“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!”
well I’m reading 2; fiction- Whoever said that only the good die young had obviously never met Michael Garland… non-fiction- Charles Bukowski was an alcoholic, a womanizer, a chronic gambler, a lout, a cheapskate, a deadbeat, and on his worst days, a poet.
It was so quiet, one of the killers would later say, you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon.
? xD yeah. its supposed to be a trilogy but fans are still waiting for book 2 ? Its rumored that we will get a prequel in 2019 titled “7 ways to die in Talgarth”. Lets cross fingers.
Kyra Smith Yeah it does start out in a bookstore. It’s great so far. It’s not as creepy as I thought but I’m only on chapter 10 so that could change later on. Lifetime is making a TV show about it and it premieres tomorrow. ?
I’ll tell you this – even on the so-called mean streets of New York, where the only thing harder to get than a taxi in the rain is attention, we were managing to turn heads that grim, gray December afternoon.
What surprised the Parisians, standing on the Champs-Élysées to watch the German soldiers take over their city in the early hours of 14 June 1940, was how youthful and healthy they looked.
The little blond girl, about nine or ten–Kate’s age–and enough like Kate to make Julia feel dizzy, ran floating up from nowhere along Ilchester Place and windmilling her arms at the street corner, flew into the path to Holland Park.
“I was draped over the arm of one of the most beautiful men I’d ever seen, and he was staring into my eyes.” And it’s *not* a romance!! It’s Definitely Dead, by Charlaine Harris, one of the Sookie Stackhouse novels! Unfortunately for women everywhere (in that universe, anyway), the man she’s talking about is gay!!
@Danielle, me too! I’m re-reading the series back to back….. for the second time in a row!! When I found them a few months ago in the local thrift store, they were missing the first book, but they had it by the time I finished all the others, so I figured I’d read it as a prequel… I’m sure you can see how I had to just keep going!! ?
Cheryl Homan yes definitely! What’s funny and I started reading them at work and would get super embarrassed with the “love parts” thinking I was doing something wrong at work lmao
It was an unmarked car, just some nondescript American sedan a few years old, but the black wall tires and the three men inside have it away for what it was.
Shadows danced on the walls as the lightning flashed in the night, the pause between the flash of lightning and the clash of thunder a basic four count in counterpoint to the tinny sound of the rain on the roof of the RV.
HARRIET AND DAVID met each other at an office party neither had particularly wanted to go, and both knew at once that this was what they had been waiting for.
The rain was a slantwise curtain across the dingy street, washing soot from the city walls, the taste of it metallic on the lips of the tall, thin man who walked with a loping stride close to the buildings, watching the mouths of the doorways, the gaps of the alleys with a narrow-eyed intentness.
“After extensive research and considerable internal deliberation, Charlotte had submitted employment applications to five advertisement agencies, their prestigious footings in Madison Avenue’s most glimmering and stalwart buildings having nothing to do with her choices.”
At least a year had passed without any potential candidates, but my ambition and determination to find an agent got greater day by day. – Power Of A Woman by Robert Graham Jr
It was an unmarked car, just some nondescript American sedan a few years old, but the blackwall tires and the three men inside gave it away for what it was.
Few cities have such a history…
Welcome to the Drinkers Hour!
I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather.
What book is this?
Lori Laquidara Mockingjay. Last of The Hunger Games Trilogy.
Great series
@Lori it really is. I’m almost finished now. Just reached part III: The Assassin today. Very excited to start that!
My father was a king and the son of kings.
I’m reading this too
It was the third morning, and the smell of tar and seaweed had got into his clothes.
What book is this? ?
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
“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 leather bound volume was nothing remarkable
My weekdays are spent at a publicly funded institution called White River High School.
A beginning is the time for taking care that the balances are correct.
Two small pairs of boots echoed on the afternoon cobblestones-one pair in a sprint, the other in a stumble and slide.
well I’m reading 2; fiction- Whoever said that only the good die young had obviously never met Michael Garland… non-fiction- Charles Bukowski was an alcoholic, a womanizer, a chronic gambler, a lout, a cheapskate, a deadbeat, and on his worst days, a poet.
It Was the Best of Times and the Worst of Times.
Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family
Roger Wakefield stood in the center of the room, feeling surrounded.
That sounds familiar! Which Outlander are you on?
@Gwenn Dragonfly In Amber
wonderful! I’m now on the 4th, Drums of Autumn. I’m so enjoying them
@Gwenn me too!!!!
The vultures were gathering in the vestibule.
Our eyes met and i knew, he was the one to be the death of me walking to the door i saw him leave a head of me with pleading eyes do i follow him?
What book??
One of my short stories i worth way back in high school ??
William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen.
It was so quiet, one of the killers would later say, you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon.
I was captured by the Fascist Militia on December 13, 1943.
There’s a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America
– Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption
What book is this??
Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
“Lydia heard the distant flap of paper wings as the first book fell from its shelf.”
I need a plunger and a mop stat!!
What book is this? ?
Here is the truth, this is what I know: we were walking on Ocean Beach, hand in hand.
I see…’ said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window.
Dublin, you had me at “hello”.
It began with my father not wanting to see the last rabbit and ended up with me being eaten by a carnivorous plant.
What book?
Shades of grey by Jasper Fforde. Its like the 25th time I’m reading it. I just love it.
@Franky, wow, I bought that way back in the ‘90s or so and never got around to reading it. Guess I should.
? probably a different book then. This one was first published in 2009
@Franky, is it part of a series? Maybe 2009 just feels that long ago?
? xD yeah. its supposed to be a trilogy but fans are still waiting for book 2 ? Its rumored that we will get a prequel in 2019 titled “7 ways to die in Talgarth”. Lets cross fingers.
I heard the drums long before they came into sight
What book is this? ?
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon- 4th in the Outlander series
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
Ooh I like that! What’s the book?
I want to know what book, too.
Maybe the Nightingale?
Yes! The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah ?
Good that’s on my tbr
that was a really good book. I learned a lot from that book. And that opening line is so true.
@Cari Im
Barely on chapter 7. I’m loving it so far. ❤️
that’s in my tbr too
On All Hallow’s Eve, when the moon is round, a virgin will summon us from under the ground.
This sounds like Hocus Pocus…
@Debby
It is.???
Bee Larkham’s murder was ice blue crystals with glittery edges and jagged silver icicles.
This is on my tbr. Any good?
I’m liking it so far! I’m halfway into it.
The diplomat had no clue that his career was over.
The man loosened the knot of his tie and than seemed to think better of it.
Sleep wouldn’t come to me, I was no stranger to insomnia, but this was different.
What book?
I read this, but I can,t remember ?
GIVEN by Kelli Maine
Tears blinded Braith as she stated through the bars to see what they’d done to her once proud husband.
This is the book I am just starting
You must always have faith in life
Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.
The Lightning Thief!! ??
Yes?
A total eclipse of the sun has five stages.
First the colors.
Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below.
Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthday, the rattle of a train in a tunnel.
Regan Reilly sighed for the hundredth time as she looked down at her mother, Nora, a brand-new patient in Manhattan’s Hospital for Special Surgery.
You walk into the bookstore and you keep your hand on the door to make sure it doesn’t slam.
What book is this? x
You by Caroline Kepnes ?
@Kelly I thought so. I haven’t read it but REALLY want to. I knew it was written in second person and started out in a bookstore ? is it good?
Kyra Smith Yeah it does start out in a bookstore. It’s great so far. It’s not as creepy as I thought but I’m only on chapter 10 so that could change later on. Lifetime is making a TV show about it and it premieres tomorrow. ?
@Kelly Aaah okay. Really? Wow, thanks for telling me!
Yeah I can’t wait to see the TV show. I’m excited to see how they adapt the story.
@Kelly that will be interesting. I’ll wait to read the book and then I’ll definitely be watching the series!
Ghosts didn’t have much substance.
What book?
Agree, would like to know too
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness ?
@Shelley, I’ll check it out. Good read?
Yes! The first two books as well. It took me a bit to get into the first one, but then I was hooked. Let me know what you think after you read it. ?
His two girls are curled together like animals whose habit is to sleep underground , in the smallest place possible.
Waves lapped against the shore.
You do not enter a race to lose.
The first person to see the body hanging from the billboard was Haydee Michaelman,, and she wasn’t paying attention.
This was where the thread first came into view, an old stone palace miles up a rutted dirt track, alone in the gum resin trees and elephant grass.
I’ll tell you this – even on the so-called mean streets of New York, where the only thing harder to get than a taxi in the rain is attention, we were managing to turn heads that grim, gray December afternoon.
What book?
@Cari Step on a Crack by James Patterson. It’s the 1st book in the Michael Bennett series. It’s amazing!!
@Amanda, that opening is pretty commanding. Love it.
@Cari me too!!
It started out as a typical Saturday night ?
“Rosie?” Grandpa’s bellow shook the foundation of the house.
“The roaring crowd in the makeshift arena didn’t set her blood on fire.”
The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.
What book?
The Bookshop on the Corner
@Shanda, that’s on my TBR. Are you liking it?
@Cari I love it!
@Shanda, hooray!
Pulling a sickie is not something I’m prone to do.
What book is this??
The Other Women by Jane Green
On a Tuesday morning Katje discovered that Dr. Weyland was a vampire, like the one in the movie she’d seen last week.
My first, and thus far only marriage ended exactly two days before thanksgiving.
What book?
“The Clone and I” Danielle Steel
She got an atlas in the reference section of the library and sought out Burma
In the beginning..
The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice.
A festering odor wafted from the derelict mine shaft on the edge of the remote Mojave desert, just north of California’s Joshua Tree National Park.
Proofing my new book, “Secrets of a Soldier’s Wife,” for the last time before its printed by publisher St. Martin’s Press. That’s the first line…
The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice.
“A moment before the encounter”….
What surprised the Parisians, standing on the Champs-Élysées to watch the German soldiers take over their city in the early hours of 14 June 1940, was how youthful and healthy they looked.
We recommend five surveillance teams, twenty-four hour coverage.
I am not a slut in the United States of America.
The first time I saw Roanoke was in a dream.
It took Stokes 12 days to die
What book is this??
This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson
Houses don’t always dream.
What book is this??
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
My Father was a King and the son of Kings.
It was the rain that made him think of the tale.
What book is this??
Morrigan’s Cross. By Nora Roberts.
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Jane Eyre!
The past few years have been a mixture of torture, painful growth and sometimes, pushing its way through all the darkness—joy.
You aren’t going to like me very much.
What book?
@Cari lie to me by j.t. ellison
@Brooke, I look into that one. Is it good?
@Cari no idea yet lol! Just started it this morning:-)
@Brooke, well, my fingers are crossed. ?
@Cari me too, it looks good!
It is excellent
@Marie yay! It’s starting out great, that’s for sure!
The little blond girl, about nine or ten–Kate’s age–and enough like Kate to make Julia feel dizzy, ran floating up from nowhere along Ilchester Place and windmilling her arms at the street corner, flew into the path to Holland Park.
I left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver
What book is this?
“All of this began in October 1978.”
It begins when a wizard cleaves an island from the mainland, because the king destroyed her temple.
“I awoke from another dream of Corrick, as is my wont most mornings in these troubled times.”
When I was three and Bailey four, we arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed “To Whom It May Concern”…..
Humanity ain’t always what’s pretty.
The boy’s name was Santiago
“To get to Hell Creek you drive east to Bozeman”
Pinch myself and say I AM AWAKE once an hour.
Behind Her Eyes ???
yes ?
I was lying dead in the churchyard.
What book is this?
“She walks briskly down the city sidewalk, her blond hair bouncing against her shoulders, her cheeks flushed, a gym bag looped over her forearm.”
These are the things I know are true: my name is LuLing Liu Young.
Jung considered alchemy in a way that few people, if any, before him had imagined.
“The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.”
“She was fed on moonlight.”
It was impossible to identify the man in her room.
“I was draped over the arm of one of the most beautiful men I’d ever seen, and he was staring into my eyes.” And it’s *not* a romance!! It’s Definitely Dead, by Charlaine Harris, one of the Sookie Stackhouse novels! Unfortunately for women everywhere (in that universe, anyway), the man she’s talking about is gay!!
Those books are technically paranormal romance.
@Hannah, the books say fantasy/mystery, but they definitely do have some romance thrown in!
@Cheryl I’d say they were paranormal romance more than mystery.
@Hannah, well, like I said, the books say fantasy/mystery, but as my Mom used to say: “give me a quarter and you can have it your way!” ??
I love these books
@Danielle, me too! I’m re-reading the series back to back….. for the second time in a row!! When I found them a few months ago in the local thrift store, they were missing the first book, but they had it by the time I finished all the others, so I figured I’d read it as a prequel… I’m sure you can see how I had to just keep going!! ?
Cheryl Homan yes definitely! What’s funny and I started reading them at work and would get super embarrassed with the “love parts” thinking I was doing something wrong at work lmao
@Cheryl have you read any of her others?
@Danielle, I’m not sure if I’ve read anything else by her…. I’ll have to check a list of her other stuff before I could say for sure!
“The Pope is dead!”
Title please
@Lynda the best laid plans – Sidney Sheldon
We are all taught from an early age to fear death, that unknowable force we are all moving towards, simply by existing.
It was an unmarked car, just some nondescript American sedan a few years old, but the black wall tires and the three men inside have it away for what it was.
Shadows danced on the walls as the lightning flashed in the night, the pause between the flash of lightning and the clash of thunder a basic four count in counterpoint to the tinny sound of the rain on the roof of the RV.
HARRIET AND DAVID met each other at an office party neither had particularly wanted to go, and both knew at once that this was what they had been waiting for.
In 1994 an Albuquerque jury awarded Stella Liebeck $2.9 million in damages after she spilled a piping-hot cup of McDonald’s coffee on herself.
It is its own religion, this love.
The house is dark, as she knew it would be.
The thought struck me as ironic
The appearance of the human brain is far from impressive.
A Royal-Red Ford F-150 SuperCrew rolled through the streets of Albany, Georgia.
The rain was a slantwise curtain across the dingy street, washing soot from the city walls, the taste of it metallic on the lips of the tall, thin man who walked with a loping stride close to the buildings, watching the mouths of the doorways, the gaps of the alleys with a narrow-eyed intentness.
“After extensive research and considerable internal deliberation, Charlotte had submitted employment applications to five advertisement agencies, their prestigious footings in Madison Avenue’s most glimmering and stalwart buildings having nothing to do with her choices.”
He was an easy mark.
Let me be brutally honest!
The day is still.
“This must be so difficult for you, Meredith.”
You walk into the bookstore and you keep your hand on the door to make sure it doesn’t slam.
I’m reading that one now too!
Slick beneath Kilras’s booted feet, the flag stones rang in the gray morning air.
He stood in the shadows waiting.
it would be shame if all that money went to the tophams
“Why at the beginning of things is there always light?” A sentence I think that would have been better cut.
“The real story isn’t half as pretty as the one you’ve heard.”
He was lost, and only I could find him.
At least a year had passed without any potential candidates, but my ambition and determination to find an agent got greater day by day. – Power Of A Woman by Robert Graham Jr
I prowled my cell like a caged animal
It was an unmarked car, just some nondescript American sedan a few years old, but the blackwall tires and the three men inside gave it away for what it was.
“All through those years of war, the bread tasted of humiliation.”
The blood underneath her nails bothered her.
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.
And on the second day things did not get better.
“The thick, briny scent of sweat-soaked leather seeped through my cloth mask.”
I was born on Clinton Street in the Lower East Side.