Please comment if you've read any of these or others by the same author.

View poll: Oldie Children's Books

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Nonfiction about a brief but fateful encounter between a German ace fighter pilot and an American bomber crew, in mid-air; forty years later, the two pilots met up again. The book started out as a magazine article, and I bet it was a terrific one. It’s a great story and unlike many WWII stories, this one is about people’s best behavior rather than ( Read more... )

Please feel free to comment! I have not read anything by any of these writers but Johnson.

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I’m afraid I did not like this at all. In fact, it was the first FMK book that I didn’t finish-I ditched it at about the halfway mark. And it’s a very short book, too: 133 pages ( Read more... )

View poll: FMK: Mostly Award-Winning British children's books

I have never read anything by any of these authors, and in most cases have only heard of them in the sense that I own one of their books. Anyone familiar with any of them?

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View poll: FMK # 3: Drugs, Deserts, and the Devil

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The blurb writer was confused; this is not a Gothic, but a regency. However, it does briefly turn into a Gothic for about ten pages toward the end, so I see how that could happen. I too struggled to categorize it, as, unsurprisingly considering the author, it's hard to categorize. It has the plot but not the substance of a romance; the heroine only ( Read more... )

How to play: Fling means I spend a single night of passion (or possibly passionate hatred) with the book, and write a review of it, or however much of it I managed to read. Marry means the book goes back on my shelves, to wait for me to get around to it. Kill is actually "sudden death" - I read a couple paragraphs or pages, then decide to donate or ( Read more... )

The winner of FMK # 1! Alas, I did not fall madly in love with it, but I did enjoy it. FMK is definitely off to a good start, because God knows how long that book has languished unread on my shelves. I'm pretty sure at least five years and possibly ten. But I'm very glad I finally got to it ( Read more... )

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