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"Thank you so much. Believe me, so was I. I definitely want to go back and start at the beginning."
LJ made a comment on her review of Breaking Point
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"I was fortunate to receive an ARC for review which was a very good thing as I can no long afford to buy books. :( Apparently, Book 6 will be the last...more "
LJ rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
read in April, 2013
First Sentence: A fug of tobacco smoke and damp clammy air hit her as she entered the café.

Ursula is born…and dies…and is born again. Each life lasts a little longer. With some, we pick up where the previous left off. With others, she has been able t...more
LJ rated a book 2 of 5 stars
The Perfect Ghost by Linda Barnes
The Perfect Ghost
by Linda Barnes (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
First Sentence: Teddy, you would have been proud of me.

Somewhat agoraphobic Em Moore was part of a writing team focused on the biographies of the famous. Now that her partner, Teddy, is dead from a single-person automobile crash, it is up to Em to fi...more
LJ rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Breaking Point by C.J. Box
Breaking Point
by C.J. Box
read in April, 2013
First Sentence: On an early morning in mid-August, EPA Special Agents Tim Singewald and Lenox Baker left the Region 8 Environmental Protection Agency building at 1595 Wynkoop Street in downtown Denver in a Chevrolet Malibu SA hybrid sedan they’d chec...more
LJ rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5 )
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
First Sentence: Blood dripped from the neck of the severed head and fell in a drizzle of red raindrops, clotting into a ruby pool upon the black and white tiles.

Pre-teen Flavia de Luce is excited about the opening of the 500-year-old tomb of Saint Ta...more
LJ rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Dead Caller from Chicago by Jack Fredrickson
First Sentence: It was March, well past midnight, and it was cold.

Free-lance investigator Dek Elstrom is still trying to fight his local city hall to regain zoning rights to the tower—no castle, just a tower—in which he lives, but strange things star...more
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“I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to light our spliffs. My fingertips tapped the stem to the gizmo that dinged a bell. Nobody came out. Wrong signal, so I did two bell rings. No response prompted me to tap out a series of bell rings.”
Ed Lynskey, Lake Charles

George Plimpton
“I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”
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John Wilson
“O for a Booke and a shdie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out;
With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about.

Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde;
For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.”
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Paul Gauguin
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
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