Books I've Read
Recent Books
The Shattering Peace
Old Man's War #7. Gretchen deals with the Consu.
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"Oh, they were very busy," Rand said. "But when I came up everybody decided to let me go to the head of the line."
"Did they."Quote:
"Whoa," he said, after a moment.
"There is that word again," said Fris.Quote:
"Look who's back," she [Vega] said.
[...] "Hi," I said.
He looked up at me from his prone position. "I don't like you," he said.Read:
11/2025
Summer Knight
The Dresden Files, #4.
Harry has to deal with all the "bosses" of the winter and summer courts.
I read this as part of The Dresden Files Collection featuring the first six novels in the series.
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The skirt showed exactly enough leg to make it hard not to look, and her dark pumps had heels just high enough to give you ideas.Quote:
"Do you?" she said, still very quiet. "Do you know how I feel? Did you lose your first love?" -- Why yes, I sort of did. Quote:
She leaned down and purred, "Hello, Lloyd. We should have a talk."Quote:
"Elaine," [...] "I'd say I was glad to see you, but I'm not sure."
"That's because you always were a little dense, Harry," she said, her voice tart.Read:
10/2025
The Fool Moon
The Dresden Files, #2.
Harry has to deal with werewolves. I had no idea there were different kinds of werewolves!
I read this as part of The Dresden Files Collection featuring the first six novels in the series.
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Bob snorted, no easy feat for a guy with no nose or lips.Quote:
Denton was armed with his FBI-ISSUE automatic -- Why is that capitalized? Read:
10/2025
Cheddar Luck Next Time
Birdie inherits her grandmother's house in a fictional small town near Morro Bay, California. Pretty good, now I want some cheese!!
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Early Bird gets the cheese -- Why does it says this in the copyright note area? Quote:
I wondered how Dale would react if he knew I drank microwaved tea water on occasion.Read:
10/2025
The Boxcar Librarian
Fiction story involving a boxcar library (The real one can be see at Fort Missoula, MT), a murder, and a mystery. Pretty good!
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We are a country of beautiful and flawed and strong and cowardly and happy and fearful and loving people. And we will always be stronger together.Read:
10/2025
Brief Cases
The Dresden Files, #15.6. Twelve Dresden Files stories, some of which have been published before, and at least one of which I have read before. Pretty darn good stories, too!
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She was speaking to me over a ham radio from somewhere in the wilds of unsettled Canada, and was shouting to maker herself heard over the static and the patch between the radio and the phone.Quote:
"I could gaze longingly at your décolletage while you talk, if you like."
"Given how much trouble I go to in order to show it off, it would seem polite."
I lowered my eyes demurely to her chest for a moment. "Well. If I must." Quote:
"Weregoats," I muttered. "Jesus."Read:
10/2025
Grave Peril
The Dresden Files, #3. Harry investigates a rash of missing persons. Also, struggles to say three little words to Susan.
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"Oh. Damn. This is one of those right and wrong issues again, isn't it."
"Yes, one of those."
"I'm still confused about this whole morality thing, Harry."
"Join the club," I muttered.Read:
10/2025
The Ship With The Flat Tire
I first read this back in the 60s when I was a teen. I found it intensely amusing then and intensely amusing now.
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"[...] Tell him..."
"Yes, Mr. Westbury?"
"Tell him there's a porkchop driving his ship."Read:
10/2025
A Boy And His Dog At The End Of The World
I am of mixed feelings about this story. It was just OK for a very long while, then the purported big reveal, then a REALLY big reveal, all with some weirdness mixed in. I was gonna down grade because of that, but I DID kinda tear up at the end, so that's a plus. But mostly, the author's note afterwards On Dogs And Stories was VERY moving!
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I [...} lay there thinking this was a very stupid way to die. -- Been there, thought that! Quote:
I don't quite have the way of poetry in my head -- Nice sentence, I don't either. Quote:
fifing three quivers -- "Firing" maybe? Typo? Quote:
I walked to the end of a lonely pier jutting into the eye of a narratively convenient storm coming in off the North Sea and hid my tears in the wind and the rain. -- Just a lovely sentence! Read:
10/2025
Autonomous
Robots and robot-people and people "battle" Big Pharm to get affordable drugs for the poor working folk. I thought it was OK.
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He partitioned his mind: 80 percent for combat, 20 percent for searches on faggots.Read:
10/2025