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Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 41% done with An Abundance of Katherines
It just kept happening: he'd meet a Katherine, and like her. She'd like him back. And then it would end.
Nov 03, 2024 02:50PM Add a comment
An Abundance of Katherines

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 34% done with An Abundance of Katherines
The rooster crowed again. Cock-a-doodle-don't, motherfugger, Colin mumbled. But the rooster cock-a-doodle-did.
Nov 03, 2024 01:54AM Add a comment
An Abundance of Katherines

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 29% done with An Abundance of Katherines
Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, God forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated nineteen girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him.
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An Abundance of Katherines

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 17% done with An Abundance of Katherines
"Is the real problem here the genius thing or the Katherine thing?"
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An Abundance of Katherines

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 9% done with An Abundance of Katherines
But still, the thought lurked out there, just beyond the reach of his headlights: he'd been dumped.
By a girl named Katherine. For the nineteenth time.
Nov 01, 2024 03:18AM Add a comment
An Abundance of Katherines

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 92% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
At length Mr. Baggins could bear it no longer. "Confound you, Smaug, you worm!" he squeaked aloud. "Stop playing hide-and-seek! Give me a light, and then eat me, if you can catch me!"
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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Wouter van Noort is 86% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
It is almost dark so that its vastness can only be dimly guessed, but rising from the near side of the rocky floor there is a great glow. The glow of Smaug!
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 79% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in
spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath "I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting."
Oct 30, 2024 04:09PM Add a comment
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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Wouter van Noort is 71% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Bilbo found himself running round and round (as he thought) and calling and calling: "Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Fili, Kili, Bombur, Bifur, Bofur, Dwalin, Balin, Thorin Oakenshield!"
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 64% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
"I am sending Mr. Baggins with you. I have told you before that he has more about him than you guess, and you will find that out before long. So cheer up Bilbo and don't look so glum. Cheer up Thorin and Company! This is your expedition after all. Think of the treasure at the end, and forget the forest and the dragon, at any rate until tomorrow morning!"
Oct 30, 2024 03:45AM Add a comment
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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Wouter van Noort is 52% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
"I am Gandalf," said the wizard. "Never heard of him," growled the man. "And what's this little fellow?" he said, stooping down to frown at the hobbit with his bushy black eyebrows. "That is Mr.Baggins, a hobbit of good family and unimpeachable reputation." said Gandalf.
Oct 29, 2024 04:56PM Add a comment
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 43% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Suddenly up came Gollum and whispered and hissed:
"Bless us and splash us, my precioussss! I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, gollum!" And when he said gollum he made a horrible swallowing noise in his throat. That is how he got his name, though he always called himself 'my precious'.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 29% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
"Let me see: one--that's Thorin; two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven; where are Fili and Kili? Here they are! Twelve, thirteen-and here's Mr. Baggins: fourteen! Well, well! it might be worse, and then again it might be a good deal better.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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Wouter van Noort is 18% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! It was not the last time that he wished that!
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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Wouter van Noort is 10% done with The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 91% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
"I spend my every waking moment picking up the pieces of the lives destroyed by evil people. What more do you want me to do?"
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

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Wouter van Noort is 84% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
"That is sickening," I said with quiet anger.
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

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Wouter van Noort is 77% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
"The warden's little pet likes to hurt people."
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

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Wouter van Noort is 65% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
I opened the morning's Washington Post and was shocked todiscover myself on the front page. The headline read, "Murder in the morgue,"
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 57% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
~ Why are there always spelling mistakes in Cornwell's earlier books?
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

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Wouter van Noort is 51% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
In exchange for information, he did the one thing that not one of us wants to do.
He allowed the monster to connect with him.
Oct 25, 2024 03:04PM Add a comment
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

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Wouter van Noort is 42% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
After all, I was supposed to handle death better than anyone. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the expert.
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 34% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
"Here." He placed a small paper bag on my desk.
"Happy reading."
Oct 25, 2024 04:04AM 1 comment
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 27% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
It did not appear that her body had been moved after death, and the skin did not blanch when pressed.
She had been dead at least twelve hours.
Oct 24, 2024 04:16PM Add a comment
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

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Wouter van Noort is 19% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
"No, there isn't a dead body in there ...."
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

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Wouter van Noort is 13% done with Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
"....just like we always do after our children ride the Sparky."
Oct 24, 2024 04:06AM Add a comment
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 89% done with Gek van mezelf
Door mijn gedachten op te schrijven, begon ik op een
gegeven moment patronen te herkennen. Gek van angst was ik soms, maar ik wás de angst. Dus dan word je gek van jezelf. Een mooie woordspeling, want ik ben helemaal niet zo gek van mezelf.
Oct 23, 2024 04:45AM Add a comment
Gek van mezelf

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 77% done with Gek van mezelf
Mijn hoofd en lichaam
dansen weer een
angstaanjagende
tango.
Oct 23, 2024 02:40AM Add a comment
Gek van mezelf

Wouter van  Noort
Wouter van Noort is 64% done with Gek van mezelf
Mijn hart (gaat kapot)
Mijn hart gaat heel snel, misschien
gaat hij daarom wel kapot

Mijn hart klopt, omdat ik daardoor
leef. Dat is een mooi gegeven.
Oct 22, 2024 03:33PM Add a comment
Gek van mezelf

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