Books I've Read

A Liaden Universe novel. I found the romance lame. Spy Val Con and mercenary Miri Robertson eventually team up to fight their common enemies. Good story...except for that romance!

(Theo Waitley, #1; Liaden Universe, #12) Clumsy teen Theo goes on a trip with her mother, meets new people, and expands her horizons. I liked this book very very much!!

I really did not enjoy reading this book until the second half or so. And it really is a "...fun if high-body-count story involving a long game of cat-and-mouse between two very different personalities. "(Yoon Ha Lee in The Book Smugglers blog Posted on June 16, 2016)

Book two in the trilogy.

Book three. I think it is more accessible than the previous two books, certainly the first! A bit more humor it has, too.

A writer of scripts has an affair with Princess Diana. Some charactors continue from "The Deal".

A writer tells about eleven women named Karen from his life. Rather sexy, fun, poignant.

A movie gets made about Disraeli, eventually.

Five more stories from the world of "A Wizard Of Earthsea". Very nice.

A conman in prison runs a scam. Very funny!! I am reading this again. Written by a guy who was/is in prison.

My mother recommended this author. I was not TOO excited by this novel, but I am inspired to read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, so I guess that is a worthy accomplishment for Mr. Lehrer.

The Nosey Parker Mysteries, #2. The village is putting on an art festival featuring a famous artist that painted some pictures there. Someone dies. Who did it? Why? What's there to eat?

The Nosey Parker Mysteries, #1. I enjoyed reading this fun cozy. Will read more! Thought I had some good quotes to share but they seem to have disappeared!

The Nosey Parker Mysteries, #3.
A movie company comes to the village. A man dies of fugu poisoning. Or did he?

A guy named Daniel unknowingly sees a woman being kidnapped in front of his house. Pretty good story, I learned a lot about SMA, a progressive disorder I never heard of before.

Interesting mystery story that takes place in Venice. Commissario Guido Brunetti series. The world famous Maestro dies between acts at the opera. Nicely written, too.

Chile Palmer gets involved in the record business.

Takes place mostly in Africa, mostly Djibouti, a place with which I was not familiar. The story moved along pretty slowly, I thought, but the ending is, well, an ending. Chapter five, paragraph, three, I think, it says "Yahama". Did no one notice, or no one cared, or the author did it on purpose?

Faux priest returns from Africa to run a scam to get funds. Very unpleasant descriptions of violence in Africa.

Raylan Given, #3. U.S. Marshall Raylin, with his cowboy hat, looks for the killer of an old man, three women robbing banks, and an escaped gambler, who might have been one of those aforementioned three women robbing banks, but wasn't.