The Cussler formula succeeds again. Although hardly great literature it is very enjoyable to meet Loren, Al, Dirk (father), Dirk (son), and Summer again. Intertwining Crime with Environmentalism and Conservation the narrative moves quickly and elegantly towards the happy ending. Global warming being countered and defeated by technology and humanity's bravery whilst the greed of unscrupulous capitalism is shown up as brutal and ultimately immoral.

Sad to see the Narwhal sink. Could not Pitt, Austin and the others all combine. The trick is to make the enemies credible. It is far harder to believe in the evil than it is the benevolent (or is that only me).
Interesting to view the Canadians as potential enemies but really political corruption is the target.

This book wasn't as fun as Zorro, the only other book I've read by Isabel Allende, but it was vibrant and exciting to read. I had trouble keeping some of the minor characters strait, since the names were Spanish and I was listening instead of reading. I also felt like some sections were glossed over and could have been filled out more, since other sections had lots of detail. I imagine that's what it's like to read an abridged version of a book.
I learned a lot about the Spanish colonization of South America- what an interesting, sad history- and the period.

The story of European settlement of Chile (and, more specifically, the city of Santiago). The heroine, Ines Suarez, becomes the mistress of Spanish commander Pedro de Valdivia and plays a crucial role in the founding of Chile and Santiago. I picked this book up because we had just returned from a cruise around South America which began in Santiago and continued on down south through the rest of Chile and beyond. I thought I might be interested in learning a bit more about the history of the area, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was exciting, well-written and very interesting as well as historical.

I think that vampire Bill was a bit boring, so I really like this Sookie Stackhouse book. Bill has disappeared and Sookie sets out to find home. The world of the supernatural takes more shape as she discovers more shape shifters and werewolves. Her relationship with Alcide is extremely sexy.
I loved this book and can't wait to read the next in the series.

The third in Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series is as entertaining as the first two. Full of politics, dragons, war, adventure, and romance. She creates a fabulous alternative reality of that totally lcaks the filth of the real world, like a romanticized Middle Ages.
The ending hints at what's tot come in the next trilogy, and I'm looking forward to reading them as well.

These were some of Mom's favorite books growing up, and she spend a lot of time and effort to track down these out-of-print copies.
It was a good children's book, but I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had read them when I was younger.
It seemed a bit like Wells' Time Machine, where the human race has evolved into a lower and higher species.
I always enjoy a good post-apocalypse adventure story. I thought the best part was the children traveling across an abandoned landscape.
What a vision of the future.

this is the book that got me reading helen fielding in the first place. i read it compulsively on lunch breaks while working at borders, until i finally got up the nerve to borrow it. how can you not love a book that's got a neurotic, overimaginative british woman for the protagonist and involves osama bin laden and the oscars???

A fantasy chick-lit about how all women would want their life to be. A beautiful woman, everyone thinks she's silly, and she turns out to be right, smart, the perfect secret agent and gets the guy in the end.
It was silly and fun. I enjoyed the absurdity, but it didn't strike me the way Bridget Jones did. Had some of the same groaner, embarrassing moments without the touching nature of Bridget Jones.
Good chick-lit fun.

BLURB
From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of terror armed only with a hatpin, razor sharp wits and a very special underwired bra. How could a girl not be drawn to the alluring, powerful Pierre Ferramo, with his hooded eyes, impeccable taste, unimaginable wealth, exotic homes across the globe and a rather dubious French accent? But is it possible that Ferramo is actually a major terrorist, bent on the western world's destruction. Or, is it all just a product of Olivia Joules's overactive imagination. Join Olivia in her heart-stopping and hilarious quest to save the world in this witty, contemporary and utterly unputdownable thriller.

Really loved Fielding's other books, but really disliked this one. Very pretentious and hard to get

Another strange, funny, endearing Christopher Moore book. It features some of the same people and the same town as the Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. It also has some of the same themes- otherworldly beast out of control, must be contained by the crazy but good people of Pine Cove.
It wouldn't matter if all of his books were the same (which they're not), they're still incredibly fun reading. I always end up loving all of his characters.

The novel begins n 1899 when British troops in South Africa were struggling to defeat the Boers. A decision is made in London to trial a new piece of artillery - the Ehrhardt gun. The soldier they call upon to lead this top secret mission is a brave, principled, and much-respected officer, Major Peter Rutland. Rutland’s Guns follows him on his exploits, during which he and a small band of soldiers test out this new piece of weaponry that could help determine the outcome of this conflict.

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