Destination Mars – Martin Caidin
The Six Million Dollar Man guy takes a crack at a coffee table book, this time about astronomy and Mars. The possibilities of organic compounds being found on the red planet were making news at the...
View ArticleYour Spaceflight Manual – David Ashford
The Spaceflight Manual is a look at the practicalities of space travel from your average person’s point of view, and how likely it would be, at the time it was published, that you would be able to go...
View ArticleAll of An Instant – Richard Garfinkle
If you have time swimming gear – do you use it to make changes? 2 out of 5
View ArticleAnne of Avonlea – L. M. Montgomery
Not as good as the first book. Again, this is the character getting older, so that may well have something to do with it. However, it does seem to be missing something when compared to the first of the...
View ArticleBurning Shore – Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Smith likes the African historical saga. He doesn’t mind having a pilot adventurous type or two in his stories, either. Here we have the strong brave woman, the dashing husband, struggle for...
View ArticleHeidi – Johanna Spyri
A very nice, sweet, slightly different little girl goes about her life in that alps and yodelling sort of setting that she grows up in. Sometimes she is unhappy, but often people are influenced by her,...
View ArticleThe Blue Lagoon – H. De Vere Stacpoole
A pretty mundane book, read only because someone wanted me to. The usual shipwrecked on an island paradise type of story. A couple of children grow up, after living there for ages, and discover the sex...
View ArticleThe Boxcar Children – Gertrude Chandler Warner
Very dull compared to the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. However, it does explore a few issues that may be of interest, in that sort of book. It would also be a candidate for an update perhaps, like the...
View ArticleA Slip Under the Microscope – H. G. Wells
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0609221.txt Exam cheating. 2 out of 5
View ArticleThe Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic – H. G. Wells
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0609221.txt Bad play. 2 out of 5
View ArticleIn The Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story – H. G. Wells
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0609221.txt Frivolous pursuits. 2 out of 5
View ArticleThe Jilting Of Jane – H. G. Wells
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0609221.txt No good. 2 out of 5
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