Books I've Read
Recent Books
The Glass Key
Political and criminal machinations in a small town.
The word "mien" is used seven times.
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5/2024
The First Ladies
Co-author Victoria Christopher Murray. Novel about the friendship and work of Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune. I enjoyed it very much.
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5/2024
Red Harvest
The Continental Op, #1. The Op goes to Personville, nicknamed Poisonville, an awful little berg of corruption.
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When I came back she was mixing gin, vermouth and orange bitters in a quart shaker, not leaving a lot of space for them to move around in.Read:
5/2024
Wild Wives
P.I Jake Blake has quite the wild (and some have called it "sleazy") time in this book. Copyright 1956, to help set the stage!
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"We Aliens are made of sterner stuff than that." -- Looks like a typo, Mr. Allen is the speaker. Quote:
In my life I'd been hit and nearly hit with a variety of weapons, but this was the first time anybody had ever used a fire extinguisher on me. Read:
5/2024
The Maltese Iguana
Serge Storms, #26. Serge takes on COVID. The Alexa/Seri interaction is hysterical. Fart.
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"It's all there in black and white," said Serge. "You all should read the rules instead of embarrassing yourselves." -- I did this in Monopoly too. People were mad!! Quote:
The immoral song "Let It Be" was winding down... -- Huh?? Read:
5/2024
Mermaid Confidential
Serge Storms, #25. Serge and Coleman get a condo. Plus, there's a drug smuggling gang war. And the sick kids place.
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"It's supposed to count my steps, but I know I've take more than that," said Serge. "And then some unfair score goes up on my Internet Chart of Shame."Quote:
"For whatever reason, just have one of the characters in your book blurt out Mermaid Confidential, and you've got your title."
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He hung his head with a massive relief sign. Then Serge looked around at all the wordless people staring back at him. "What?" -- Such a great moment, I wept a little bit. Read:
5/2024
Naked Came The Florida Man
Serge Storms, #23. Serge visits the memorable to all the victims of the hurricane that stirred up Lake Okeechobee in 1921 drowned 611 people in Belle Glade (where the memorial is) and over 1,800 statewide. Also, some scrawny girl named Chris wants to play football. I wept a bit reading the epilogue.
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"Be myself? Okay." He pulled a pint of Southern Comfort from his pocket and lifted it to the sun as he guzzled.
"once again, my words were not chosen with adequate care," said Serge. 'Be like other people."
"That's different."Quote:
...named after the army fort built during the Second Seminole War in 1938.-- 1938? maybe 1838!Read:
5/2024
The Pope Of Palm Beach
Serge Storms, #21. Serge goes to a book-signing or two. The library book return gets over-filled. Some coke smugglers get delayed revenge ... or not.
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Pablo stood still a moment, comprehending the folly of shooting multiple times into anything that's around your neck.Read:
5/2024
Clownfish Blues
Serge Storms, #20. Serge takes on the Lottery.
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The reptile was hog-tied with rubber bands and hung from the handlebars of a Schwinn bicycle, joining five other similarly dangling reptiles all wondering how life had come to this.Quote:
I see a disco ball, I say, 'Go with God.'"Read:
5/2024
Torpedo Juice
Serge Storms, #7. Serge gets married, almost killed by a serial killer, and, oh yeah, Colman comes back from the dead.
Quote:
"Stop right there," said Serge. "This is beginning to sound like some lame soap opera device to bring back a character they regretted killing off."Quote:
"...To borrow from Fire-sign Theater, Everything You Know Is Wrong..."Read:
5/2024