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The Curse Of Chalion

Bujold, Lois McMaster
A washed-up wreck from the wars begs a job in the scullery at the castle where he used to be a page. Gets job as tutor to princess. First book in Chalion series.

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5/2012

Vorkosigan's Game

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Three stories about Miles Vorkosigan.

QUOTE:

"Where are you?" Ivan demanded suspiciously. "Stuck in limbo." "Well, I don't want any of it stuck to me," said Ivan roughly, and punched off-line.

BONUS QUOTE:

I can't believe this. Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex- starved teenage werewolf. There was nothing about this in any of my Imperial training manuals...

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1/2000

Young Miles

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#2)

Contents:
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Mountains of Mourning
The Vor Game
Author's Afterword

Quote:

It isn't easy, being Vor...

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3/2023

SOS Titanic

Bunting, Eve
A boy travels from Ireland to America, part of the way, on the good ship Titanic. Good story, but why do I not have any other Bunting books on my list, eh?

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5/2015

Bankok 8

Burdett, John
Thai police detective investigates the death of an American Marine, with the help of an FBI agent. Lots of Buddhist thoughts. Snakes. Observation on the Thai sex industry.

Words I Had To Look Up:

Glyph -- A symbol, such as a stylized figure or arrow on a public sign, that imparts information nonverbally. (pg. 307)

Quote:

The new age of biotechnology will require a highly developed intuition which operates outside of logic, and anyway the internal destruction of Western society will have reached such a pass that most of your resources will be concentrated on managing loonies. -- pg. 153

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6/2007

A Clockwork Orange

Burgess, Anthony
I thought I saw the movie in 1968 or '69, which would have meant I saw it with Maureen, but it turns out that it was released in 1972. Which complicates things, as I was dating four or five women that year, three of whom I could have taken to the movie. I wish I had kept a diary!
The author, in his introduction, mentions a glossary. At least, I thought he did. Now, I can find no mention of it.

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9/2024

The Return Of Tarzan

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Tarzan repeatedly must foil the machinations of the evil Monsieur Thuran/Rokoff. Rescues Jane from the frightful men of Opar, too. This has been my bathroom reader at work for four months!

Words I Had To Look Up::

bowlder (pg. 210) -- Alternative spelling of 'boulder'.
ulster (pg. 215) --a man's heavy double-breasted overcoat with a belt or half-belt at the back, so-called because it was first produced in Northern Ireland.
Sapristi! (pg. 219) -- Good Heavens!

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3/2011

Blood Rites

Butcher, Jim
The Dresden Files, #6.
Harry gets hired by an adult film company to protect them.

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11/2025

Brief Cases

Butcher, Jim
The Dresden Files, #15.6. Twelve Dresden Files stories, some of which have been published before, and at least one of which I have read before. Pretty darn good stories, too!

Quote:

She was speaking to me over a ham radio from somewhere in the wilds of unsettled Canada, and was shouting to maker herself heard over the static and the patch between the radio and the phone.

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"I could gaze longingly at your décolletage while you talk, if you like."
"Given how much trouble I go to in order to show it off, it would seem polite."
I lowered my eyes demurely to her chest for a moment. "Well. If I must."

Quote:

"Weregoats," I muttered. "Jesus."

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10/2025

Death Masks

Butcher, Jim
The Dresden Files, #5.
Harry ends up in a duel with a vampire. Also, Shroud Of Turin makes an appearance.

Quote:

"A Cabbage Patch doll? You expect me to help you while wearing this?"

Quote:

He [Kincaid] shook his head and muttered, "Now, that's just creepy." -- Hey, she [Ivy] likes his kitty!

Quote:

"I'll say this for Martin," I muttered. "When he distracts, he distracts."
"He has a strong work ethic," Susan agreed.

Quote:

I murmured, "Flickum bicus,"

Quote:

"Kalashnikov, isn't it?" I asked. "That's an extremely Chuck Heston look for the Knights of the Cross."

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11/2025

Grave Peril

Butcher, Jim
The Dresden Files, #3. Harry investigates a rash of missing persons. Also, struggles to say three little words to Susan.

Quote:

Oops.

Quote:

"Oh. Damn. This is one of those right and wrong issues again, isn't it."
"Yes, one of those."
"I'm still confused about this whole morality thing, Harry."
"Join the club," I muttered.

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10/2025

Shadowed Souls

Butcher, Jim
Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes, editors.
The Dresden Files (#14.5 - Cold Case), Cal Leandros (#10.5 - Impossible Monsters), Greywalker (#9.2 - Peacock in Hell), Simon Canderous (#4.4 - Solus)
Contents:

Cold Case by Jim Butcher
Sleepover by Seanan McGuire
If Wishes Were by Tanya Huff
Solus by Anton Strout
Peacock In Hell by Kat Richardson
Eye Of Newt by Kevin J. Anderson
What Dwells Within by Lucy A. Snyder
Hunter, Healer by Jim C. Hines
Baggage by Erik Scott de Bie
Sales. Force. by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Impossible Monsters by Rob Thurman

I liked most of these stories.

Quote:

"Dammit, man. I'm a Faerie princess, not a forensic analyst."

Quote:

'Get him! He's the one we've got a contract out on,' says the rock monster. And the golem says, 'Don't end a sentence with a preposition.'

Quote:

A poster i one of the dust-specked windows said "Come for fun in the library!" in dripping-blood letters.

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8/2025

Storm Front

Butcher, Jim
The Dresden Files, #1. Harry Dresden, Wizard, helps the police solve a series of murders, and helps a lady find her husband.

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9/2025

Summer Knight

Butcher, Jim
The Dresden Files, #4.
Harry has to deal with all the "bosses" of the winter and summer courts.
I read this as part of The Dresden Files Collection featuring the first six novels in the series.

Quote:

The skirt showed exactly enough leg to make it hard not to look, and her dark pumps had heels just high enough to give you ideas.

Quote:

"Do you?" she said, still very quiet. "Do you know how I feel? Did you lose your first love?" -- Why yes, I sort of did.

Quote:

She leaned down and purred, "Hello, Lloyd. We should have a talk."

Quote:

"Elaine," [...] "I'd say I was glad to see you, but I'm not sure."
"That's because you always were a little dense, Harry," she said, her voice tart.

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10/2025

The Fool Moon

Butcher, Jim
The Dresden Files, #2.
Harry has to deal with werewolves. I had no idea there were different kinds of werewolves!
I read this as part of The Dresden Files Collection featuring the first six novels in the series.

Quote:

Bob snorted, no easy feat for a guy with no nose or lips.

Quote:

Denton was armed with his FBI-ISSUE automatic -- Why is that capitalized?

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10/2025

Kindred

Butler, Octavia E.
Dana, a black woman in 1976, is "inexplicitly wretched" back in time to 18-something Maryland and saves a drowning white boy.

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5/2023

Lost In America

Buzzell, Colby
Colby travels around the U.S. in his old car, mostly in Detroit, in a kind Kerouac-y mode.

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3/2012

Remainders Of The Day

Bythell, Shaun
Diary of a Bookseller, #3. Very enjoyable read of the life and goings-on of a seller-of-books in a small town in Scotland.

Quote:

...Granny told me, 'I can't cycle a stupid fucking bicycle, my eyesight is too shit and I too uncoordinated.'

Quote:

How can a woman cook her husband's potatoes properly when her mind is filled with romance?

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12/2023

Mildred Pierce

Cain, James M.
Mildred starts a restaurant after getting divorced from her philandering husband. Noir. No one is murdered.

Quote:

"The gams, the gams! Your face ain't news!"

Quote:

Salad, for some reason, is served first in California.

Words I Had To Look Up:

Untrammeled bosom.

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7/2024

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Cain, James M.
I don't know what the title has to do with anything. I looked it up and I still don't understand. So I say, "WhatEVER". The story was OK, the female character is just weird.

Quote:

"You think I'm going to cash that? I am like hell. I'm going to frame it. It goes up there, right over my desk."

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9/2024
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