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Old 11-08-2009, 02:27 AM   #2912
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I'm currently reading "St. Patrick's Day Murder" by Leslie Meier. Got started on her with the "Women Sleuths Bundle" I got on Sony. Fun, light read so far.
Love Leslie Meier. Her first one is one of my favorites. I must admit though, I've not ever gotten past the third book in the series. Have to start those again...

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Now that I have finished writing my Ripper research paper I am free to pick up Cape Storm by Rachel Caine, book 8 in the Weather Warden series.
LOVED it! You have a treat in store.

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Well, I just fell in love with Edgar Rice Burroughs all over again.

I downloaded Harry's excellent Omnibus collections of Barsoom and Venus and started reading Princes of Mars (the first Mars book) and what should I come across in the early pages of chapter 9 but the following:

"The men are trained in the higher branches of the art of war; in strategy and the maneuvering of large bodies of troops. They make the laws as they are needed; a new law for each emergency. They are unfettered by precedent in the administration of justice. Customs have been handed down by ages of repetition, but the punishment for ignoring a custom is a matter for individual treatment by a jury of the culprit's peers, and I may say that justice seldom misses fire, but seems rather to rule in inverse ratio to the ascendency of law. In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers."

I almost dropped my reader rolling on the floor laughing!
I keep meaning to read these - they sound fantastic.
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