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Starter Villain

Scalzi, John
Super villain story with cats and dolphins. Snappy patter. I liked it!

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"We're on Google Maps, Charlie. There is only so clandestine we can be..."

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"We're going to have a talk, you and I," I said to my cat.

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3/2024

Deep Wizardry

Duane, Dianne
Well, I must have read this before, possibly before I even started keeping track of books, but I having read it I don't remember anything of the story, so maybe not. I enjoy it, though! Whales! Dolphins!

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3/2024

Hotel Paradise

Grimes, Martha
Emma Graham #1. Emma is twelve and lives at the hotel where her mother is cook, and possibly co-owner, or previous owner, a lot is not made clear. It is an interesting story, and very nicely written. It moves along very slowly, however, and some readers take issue with that. It is sort of a murder mystery. A very literary crime story, some have said.

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I am not Catholic or of any particular creed, but I cross myself whenever I think of those buckwheat cakes.

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3/2024

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 Zoƫ
"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

MASH: An Army Surgeon In Korea

Otto, Apel
Non-fiction, a U.S. Army surgeon recounts his time in Korea during the war. Very interesting.

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3/2024

Get The Picture:

Bosker, Bianca
Subtitle: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See. Here is what I got from this book, on how to see art:
1. Look at the art for at least five minutes. At least. Forty would be better. Four hours is not unheard of.
2. Find five things about it that catch your senses. Then find five more.
3. Then read the information sign about the piece. If you must.
That's what I got out of it!

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If you didn't, good luck unseeing it now. -- I never could see it!

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The best art-history education I ever got was staring at art while Guggenheim.

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3/2024

Generations

Lebbon, Tim
Firefly, #4. Mal wins a map in a card game. River is the only one who can read the map.

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"It's dangerous!" he said.
"Not when you're with me," River said...

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3/2024

Blue Skies

Boyle, T.C.
Eco disaster novel of the near future. Everyone has terrible things happen to them. Book ends suddenly. As in, I'm turning more pages trying find the rest of story. No real conclusion. I prefer books with a conclusion. Otherwise, nice writing.

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"Insectos, por supuesto' [sic]

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And she probably should have parked the car up on the ramp Todd had build for it... -- There was something about the ramp I wanted to point out, but I forget was it was.

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...started the engine... -- There is an engine to start in a Tesla? What do I know.

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"...'Babe, how do you call your lover boy?'" he said, quoting an old Lou Reed song he'd been fixated on since she'd got pregnant.

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"But just in case, I'd better inspect your body, especially those hard-to-see places, right?..." -- Ticks, you know.

Words I Had To Look Up:

Oases -- So I learned this is the plural of "oasis". Who knew?

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3/2024

The Deer Leap

Grimes, Martha
Richard Jury, #7. Jury goes to some small village (as always?) to check out the death of an old woman using a pay phone during a rain storm.

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..."except for the .412 shotgun butted against her shoulder"... -- I've heard of a 410, but not .412

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Carrie...had already taken on a whippet and a poodle... The Alsatian was having a nap...The poodle was doing the same. -- I thought an Alsatian was a German Shepherd?

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...she was groping in the bag and brought out an apple. "Would you like this for your lunch?"
"Thank you," said Jury gravely... It was the first bribe he'd ever taken.

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Her dressing gown was definitely the sweeping sort, blue brocade and ivory insets and a long train. -- I thought that said "insects"...

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... loaded the .412 again... -- There's that .412 again!!

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2/2024

The Anodyne Necklace

Grimes, Martha
Richard Jury, #3. I'm still not sure what an anodyne is, but I enjoyed reading the story.

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2/2024

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