Books I've Read

A landing plane crashes into a plane getting waiting to take off at Kansas City Airport. The story is mostly the dramatic investigation by the NTSB, and the politics involved. Good story! Published in 1990 the tech (especially cell phone!) is a bit dated, still good!

Page turner about a passenger riot on an ill-run 747 going to South Africa. Pretty good tale.

A retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamlen. Salz is a young boy with a chronic coughing disease. The town's animal are losing limbs, and so are the people. And then they die. The plague of rats is blamed, and the piper is called. A very dark story. The author's postscript reveals the true cause of the disease, and also what Salz is afflicted with.

Fourth-grade Mikey decides to take fencing lessons.

David lives in New York City with his asthmatic mother and sometimes overbearing lawyer father. He gets Cat from the cat-lady neighbor, meets a girl, a burglar (of sorts, not really), and has fights with his friend. Interesting look at the neighborhoods of New York. A gentle book. Newbery Medal winner in 1963.

Adventure involving chess, historical figures, and ancient mysteries. Sort of DaVinci Code-like.

Nomadic artist Mia and her daughter Pearl move to Shaker Heights.

The author's observations on walking, and walkers, through history, plus a bit on his own perambulations.

Book three of the Wind On Fire trilogy. In not a few places during this trilogy I have wept a bit as I read. I guess that means it pretty good.

Book Two in the Wind On Fire trilogy. Bowman, Kestrel, and Mumpo precipitate great events in The Mastery, and Mist may or may not have learned to fly.

Book One in the Wind On Fire trilogy. Twins Bowman and Kestrel, and hanger-on Mumpo try to save their city from the dreaded army of Zars. Among other tasks. Good story, moves right along, and I'm working on volume two now.

A guy goes back and forth in time. Lots and lots of tears. Lots of great quotes, I'll just pick this one.

Charlie apparently located his father, FINALLY, in book five, which I haven't read yet, as the public library deigns to have it available. This is book six. Asa has disappeared, Charlie gets a hot kettle, finds a sacred sword hilt, and there's a boy who smells like fish.

Charlie helps out Billy with the parent-thing, but it STILL isn't resolved, and neither is Charlie's!

Charlie FINALLY has the answer to, and resolves, you-know-what, in this, the fifth book in the series.

I didn't read Book Two yet, but in this, Book Three, Charlie STILL hasn't figured out the obvious, that it, who his father is, but he DOES help invisible Ollie find his way back normalcy, and HIS family, so all in all, a good job.

Book seven, and we are not anywhere near finished here. Charlie travels to Badlock several times. The Pet's Cafe is closed down temporarily, and the storm boy is thought to be drowned. And Charlie's parents are off sailing, somewhere.

Charlie's cousin from the past appears via a magic marble.

First in the Children Of The Red King series. Charlie is sent off to the mostly awful Bloor Academy and restores a girl who is memory is clouded. I feel like shouting, "Charlie, the quiet and confused piano teacher is probably your missing father!!!" Charlie hasn't figured it out by the end of book one, maybe he will get a clue, in book two. Hey, it rhymes!

21 short science fiction stories. Some good ones here.