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The Sorcerer of the North
Ranger's Apprentice, book five. Will is now a full-fledged Ranger, but he is sent on a secret mission to discover the truth about a so-called sorcerer in another fief. Unresolved at the end, when will the patron who has book six return it!!!
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5/2011
A Murder Of Magpies
London book editor Samantha is trying to figure out what happened to one of her authors that missed a meeting with her. He seems to be missing! My favorite character was probably Sam's mother, "Nell".
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10/2018
Seek
Rob seeks closure with the father who abandoned him and his mother before he was born. Lots of interesting radio stuff. Mentions HCJB, QSL card, AM DXing, and pirate radio. Rob starts his own pirate station. Written in the form of a radio play would be more accurate. There is a photo on the cover of the author when he was a boy with headphones on, listening to short wave radio.
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3/2009
The Borning Room
Georgina, an Ohio farm girl in the 1800s, recounts her life as events that took place in the room set aside for birthing and dying. Very good.
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3/2009
Whirligig
Teen Brent kills a girl while driving drunk, travels to the four corners of the U.S to place whirligigs he constructs in her memory. The Jewish lady in San Diego chapter was my favorite. I always thought they were silly, but now I gotta build me one!
This book has the smallest page numbers I have ever seen!
Words I Had To Look Up:
burin (pg. 4) -- A steel cutting tool with a sharp beveled point, used in engraving or carving stone.
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3/2009
The Complete Walker III
Yes, it was published in 1984, but it is great stuff. I can't say I read EVERY word THIS time around, but over the years I HAVE read every word.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Soixante-neuf (pb. 443) -- Sixty-nine.
Quote:
I am aware that, for many people, a map holds neither meaning nor mystery. I can only hope, compassionately, that the rest of their existence is not equally poverty-stricken. (pg. 469)
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5/2010
Cloaked
A poor shoe-repair guy in Florida is recruited to find a prince who has been bewitched into a frog. A what??
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1/2013
1632
A town in West Virginia from the year 2000 in transported back in time to Germany, 1631, during the Thirty Years War. Not a good time to be in Germany, from all accounts. Good story, moves right along, and I'm learning a lot of history. Hope it is accurate!
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12/2006
1635: The Dreeson Incident
Co-authored by Virginia DeMarce. Thanks goodness for the eight pages listing the characters, and the page of family trees, and the maps. But I still got confused.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Propinquity (pg. 97) -- Nearness in place or time.
...balancing with sidecars (pg. 155) -- I thought sticking someone in the sidecar would stabilize it.
catechumens (pg. 369) -- One who is being taught the principles of Christianity.
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9/2011
Grantville Gazette IV
Fiction and factual articles related to the 1632 world, by Eric Flint and others. My favorite was the train-related Elizabeth. The factual articles were interesting, but went into WAY too much detail for me!
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11/2008
Grantville Gazette Volume I
Five stories, three factual articles, and one racy cover, which goes along with the first story. My favorite story was "Anna's Story".
Quote:
CB radios operate at 21 MHz (11 meters) --(pg. 307) No, 21 MHz is the 15 meter band. CB is around 27 MHz.
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12/2009
Pyramid Power
The Krim machine sucks the gang into a Viking myth world.
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6/2008
Ring Of Fire
Short stories by several authors continue the saga of the 1632 universe. Several of the stories are very excellent, some confused me.
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3/2008Words I Had To Look Up:
Morganatic (page 372) -- f, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of the parent of higher rank
Irenic (page 536) -- favoring, conducive to, or operating toward peace, moderation, or conciliation.
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4/2008
Ring of Fire II
Fifteen stories by various authors, edited by Flint. My favorite was Ellis Island, by Russ Rittgers, but all the stories were good.
The Philosophical Strangler
Joe's World #1. I read the Baen Free Library e-book edition.
A professional strangler and his manager have a lot of adventure, including the underworld!
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“Hadn’t been for that fucking comet,” I heard him mutter, “we’d still be running the show. Wouldn’t be any of this derring-do nonsense, let me tell you. Just loll about in the swamp, gobbling insects.” -- Chapter 24.Quote:
The salamander’s eyes bugged even further, and he hissed with outrage. “That’s Frankenstein’s monster, you ignoramus!” -- Chapter 28.
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9/2022
The Shaman Of Karres
Co-author Dave Freer. The Witches of Karres #4. The captain and The Leewit head off one place to do something, Goth heads off to another, and everyone meets up eventually. The universe (or something) is saved, the lost are found, sad farewells are said, new skills are learned, and there we go again.
Quote:
"You're not going to put a little girl in jail, are you?" asked the Leewit, doing her best to look like a little girl, sweet and harmless...in a way that would have frightened Pausert into blocking his ears. But then, he knew her.Quote:
"The two of you look like stunned breadfish," said the Leewit in disgust. "And I'll have my rochat back, you pet thief."Read:
11/2024
The Sorceress Of Karres
With Dave Freer. The Witches of Karres #3.
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[Goth says to her sister] "...Look after the captain for me, Leewit..." -- It's the Leewit!!! The Leewit will emphatically correct anyone who forgets the "the". Quote:
"Who are you calling a bumbling idiot, ma'am?" demanded the bumbling idiot...Quote:
It looked like a trumpery bit of stuff to Goth. -- Heh he, "trumpery... Quote:
"I really don't think so," said Goth. She hadn't known before that frost could actually form on words.Read:
11/2024
Time Spike
Co-written with Marilyn Kosmatka. An Illinois maximum security prison is transported 50 million years back in time,more or less, along with Cherokee Indians from the Trail of Tears, Spanish conquistadors, and various other people. And dinosaurs. Yikes!
Smoke Quote:
No matter how different they were in other ways, they shared the smoker's sense of withstanding a bitter and relentless siege shoulder to shoulder. -- pg. 419.Read:
2/2010
In The Country Of The Blind
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1/2001
Extremely loud and incredibly close
Interestly story of a boy coming to terms with the death of his father in 9/11. Lots of pictures and some colored pages, rather different for a fiction book.
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10/2005
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