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Laika
A graphic novel about the first dog in space. One weep.
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10/2011
Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) Of The Velvet Underground
Lots and lots of quotes by people, many I have never heard of, so I had to look them up.
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Courtney Love (Musician): "Black Angel's Death Song" is really scary. Even on dope.Read:
1/2024
Catch me if you can
A fairly fascinating tale of a teen who impersonates air line pilots, a doctor, and a lawyer. Leads quite a life. I think they made a movie about him.
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11/2006
The Monkey Wrench Gang
A book from the seventies about a group of eco-terrorists. Pretty good.
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6/2000
The Postcard
Jason goes to awful Florida to help his dad after his grandmother passes away. A mystery unfolds with a postcard he finds, and a mysterious telephone call. An odd but mostly interesting tale, although I tended to forget who was who.
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12/2009
Go And Come Back Again
Told from the point of view of a teenage girl of the Isabo people in Peru, two female anthropologists come to study a village in the 1970s. Very good story, the more I think about it.
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2/2015
Saying It Out Loud
A high school girl deals with her mother's death. A really good story.
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3/2015
Behind The Curtin
Echo Falls, #2. Ingrid learns about anabolic steroids. Very enjoyable read!
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Spangled: Ingrid loved the word. Maybe it didn't make sense, but that was America to her, summed up.Quote:
Ingrid leaned her bike--Univega, bright red--against the window. -- Is that her 31 speed bike from the first book?Quote:
"This country has way too much history," Stacy said. "If we lived in 1770, we wouldn't have to study the Continental Congress."Read:
4/2024
Down The Rabbit Hole
I thought this was going to be a scary horror book, but it turned out to be a mystery story. It took a while to get going, I felt it come alive around page 214. The author has laid a lot of groundwork for future books.
Words This Guy Had To Look Up:
Manolo Blahniks (pg. 306) -- A VERY expensive brand of shoes.
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Waffles, such a great invention, and all because of those little squares, like rice paddies, perfect for filling up with a melted butter and maple syrup combo. Another example of what made America great--the nation that turned plain old rice paddies into syrupy butter paddies. -- (pg. 315)
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Her bike, a Univega mountain bike, red of course, with fat knobby tires and twenty-three gears, of which she used one, stood against the back wall. -- (pg. 222) She has three chainrings and 7.666 cogs??
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1/2009
Into The Dark
Echo Falls, #3. It was a pretty good mystery to me!
Having dealt with military supply organizations I have doubts about the whole taking his weapon home with him thing. I lost a pair of pliers and they wouldn't let me out until I came up with another pair!
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That expression she heard from time to time, begging the question? Ingrid understood it at lastRead:
4/2024
The Hitchhiker's Guide ToThe Galaxy
Read the series many years ago, but the principal told me to read this again, so I did.
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9/2011
Selections from The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A selection of really good Sherlock Holmes stories by modern authors. Really good!
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9/2022
The Reading List
People keep finding a list of books, so they read them and come out of their safe zones to live better lives. It's very nice, I wish I could remember all (or any) of the wonderful thoughts the people have. But I can't.
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7/2024
The Angel Of The Crows
A sort of Sherlock Holmes-ish story, with werewolves, vampires, angels, and I don't know what-all. I enjoyed it.
Words I Had To Look Up:
CasuistryQuote:
I shuddered at the thought of eating tinned peas cold.Read:
8/2024
The Goblin Emperor
The Chronicles of Osreth #1.
I've read two other books by this author, I guess in this series, and I liked them a lot, so I read this one which appears to be the first in the series, so I got that going for me. So what is this book about? A half-Elf/half-Goblin boy finds himself emperor, due to his father and several elder brothers dying in an airship accident. Or was it?
Words I Had To Look Up:
Cantrip and emendation.Quote:
She quirked an eyebrow at him. "Still listening?"
"Yes," he said.
"You are patience itself." ...
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8/2024
The Grief Of Stones
The Cemeteries of Amalo #2. Also #3 in The Goblin Emperor series, I suppose. I enjoyed this fantasy mystery very much, just like I did the first book I read. I'm intrigued by the bits of technology mentioned, the coin-operated gas metering in his squalid apartment, the pneumatic messaging tubes at work, the occasional airship. One thing is, I keep thinking of Thara as a woman, why is that?
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"Photographers, like other undesirables, keep very late hours,"Read:
10/2023
The Witness For The Dead
The Goblin King Book 2. A priest (of sorts) investigates deaths in the course of their duties. A really good read, I'm looking forward to reading the other ones in the series.
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7/2021
Black Hearts In Battersea
Simon adventures in London while attending art school. Those Hanorverian rascals!
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3/2015
Cold Shoulder Road
Is is in the south of England with Arun looking for his mother when they run afoul of smugglers whose use the Channel tunnel for their nefarious deads.
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5/2015
Dido And Pa
Dido is back in London and "reunited" with her dad, who is again involved in a plot against the king, although it's a different king now. Very exciting, and the wolves make an appearance.
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5/2015
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