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Churchgate station. Sweat-drenched, lice-strung, elbow-shoved, you are vomited from the maw of the gargantuan iron worm. Thud of heel on concrete, stride-stride, pacing steadily with a swarming herd of glaze-eyed two-legs aiming for sunlight, a taxi, office. As you look at it - BLINK-the station clock changes to 10.07. Monday morning, scrubbed clean behind the ears, sore-eyed from too-much-TV-watching over the weekend, sudden belch redolent of garlic, mince and Thums Up.

Vertigo- Ashok Banker.

My thoughts exactly on Churchgate or any other Indian railway platform!

[Carol]

Actually I just finished this one.The 19th Wife-David Ebershoff

In one year since I renounced my Mormon faith,and set out to tell the nation the truth about American polygamy,many people have wondered why I ever agreed to become a plural wife. Everyone I meet,whether farmer,miner,railman,professor,cleric, or the long-faced Senator,and most especially the wives of these-everyone wants to know why I would submit to a marital practice so filled with subjugation and sorrow. When I tell them my father has five wives,and I was raised to belive plural marrige is the will of God, these sincere people often ask,But Mrs, Young-how could you believe such a claim.


Then it goes from there into a modern murder mystery. I found the history to be compelling and the mystery to be interesting.

[Kate]

Surprised not to see this one in here.

Clare: It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard being the one who stays.
I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
I started reading this one last night. I'm really enjoying it.

[Beth]

The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver

She came here to lay flowers at the place where the boy died and the girl was kidnapped.
She came here because she was a heavy girl and had a pocked face and not many friends.
She came because she was expected to.
She came because she wanted to.

This is the third book in a series and I'm really really enjoying it, I recommend the series (Lincoln Rhyme) to anyone!

[El]

Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true. I have lived most of my life in Bybanks, Kentucky, which is not much more than a caboodle of houses roosting in a green spot alongside the Ohio River. Just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings(no, that is not true-he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hayloft, or the swimming hole, which all belonged to me) and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

I am actually reading this book for a class I have at a homeschool thing.

[J.]

I'm a stay at home mom with no husband and no kids.

He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.