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Jan 20, 2019 12:44PM
Great, thanks, jingles! Now all I have to do is move the book higher up on the priority list :) I probably won't get to it before the end of the month, but should be able to work it in at some point in February.
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Thanks to jingles' allowing the setting of the book, which actually is the first printed word of the chapter, I finished this thing, and a few days early even :) FIRST LINE SPELL CHALLENGE, 8/1 /18- 1/31/19
28/28 COMPLETE
BOOK : How to Train Your Dragon, by Cressida Cowell
LINE : There were dragons when I was a boy.
T = The perp looked around – what nasty little eyes he had! – and saw there was nowhere to go.
Thereby Hangs a Tail (Chet & Bernie #2), by Spencer Quinn, finished 8/7 ★★★★
H = He was whistling.
Hitting the Books (Library Lovers #9), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 8/27 ★★★★
E = Every day we fake it a little bit.
The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do, by Samantha Ettus, finished 8/16 ★★★★
R = (The) rumors are true.
Merry Market Murder (Farmers Market #5), by Paige Shelton, finished 12/16 ★★★★
E = Elmer Henry, mayor of Hemlock Falls, swallowed the last spoonful of zabalogne, disposed of the crystallized mint leaf with a loud crunch, and burped in satisfaction.
A Taste for Murder (Hemlock Falls #1), by Claudia Bishop, finished 8/22 ★★★★
W = "What's your favorite color?"
You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice, by Tom Vanderbilt, finished 8/23 ★★★.5
E = Edward Hall sat under the front porch of the big house on Walden Street in Concord, Massachusetts, and though about his two ambitions in life.
The Diamond in the Window (Hall Family Chronicles #1), by Jane Langton, finished 9/14 ★★★.5
R = Rehearsal was finally, finally over.
Unharmonious, by Laine Boyd, finished 1/17 ★★★
E = Even those who didn't darken the door of the church from one Christmas to the nex|t could tell there would be more mourners than seats.
The Dry (Aaron Falk #1), by Jane Harper, finished 11/9 ★★★★
D = "Dr. Baker," I said, "I look awful."
You Don't Look Your Age ... And Other Fairy Tales, by Sheila Nevins, finished 10/20 ★★★
R = Ritz Paris (see image below)
The Final Cut (Brit in the FBI #1), by Catherine Coulter & J.T. Ellison, finished 1/23 ★★★★
A = A German Spy drops from a black Focke-Wulf reconnaissance plane over Cambridgeshire.
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love and Betrayal, by Ben Macintyre, finished 8/5 ★★★.5
G = Gus Riskin sipped from a bottle of water as he surveyed Trey's living room.
The Guilty Dead (Monkeewrench #9), by P.J. Tracy, finished 8/9 ★★★★.5
O = Old Mel hired one of Da's nephews - the slow-witted one with the dent in his forehead - to sink a well in his back acre.
Killed at the Whim of a Hat (Jimm Juree #1), by Colin Cotterill, finished 9/9 ★★★.5
N = NYPD Homicide detective Nikki Heat double-parked her gray Crown Victoria behind the coroner van and stroke toward the pizza joint where a body waited.
Deadly Heat (Nikki Heat #5), by Richard Castle, finished 9/4 ★★★.5
S = Slumped on his suitcase, Ferdinand Brun, age eighty-three, helplessly surveys his apartment, which he is leaving forever.
Out of Sorts, by Aurélie Valognes, finished 8/3 ★★.5
W = "What's the matter with you, Clare?"
Once Upon a Grind (Coffeehouse #14), by Cleo Coyle, finished 8/26 ★★★.5
H = Hannah Swensen took her mother's potholders off the hook by the stove and removed a sheet of cookies from the oven.
Christmas Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen #23), by Joanne Fluke, finished 10/18 ★★★
E = Elizabeth Cubbon, known as Bessie to her friends, rubbed her eyes and checked the clock by her bed.
Aunt Bessie Assumes (Isle of Man #1), by Diana Xarissa, finished 12/28 ★★★.5
N = No graveyards; that bothered Anna.
Ill Wind (Anna Pigeon #3), by Nevada Barr, finished 10/31 ★★★.5
I = I could just kill him.
Halloween Murder (Lucy Stone #3 and #16), by Leslie Meier, finished 8/6 ★★★.5
W = When Leah Taylor heard the pounding on her front door at seven o'clock in the morning, she jumped, nearly sloshing her coffee all over her hand.
Love Gone to the Dogs (Second Chances #1), by Margaret Daley, finished 9/1 ★★★
A = At the end of December 2015, winter had not yet reached Brooklyn.
In the Midst of Winter, by Isabel Allende, finished 9/17 ★★★
S = Sometimes in the shower he'd think of it.
The Testament of Harold's Wife, by Lynne Hugo, finished 9/16 ★★★.5
A = As Daniel yawned and climbed into his father's car that morning, he saw a poodle being dressed in a red knitted coat.
The Half Life of Stars, by Louise Werner, finished 10/21 ★★★
B = "But I don't want to do it."
Twelve Angry Librarians (Cat in the Stacks #8), by Miranda James, finished 10/27 ★★★★
O = One night, in a forsaken inn of Alta Verapaz, a man of a certain age approached my table as I was finishing my meal and asked in ceremonial Spanish if he could speak to me.
The Merchant of Death (Cycle of Xhól #1), by Cécile Chabot, finished 10/28 ★★★
Y = You have to go to the ends of the Earth in order to leave the Earth.
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, by Scott Kelly, finished 1/12 ★★★★
***** CHALLENGE COMPLETE 1/23/19 *****
I'm calling this one done, I found everything but a "U". And the final "D" is a book I am planning to read in March.
I'm going to start with a relatively short sentence and see how it goes. This is the final book of the Poldark series, I just finished reading the whole series and absolutely loved it!
Bella Poldark by Winston Graham
7.29.18 to 1.29.19
"The evening was loud and wild."
✔T.. Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall.
W is for Wasted/Sue Grafton
Read 8.5.18. 4☆
✔H .. Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my mama never let me forget it.
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen/Sarah Bird
Read 8.29.18 3☆
✔E .. Even if she hadn't been the last person to walk through the turnstile at Warren Street tube station, Jack Barker would have noticed the tall, slender woman in the navy blue, thigh-length jacket with a matching pleated skirt short enough to reveal a well-turned ankle. Maisie Dobbs/Jacqueline Winspear
Read 9.21.18 3☆
✔E .. Emma pushed through the door of the ladies room by reception and turned on a tap and held her palms upward, letting cool water run over the veins in her wrists, the trick Arlette had taught her when she was in Pre-K, to calm herself.The Latecomers/Helen Klein Ross
Read 10.29.18 3☆
✔V - Vienna, Austria. The Only Woman in the Room/Marie Benedict
Read 12.1.18 3☆
✔E - Evan is nineteen, fresh off the plane, trained up, mission-ready.
Out of the Dark/Gregg Hurwitz
Read 11.3.18 4☆
✔N .. Nobody came to my seventh birthday party.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane/Neil Gaiman
Read 7.31.18. 4☆
✔I .. I have watched old people die, and young ones, too.
Be Still the Water/Karen Emilson
Read 8.1.18 3.25 ☆
✔N .. Now I think the picture was unspooling all along and I just failed to notice. Virgil Wander/Leif Enger
Read 9.26.18 3☆
✔G - Giovanni: Roma, April 14, 1577
The Chef's Secret/Crystal King
Read 1.7.19 4☆
✔W .. When the sun come back, when the first quail call, then the time is come: Follow the Drinking Gourd.
Up from Freedom/Wayne Grady
Read 8.12.18. 4☆
✔A .. Alfred Pinfold's father, George, lay in the final throes of a long and painful illness. The Violin/Lindsay Pritchard
Read 9.19.18 3☆
✔S .. Santa Teresa, California, Monday, March 6, 1989.
X/Sue Grafton
Read 8.14.18. 4☆
✔L .. Lauren is flirting with my fiance' over the dinner I spent hours preparing.
After Nightfall/A.J. Banner
Read 8.5.18. 3☆
✔O .. On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday.
The Thorn Birds/Colleen McCullough
Read 9.8.18 4☆
U
✔D - Daddy never wanted to do nothing much other than grow cotton, and the way he'd gone at it, we figured that would be the thing to kill him, but it wasn't.
The Forgiving Kind/Donna Everhart
Read 12.23.18 3☆
✔A .. A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"
The Awakening/Kate Chopin
Read 9.21.18 3☆
✔N .. No one wanted to work with the man in the wheelchair. The Dream Daughter/Diane Chamberlain
Read 9.30.18 3☆
✔D - Dr. Baird is here, m'lady.
The Woman in the Lake/Nicola Cornick
Read 1.17.19 3☆
✔W .. When lovely woman stoops to folly, she can always find someone to stoop with her but not always someone to lift her up again to the level where she belongs.
The Chaperone/Laura Moriarty
Read 8.20.18 4☆
✔I .. In Dorsetshire the plague made the country quite void of inhabitants so there were almost none left alive.
The Last Hours/Minette Walters
Read 8.7.18 3☆
✔L .. Lydia is dead.
Everything I Never Told You/Celeste Ng
Read 10.16.18. 2☆
D - During the second year that Erland Nikulausson and Kristin Lavransdatter lived at Jorundgaard, Kristin decided to spend the summer up in the mountain pastures.
The Cross/Sigrid Undset
I'm going to start with a relatively short sentence and see how it goes. This is the final book of the Poldark series, I just finished reading the whole series and absolutely loved it!
Bella Poldark by Winston Graham7.29.18 to 1.29.19
"The evening was loud and wild."
✔T.. Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall.
W is for Wasted/Sue Grafton
Read 8.5.18. 4☆
✔H .. Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my mama never let me forget it.
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen/Sarah Bird
Read 8.29.18 3☆
✔E .. Even if she hadn't been the last person to walk through the turnstile at Warren Street tube station, Jack Barker would have noticed the tall, slender woman in the navy blue, thigh-length jacket with a matching pleated skirt short enough to reveal a well-turned ankle. Maisie Dobbs/Jacqueline Winspear
Read 9.21.18 3☆
✔E .. Emma pushed through the door of the ladies room by reception and turned on a tap and held her palms upward, letting cool water run over the veins in her wrists, the trick Arlette had taught her when she was in Pre-K, to calm herself.The Latecomers/Helen Klein Ross
Read 10.29.18 3☆
✔V - Vienna, Austria. The Only Woman in the Room/Marie Benedict
Read 12.1.18 3☆
✔E - Evan is nineteen, fresh off the plane, trained up, mission-ready.
Out of the Dark/Gregg Hurwitz
Read 11.3.18 4☆
✔N .. Nobody came to my seventh birthday party.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane/Neil Gaiman
Read 7.31.18. 4☆
✔I .. I have watched old people die, and young ones, too.
Be Still the Water/Karen Emilson
Read 8.1.18 3.25 ☆
✔N .. Now I think the picture was unspooling all along and I just failed to notice. Virgil Wander/Leif Enger
Read 9.26.18 3☆
✔G - Giovanni: Roma, April 14, 1577
The Chef's Secret/Crystal King
Read 1.7.19 4☆
✔W .. When the sun come back, when the first quail call, then the time is come: Follow the Drinking Gourd.
Up from Freedom/Wayne Grady
Read 8.12.18. 4☆
✔A .. Alfred Pinfold's father, George, lay in the final throes of a long and painful illness. The Violin/Lindsay Pritchard
Read 9.19.18 3☆
✔S .. Santa Teresa, California, Monday, March 6, 1989.
X/Sue Grafton
Read 8.14.18. 4☆
✔L .. Lauren is flirting with my fiance' over the dinner I spent hours preparing.
After Nightfall/A.J. Banner
Read 8.5.18. 3☆
✔O .. On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday.
The Thorn Birds/Colleen McCullough
Read 9.8.18 4☆
U
✔D - Daddy never wanted to do nothing much other than grow cotton, and the way he'd gone at it, we figured that would be the thing to kill him, but it wasn't.
The Forgiving Kind/Donna Everhart
Read 12.23.18 3☆
✔A .. A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"
The Awakening/Kate Chopin
Read 9.21.18 3☆
✔N .. No one wanted to work with the man in the wheelchair. The Dream Daughter/Diane Chamberlain
Read 9.30.18 3☆
✔D - Dr. Baird is here, m'lady.
The Woman in the Lake/Nicola Cornick
Read 1.17.19 3☆
✔W .. When lovely woman stoops to folly, she can always find someone to stoop with her but not always someone to lift her up again to the level where she belongs.
The Chaperone/Laura Moriarty
Read 8.20.18 4☆
✔I .. In Dorsetshire the plague made the country quite void of inhabitants so there were almost none left alive.
The Last Hours/Minette Walters
Read 8.7.18 3☆
✔L .. Lydia is dead.
Everything I Never Told You/Celeste Ng
Read 10.16.18. 2☆
D - During the second year that Erland Nikulausson and Kristin Lavransdatter lived at Jorundgaard, Kristin decided to spend the summer up in the mountain pastures.
The Cross/Sigrid Undset
I'm going to call this one done. I found 47/56. Fun challenge!
Will you set a new link for me, I'm going to start a new sentence.
LOVE THIS CHALLENGE!
I read this book in 2015, it was a 5☆ read.
Silk Road by Colin Falconer.
1/29/19 to 7/31/19
47/56
"They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard."
✔T - The summer's heat arrived in Fallen Mountains like a winged thing, swift and startling: the pansies drooped, the lettuce bolted, the trees shook off their buds.
Fallen Mountains/Kimi Cunningham Grant
Read 2.1.19 3☆
✔H - Hannah McGinley put down her sewing and moved across the tramped earth floor to where the door of the cottage stood open through all the daylight hours, except in the coldest and stormiest of weather.
The Girl from Galloway: A stunning historical novel of love, family and overcoming the odds/Anne Doughty
Read 3/21/19 2.75☆
✔E - Edgar Finchley was forty-five, short, with a comfortable face such as you might see on the fringe of any crowd, and a tonsure that surprised you when he raised his hat.
Mr Finchley Discovers His England/Victor Canning
Read 4/6/19 3☆
✔Y - You'll never see anything like this again
Heart in the Right Place/Carolyn Jourdan
Read 5/23/19 3☆
✔F - For the past eight years, always on August twelfth, Ruth Young lost her voice.
The Bonesetter's Daughter/Amy Tan
Read 3/8/19 2☆
✔O - On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable.
I Know This Much Is True/Wally Lamb
Read 3/3/19 5☆
U
✔N - Never step over a lighted candle.
My Name Is Resolute/Nancy E. Turner
Read 2/7/19. 5☆
✔D - During the second year that Erland Nikulausson and Kristen Lavrandsdatter lived at Jorundgaard, Kristen decided to spend the summer up in the mountain pastures.
The Cross/Sigrid Undset
Read 3/8/19 4☆
✔H - Heat hung fierce for spring over the town of Greesboro, Mississippi, the late sunlight flickering in dusty rays.
The Abolitionist's Daughter/Diane C. McPhail
Read 3/24/19 2.75☆
✔I - It was late winter in the northern Rus', the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow.
The Bear and the Nightingale/Katherine Arden
Read 2/17/19 3☆
✔M - Ma lasted a year after Pa was gone.
The Education of Little Tree/Forrest Carter
Read 2.1.19 3☆
✔I - I dreamt the dream again last night.
Confederado do Norte/Linda Bennett Pennell
Read 2/25/19 4☆
✔N - Ning Degong arrives at the palace to give his report to Emperor Kangxi on the true situation in Sichuan.
Between Four Rivers/Wang Yu
Read 7/18/19 2.75☆
✔T - The sun was cresting the low eastern hills of Nuervo Negaldo as the rusted Buick made its way through the still sleeping town.
Border Son/Samuel Parker
Read 2/3/19 4☆
✔H - Hinewai looked forward and back.
The Wideawake Hat/Amanda Giorgis
Read 6/20/19 4☆
✔E - Even at night with half the staff, the Taussig Cancer Center ran as shipshape as its namesake.
The Woman in the White Kimono/Ana Johns
Read 5/19/19 3☆
✔C - Coppers! yelped the driver.
Restorations/Charles Strickler
Read 3/19/19 4.25☆
✔L - Letting a hurt chafe for years without doing something to soothe it, letting grief linger for decades without confronting it will bring a person to the brink.
The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon: A Novel/Norman G. Gautreau
Read 5/12/19 2.75☆
✔O - On the eve of Saint Simon's Day, Baard Peterson's ship anchored at the spit near Birgsi.
The Wife/Sigrid Undset
Read 3/8/19 4☆
✔I - I only put the centipede in Eliza's slipper since I thought she was stealing my sister Sofya from me.
Lost Roses/Martha Hall Kelly
Read 3/1/19 3☆
✔S - Sura wanted to love her husband more than she did.
Loving Liberty Levine/Colin Falconer
Read 1.31.19 4☆
✔T - The earth trembles.
If, Then: A Novel/Kate Hope Day
Read 2/3/19 2☆
✔E - Each morning, for more than thirty years, Claude Ballard returned to the hotel lobby with two cameras strapped across his chest and a tote bag full of foraged mushrooms and herbs.
The Electric Hotel/Dominic Smith
Read 5/28/19 2☆
✔R - Robert Highstead's workday ended with a letter thrusr inside his pocket.
The Lost History of Dreams/Kris Waldherr
Read 2/14/19 3 stars
✔L - Let's go for dinner at that lovely French place.
Breaking Dad: How my mild-mannered father became Britain's biggest meth dealer/James Lubbock
Read 5/16/19 3☆
Y
✔I - I don't suppose we'll be invited to the best funerals.
Death of a New American: A Mystery/Mariah Fredericks
Read 3/10/19 3.25☆
N
✔G - Gilbert du Motier, the Maquis de Lafayette, realized something was wrong before he even saw the courier.
The Founding Treason/Jeremy Burns
Read 5/23/19 3☆
✔O - Of course there are clouds.
Double Dexter/Jeff Lindsay
Read 3/15/19 4☆
N
✔H - Heaven stank of tallow and shone a honey glow.
The Yellow Lantern: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime/Angie Dicken
Read 7/4/19 2.5☆
✔I - I used to love this season.
Year of Wonders/Geraldine Brooks
Read 3/12/19 4☆
✔S - She didn't stay long as far as mariages go, just a year and ten months.
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted/Robert Hillman
Read 2/15/19 3☆
✔B - Blood raced through Irene's veins like a brushfire, thrumming in her ears as she sat in the train car waiting for just the right moment.
City of Flickering Light/Juliette Fay
Read 3/14/19. 3.5☆
✔A - As always, Martha Storm was primed for action.
The Library of Lost and Found/Phaedra Patrick
Read 2/6/19 2☆
✔C - Captain Kidd laid out the Boston Journal on the lectern and began to read from the article on the Fifteenth Amendment.
News of the World/Paulette Jiles
Read 4/12/19 4☆
K
✔W - When I think back on my childhood, there's always a speeding car.
The Light Years: A Memoir/Chris Rush
Read 2/10/19 5☆
✔I - It was a hot afternoon with a strong wind from the south, but out on the Dakota prairie in 1885 no one minded the hot sunshine or the hard winds.
The First Four Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read 3/16/19 4☆
✔T - The foundling wheel turned inward with a groan, and the young nurse stifled a scream.
Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel/James Markert
Read 2/21/19 3☆
H
✔I - I suppose in retrospect it was silly to think my mother died of a broken heart.
Falconi's Tractor/Dave LeBlanc
Read 3/25/19 2☆
C
✔E - Even when Mattie's great big dreams had troubled Lizzie,she'd envied her something fierce, for Lizzie came from nightmares, too fearful to dream.
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls/Julie Kibler
Read 6/26/19 2☆
✔I - I look at my sister and I want to laugh out loud.
The Sound of Rain/Gregg Olsen
Read 4/1/19 2.75☆
N
H
✔I - It's not that bad being dead.
Dexter's Final Cut/Jeff Lindsay
Read 4/1/19 3☆
✔S - Sunday afternoon was clear, andcthe snow-covered prairie sparkled in the sunshine.
These Happy Golden Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read 2/26/19 5☆
✔B - Bought the black hinny mule today, $18, also the spavint gray as my money is so short and I have hope he will put on wt, his eyes are clear w a smart look in them and his feet are not tender.
The Jump-Off Creek/Molly Gloss
Read 3/24/19 3☆
✔E - Elizaveta.
Who Is to Blame? A Russian Riddle/Jane Marlow
7/22/19 3☆
✔A - Are you Mary Sutter?
My Name is Mary Sutter/Robin Oliveira
Read 3/10/19 3.25☆
✔R - Ryan! Red Ryan, I'm calling you out!
Riding Shotgun/William W. Johnstone
Read 5/25/19 3☆
✔D - Downstairs, in the old Highlow, Alabama house where I was born, the doorbell is being rung by guest after guest coming to Pearl's annual Christmas Open House.
Read 5/1/19 3☆
Will you set a new link for me, I'm going to start a new sentence.
LOVE THIS CHALLENGE!
I read this book in 2015, it was a 5☆ read.
Silk Road by Colin Falconer.1/29/19 to 7/31/19
47/56
"They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard."
✔T - The summer's heat arrived in Fallen Mountains like a winged thing, swift and startling: the pansies drooped, the lettuce bolted, the trees shook off their buds.
Fallen Mountains/Kimi Cunningham Grant
Read 2.1.19 3☆
✔H - Hannah McGinley put down her sewing and moved across the tramped earth floor to where the door of the cottage stood open through all the daylight hours, except in the coldest and stormiest of weather.
The Girl from Galloway: A stunning historical novel of love, family and overcoming the odds/Anne Doughty
Read 3/21/19 2.75☆
✔E - Edgar Finchley was forty-five, short, with a comfortable face such as you might see on the fringe of any crowd, and a tonsure that surprised you when he raised his hat.
Mr Finchley Discovers His England/Victor Canning
Read 4/6/19 3☆
✔Y - You'll never see anything like this again
Heart in the Right Place/Carolyn Jourdan
Read 5/23/19 3☆
✔F - For the past eight years, always on August twelfth, Ruth Young lost her voice.
The Bonesetter's Daughter/Amy Tan
Read 3/8/19 2☆
✔O - On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable.
I Know This Much Is True/Wally Lamb
Read 3/3/19 5☆
U
✔N - Never step over a lighted candle.
My Name Is Resolute/Nancy E. Turner
Read 2/7/19. 5☆
✔D - During the second year that Erland Nikulausson and Kristen Lavrandsdatter lived at Jorundgaard, Kristen decided to spend the summer up in the mountain pastures.
The Cross/Sigrid Undset
Read 3/8/19 4☆
✔H - Heat hung fierce for spring over the town of Greesboro, Mississippi, the late sunlight flickering in dusty rays.
The Abolitionist's Daughter/Diane C. McPhail
Read 3/24/19 2.75☆
✔I - It was late winter in the northern Rus', the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow.
The Bear and the Nightingale/Katherine Arden
Read 2/17/19 3☆
✔M - Ma lasted a year after Pa was gone.
The Education of Little Tree/Forrest Carter
Read 2.1.19 3☆
✔I - I dreamt the dream again last night.
Confederado do Norte/Linda Bennett Pennell
Read 2/25/19 4☆
✔N - Ning Degong arrives at the palace to give his report to Emperor Kangxi on the true situation in Sichuan.
Between Four Rivers/Wang Yu
Read 7/18/19 2.75☆
✔T - The sun was cresting the low eastern hills of Nuervo Negaldo as the rusted Buick made its way through the still sleeping town.
Border Son/Samuel Parker
Read 2/3/19 4☆
✔H - Hinewai looked forward and back.
The Wideawake Hat/Amanda Giorgis
Read 6/20/19 4☆
✔E - Even at night with half the staff, the Taussig Cancer Center ran as shipshape as its namesake.
The Woman in the White Kimono/Ana Johns
Read 5/19/19 3☆
✔C - Coppers! yelped the driver.
Restorations/Charles Strickler
Read 3/19/19 4.25☆
✔L - Letting a hurt chafe for years without doing something to soothe it, letting grief linger for decades without confronting it will bring a person to the brink.
The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon: A Novel/Norman G. Gautreau
Read 5/12/19 2.75☆
✔O - On the eve of Saint Simon's Day, Baard Peterson's ship anchored at the spit near Birgsi.
The Wife/Sigrid Undset
Read 3/8/19 4☆
✔I - I only put the centipede in Eliza's slipper since I thought she was stealing my sister Sofya from me.
Lost Roses/Martha Hall Kelly
Read 3/1/19 3☆
✔S - Sura wanted to love her husband more than she did.
Loving Liberty Levine/Colin Falconer
Read 1.31.19 4☆
✔T - The earth trembles.
If, Then: A Novel/Kate Hope Day
Read 2/3/19 2☆
✔E - Each morning, for more than thirty years, Claude Ballard returned to the hotel lobby with two cameras strapped across his chest and a tote bag full of foraged mushrooms and herbs.
The Electric Hotel/Dominic Smith
Read 5/28/19 2☆
✔R - Robert Highstead's workday ended with a letter thrusr inside his pocket.
The Lost History of Dreams/Kris Waldherr
Read 2/14/19 3 stars
✔L - Let's go for dinner at that lovely French place.
Breaking Dad: How my mild-mannered father became Britain's biggest meth dealer/James Lubbock
Read 5/16/19 3☆
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✔I - I don't suppose we'll be invited to the best funerals.
Death of a New American: A Mystery/Mariah Fredericks
Read 3/10/19 3.25☆
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✔G - Gilbert du Motier, the Maquis de Lafayette, realized something was wrong before he even saw the courier.
The Founding Treason/Jeremy Burns
Read 5/23/19 3☆
✔O - Of course there are clouds.
Double Dexter/Jeff Lindsay
Read 3/15/19 4☆
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✔H - Heaven stank of tallow and shone a honey glow.
The Yellow Lantern: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime/Angie Dicken
Read 7/4/19 2.5☆
✔I - I used to love this season.
Year of Wonders/Geraldine Brooks
Read 3/12/19 4☆
✔S - She didn't stay long as far as mariages go, just a year and ten months.
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted/Robert Hillman
Read 2/15/19 3☆
✔B - Blood raced through Irene's veins like a brushfire, thrumming in her ears as she sat in the train car waiting for just the right moment.
City of Flickering Light/Juliette Fay
Read 3/14/19. 3.5☆
✔A - As always, Martha Storm was primed for action.
The Library of Lost and Found/Phaedra Patrick
Read 2/6/19 2☆
✔C - Captain Kidd laid out the Boston Journal on the lectern and began to read from the article on the Fifteenth Amendment.
News of the World/Paulette Jiles
Read 4/12/19 4☆
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✔W - When I think back on my childhood, there's always a speeding car.
The Light Years: A Memoir/Chris Rush
Read 2/10/19 5☆
✔I - It was a hot afternoon with a strong wind from the south, but out on the Dakota prairie in 1885 no one minded the hot sunshine or the hard winds.
The First Four Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read 3/16/19 4☆
✔T - The foundling wheel turned inward with a groan, and the young nurse stifled a scream.
Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel/James Markert
Read 2/21/19 3☆
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✔I - I suppose in retrospect it was silly to think my mother died of a broken heart.
Falconi's Tractor/Dave LeBlanc
Read 3/25/19 2☆
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✔E - Even when Mattie's great big dreams had troubled Lizzie,she'd envied her something fierce, for Lizzie came from nightmares, too fearful to dream.
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls/Julie Kibler
Read 6/26/19 2☆
✔I - I look at my sister and I want to laugh out loud.
The Sound of Rain/Gregg Olsen
Read 4/1/19 2.75☆
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✔I - It's not that bad being dead.
Dexter's Final Cut/Jeff Lindsay
Read 4/1/19 3☆
✔S - Sunday afternoon was clear, andcthe snow-covered prairie sparkled in the sunshine.
These Happy Golden Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read 2/26/19 5☆
✔B - Bought the black hinny mule today, $18, also the spavint gray as my money is so short and I have hope he will put on wt, his eyes are clear w a smart look in them and his feet are not tender.
The Jump-Off Creek/Molly Gloss
Read 3/24/19 3☆
✔E - Elizaveta.
Who Is to Blame? A Russian Riddle/Jane Marlow
7/22/19 3☆
✔A - Are you Mary Sutter?
My Name is Mary Sutter/Robin Oliveira
Read 3/10/19 3.25☆
✔R - Ryan! Red Ryan, I'm calling you out!
Riding Shotgun/William W. Johnstone
Read 5/25/19 3☆
✔D - Downstairs, in the old Highlow, Alabama house where I was born, the doorbell is being rung by guest after guest coming to Pearl's annual Christmas Open House.
Read 5/1/19 3☆
Karen Kay wrote: "Will you set a new link for me, I'm going to start a new sentence."Yay Karen! Wow, it never occurred to me to do this one again, but I might join you IF I can find a sentence that might work. Lots of Is, as few Rs as possible ... Hmmm LOL
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Barb wrote: "Karen Kay wrote: "Will you set a new link for me, I'm going to start a new sentence."
Yay Karen! Wow, it never occurred to me to do this one again, but I might join you IF I can find a sentence th..."
Will you join?? 🤓🤓
Yay Karen! Wow, it never occurred to me to do this one again, but I might join you IF I can find a sentence th..."
Will you join?? 🤓🤓
I probably will, Karen, but I need to find the right first line, and I haven't had time to glance through my books on hand to find one :)
I forgot to send in the "report" - I started out strong and the letters just wimped out toward the finish line. The sentence I chose, for no particular reason except the first sentence I chose had two Zs in it, is from The Alice Network by Kate Quinn.
7/30/18 to 1/30/19
T - "This is the story about a bus driver who would never open the door of the bus for people who were late." The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories by Etger Keret 7.30.18
H-"High in the Pyrennes, on the northwest edge of the Kingdom of Aragon,the village of Tatill lay hidden from the world." Solace for a Sinner by Caroline Roe
E "Elinor was halfway up the drive when she sensed she was being watched." Noonday by Pat Barker 8.4.18
F - "From the Baltic city of St. Petersburg, built on a river marsh in a far northern corner of the empire, the Tsar ruled Russia. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie 8.20.18
I - "I want to start with something from F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, a novel about the roaring twenties and the excesses that characterized that period just before the Great Depression." Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics by Howard Zinn
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S - "The secret emerged, without warning or provocation, on anordinary April afternoon in 1995." Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg 9.9.18
T-The King's court was in no hurry to return to England, that late autumn of 1120, even though the fighting, somewhat desultory in these last stages, was long over, and the enforced peace sealed by a royal marriage. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters 10.21.18
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E -"Even the misty drizzle that blanketed Berlin did not dampen the merriment surrounding the grand parade held on May 10, 1933." When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning 8.9.18
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S - She didn't know how long she had been kicking the sticky, withered leaves, only that her bare arms were now cold and that the shouting up at the house had become shrill, sounding so harsh and angry that it hurt her chest. The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen 9.22.18
O - Oh no, no, no thought Clara Morrow,as she walked toward the closed doors. A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny 11.13.18
N 9 April 1945, Moscow. Berlin Red by Sam Eastland 8.21.18
I-"I stared as the rainbow-hued blooms danced in the breeze imagining them ballerinas on the Moscow stage." Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie Runyan
M- My father and my mother - their life together was not happy. All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld 10.15.18
E -Early one evening in September of 1974, a small twin-engine plane, silver and black, sailed down onto a secondary runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport, and slowing, turned aside, and taxied to a hangar where a limousine stood waiting. The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levine 11.28.18
T - The days went by so slowly. Black Seconds by Karin Fossum 12.12.18
I -"I am writing this because people I've loved have died." My Michael by Amos Oz 8.31.18
N - None of it would have happened if Spider Barnes hadn't tied one on at Eddy's two nights before the "Aurora" was due to set sail." The English Spy 10.4.18
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G - "Galina carried in an aluminum pot if boiled potatoes, holding it by the handles with a kitchen towel." There Are Jews in My House by Lara Vapnyar 9.16.18
L - "Laufey!" Gunna called for the second time. Cold Comfort by Quentin Bates 12.20.18
A "All of them? Even the children?" The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny 8.4.18
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D - Davy Clancy was not a good sailor, in fact he was secretly afraid of the sea, yet here he was, on this fine summer morning, about to set out on it in a boat that looked to him like a large, complicated toy. Vengeance by Benjamin Black 10.20.18
W - "When Guy Crouchback's grandparents, Gervase and Hermione, came to Italy on their honeymoon, French troops manned the defences of Rome, the Sovereign Pontiff drove out in an open carriage and Cardinals took their exercise side-saddle on the Pincian Hill." Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh 8.19.18
A - After an exchange of courtesies, the session had gone on for another half-hour, and Brunetti was beginning to feel the strain of it. Earthly Remains by Donna Leon 10,7.18
S -Spring returned to Badenheim. Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld 10.7.18
A August came in, that summer of 1141, tawny as a lion and somnolent and purring as a hearthside cat. An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters 10.28.18
H - Hay, verbeba and mignonette scented the languid July day. Old New York by Edith Wharton 11.9.18
A Alleyn leaned over the deck rail, looking at the wet brown wharf and the upturned faces of the people . Artists in Crime: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #6 11.16.18
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U - Up the stairs they raced, taking them two at a time, trying to be as quiet as possible. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny 10.12.18
C - Castle Garden, now known as Castle Clinton National Monument, stands on the left. Castle Garden and Battery Park by Barry Moreno 12.2.18
I - In the one hundred and eleven years since the creation of the Spokane Indian Reservation in 1881, not one person, Indian or otherwise, had ever arrived there by accident. Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie 9.27.18
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A - Anybody who has spent any length of time in Algonquin Bay will tell you there are plenty of good reasons to live somewhere else. Blackfly Season by Giles Blunt 12.4.18
T - The glass in the French window shattered. Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood 12.20.18
I - It was a day like right now, dry, hot, and dusty, dusty. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines 10.22.18
O - On April Fool's Day, I came home from a meeting with a publisher,, hurried through my apartment house lobby, and told all the tenants waiting at the elevator. Apple of My Eye by Helene Hanff 12.7.18
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jingles wrote: "Great challenge work, Denise!Do you want me to mark you done?"
Yes please
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There is a bit of confusion I think though. It isn't the first letter of a book title you are using to do the spell out. It is the first letter of the first line in a book.
For example: Using Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, you could use the book Murder on a bad hair day using the first line of that book: "I tell you, Patricia Anne, I'm sick and tired of always being some man's sex slave" for the letter "I".
So it's the first letter of the first line of a book you are using, not the first letter of a book title.
Let me know if you still need help :)
Starting June 1, my favorite line ever (so far anyway):"When the pig went missing, I knew there would be trouble."
Lethal Licorice Amanda Flower
June 1-Dec. 1, 2019
We're still on for tonight, right?" Seaside and Homicide Jenna St. James 7/7/19
Hayley Powell stood at the stove in her tiny, cramped kitchen, which could embarrass any self-respecting chef, stirring her homemade mushroom Bolognese sauce with a wooden ladle, and wondering where the time had gone." Death of a Kitchen Diva Lee Hollis 8/11/19
Excuse me. Do you have any Tomkins Hairball Remedy?" The Time for Murder is Meow T.C. LoTempio 8/6/19
Noises waking me up from a dead sleep had become a normal occurrence at Hangman’s House, but the one that had pulled me from my sleep on that occasion was different. Doom and Broom Sara Bourgeois 1/25/20
The day before the murder that cast a shadow over her entire life, Dani Hedley was driving back to the hometown she hadn’t visited in ten years. Killer Dress Nancy McGovern 6/17/19
Hayley Powell didn't think she was screaming that loud. Death of a Country Fried Redneck Lee Hollis 8/12/19
Everything about Clare Harrigan's life had been fairytale perfect." First of September: An Amelia Bay Cozy Mystery Kathleen Joyce 9/15/19
Perhaps I should have had a plan before setting myself up to be fired, Deena Sharpe thought as her eyes traveled around the empty classroom. Sharpe Shooter Lisa B. Thomas 6/27/20
In all your life, have you ever seen so many butts?" Amber Walton, Maggie's Hideaway's newest employee, commented as twenty-five scantily dressed models gathered on the lawn in front of the lodge. Bikinis in Paradise Kathi Daley 6/3/19
Good morning, Carrie!" For a Good Paws Linda O. Johnston 6/9/19
When Devon Despicable pushed aside the frilly curtains of his bedroom window and peered through sleep-crusted eyes at the beach below his house, he noticed a body, possibly, or most likely, dead." A Highly Suspicious Death Laura Pauling 7/8/19
Even though the sign of her destination was already in sight, calling out a warm welcome to Tundish, Montana, "the town with the heart of gold," Delta Douglas couldn't resist the temptation to stop her car..." Last Pen Standing Vivian Conroy 9/17/19
North of the Harbor Road shops, a mile or two up the coast—past the Canary Cove artist colony and the ocean-view vacation homes, some of which had been turned into enviable residences with wide seashell drives and two-story carriage houses—the land curved sharply like a sea serpent’s tail."--Death by Cashmere Sally Goldenbaum 1/30/20
The alarm rang at 6 am, jolting me out from under my down comforter and into a pair of slippers." Murder on the Rocks Karen MacInerney 6/24/19
My life of crime began at seven twenty-eight this morning." Trudy, Madly, Deeply Wendy Delaney 6/7/19
It had rained that afternoon, and the sidewalks were still wet." The Scent of Murder Kylie Logan 6/5/19
Sarah Shores was startled when she felt a tongue hit her cheek
Mel McCoy 6/19/19, 262 pagesSanta's in your office and he's hopping mad." Silent Knife Shelley Freydont 7/27/19
I knew I should have listened when my mother said never talk to strangers." All-Butter ShortDead H.Y. Hanna 6/14/19
Nora Pennington had no idea how much the rain would change her life." The Book of Candlelight Ellery Adams 2/3/20
Gracie repositioned herself for the umpteenth time on the under-padded folding chair. The Un-Nimble Thimble Roberta Updegraff 8/10/20
Ihad been in the job only six months when my employer pulled a gun on me" Strictly Murder Lynda Wilcox 6/14/19
Kelly Flynn nosed her car onto the gravel driveway and pulled to a stop in front of the familiar little house perched beside a golf course." Knit One, Kill Two Maggie Sefton 7/19/19
Nothing brought Reverend Annabelle Dixon closer to blasphemy than using the London public transport system during rush hour.-- Death at the Café Alison Golden 3/14/20
Every year between the dates of December 1 and December 24, a strange and wonderful insanity hits my hometown of Ashton Falls."
What else could I have said, Kay?" Phil followed me into the kitchen. Murder by Fireworks Susan Bernhardt 7/30/19
The vicar didn't know I was a vampire." Posted To Death Dean A. James 6/26/19
Hope Early caught her reflection in the side window of the main entrance and leaned in for a closer look." Three Widows and a Corpse Debra Sennefelder 11/5/19
Elizabeth Darr died at Molly Malone's feet."--Dead in Dublin Catie Murphy 1/21/20
Remind me again why I said I'd do this?" I whispered to Lisbeth, who knew me better than almost anyone in the world, except maybe my parents." Killer in the Carriage House Sheila Connolly 7/11/19
End of the line, sweetheart,” the cab driver said after stopping outside the fence surrounding the abandoned Philadelphia factory district. Murder on the SS Mystique Shelly West 1/31/20
Why didn't they teach us about this in school?" I asked Queenie French, who was standing over the conference table in the Normal Public Library, about the history of the Battle of Camp Wildcat."
Oh, please..." Spirited Away Lena Gregory 6/4/19
Using the hem of my apron, I pulled the last batch of blueberry turnovers out of the oven and slid them onto the counter to cool. -- Sweet Murder Tegan Maher 3/20/20
Lightning split the sky as I dashed up the sidewalk." Seeing Red Dana Dratch 6/13/19
D "Drowned," John said, carefully letting go of the corpse's wrist and rising from kneeling over the body in the sand."Changing of the Guard Dog Lane Stone 6/2/19
Beatrice Farnsworth was a stout woman who was always certain of her point and purpose." A Blossom of Murder Summer Prescott 6/29/19
Everything looked gray in the dim predawn light. Bonbon with the Wind Dorothy St. James 5/30/20
The watcher crouched in the darkness between cars, staring through the plate glass of the storefront at the woman inside." The Big Kitty Claire Donally 6/30/19
Ridley Ridge." Muffin But Murder Victoria Hamilton 10/10/19
Oh no, you're not roping me into this." Clause & Effect Kaitlyn Dunnett 7/3/19
Usually I’m not in the habit of tiptoeing through strange houses under the cover of darkness It Takes a Witch Heather Blake 6/17/20
BBook Tea's door opened, and a group of women came out, talking and laughing." Sweet Tea and Secrets Joy Avon 7/6/19
Liv Montgomery leaned over and adjusted the laces of her running shoes Cold Turkey Shelley Freydont 7/25/19
Early mornings at Washington Acres were dead quiet. A Muddied Murder Wendy Tyson 6/3/20
Starting over, The book I chose is one I am reading out loud, The Hate U Give. I began on May 23. The first line is "I shouldn't have come to this party." finished 6/17 (read aloud)X I I'm the best auctioneer in the world, buy no one knows it because I'm a discreet sort of man. The Story of My Teeth byValeria Luiselli 5/27
X S Suzanne Deitz didn't set out to start the Cackleberry Club, the whole thing just sort of happened. Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs 6/1
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O Once upon a time, there lived a girl with a magic book. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans
X U Ursula was a fine little girl. Return Of The Wolf by Martin Bell 5/27
L Lost in the shadows of shelves, I almost fall off the ladder. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
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X T The promise, as I remember it, happened this way. Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger 5/24
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A At half past six on the twenty-first of June 1922, when Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was escorted through the gates of the Kremlin onto Red Square, it was glorious and cool. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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E Even the misty drizzle that blanketed Berlin did not dampen the merriment surrounding the grand parade held on May 10, 1933.When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II byMolly Guptill Manning
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O One early, cloudy morning hen I was forty-six, I walked into a church, ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine. by Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion bySara Miles
X M Miss Simpson starts every day with a reminder to pray for you-and all the other boys who enlisted. Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson 5/25
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T The nightmare happens on a bright December midday in a lush tropical forest. A Plain Vanilla Murder by Susan Wittig Albert 6/17
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X T The Episcopal tradition, like every other Christian tradition, is founded on the affirmation that Jesus Christ is Lord. A People Called Episcopalians: A Brief Introduction to Our Way of Life by John H Westerhoff 6/4
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X I I was on the second floor of a three-story walk-up on Chicago's North Side The Chicago Way byMichael Harvey 5/29
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X P As I write, Jews and Christians in a Texas town have joined their Muslim brothers and sisters to rebuild their mosque after arson;they are contributing dollars and time to ensure them a safe place of worship. Strangers, Neighbors, Friends by Kelly James Clark
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jingles wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, Judy! There is a bit of confusion I think though. It isn't the first letter of a book title you are using to do the spell out. It is the first letter of the first line i..."
I just figured that out, I will correct what I have done. I also must be lost in a fog tonight. I now have posted my list twice, Sorry! I will get this right.
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jingles wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, Tari!" Thanks!
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1. K
✔2. I = I woke up when a man sat on my bed.
Toe to Toe|Sammie Grace|08.05.18|★★★
✔3. L = Last night I dreamed of Paul.
The Inn at Rose Harbor|Debbie Macomber|12.09.18|★★★★
4. L
✔5. I = It’s not every day that I get a naked girl answering the door I knock on.
Alex Cross, Run|James Patterson|08.06.18|★★★
6. N
✔7. G = “Get out of there, Boyd yelled from outside the house.
The Search|Iris Johansen|03.08.19|★★★
✔8. W = Will Robie crouched shadowlike at a window in a deserted building, inside a country that was currently an ally of the United States.
The Guilty|David Baldacci|08.02.18|★★★★
✔9. A = A new day.
One Tiny Miracle...|Carol Marinelli|08.19.18|★★★★
✔10. S = She’d gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone.
Visions in Death|J.D. Robb|03.11.19|★★★
✔11. T = There hadn’t been a suicide note.
Too Close to Breathe|Olivia Kiernan|08.03.18|★★
✔12. O = Opening Day. Said separately, they’re just two ordinary words.
First Degree|David Rosenfelt|09.03.18|★★★
13. O
14. G
15. O
16. O
✔17. D = Drowning isn’t pretty, even in paradise.
Blood Orchids|Toby Neal|05.18.19|★★★★
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✔20. R = Rain fell like tiny silver teardrops from the tired sky.
On Mystic Lake|Kristin Hannah|03.14.19|★★★
✔21. H = “Here comes the bride”.
No Time to Explain|Kate Angell|08.04.18|★★★
✔22. I = I am sure that if I sat in a quiet place, away from the palace and the bustle of the court, I could remember scenes from my childhood much earlier than six years old.
The Heretic Queen|Michelle Moran|08.16.18|★★★★
✔23. M = Mrs. Gregson’s elderly voice, raised in its never-ending vendetta against the nurses making her bed, penetrated throughout the entire ward; it even penetrated Sister’s office, so that its occupant rose from her work at her desk with a sigh, opened the swing doors and made her way down the long ward to where her troublesome patient lay.
Last April Fair|Betty Neels|08.15.18|★★★
Hi Jingles, I am going to have to take a break from this challenge. Due to a combination of things my reading time is challenged. If it is permissible I would like to pick this up in September. Judy
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Whenever you are ready, the challenge will be here. When you are ready to start back up, you are very welcome to just pick up where you left off. No need to worry about the end date. I rarely finish a challenge on time myself :)
Hope that helps. If not, just let me know.
jingles wrote: "Sure, Judy! Whatever you need to do. We'll leave everything as it is for now (unless you prefer otherwise).Whenever you are ready, the challenge will be here. When you are ready to start back up,..."
That was hugely helpful.
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I'm going to call this one done. I found 47/56. Fun challenge!
Will you set a new link for me, I'm going to start a new sentence.
LOVE THIS CHALLENGE!
I read this book in 2015, it was a 5☆ read.
Silk Road by Colin Falconer.
1/29/19 to 7/31/19
47/56
"They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard."
✔T - The summer's heat arrived in Fallen Mountains like a winged thing, swift and startling: the pansies drooped, the lettuce bolted, the trees shook off their buds.
Fallen Mountains/Kimi Cunningham Grant
Read 2.1.19 3☆
✔H - Hannah McGinley put down her sewing and moved across the tramped earth floor to where the door of the cottage stood open through all the daylight hours, except in the coldest and stormiest of weather.
The Girl from Galloway: A stunning historical novel of love, family and overcoming the odds/Anne Doughty
Read 3/21/19 2.75☆
✔E - Edgar Finchley was forty-five, short, with a comfortable face such as you might see on the fringe of any crowd, and a tonsure that surprised you when he raised his hat.
Mr Finchley Discovers His England/Victor Canning
Read 4/6/19 3☆
✔Y - You'll never see anything like this again
Heart in the Right Place/Carolyn Jourdan
Read 5/23/19 3☆
✔F - For the past eight years, always on August twelfth, Ruth Young lost her voice.
The Bonesetter's Daughter/Amy Tan
Read 3/8/19 2☆
✔O - On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable.
I Know This Much Is True/Wally Lamb
Read 3/3/19 5☆
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✔N - Never step over a lighted candle.
My Name Is Resolute/Nancy E. Turner
Read 2/7/19. 5☆
✔D - During the second year that Erland Nikulausson and Kristen Lavrandsdatter lived at Jorundgaard, Kristen decided to spend the summer up in the mountain pastures.
The Cross/Sigrid Undset
Read 3/8/19 4☆
✔H - Heat hung fierce for spring over the town of Greesboro, Mississippi, the late sunlight flickering in dusty rays.
The Abolitionist's Daughter/Diane C. McPhail
Read 3/24/19 2.75☆
✔I - It was late winter in the northern Rus', the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow.
The Bear and the Nightingale/Katherine Arden
Read 2/17/19 3☆
✔M - Ma lasted a year after Pa was gone.
The Education of Little Tree/Forrest Carter
Read 2.1.19 3☆
✔I - I dreamt the dream again last night.
Confederado do Norte/Linda Bennett Pennell
Read 2/25/19 4☆
✔N - Ning Degong arrives at the palace to give his report to Emperor Kangxi on the true situation in Sichuan.
Between Four Rivers/Wang Yu
Read 7/18/19 2.75☆
✔T - The sun was cresting the low eastern hills of Nuervo Negaldo as the rusted Buick made its way through the still sleeping town.
Border Son/Samuel Parker
Read 2/3/19 4☆
✔H - Hinewai looked forward and back.
The Wideawake Hat/Amanda Giorgis
Read 6/20/19 4☆
✔E - Even at night with half the staff, the Taussig Cancer Center ran as shipshape as its namesake.
The Woman in the White Kimono/Ana Johns
Read 5/19/19 3☆
✔C - Coppers! yelped the driver.
Restorations/Charles Strickler
Read 3/19/19 4.25☆
✔L - Letting a hurt chafe for years without doing something to soothe it, letting grief linger for decades without confronting it will bring a person to the brink.
The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon: A Novel/Norman G. Gautreau
Read 5/12/19 2.75☆
✔O - On the eve of Saint Simon's Day, Baard Peterson's ship anchored at the spit near Birgsi.
The Wife/Sigrid Undset
Read 3/8/19 4☆
✔I - I only put the centipede in Eliza's slipper since I thought she was stealing my sister Sofya from me.
Lost Roses/Martha Hall Kelly
Read 3/1/19 3☆
✔S - Sura wanted to love her husband more than she did.
Loving Liberty Levine/Colin Falconer
Read 1.31.19 4☆
✔T - The earth trembles.
If, Then: A Novel/Kate Hope Day
Read 2/3/19 2☆
✔E - Each morning, for more than thirty years, Claude Ballard returned to the hotel lobby with two cameras strapped across his chest and a tote bag full of foraged mushrooms and herbs.
The Electric Hotel/Dominic Smith
Read 5/28/19 2☆
✔R - Robert Highstead's workday ended with a letter thrusr inside his pocket.
The Lost History of Dreams/Kris Waldherr
Read 2/14/19 3 stars
✔L - Let's go for dinner at that lovely French place.
Breaking Dad: How my mild-mannered father became Britain's biggest meth dealer/James Lubbock
Read 5/16/19 3☆
Y
✔I - I don't suppose we'll be invited to the best funerals.
Death of a New American: A Mystery/Mariah Fredericks
Read 3/10/19 3.25☆
N
✔G - Gilbert du Motier, the Maquis de Lafayette, realized something was wrong before he even saw the courier.
The Founding Treason/Jeremy Burns
Read 5/23/19 3☆
✔O - Of course there are clouds.
Double Dexter/Jeff Lindsay
Read 3/15/19 4☆
N
✔H - Heaven stank of tallow and shone a honey glow.
The Yellow Lantern: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime/Angie Dicken
Read 7/4/19 2.5☆
✔I - I used to love this season.
Year of Wonders/Geraldine Brooks
Read 3/12/19 4☆
✔S - She didn't stay long as far as mariages go, just a year and ten months.
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted/Robert Hillman
Read 2/15/19 3☆
✔B - Blood raced through Irene's veins like a brushfire, thrumming in her ears as she sat in the train car waiting for just the right moment.
City of Flickering Light/Juliette Fay
Read 3/14/19. 3.5☆
✔A - As always, Martha Storm was primed for action.
The Library of Lost and Found/Phaedra Patrick
Read 2/6/19 2☆
✔C - Captain Kidd laid out the Boston Journal on the lectern and began to read from the article on the Fifteenth Amendment.
News of the World/Paulette Jiles
Read 4/12/19 4☆
K
✔W - When I think back on my childhood, there's always a speeding car.
The Light Years: A Memoir/Chris Rush
Read 2/10/19 5☆
✔I - It was a hot afternoon with a strong wind from the south, but out on the Dakota prairie in 1885 no one minded the hot sunshine or the hard winds.
The First Four Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read 3/16/19 4☆
✔T - The foundling wheel turned inward with a groan, and the young nurse stifled a scream.
Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel/James Markert
Read 2/21/19 3☆
H
✔I - I suppose in retrospect it was silly to think my mother died of a broken heart.
Falconi's Tractor/Dave LeBlanc
Read 3/25/19 2☆
C
✔E - Even when Mattie's great big dreams had troubled Lizzie,she'd envied her something fierce, for Lizzie came from nightmares, too fearful to dream.
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls/Julie Kibler
Read 6/26/19 2☆
✔I - I look at my sister and I want to laugh out loud.
The Sound of Rain/Gregg Olsen
Read 4/1/19 2.75☆
N
H
✔I - It's not that bad being dead.
Dexter's Final Cut/Jeff Lindsay
Read 4/1/19 3☆
✔S - Sunday afternoon was clear, andcthe snow-covered prairie sparkled in the sunshine.
These Happy Golden Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read 2/26/19 5☆
✔B - Bought the black hinny mule today, $18, also the spavint gray as my money is so short and I have hope he will put on wt, his eyes are clear w a smart look in them and his feet are not tender.
The Jump-Off Creek/Molly Gloss
Read 3/24/19 3☆
✔E - Elizaveta.
Who Is to Blame? A Russian Riddle/Jane Marlow
7/22/19 3☆
✔A - Are you Mary Sutter?
My Name is Mary Sutter/Robin Oliveira
Read 3/10/19 3.25☆
✔R - Ryan! Red Ryan, I'm calling you out!
Riding Shotgun/William W. Johnstone
Read 5/25/19 3☆
✔D - Downstairs, in the old Highlow, Alabama house where I was born, the doorbell is being rung by guest after guest coming to Pearl's annual Christmas Open House.
Read 5/1/19 3☆
Will you set a new link for me, I'm going to start a new sentence.
LOVE THIS CHALLENGE!
I read this book in 2015, it was a 5☆ read.
Silk Road by Colin Falconer.1/29/19 to 7/31/19
47/56
"They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard."
✔T - The summer's heat arrived in Fallen Mountains like a winged thing, swift and startling: the pansies drooped, the lettuce bolted, the trees shook off their buds.
Fallen Mountains/Kimi Cunningham Grant
Read 2.1.19 3☆
✔H - Hannah McGinley put down her sewing and moved across the tramped earth floor to where the door of the cottage stood open through all the daylight hours, except in the coldest and stormiest of weather.
The Girl from Galloway: A stunning historical novel of love, family and overcoming the odds/Anne Doughty
Read 3/21/19 2.75☆
✔E - Edgar Finchley was forty-five, short, with a comfortable face such as you might see on the fringe of any crowd, and a tonsure that surprised you when he raised his hat.
Mr Finchley Discovers His England/Victor Canning
Read 4/6/19 3☆
✔Y - You'll never see anything like this again
Heart in the Right Place/Carolyn Jourdan
Read 5/23/19 3☆
✔F - For the past eight years, always on August twelfth, Ruth Young lost her voice.
The Bonesetter's Daughter/Amy Tan
Read 3/8/19 2☆
✔O - On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable.
I Know This Much Is True/Wally Lamb
Read 3/3/19 5☆
U
✔N - Never step over a lighted candle.
My Name Is Resolute/Nancy E. Turner
Read 2/7/19. 5☆
✔D - During the second year that Erland Nikulausson and Kristen Lavrandsdatter lived at Jorundgaard, Kristen decided to spend the summer up in the mountain pastures.
The Cross/Sigrid Undset
Read 3/8/19 4☆
✔H - Heat hung fierce for spring over the town of Greesboro, Mississippi, the late sunlight flickering in dusty rays.
The Abolitionist's Daughter/Diane C. McPhail
Read 3/24/19 2.75☆
✔I - It was late winter in the northern Rus', the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow.
The Bear and the Nightingale/Katherine Arden
Read 2/17/19 3☆
✔M - Ma lasted a year after Pa was gone.
The Education of Little Tree/Forrest Carter
Read 2.1.19 3☆
✔I - I dreamt the dream again last night.
Confederado do Norte/Linda Bennett Pennell
Read 2/25/19 4☆
✔N - Ning Degong arrives at the palace to give his report to Emperor Kangxi on the true situation in Sichuan.
Between Four Rivers/Wang Yu
Read 7/18/19 2.75☆
✔T - The sun was cresting the low eastern hills of Nuervo Negaldo as the rusted Buick made its way through the still sleeping town.
Border Son/Samuel Parker
Read 2/3/19 4☆
✔H - Hinewai looked forward and back.
The Wideawake Hat/Amanda Giorgis
Read 6/20/19 4☆
✔E - Even at night with half the staff, the Taussig Cancer Center ran as shipshape as its namesake.
The Woman in the White Kimono/Ana Johns
Read 5/19/19 3☆
✔C - Coppers! yelped the driver.
Restorations/Charles Strickler
Read 3/19/19 4.25☆
✔L - Letting a hurt chafe for years without doing something to soothe it, letting grief linger for decades without confronting it will bring a person to the brink.
The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon: A Novel/Norman G. Gautreau
Read 5/12/19 2.75☆
✔O - On the eve of Saint Simon's Day, Baard Peterson's ship anchored at the spit near Birgsi.
The Wife/Sigrid Undset
Read 3/8/19 4☆
✔I - I only put the centipede in Eliza's slipper since I thought she was stealing my sister Sofya from me.
Lost Roses/Martha Hall Kelly
Read 3/1/19 3☆
✔S - Sura wanted to love her husband more than she did.
Loving Liberty Levine/Colin Falconer
Read 1.31.19 4☆
✔T - The earth trembles.
If, Then: A Novel/Kate Hope Day
Read 2/3/19 2☆
✔E - Each morning, for more than thirty years, Claude Ballard returned to the hotel lobby with two cameras strapped across his chest and a tote bag full of foraged mushrooms and herbs.
The Electric Hotel/Dominic Smith
Read 5/28/19 2☆
✔R - Robert Highstead's workday ended with a letter thrusr inside his pocket.
The Lost History of Dreams/Kris Waldherr
Read 2/14/19 3 stars
✔L - Let's go for dinner at that lovely French place.
Breaking Dad: How my mild-mannered father became Britain's biggest meth dealer/James Lubbock
Read 5/16/19 3☆
Y
✔I - I don't suppose we'll be invited to the best funerals.
Death of a New American: A Mystery/Mariah Fredericks
Read 3/10/19 3.25☆
N
✔G - Gilbert du Motier, the Maquis de Lafayette, realized something was wrong before he even saw the courier.
The Founding Treason/Jeremy Burns
Read 5/23/19 3☆
✔O - Of course there are clouds.
Double Dexter/Jeff Lindsay
Read 3/15/19 4☆
N
✔H - Heaven stank of tallow and shone a honey glow.
The Yellow Lantern: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime/Angie Dicken
Read 7/4/19 2.5☆
✔I - I used to love this season.
Year of Wonders/Geraldine Brooks
Read 3/12/19 4☆
✔S - She didn't stay long as far as mariages go, just a year and ten months.
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted/Robert Hillman
Read 2/15/19 3☆
✔B - Blood raced through Irene's veins like a brushfire, thrumming in her ears as she sat in the train car waiting for just the right moment.
City of Flickering Light/Juliette Fay
Read 3/14/19. 3.5☆
✔A - As always, Martha Storm was primed for action.
The Library of Lost and Found/Phaedra Patrick
Read 2/6/19 2☆
✔C - Captain Kidd laid out the Boston Journal on the lectern and began to read from the article on the Fifteenth Amendment.
News of the World/Paulette Jiles
Read 4/12/19 4☆
K
✔W - When I think back on my childhood, there's always a speeding car.
The Light Years: A Memoir/Chris Rush
Read 2/10/19 5☆
✔I - It was a hot afternoon with a strong wind from the south, but out on the Dakota prairie in 1885 no one minded the hot sunshine or the hard winds.
The First Four Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read 3/16/19 4☆
✔T - The foundling wheel turned inward with a groan, and the young nurse stifled a scream.
Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel/James Markert
Read 2/21/19 3☆
H
✔I - I suppose in retrospect it was silly to think my mother died of a broken heart.
Falconi's Tractor/Dave LeBlanc
Read 3/25/19 2☆
C
✔E - Even when Mattie's great big dreams had troubled Lizzie,she'd envied her something fierce, for Lizzie came from nightmares, too fearful to dream.
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls/Julie Kibler
Read 6/26/19 2☆
✔I - I look at my sister and I want to laugh out loud.
The Sound of Rain/Gregg Olsen
Read 4/1/19 2.75☆
N
H
✔I - It's not that bad being dead.
Dexter's Final Cut/Jeff Lindsay
Read 4/1/19 3☆
✔S - Sunday afternoon was clear, andcthe snow-covered prairie sparkled in the sunshine.
These Happy Golden Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read 2/26/19 5☆
✔B - Bought the black hinny mule today, $18, also the spavint gray as my money is so short and I have hope he will put on wt, his eyes are clear w a smart look in them and his feet are not tender.
The Jump-Off Creek/Molly Gloss
Read 3/24/19 3☆
✔E - Elizaveta.
Who Is to Blame? A Russian Riddle/Jane Marlow
7/22/19 3☆
✔A - Are you Mary Sutter?
My Name is Mary Sutter/Robin Oliveira
Read 3/10/19 3.25☆
✔R - Ryan! Red Ryan, I'm calling you out!
Riding Shotgun/William W. Johnstone
Read 5/25/19 3☆
✔D - Downstairs, in the old Highlow, Alabama house where I was born, the doorbell is being rung by guest after guest coming to Pearl's annual Christmas Open House.
Read 5/1/19 3☆
Mod
Will you set a new link for me, I'm going to start a new sentence.
LOVE THIS CHALLENGE!"
This is your completed Round 2, right, Karen?
I'll mark you done for Round 2.
Once I see your new post for Round 3, I will set up a link for that one.
Will that work?
Oohhh, should I go for round 3?? I'll get back to you ... now to look at some great opening lines ... 🤓🤓
Mod
You don't have to of course, but I wanted to be sure you knew that was an option, in case you would want to :)
DONE! 9/16/19
ROUND 3!
8/1/19 to 10/31/19
I'm choosing a short sentence from Book 7 of the Poldark series.
The Angry Tide by Winston Graham
"It was windy."
✔I - I nab the flea from my wrist, cleave the little scroundel in half with my fingernail, then regret killing it so quickly.
How Did I Get Here?/Jane Marlow
✔T - The fretful sound of crying seeps through cottony layers of sleep and tickles my mind into wakefulness.
Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale/Ruth Hull Chatlien
✔W - We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a new fellow, not wearing the school uniform, and a school student carrying a large desk.
Madame Bovary/Gustave Flaubert
✔A - April 16, 1861: Wilson. Family Farm, Stampers Creek, Indiana
Today We Go Home/Kelli Estes
✔S - She was always Miss Bly to me, even though I knew she'd been married and that Bly wasn't her real name anyway.
The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly/Kate Braithwaite
✔W - What I hoped for was a fat bear, and what I came up with was a skinny Indian.
The Warrior's Path
✔I - I had felt no such apprehension on that day in August when I turned onto North Point Way and drove to Brodie's Watch for the first time.
The Shape of Night/Tess Gerritsen
✔N - No reporters sat in the courtroom benches behind me.
Thirteen
✔D - Dictionary definitions vary, but "retribution " is typically defined as punishment imposed for purposes of repayment or revenge for the wrong committed.
Deadly Stillwater/Roger Stelljes
✔Y - Your February letter arrived here yesterday.
The Winter Sisters
8/1/19 4☆
8/3/19 2☆
8/4/19 1☆
8/22/19 3☆
8/23/19 3☆
8/27/19 3.25☆
9/5/19 2.75☆
9/10/19 4☆
9/12/19 3☆
9/16/19 3☆
ROUND 3!
8/1/19 to 10/31/19
I'm choosing a short sentence from Book 7 of the Poldark series.
The Angry Tide by Winston Graham"It was windy."
✔I - I nab the flea from my wrist, cleave the little scroundel in half with my fingernail, then regret killing it so quickly.
How Did I Get Here?/Jane Marlow
✔T - The fretful sound of crying seeps through cottony layers of sleep and tickles my mind into wakefulness.
Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale/Ruth Hull Chatlien
✔W - We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a new fellow, not wearing the school uniform, and a school student carrying a large desk.
Madame Bovary/Gustave Flaubert
✔A - April 16, 1861: Wilson. Family Farm, Stampers Creek, Indiana
Today We Go Home/Kelli Estes
✔S - She was always Miss Bly to me, even though I knew she'd been married and that Bly wasn't her real name anyway.
The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly/Kate Braithwaite
✔W - What I hoped for was a fat bear, and what I came up with was a skinny Indian.
The Warrior's Path
✔I - I had felt no such apprehension on that day in August when I turned onto North Point Way and drove to Brodie's Watch for the first time.
The Shape of Night/Tess Gerritsen
✔N - No reporters sat in the courtroom benches behind me.
Thirteen
✔D - Dictionary definitions vary, but "retribution " is typically defined as punishment imposed for purposes of repayment or revenge for the wrong committed.
Deadly Stillwater/Roger Stelljes
✔Y - Your February letter arrived here yesterday.
The Winter Sisters
8/1/19 4☆
8/3/19 2☆
8/4/19 1☆
8/22/19 3☆
8/23/19 3☆
8/27/19 3.25☆
9/5/19 2.75☆
9/10/19 4☆
9/12/19 3☆
9/16/19 3☆
Mod
DONE! 9/16/19
ROUND 3!
8/1/19 to 10/31/19
I'm choosing a short sentence from Book 7 of the Poldark series.
The Angry Tide by Winston Graham
"It was windy."
✔I - I nab the flea from my wrist, cleave the little scroundel in half with my fingernail, then regret killing it so quickly.
How Did I Get Here?/Jane Marlow
✔T - The fretful sound of crying seeps through cottony layers of sleep and tickles my mind into wakefulness.
Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale/Ruth Hull Chatlien
✔W - We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a new fellow, not wearing the school uniform, and a school student carrying a large desk.
Madame Bovary/Gustave Flaubert
✔A - April 16, 1861: Wilson. Family Farm, Stampers Creek, Indiana
Today We Go Home/Kelli Estes
✔S - She was always Miss Bly to me, even though I knew she'd been married and that Bly wasn't her real name anyway.
The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly/Kate Braithwaite
✔W - What I hoped for was a fat bear, and what I came up with was a skinny Indian.
The Warrior's Path
✔I - I had felt no such apprehension on that day in August when I turned onto North Point Way and drove to Brodie's Watch for the first time.
The Shape of Night/Tess Gerritsen
✔N - No reporters sat in the courtroom benches behind me.
Thirteen
✔D - Dictionary definitions vary, but "retribution " is typically defined as punishment imposed for purposes of repayment or revenge for the wrong committed.
Deadly Stillwater/Roger Stelljes
✔Y - Your February letter arrived here yesterday.
The Winter Sisters
8/1/19 4☆
8/3/19 2☆
8/4/19 1☆
8/22/19 3☆
8/23/19 3☆
8/27/19 3.25☆
9/5/19 2.75☆
9/10/19 4☆
9/12/19 3☆
9/16/19 3☆
ROUND 3!
8/1/19 to 10/31/19
I'm choosing a short sentence from Book 7 of the Poldark series.
The Angry Tide by Winston Graham"It was windy."
✔I - I nab the flea from my wrist, cleave the little scroundel in half with my fingernail, then regret killing it so quickly.
How Did I Get Here?/Jane Marlow
✔T - The fretful sound of crying seeps through cottony layers of sleep and tickles my mind into wakefulness.
Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale/Ruth Hull Chatlien
✔W - We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a new fellow, not wearing the school uniform, and a school student carrying a large desk.
Madame Bovary/Gustave Flaubert
✔A - April 16, 1861: Wilson. Family Farm, Stampers Creek, Indiana
Today We Go Home/Kelli Estes
✔S - She was always Miss Bly to me, even though I knew she'd been married and that Bly wasn't her real name anyway.
The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly/Kate Braithwaite
✔W - What I hoped for was a fat bear, and what I came up with was a skinny Indian.
The Warrior's Path
✔I - I had felt no such apprehension on that day in August when I turned onto North Point Way and drove to Brodie's Watch for the first time.
The Shape of Night/Tess Gerritsen
✔N - No reporters sat in the courtroom benches behind me.
Thirteen
✔D - Dictionary definitions vary, but "retribution " is typically defined as punishment imposed for purposes of repayment or revenge for the wrong committed.
Deadly Stillwater/Roger Stelljes
✔Y - Your February letter arrived here yesterday.
The Winter Sisters
8/1/19 4☆
8/3/19 2☆
8/4/19 1☆
8/22/19 3☆
8/23/19 3☆
8/27/19 3.25☆
9/5/19 2.75☆
9/10/19 4☆
9/12/19 3☆
9/16/19 3☆
Mod
First Line Spell Challenge
Duration: 11/27/19 - 5/27/20
3/20
Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Line: It was a pleasure to burn.
I
T - "This kid was nursed on a pickle," Madeleine liked to tell anyone who would listen. - Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes - 12/12/19
W
A
S
A
P
L
E - Emmy was a good girl. - Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell - 12/8/19
A
S
U
R
E
T - The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. - The Angel Experiment by James Patterson -
O - Olympus at night was as beautiful as it was by day. - Pegasus and the Rise of the Titans by Kate O'Hearn - 11/30/19
B
U
R
N
Duration: 11/27/19 - 5/27/20
3/20
Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Line: It was a pleasure to burn.
I
T - "This kid was nursed on a pickle," Madeleine liked to tell anyone who would listen. - Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes - 12/12/19
W
A
S
A
P
L
E - Emmy was a good girl. - Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell - 12/8/19
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S
U
R
E
T - The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. - The Angel Experiment by James Patterson -
O - Olympus at night was as beautiful as it was by day. - Pegasus and the Rise of the Titans by Kate O'Hearn - 11/30/19
B
U
R
N
Mod
I can't believe this is finally done! Wow that was hard! Starting June 1, my favorite line ever (so far anyway):
"When the pig went missing, I knew there would be trouble."
Lethal Licorice Amanda Flower
June 1-Dec. 1, 2019
We're still on for tonight, right?" Seaside and Homicide Jenna St. James 7/7/19
Hayley Powell stood at the stove in her tiny, cramped kitchen, which could embarrass any self-respecting chef, stirring her homemade mushroom Bolognese sauce with a wooden ladle, and wondering where the time had gone." Death of a Kitchen Diva Lee Hollis 8/11/19
Excuse me. Do you have any Tomkins Hairball Remedy?" The Time for Murder is Meow T.C. LoTempio 8/6/19
Noises waking me up from a dead sleep had become a normal occurrence at Hangman’s House, but the one that had pulled me from my sleep on that occasion was different. Doom and Broom Sara Bourgeois 1/25/20
The day before the murder that cast a shadow over her entire life, Dani Hedley was driving back to the hometown she hadn’t visited in ten years. Killer Dress Nancy McGovern 6/17/19
Hayley Powell didn't think she was screaming that loud. Death of a Country Fried Redneck Lee Hollis 8/12/19
Everything about Clare Harrigan's life had been fairytale perfect." First of September: An Amelia Bay Cozy Mystery Kathleen Joyce 9/15/19
Perhaps I should have had a plan before setting myself up to be fired, Deena Sharpe thought as her eyes traveled around the empty classroom. Sharpe Shooter Lisa B. Thomas 6/27/20
In all your life, have you ever seen so many butts?" Amber Walton, Maggie's Hideaway's newest employee, commented as twenty-five scantily dressed models gathered on the lawn in front of the lodge. Bikinis in Paradise Kathi Daley 6/3/19
Good morning, Carrie!" For a Good Paws Linda O. Johnston 6/9/19
When Devon Despicable pushed aside the frilly curtains of his bedroom window and peered through sleep-crusted eyes at the beach below his house, he noticed a body, possibly, or most likely, dead." A Highly Suspicious Death Laura Pauling 7/8/19
Even though the sign of her destination was already in sight, calling out a warm welcome to Tundish, Montana, "the town with the heart of gold," Delta Douglas couldn't resist the temptation to stop her car..." Last Pen Standing Vivian Conroy 9/17/19
North of the Harbor Road shops, a mile or two up the coast—past the Canary Cove artist colony and the ocean-view vacation homes, some of which had been turned into enviable residences with wide seashell drives and two-story carriage houses—the land curved sharply like a sea serpent’s tail."--Death by Cashmere Sally Goldenbaum 1/30/20
The alarm rang at 6 am, jolting me out from under my down comforter and into a pair of slippers." Murder on the Rocks Karen MacInerney 6/24/19
My life of crime began at seven twenty-eight this morning." Trudy, Madly, Deeply Wendy Delaney 6/7/19
It had rained that afternoon, and the sidewalks were still wet." The Scent of Murder Kylie Logan 6/5/19
Sarah Shores was startled when she felt a tongue hit her cheek
Mel McCoy 6/19/19, 262 pagesSanta's in your office and he's hopping mad." Silent Knife Shelley Freydont 7/27/19
I knew I should have listened when my mother said never talk to strangers." All-Butter ShortDead H.Y. Hanna 6/14/19
Nora Pennington had no idea how much the rain would change her life." The Book of Candlelight Ellery Adams 2/3/20
Gracie repositioned herself for the umpteenth time on the under-padded folding chair. The Un-Nimble Thimble Roberta Updegraff 8/10/20
Ihad been in the job only six months when my employer pulled a gun on me" Strictly Murder Lynda Wilcox 6/14/19
Kelly Flynn nosed her car onto the gravel driveway and pulled to a stop in front of the familiar little house perched beside a golf course." Knit One, Kill Two Maggie Sefton 7/19/19
Nothing brought Reverend Annabelle Dixon closer to blasphemy than using the London public transport system during rush hour.-- Death at the Café Alison Golden 3/14/20
Every year between the dates of December 1 and December 24, a strange and wonderful insanity hits my hometown of Ashton Falls."
What else could I have said, Kay?" Phil followed me into the kitchen. Murder by Fireworks Susan Bernhardt 7/30/19
The vicar didn't know I was a vampire." Posted To Death Dean A. James 6/26/19
Hope Early caught her reflection in the side window of the main entrance and leaned in for a closer look." Three Widows and a Corpse Debra Sennefelder 11/5/19
Elizabeth Darr died at Molly Malone's feet."--Dead in Dublin Catie Murphy 1/21/20
Remind me again why I said I'd do this?" I whispered to Lisbeth, who knew me better than almost anyone in the world, except maybe my parents." Killer in the Carriage House Sheila Connolly 7/11/19
End of the line, sweetheart,” the cab driver said after stopping outside the fence surrounding the abandoned Philadelphia factory district. Murder on the SS Mystique Shelly West 1/31/20
Why didn't they teach us about this in school?" I asked Queenie French, who was standing over the conference table in the Normal Public Library, about the history of the Battle of Camp Wildcat."
Oh, please..." Spirited Away Lena Gregory 6/4/19
Using the hem of my apron, I pulled the last batch of blueberry turnovers out of the oven and slid them onto the counter to cool. -- Sweet Murder Tegan Maher 3/20/20
Lightning split the sky as I dashed up the sidewalk." Seeing Red Dana Dratch 6/13/19
D "Drowned," John said, carefully letting go of the corpse's wrist and rising from kneeling over the body in the sand."Changing of the Guard Dog Lane Stone 6/2/19
Beatrice Farnsworth was a stout woman who was always certain of her point and purpose." A Blossom of Murder Summer Prescott 6/29/19
Everything looked gray in the dim predawn light. Bonbon with the Wind Dorothy St. James 5/30/20
The watcher crouched in the darkness between cars, staring through the plate glass of the storefront at the woman inside." The Big Kitty Claire Donally 6/30/19
Ridley Ridge." Muffin But Murder Victoria Hamilton 10/10/19
Oh no, you're not roping me into this." Clause & Effect Kaitlyn Dunnett 7/3/19
Usually I’m not in the habit of tiptoeing through strange houses under the cover of darkness It Takes a Witch Heather Blake 6/17/20
BBook Tea's door opened, and a group of women came out, talking and laughing." Sweet Tea and Secrets Joy Avon 7/6/19
Liv Montgomery leaned over and adjusted the laces of her running shoes Cold Turkey Shelley Freydont 7/25/19
Early mornings at Washington Acres were dead quiet. A Muddied Murder Wendy Tyson 6/3/20
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jingles wrote: "Yes it is hard, Tari! Well done on your finish!!"Thanks, jingles!
First Line Spell ChallengeDuration:
Chosen Book: Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
Opening Line: "Call me Ishmael."
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A: "At the pinnacle of what I used to think of as my career, a family emergency required that I abandon my fast-lane Washington lifestyle and return home to the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee." - Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring by Carolyn Jourdan 4/11/20
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S: "Since the very first moment she had laid eyes on him, Lorna Connaught had loved Dante with a hot fierceness that both excited and shamed her." - The Onesies, Fall by Josie Brown 28/10/20
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111. ACATT: First Line Spell Challenge
Date: 08/01/18 - 01/31/19
23/23 Completed
Challenge Link: ACATT: First Line Spell Challenge
Book of Choice: Divided in Death|J.D. Robb
First Line: Killing was too good for him.
✔1. K = Kelly Flynn nosed her car onto the gravel driveway and pulled to a stop in front of the familiar little house perched beside a golf course.
Knit One, Kill Two|Maggie Sefton|04.14.20
✔2. I = I woke up when a man sat on my bed.
Toe to Toe|Sammie Grace|08.05.18|★★★
✔3. L = Last night I dreamed of Paul.
The Inn at Rose Harbor|Debbie Macomber|12.09.18|★★★★
✔4. L = Like most, my professional edeavors are largely separate and distinct from personal hobbies and passions.
Lincoln's Last Trial|Dan Abrams|04.02.20
✔5. I = It’s not every day that I get a naked girl answering the door I knock on.
Alex Cross, Run|James Patterson|08.06.18|★★★
✔6. N = Next to winning the Civil War and abolishing slavery, building the first transcontinental railroad, from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, was the greatest achievement of the American people in the nineteenth century.
Nothing Like it in the World|Stephen E. Ambrose|06.14.19|★★★
✔7. G = “Get out of there, Boyd yelled from outside the house.
The Search|Iris Johansen|03.08.19|★★★
✔8. W = Will Robie crouched shadowlike at a window in a deserted building, inside a country that was currently an ally of the United States.
The Guilty|David Baldacci|08.02.18|★★★★
✔9. A = A new day.
One Tiny Miracle...|Carol Marinelli|08.19.18|★★★★
✔10. S = She’d gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone.
Visions in Death|J.D. Robb|03.11.19|★★★
✔11. T = There hadn’t been a suicide note.
Too Close to Breathe|Olivia Kiernan|08.03.18|★★
✔12. O = Opening Day. Said separately, they’re just two ordinary words.
First Degree|David Rosenfelt|09.03.18|★★★
✔13. O = Olivia Limoges rolled the newest edition of Bride magazine into a tight cylinder and brought it down onto the counter with a resounding thwack!
Lethal Letters|Ellery Adams|11.19.19|★★★
✔14. G = General Krulak said, when he was commandant of the Marine Corps, every year starting about a week before Christmas he and his wife would bake hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookes.
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy|Jim Proser|02.14.20
✔15. O = One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography|Agatha Christie|12.10.19|★★★
✔16. O = Once the sun went down in Virgin River there wasn’t a whole lot of entertainment for Sean Riordan, unless he wanted to sit by the fire at his brother Luke’s house.
Angel's Peak|Robyn Carr|12.16.19|★★★
✔17. D = Drowning isn’t pretty, even in paradise.
Blood Orchids|Toby Neal|05.18.19|★★★★
✔18. F = Five minutes had passed since the deputy’s eyelids first fluttered open, and he still hadn’t spoken, so I figured maybe it was up to me to break the ice.
Carved in Bone|Jefferson Bass|12.22.19|★★★
✔19. O = On a frigid midwinter day, Mike Crowell slows his Chevy Impala to a stop and turns his domelike head from left to right, scanning the street for the man he thinks is a killer.
A Good Month for Murder|Del Quentin Wilber|01.06.20
✔20. R = Rain fell like tiny silver teardrops from the tired sky.
On Mystic Lake|Kristin Hannah|03.14.19|★★★
✔21. H = “Here comes the bride”.
No Time to Explain|Kate Angell|08.04.18|★★★
✔22. I = I am sure that if I sat in a quiet place, away from the palace and the bustle of the court, I could remember scenes from my childhood much earlier than six years old.
The Heretic Queen|Michelle Moran|08.16.18|★★★★
✔23. M = Mrs. Gregson’s elderly voice, raised in its never-ending vendetta against the nurses making her bed, penetrated throughout the entire ward; it even penetrated Sister’s office, so that its occupant rose from her work at her desk with a sigh, opened the swing doors and made her way down the long ward to where her troublesome patient lay.
Last April Fair|Betty Neels|08.15.18|★★★
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*****COMPLETED 12/22/22***** Duration: 6 Months from Start Date-
FIRST LINE SPELL CHALLENGE, 8/1 /18- 1/31/19
Challenge Rules and Guidelines:
You will need to post the entire first line that you have chosen to spell out, along with a link to the book title that line comes from, and the author of that book. In addition: For each letter of your spell out, you will need to post the entire first line of the sentence you are using for that letter, a link to the title of the book that line comes from, the author's name, and the date you finished reading the book. Articles such as "a", "an" and "the" can be used or ignored - your choice.
There is no page count requirement. All books and formats are welcome.
1st line from Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto:
"Westie had left the valley at dawn to head home."
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W-"We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood-8/22/18
E-"Everyone thinks it was because of the snow." If I Stay by Gayle Forman
S-Shock has a chilling effect particularly when it takes the form of an unexpected meeting with a man from whom you have stolen $3 million worth of wine." - The Marseille Caper by Peter Mayle
T- "The rains were so late that year."- Maru by Bessie Head
I-"I stepped back to admire my handiwork."- Marigolds and Murder by London Lovett
E-"Every summer Stina visted her grandfather in his house by the sea." Stina by Lena Anderson 3/9/19
H- —“Her mother said it three times.”- Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair 1/10/20
A-"After changing his five franc piece Georges Duroy left the restaurant."- Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
D- "December in East London is hot and humid." A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg
L-"Little Nutbrown Hare who was going to bed, held on tight to Big Nutbrown Hare's very long ears." Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
E- "Early one spring morning in 1989, I rode my Flying Pigeon bicycle through the streets of Nanjing dreaming about my son PanPan." Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
F-"For some reason, I recall it as just me and Bruce." Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 11/8/18
T-"Two rivers. Flowing in contrary directions." Achilles by Madeline Miller 8/22/18
T-"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest."- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 8/24/18
H- To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck 7/12/20
E-"Emil is running after his slum kids, panting in the noonday sun, loosening the high collar of his shirt as he goes." Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19
V- "The village headman, a man of about fifty, sat cross-legged in the centre of the room, close to the coals burning in a hearth that was hollowed out of the floor..." Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 11/4/18
A-"'Anyway he knows how to fascinate the women," said Et to Char."- Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories by Alice Munro
L-"Lydia heard the distant flap of paper wings as the first book fell from its shelf." Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan 12/11/18
L-"Let me tell you something about trees." From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan 1/11/19
E-"E. Forbes Smiley III couldn't stop coughing." The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19
Y- "Yes, I want a job."- The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana 1/27/19
A-"Amos, a mouse, lived by the ocean." Amos & Boris 10/9/18
T- "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex."- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
D-"The date at which the following events are assumed to
have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850,
when the old watering place herein called "Budmouth" still
retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety
and prestige to lend it an absorbing attractiveness to
the romantic and imaginative soul of a lonely dweller inland."-The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 10/18/18
A- "A storm is rolling in, and that always makes me a little sad and wistful..." These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner 2/14/19
W-"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind- Paul Newman and a ride home.- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
N-"The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock." Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 10/26/18
T-"There was a time , and it was many years ago now, when I had to stay in a hospital for almost nine weeks."- My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
O-"One day Alfie and Mom and Annie Rose were coming home from shopping."- Alfie Gets in First by Shirley Hughes 9/4/18
H- "He called it 'going into the tunnel,' an expression of his own, for his private use, which he never used in talking to anyone else, least of all his wife." Red Lights by Georges Simenon-6/27/22
E-"Ever since dawn the track had followed the hillside across a tangle of bamboos and elephant grass in which horse and rider sometimes disappeared entirely..." The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary 8/21/19
A-"According to the newspapers, there are two main problems besetting the modern word..." - How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco 2/19/19
D-"Deep in Honduras, in a region called La Mosquitia, lie some of the last unexplored places on earth." The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston 11/1/18
H-“Hawai’i County Chief Detective Koa Kane strapped in, and US Army UH-72A Lakota helicopter lifted off the Hilo tarmac.”- Death of a Messenger by Robert McCaw-12/23/22-
O-"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." - The Bridge of San Luis Rey 10/1/18
M- "A moment of utter silence hung over that particular spot on the northern Delta where the estate stretches away so far that its end can hardly be seen.- The Sinners by Yusuf Idris
E- "Ever since dawn the track had followed the hillside across a tangle of bamboos and elephant grass in which horse and rider sometimes disappeared entirely..."The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary 9/6/19
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Books mentioned in this topic
Maru (other topics)If I Stay (other topics)
The Handmaid’s Tale (other topics)
The Sinners: A Novel (other topics)
Revenge and the Wild (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Yusuf Idris (other topics)Michelle Modesto (other topics)
Bessie Head (other topics)
Peter Mayle (other topics)
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