Books I've Read

"No toys in the fish tank" is one of the rules Catherine makes for her autistic brother to follow to get along in life.

Little Fearless is in some kind of juvenile hall/prison after she is taken away from her mother. A kind of 1984 sort of story. Good story, but the resolution kind of happens REALLY quickly!

San Diego Onion Tribunal columnist writes about his love, fly fishing. Meet all sorts of interesting people around the U.S. I personally think fishing is more boring than watching grass grow, but I enjoyed this book very much. .

Firefly, #1. Story concept by Nancy Holder. Serenity is on the planet Persephone, gets a badly-needed job from Badger. Things go very wrong.

Firefly, #5. Inara turns out to have cancer. There is a possibility that a certain doctor may have a cure, but he is on a prison planet. Mal decides to go fetch him. What a plan!

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Titan Books, #5. Holmes and Watson come out of retirement to solve a nasty murder. Good story, almost like reading Arthur Conan Doyle, I thought.

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."