop. Brings tear of laughter to my eyes!

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10/2000

Anastasia Has The Answers

Lowry, Lois
Her aunt in California passes away, and she has trouble climbing the rope in gym class. Charming story.

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8/2000

Anastasia's Chosen Career

Lowry, Lois
She goes to modeling class and investigates becoming a book store owner. Wonderful stories.

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8/2000

Gathering Blue

Lowry, Lois
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

Lowry, Lois
Village is changing, Forest is turning bad, Matty goes to fetch Kira. Moving, but seems incomplete.

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5/2008

The Giver

Lowry, Lois
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

Lowry, Lois
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
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