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message 901: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments For some time the young man wandered restlessly about the room, looking at and sometimes touching the knickknacks lying here and there.

Lady Audley's Secret

Next: page 89, sentence 2


message 902: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments But existing leases, at far below market value, remain intact.

Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

Next: page 7, 2nd to last sentence


message 903: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Stormy Llewellyn and I are more than friends."

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Next: Page 298, sentence 5


message 904: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "I have never heard you speak of his father and mother." said my lady, thoughtfully.

Lady Audley's Secret

Next: Page 194, sentence 2


message 905: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments Water began to seep through the cracks and into the mine in 1988.

Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age

Next: Page 73, sentence 7


message 906: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Whatever borrowings occurred between cultures, it is clear that by the time the Spanish and Portuguese began to conquer and settle the New World, chattel slavery had taken on deep racial connotations.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Next: page 185, sentence 2


message 907: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments A sign of shock, maybe.

Purple Heart

Next: page 127, sentence 9


message 908: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Sample these for yourself in the tasting room, buy snacks, jams, and other gourmet goodies in the seasonal "pantry shed," or sit down for lunch in the bistro.

Moon Ontario

Next: page 63, last full sentence


message 909: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments It was so loud, Matt could hear the clatter of the cymbals.

Purple Heart

Next: Page 1, first sentence


message 910: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood."

The Inferno by Dante

Next: Page 84, sentence 3.


message 911: by ☯Emily (last edited Sep 09, 2018 06:06PM) (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments George Talboys took the fishing-rod, while Robert stretched himself at full length on a railway rug, and balancing his hat upon his nose as a screen from the sunshine, fell fast asleep.

Lady Audley's Secret

Next: Page 197, sentence 6


message 912: by Celia (last edited Sep 09, 2018 08:52PM) (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments They were arguing in lively, animated voices, jabbing one another now and then to make a point.

Purple Heart

Next: page 45, sentence 4


message 913: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments The woman took him into the little bed-room in which his wife had died.

Lady Audley's Secret

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message 914: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments Even Neville grinned apologetically.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Next: page 134, sentence 6


message 915: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "Make yourself agreeable to Lucy and make the Court your home as long as you live."

Lady Audley's Secret

Next: page 200, sentence 7


message 916: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments "Reckon Fred'd take a bit of Cockroach Cluster if I told him they were peanuts?"

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Next: page 83, sentence 6


message 917: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments I planned and I planned.


Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Next: page 159, sentence 7


message 918: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments "It's a choice."

One of Us Is Lying

Next: page 21, sentence 9


message 919: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "Linda," said he, speaking as I had not heard him speak that evening. "how could you say that?"

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Next: page 84, sentence 2


message 920: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to move his arms, but couldn't ... a thick, white fog was swirling around him, inside him --"

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Next: page 28, sentence 5


message 921: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Next: Page 201, last complete sentence


message 922: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "They made me cough."

Orphan Train

Next: Page 44, sentence 5


message 923: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments Businesses hire security guards even though they might not be robbed.

Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

Next: page 76, sentence 5


message 924: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments He labored, most unnecessarily, to convince me that I had lowered myself.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Next: Page 143, sentence 4


message 925: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments The truth was, I enjoyed not talking about myself.

Girl in Translation

Next: page 53, sentence 7


message 926: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "Go to thunder, gal!"

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Next: page 132, sentence8


message 927: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Maye it'll be a stretch to find drama in Vivian's portage - a happy, stable life does not an interesting story make, right?"

Orphan Train

Next: page 305, sentence 2


message 928: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments A few students still head out to the barracks in small groups, their shoulders slumped with tiredness.

An Ember in the Ashes

Next: page 34, sentence 4


message 929: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Next: page 150, sentence 5


message 930: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments But thirst can drive a man insane.

An Ember in the Ashes

Next: page 145, sentence 10


message 931: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "And my lady, sir, was she quite well?"

Lady Audley's Secret

Next: page 201, sentence 2


message 932: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments "Just here and there," Estha said airily.

The God of Small Things

Next: page 67, sentence 3


message 933: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Her hands were so burnt that she never got the use of them.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

Next: page 154, sentence 6


message 934: by Joyce (last edited Sep 24, 2018 12:19PM) (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Up the beach by the boathouse a bonfire was burning, raining up sparks into the indistinctness of the dawn."

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Next: page 220, sentence 5


message 935: by Celia (new)

Celia Buell (semi hiatus) (celiareadsbooks) | 5667 comments They are his windows and his way of seeing.

The God of Small Things

Next: page 46, sentence 5


message 936: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments There was a jail and a whipping post on his grounds; and whatever cruelties were perpetrated there, they passed without comment.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Next: 165, sentence 4.


message 937: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "I sat up, wondering at first where I might be."

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Next: page 192, last sentence


message 938: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments As he came nearer, I recognized Luke.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Next: page 111, sentence 2


message 939: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "A great smoke rose about us, vapour and steam."

The Two Towers (Tolkien)

next: Page 73, sentence 7


message 940: by Lavender (new)

Lavender | 23 comments '"It's all right" James's voice was soft and comforting, and if I'd been the real Lady Julianna, I might have fallen for him right there.'

The Orphan Queen (Jodi Meadows)

next: Page 137, Sentence 4


message 941: by ☯Emily (last edited Oct 02, 2018 01:29PM) (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Many of them fell into Dr. Flint's hands, as I expected they would; and he must have come to the conclusion that I travelled about a good deal.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Next: page 163, sentence 6


message 942: by Joyce (last edited Oct 03, 2018 03:44PM) (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "But not at night."

For One More Day (Mitch Albom)

Next: page 23, sentence 2


message 943: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Three months elapsed, and there was no prospect of release or of a purchaser.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Next: page 89, sentence 4


message 944: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "He insisted on going to a barbershop."

For One More Day

Next: Page 244, sentence 3


message 945: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "I never saw above a dozen women that wouldn't half kill a horse, or a servant, either, if they had their own way with them!--let alone a man."

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Next: page 170, sentence 2


message 946: by Tammy (new)

Tammy | 135 comments “I think I’ll stay,” said Gennaro, “and go back with Harding in his Jeep with Dr. Sattler.”

Next: page 1, first sentence


message 947: by Tammy (new)

Tammy | 135 comments (Sorry my last post was from Jurassic Park)


message 948: by Isa (new)

Isa | 19555 comments The day we moved into Monkton Mills, I made an enemy of our new landlady.

The Doll in the Garden

Page 3, sentence 5


message 949: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Rob waved his arm at the Golden Arches rising through the lake-effect fog."

End of Watch by Stephen King

Next: Page 134, sentence 7


message 950: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments At the third camp, an aid worker appeared, a young man, who began dispensing medicine to the sick, who were arrayed in a long line.

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder

Next: page 56, sentence 3


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