Books I've Read

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

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

Betsy graduates from high school. A very nice story.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

Yes, and other warped and creepy tales! Very nice, my favorite, of course, is Book Banning.

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.

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.

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.

Lots of action in Iraq, mostly.