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Fearless

Lott, Tim
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!

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10/2009

Fly-fishing For Sharks

Louv, Richard
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. .

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8/2000

Big Damn Hero

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

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"All this anti-hat talk gettin' to you, huh?" said Zoë
"Yup," Jayne said.

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"... To a snail, a duck in a vengeful god."

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"The magnets on your suit's boots and gloves will be useless." -- Really? Degaussing the ship will do that? Who knew!

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3/2024

Life Signs

Lovegrove, James
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!

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"Tomato, potato," said Jayne with a shrug.

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"A shive," River offered helpfully.

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"Yeah. So really there's only one thing I can say to you, and don't take this the wrong way, but screw you."
"Well now," said Annie, "that's plain uncivil."
"Ain't it just."

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3/2025

Sherlock Holmes: Gods Of War

Lovegrove, James
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.

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Aged bones like mine needed the consolation of upholstery.

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"My bedding plants. Trampling them without a care in the world. Horticultural Philistines."

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"Are they by any chance near the beehives?" Holmes asked.
"Five or so yards away."
"Excellent." -- Possibly said in a Mr. Burns voice...

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"You know how to drive?" I asked.
"Not as such." he replied.

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3/2025

The Ghost Machine

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

Quote:

"And you're the smart one in the family," Matty said. "God help us."

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He just wasn't an ottoman sort of guy.

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She might have been a woman, but a steel-reinforced toecap in the crotch was still a steel-reinforced toecap in the crotch [...]

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3/2025

The Magnificent Nine

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

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Temperance hit the transmit button on the shortwave communicator in her hand. -- "Shortwave"??

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Some were on motorcycles. Some were on quad bikes. One had a dune buggy. -- I found this not science fiction-ish.

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... tethered to a stunted Joshua tree. -- Really? A Joshua tree on a planet a zillion miles from Earth?

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4/2024

Betsy And Joe

Lovelace, Maud Hart
Betsy graduates from high school. A very nice story.

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5/2005

What Cabrillo Found

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

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3/2021

Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone

Low, Dene
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.

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1/2010

Anastasia Again!

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

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8/2008

Anastasia At This Address

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

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10/2000

Anastasia Has The Answers

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

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8/2000

Anastasia's Chosen Career

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

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8/2000

Gathering Blue

Lowry, Lois
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.

Words I Had To Look Up:


Cott (pg.2) -- Short for cottage, a dwelling.

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5/2008

Messenger

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

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5/2008

The Giver

Lowry, Lois
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.

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5/2008

The Silent Boy

Lowry, Lois
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.

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6/2003

The Willoughbys

Lowry, Lois
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."

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"They are dolts indeed," Nanny said. She stared at the postcard and murmured, "I myself am Presbyterian."

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5/2008

Lengend

Lu, Marie
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.

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6/2014
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