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The Myriad
Tour of the Merrimack #1. The battleship is chasing down Hive, finds a unknown populated planet, some battle fought, the timeline is changed, black hole, blah blah.
Read:
2/2013
The Sagitarius Command
Book three of the U.S.S. Merrimack series. Gosh, I didn't care for the first book and here I am on the third one! Oddly, SPQR came up in conversation (on television they were showing The Robe), Cam translated it (High school Latin pays off again!), and now I find it on page 90, among pages. Whoops, I misspelled the title!
Read:
2/2013
Wolf Star
Tour of the Merrimack #2. Didn't care much for the last book, and here I am reading book two! Wept a bit at page 322. Now I gotta go walk to the library and get the next one.
Read:
2/2013
Cinder
A Cinderella story, except she's a cyborg, live in New Beijing a couple centuries in the future, and the Moon Queen is out to get her. Good story, sure to be a sequel.
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3/2012
Cress
Book Three in the Lunar Chronicles. The continuing adventures of Cinder the Cyborg and her wacky gang of misfits. Iko is my favorite character, but I forget how she became the ship so I guess I'll have to read Scarlet again.
Read:
11/2014
Fairest : Levana's Story
How Levana got that way.
Read:
3/2014
Scarlet
Second book in The Lunar Chronicles. We meet Scarlet, who lives on a farm in France. Scarlet meets Wolf, who is a fighter. Eventually Scarlet meets Cinder. I enjoyed it very much.
Read:
5/2013
Winter
The last book in the Lunar Chronicles. 800+ pages. I think my favorite character in this volume is Iko.
Quote:
"Of course I understand sarcasm," she spat. "It's not like it's theoretical physics, is it?" -- pg. 373
Read:
11/2015
The Silent Patient
I guess this would be a psychological thriller, eh? I enjoyed reading it, and read it rather quickly. I LOVED the short chapters! Everyone should write short chapters! I was surprised by the ending.
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9/2020
Kraken
A squid goes missing in London. Is it God? A bit dense for me, I think I lost the, what do you call it, "narrative thread", somewhere in the four hundreds, page-wise. Admirable writing with a lot of interesting ideas.
Read:
12/2013
Perdido Street Station
New Crobuzon, #1. Good book, long book. I may or may not read any more of the series. Rich descriptions, scary beings, hard decisions made.
Read:
8/2024
Countdown
An American teen trains to be the first Junior Astronaut on the Space Shuttle. He has a bit of an attitude, and gets into an argument on ham radio with a Maasai teen. When the Shuttle has to land in Africa they meet. An informative book, but the writing is not as good as his other books.
Read:
4/2016
Jungle Of Bones
Teenage jerk Dylan finds himself in the company of his uncle in the jungle of Papua New Guinea searching for the remains of the B-17 bomber his grandfather crashed in during World War II. Lots of action until the last chapter.
Read:
4/2014
Petey
A baby with cerebral palsy is mis-diagnosed and left in an insane asylum for many years. As an old man he meets a teen who he befriends. A very moving story. Highly recommended.
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3/2003
Touching Spirit Bear
A nasty J. D. gets sent to an island in Alaska to ponder his sins. Very good story.
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7/2002
Darkness Falls
Some eco-terrorists mutate another eco-terrorist's bacteria to do more damage than the one she created from another eco-non-terrorist's work. The bacteria? It eats oil.
Quote:
"Head shots are unreliable. You'd be surprised how often the bullet just deflects off your skull." (pg. 245) Good to know! Also, this is the only sentence I laughed with.
Quote:
"Look at the electrical insulation on these. It's cloth. This stuff's been obsolete for decades. The only thing it had going for it is that it wouldn't be affected by the bacteria." (pg. 254) I wonder why the bad guy didn't use knob and tube wiring?
Read:
8/2009
Destiny Of The Republic
A really good non-fiction about the assassination of President Garfield in 1881. Not something I would have picked out for myself, but it was really good!
Read:
11/2018
Newfound
Short chapters recount a boy's life growing up in Tennessee until he leaves home for college. An enjoyable read.
Read:
3/2016
I Cover The Waterfront: Stories From The San Diego Shore
Enjoyable stories, I almost recognize San Diego from my childhood. I'm still looking for the liner sinking with 496 passengers rescued, though. I hear the movie "based" on the book has almost nothing to do with the book.
Quote:
The copy-desk is discouraging about dots. The desk prefers verbs and nouns and things like that.Quote:
But Mrs. Lafferty is Mrs. Lafferty, and with her the best way is to accept with eagerness and to hope to get out of it later by having something unavoidable happen, such as a ship explosion.Read:
9/2024
Archform: Beauty
Claims to about the appreciation of "beauty" in the arts, but I think it is a futuristic detective story. Lt. Chiang investigates odd deaths, some murders, and financial hanky-panky.
Read:
9/2009
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