Book Logging
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the_rckAnderson, M.T. Agent Q, or The Smell of Danger! - This Pals in Peril book follows immediately after Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware. It picks up as the characters are attempting to get home and follows their adventures in doing that. This one's more spy story than anything else. I really, really like this series.
Anderson, M.T. The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen - I'm hooked on this series. This is the second book, the sequel to Whales on Stilts. It is equally silly and equally easy to read. This one is primarily a mystery and involves a gathering of characters from several different (fictional) book series.
Anderson, M.T. He Laughed with His Other Mouths - According to Amazon, this is the most recent of the Pals in Peril books. It features a trip to a distant star system and Jasper Dash starting to grow up. For once, one of the parents gets to play a prominent and positive role.
Anderson, M.T. Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware - This is the third book in the series. This one is an expedition into wild and mysterious and dangerous territory-- the mountains and jungles and abandoned ancient cities of Delaware. One of the characters, in his backstory, trained at an ancient monastery in the mountains of Delaware and gets a psychic message that the monks are in great danger.
Anderson, M.T. Zombie Mommy - This Pals in Peril book comes after Agent Q, or The Smell of Danger! Lily's mother goes away for a few days and comes back not quite herself. The kids have to travel to the most haunted town in the US to find out what happened. There's a new character in this book, Kate's cousin Madison, who stars in her own series of books about events at her school, Snot Academy.
Jones, Dan. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - I knew bits and pieces of the history presented here, but for some reason Henry III had completely dropped out of my memory, and I thought Edward I came immediately after John I. Jones has an engaging style and made the history read like a story without ever putting words in people's mouths or pretending to know what they were thinking. He does seem to be reluctant to think that any historical figures were actually gay or bisexual, however. It was quite noticeable.
Orzel, Chad. Eureka! - I wanted more examples of scientific thinking in everyday life than there were. I think there could have been a lot more. The bits about the history of science were interesting as history, but I don't think I really understood how to generalize from them out to normal activities. I did enjoy reading this, though. I'm just not sure I understood it.
Started but not finished:
Berger, Glen. Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - I read about a third of this, but I couldn't handle the huge sense of disaster hanging over every paragraph. I'm interested in how stage productions work or don't (having worked on a few in high school and college), but these people seemed to be gleefully leaping into one bad situation after another.
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance - I started this one so long ago that it's buried under about half a dozen other books in one of the piles next to my side of the bed. I think it's time to admit that I'm not going to finish it. I enjoyed the first part, but as soon as Ivan's in-laws showed up, I couldn't go on. I just couldn't.
Greenburg, Dan. Secrets of the Dripping Fang, Book 1: The Onts -Goodreads recommended this because I liked the various Pals in Peril books. I wasn't at all impressed. I got about halfway through the book because it's a really fast read and quite short, but I didn't like the characters, and I wasn't intrigued by their situation.
Prager, Ellen J. Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime - I stopped this one because I found I was reading the first sentence of every paragraph and then having my eyes refuse to focus on the following sentences. Given that the paragraphs were long and dense, that was a problem. The book sounded interesting in the review I read (I don't remember where I saw it), so I was disappointed not to want to finish it.
Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation - I couldn't read most of the print in this. It also seemed like something designed specifically to set off my anxiety. Back to the library it goes.
Van Eekhout, Greg. Kid vs. Squid - This is another one Goodreads recommended because I like Pals in Peril. For this one, I read six or seven chapters. I felt like things were just happening to happen without any real flow to the story, sort of as if the author kept saying to himself, "Hm. We need another monster attack here." The events moved the plot forward, but I never quite felt like things were properly connected to each other.
Anderson, M.T. The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen - I'm hooked on this series. This is the second book, the sequel to Whales on Stilts. It is equally silly and equally easy to read. This one is primarily a mystery and involves a gathering of characters from several different (fictional) book series.
Anderson, M.T. He Laughed with His Other Mouths - According to Amazon, this is the most recent of the Pals in Peril books. It features a trip to a distant star system and Jasper Dash starting to grow up. For once, one of the parents gets to play a prominent and positive role.
Anderson, M.T. Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware - This is the third book in the series. This one is an expedition into wild and mysterious and dangerous territory-- the mountains and jungles and abandoned ancient cities of Delaware. One of the characters, in his backstory, trained at an ancient monastery in the mountains of Delaware and gets a psychic message that the monks are in great danger.
Anderson, M.T. Zombie Mommy - This Pals in Peril book comes after Agent Q, or The Smell of Danger! Lily's mother goes away for a few days and comes back not quite herself. The kids have to travel to the most haunted town in the US to find out what happened. There's a new character in this book, Kate's cousin Madison, who stars in her own series of books about events at her school, Snot Academy.
Jones, Dan. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - I knew bits and pieces of the history presented here, but for some reason Henry III had completely dropped out of my memory, and I thought Edward I came immediately after John I. Jones has an engaging style and made the history read like a story without ever putting words in people's mouths or pretending to know what they were thinking. He does seem to be reluctant to think that any historical figures were actually gay or bisexual, however. It was quite noticeable.
Orzel, Chad. Eureka! - I wanted more examples of scientific thinking in everyday life than there were. I think there could have been a lot more. The bits about the history of science were interesting as history, but I don't think I really understood how to generalize from them out to normal activities. I did enjoy reading this, though. I'm just not sure I understood it.
Started but not finished:
Berger, Glen. Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - I read about a third of this, but I couldn't handle the huge sense of disaster hanging over every paragraph. I'm interested in how stage productions work or don't (having worked on a few in high school and college), but these people seemed to be gleefully leaping into one bad situation after another.
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance - I started this one so long ago that it's buried under about half a dozen other books in one of the piles next to my side of the bed. I think it's time to admit that I'm not going to finish it. I enjoyed the first part, but as soon as Ivan's in-laws showed up, I couldn't go on. I just couldn't.
Greenburg, Dan. Secrets of the Dripping Fang, Book 1: The Onts -Goodreads recommended this because I liked the various Pals in Peril books. I wasn't at all impressed. I got about halfway through the book because it's a really fast read and quite short, but I didn't like the characters, and I wasn't intrigued by their situation.
Prager, Ellen J. Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime - I stopped this one because I found I was reading the first sentence of every paragraph and then having my eyes refuse to focus on the following sentences. Given that the paragraphs were long and dense, that was a problem. The book sounded interesting in the review I read (I don't remember where I saw it), so I was disappointed not to want to finish it.
Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation - I couldn't read most of the print in this. It also seemed like something designed specifically to set off my anxiety. Back to the library it goes.
Van Eekhout, Greg. Kid vs. Squid - This is another one Goodreads recommended because I like Pals in Peril. For this one, I read six or seven chapters. I felt like things were just happening to happen without any real flow to the story, sort of as if the author kept saying to himself, "Hm. We need another monster attack here." The events moved the plot forward, but I never quite felt like things were properly connected to each other.
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Date: 2015-05-01 06:12 pm (UTC)The Flame Pits of Delaware and the immediate sequel, Agent Q, are probably the best of the series. I had fun with all of the books, but those had the tightest narrative.
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Date: 2015-05-01 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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