Bats Books

The second in the Tallyman two part set is just as good as the first entry. I really like Azrael with the new cutting edge Batman costume. Also really like the idea of Azrael as the last of the assasins from the Order of St. Dumas. Azrael is surprisingly good.

The Blue, the Grey & the Bat captures the flavor of the Old West very well and, while hard to find more than a decade after its release, it's well worth scouring your local comic shops to find. Check out the used dealers!!

I think this beautiful book gives intelligents and precises informations about the world of Bats. There are many impressive coloured photos and the text is excellent. This book is simply NECESSARY for those people who likes these small and interestings animals called bats!

The 1986 New York Mets were the World Series Champions led by one of the greatest managers in franchise history, Davey Johnson. But this book, Bats, is about the 1985 Mets, a second place finishing, good team.

They say that no one remembers who finishes second. I would like to change that and say we should remember who comes in second if they should come in first the following year. Which is what the Mets did. With this viewpoint in mind, one would and should take a look at Davey Johnson's season long account of the year before the year of the legendary 86 team.

Within Bats is a look at what Johnson saw, felt, and thought while he maintains a rocky relationship with Frank Cashen, the general manager, develops a heavy dependence on Rolaids, and issues one hundred and two hundred dollar fines to players for base running mistakes and showing up late to the ballpark. He talks about what he did to get the job and how he handled his players; Keith Hernandez talking in the third person and like a kid when he points out a good accomplishment to Johnson "did you in see Mex hit that home run?", Doug Sisk, with his inconsistent pitching performances, gets the most mentions in the book, , and his prediction about Dwight Gooden pitching a perfect game in the future (he does, but for the Yankees in 1996).

Probably taken from a daily journal, the book is very autobiographical and provides a pretty well rounded look at Johnson, the man and manager. Being only in my early twenties, I was only four and five and too young to understand the Mets of the Eighties in the same way I came to understand and love the Mets of the Nineties (the hard decade that it was) and, of course, the 2000's. Having got Bats, I feel closer to my favorite sport franchise and caught up in terms of history.

Did you know that the 85 Mets passed up two opportunities to re-acquire the great Tom Seaver?

Before I got Bats, I read Jeff Pearlman's, The Bad Guys Won, about the 1986 Mets. For the intellectually curious Met fan or any baseball fan, I would recommend both books as great holiday gifts. I would recommend Dwight Gooden's Heat as the great stocking stuffer as well.

Hi, I'm StoryMaker. I just finished the Early Bird Bats book by Joelle Riley which we got from the library and it's great! It tells you where bats live, what bats eat, how bats take care of their young, how they react to people - all sorts of zany facts! Also, the photos are superb. I especially like the silly fruit bat on page 19 that's eating a fig. LOL! This book is devided into chapters that cover a certain batty topic. A great Early Bird Nature Books feature is that at the start of each one of these chapters is a question. You might know the answer, but if not read on to find out. Although this book is undoubtedly a great piece of non-fiction, I must point out that it calls megabats "large bats" and microbats "small bats". I don't think the mega-micro names would be too much to swallow for young children and the terms big and small might confuse them. But overall, an excellent book for all kinds of kids who want to know the truth about bats. Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!"

H R F Keating's Inspector Ghote is a wonderful character. He has appeared in 20+ books from 1964-2000. The Bombay police inspector can be at times be as bumbling as Inspector Clousseau and then turn around and make deductions worthy of Sherlock Holmes. Although he has simple virtues - honesty, tenacity, devotion to duty and family - he is not a simple man. He is a reflective person with his own set of doubts and insecurities. Inspector Ghote books tend to light on plot and heavy on Inspector Ghote. H R F Keating establishes the Bombay setting not so much by description but by the characters and their language.

"Bats Fly Up For Inspector Ghote" while not the best of Ghotes I've read is representative. Ghote is on special assignment to a task force where there have been leaks, and his job is to find the traitor. The plot is fairly predictable. The characters, especially the minor ones (such as the fat man, the fishwife, the pickpocket), are well presented. Ghote's domestic crisis adds to but does not overwhelm the main story.

I enjoyed "Bats Fly Up For Inspector Ghote". I only wish the plot had been a little stronger.

Bats Fly at Dusk
A blind street peddler visits the Cool & Lam detective agency. Rodney Kosling has money for an investigation. His hearing allows him to "see" the people passing by. An unknown young woman was hurt in an automobile accident last Friday, and hasn't returned to work by Tuesday. He wants to know why. A newspaper ad brings a key witness, but he asks for too much, and leaves. Later he returns with a name: Josephine Dell. She suffered a concussion, and wants compensation. Josephine Dell's employer has died. The $10,000 in his wallet disappeared, and Bertha Cool will try to find it by interviewing Harlow Milder's housekeeper. Due to complications, Bertha corresponds with Donald Lam for his advice. Donald points out differences in wording in the will; he also asks about the cause of Harlow Milder's death (Chapter 15).

When Bertha goes to visit Rodney Kosling, she finds a dead body; its time for the police. Bertha finds out the likely cause of Harlow Milder's death - a poison (Chapter 19)! Donald telegrams that the original story of a car accident seems "impossible" (Chapter 20). Chapter 24 tells how Bertha Cool makes sure no one is following her, and how to hide a visit to a hotel. The information learned brings Bertha back to Kosling's home, where she discovers something, and is discovered in turn.

Chapter 30 winds up this story with a deus ex machina ending that explains and solves the mystery. Its as if "A. A. Fair" wanted to quickly end this story without the usual dialogue. The details, like "parol evidence" point to the legal knowledge of the author. The background describes an America gone forever. People leave their doors not just unlocked but open! Where a dime is a great tip! Those were the days. It also has scenes where an automobile accident victim seems reluctant to sue (or was that just for humor?). This plot, where half the detective team is on the case and communicates by letters, echoes the scenes in A. Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

This is a novel (not really a love story) with a plot (Hurray!), but actually Titus is trying to EnLighten us. This work is definitely thought-provoking and challenges many sacred paradigms; he exposes poor reasoning concerning: choices, good and evil, race, ... and so many other things.

The hero, Phil invents a Bio-Tech weapon, "The Bats". Some corrupt systems with hidden agendas (I.e., Government, Politics, Business, Religion, ...) mis-use this technology and create an apocalyptic mess. Phil (gets touched by the Spirit) and saves the world.

At times, Titus uses brutal sarcasm to shake us up and get us to have some common sense and conscience. His writing style really is: amusing, educational and entertaining. I think he has said, "He is long-winded", but I find him very informative. I.e. "He who stays in the Wind long enough, Can Learn Much." [Hint: Wind = Ruach (in Hebrew) = Spirit = The Holy Spirit]

I do encourage you to read this and his other books too: "Freedom From Freedom Froms" and "Jurassic Horde Whisperer of Madness County" They can raise your consciousness.

Excenlte trabajo, con una descripción completa de los murcielagos del Puerto Rico, mapas e infpormació de de la distribución de cada especie en la isla y sus habito alimentarios, entre otros detalles
Jonsy

We checked this book out at the library for my six year old son and he's laughing uncontrolably after reading this book. I don't see what's so funny but he loves it. Basically, each page features a different ending sound; ape, cape and scrape, shark, bark and park, etc. For the price, I think it's a great deal.