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"Sorry, Jenny. I didn't mean to be a bad influence. :)"
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"It took me a couple of books to really into it, but I often find that true when I start an author's second series."
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"Books for August 6th, 2013 are:
A DARK ANATOMY (Hist Mys-Titus Cragg/Luke Fidelis-England-1740) – 1st in series – Robin Blake In Lancashire a grim disco...more " |
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RE-READ IN MAY 2013: First Sentence: You expect the momentous moments in your life to provide some kind of warning. Luther (violin-maker) Giovanni "Gianni" Castiglioni and policeman, Guastafeste, never expect one of their monthly informal string quarte...more |
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First Sentence: “It’s my uncle,” the man said on the phone. Claire DeWitt advertises herself as the world’s greatest private investigator. As such, she accepts a case in recent post-Katrina New Orleans. Her client is the nephew of Vic Willing. The cas...more |
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First Sentence: Exsanguination was the word Slider found wandering around his mind. When is a suicide not a suicide? When it’s a murder. When the details are just slightly off. When is a murder particularly hard to solve? When you don’t know the ident...more |
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First Sentence: He sent his mind in search of me that morning. Nicola Marter has a gift but it’s one with which she is uncomfortable. However, when a woman comes into the art gallery for which she works, she is intrigued by the history behind an item...more |
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“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
― Paul Gauguin
― Paul Gauguin
“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
― Ed Lynskey, Lake Charles
“I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”
― George Plimpton
― George Plimpton
“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.”
― John Wilson
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.”
― John Wilson
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