Books I've Read
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The Grub And Stakers House A Haunt
A ghost come and tells of a treasure to find.
Read : 12/2000
Learning the world
A generation starship gets to its destination, finds its already inhabited. Interesting story. One would have thought 10,000 years in the future a replacement for the f word would have been found, though.
Read : 4/2006
A Comedy Of Heirs
Torie O'Shea investigates a murder concealed by her family.
Read : 12/2000
A Veiled Antiquity
Torie O'Shea deals with old documents, family trees, and a French connection.
Read : 12/2000
Wheels Of Change
How Women Rode The Bicycle To Freedom. A history of women on bicycles, with many great images.
Read : 4/2012
The Hike
As user Lala BooksandLala on GoodReads wrote "This was quite possibly the weirdest shit I've ever read." She only gave it two stars. I gave it four. I enjoyed reading and the surprise ending.
Quote : "You're not just a crab, are you?"
"Very perceptive. The fact that I can fucking talk maybe clued you in."
Read : 8/2023
The Night The Lights Went Out
Very funny (in parts) story of the author's traumatic brain injury and his recovery (more or less) journey from it.
Read : 8/2023
Heft on wheels
Fat professor guy loses weight, stops drinking, quits smoking, becomes local hot bicycle rider. Mostly a pretty good book, might read it again.
Read : 2/2007
After Alice
Friend Ada goes down the rabbit hole after Alice. Hard to read, but interesting anyway. Spent a LOT of time looking up words!
Quote: Oh well. Marmalade has to make its way in life, like the rest of us, she thought. -- pg. 24
Read : 7/2016
Confessions of an ugly stepsister
Retake on the Cinderella tale. Surprise twist at end, at least I was surprised. A slow-moving story, but interesting.
Read : 8/2005
Lost
Confusing story of Winifred Rudge who stops off in London at her cousin's place, run into...ghosts, maybe? It is all cleared up, finally, in a pretty good story. But it was a rough go, for me, for quite a while.
Quote: : ...to claim any truck with ghosts. -- pg. 245 - I thought I was the only person who used that word!
Read : 4/2018
What The Dickens
An orphan tooth fairy finds his way the world, while three children and their cousin wait out a MOBY storm for news of their parents.
Is it a sign of a good book when you want to read more? Or is it better to have a satisfying conclusion?
Read : 3/2011
Wicked: The Life and Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West
Interesting take on Oz. Sexual situations.
Read : 7/2002
Cemeteries Of San Diego
Pretty much what it says. San Diego City only. Lots of pictures and several maps.
Read : 1/2024
The Best Time Travel Stories Of All Time
Fourteen stories selected by Barry Malzberg. Some really good stuff here, except I really didn't care for the Philip K. Dick story.
Read : 4/2010
The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches
A witch is hired to tutor some very young witches. A charming story, and there is a romance element, of course.
Quote : "Niceness is all about what we do when people are looking. Kindness, on the other hand, runs deep. Kindness is what happens when no one's looking."
Quote : "For the last time, I did not steal your stupid puzzle!"
"It can't have just walked away!"
"We're witches! Maybe it did!
Quote : "Does this mean you'll come outside and meet everybody?"
"Reluctantly," said Jamie wryly, "and with tremendous ill grace, but yes. I will."
Read : 6/2025
Sea Of Tranquility
Time travel, epidemic, life on the moon. Good story, I enjoyed it. Don't know about the paradox, though.
Quote : "So we don't own the building," the director said, "but we hold a ten-thousand-year lease on the space."
...
"...But there's more." She leaned forward, paused for effect. "The lease is renewable."
Quote : "... It's always bad chickens."
Read : 12/2023
The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
Five stories of the Swedish policeman Kurt Wallander. Pretty good stuff!
Read : 5/2020
The Shadow Girls
A Swedish poet is unwillingly coerced into hearing the stories of three illegal immigrants. While the stories are quite tragic, there is some humor in his tribulations.
Read : 2/2013
Mystery! A treasury for younger readers
A number of stories and poems of mystery and wierdness (fairies?) by classic authors like Poe, F. Scott Fitgerald, Thurber and Holmes, for example. I kinda skipped the poetry... Favorite story was The Murder Of George Washington, by Richard M Gordon.
Read : 5/2007
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