chesilbeach Posted January 2, 2017 Posted January 2, 2017 Time for a new thread! "That was your last chance." Through the Mirror Door by Sarah Baker
setgoblen Posted January 8, 2017 Posted January 8, 2017 "Climb high, Climb far, Your goal the sky, Your aim the star. Mark Twain" The third wave by Steve Case
chaliepud Posted January 8, 2017 Posted January 8, 2017 War was declared at 11.15 and Mary North signed up at noon. Everyone Brave is Forgiven ~ Chris Cleave
Athena Posted January 9, 2017 Posted January 9, 2017 "Francesca did not realize she had used an indefinite pronoun until it began to kill her patient." Blake Charlton - Spellwright 2: Spellbound.
shirley Posted January 9, 2017 Posted January 9, 2017 The only thing that could save me was a losing hand. Taking the Titanic - A heist to remember - James Patterson
Onion Budgie Posted January 9, 2017 Posted January 9, 2017 "The scoutmaster paced back and forth in front of the morgue, a cigarette in one hand and a black plastic garbage bag in the other." The Great Forgetting by James Renner
shades Posted January 9, 2017 Posted January 9, 2017 "You Better not never tell nobody but God" The Color Purple
chesilbeach Posted January 9, 2017 Author Posted January 9, 2017 If our Anthony was telling this story, he'd start with the money. Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Ben Posted January 9, 2017 Posted January 9, 2017 When summer comes to North Woods, time slows down. A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly.
Anna Begins Posted January 9, 2017 Posted January 9, 2017 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. -1984
chesilbeach Posted January 10, 2017 Author Posted January 10, 2017 A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Lau_Lou Posted January 16, 2017 Posted January 16, 2017 I wish I could stop dreaming. The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
shirley Posted January 17, 2017 Posted January 17, 2017 Abbie Whitmore stood at the back of the crowd at the steps of the town hall, easily blending in with the mass of people also dressed in somber dark suits. Bodyguard - James Patterson
Inver Posted January 17, 2017 Posted January 17, 2017 'Justine Gunderson woke suddenly from a deep sleep, with the vague sense that something was wrong.' '6 Rainier Drive' by Debbie Macomber
chesilbeach Posted January 18, 2017 Author Posted January 18, 2017 My name is Markham and I am a recovering security guard. My Name Is Markham by Jodi Taylor
Ben Posted January 19, 2017 Posted January 19, 2017 It had certainly been a while end to the autumn. The Loney by Andrew Hurley.
chaliepud Posted January 19, 2017 Posted January 19, 2017 I knew with certainty that I would never be a doctor. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
chesilbeach Posted January 19, 2017 Author Posted January 19, 2017 Some people are born deaf, mute or blind. The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
chesilbeach Posted January 20, 2017 Author Posted January 20, 2017 The brig Henrietta having made Sandy Hook a little before the dinner hour - and having passed the Narrows about three o'clock - and then crawling to and for, in a series of tacks infinitesimal enough to rival the calculus, across the grey sheet of the harbour of New York - until it seemed to Mr Smith, dancing from foot to foot upon deck, that the small mound of the city waiting there would hover ahead in the November gloom in perpetuity, never growing closer, to the the smirk of Greek Zeno - and the day being advanced to dusk by the time Henrietta at last lay anchored off Tietjes Slip, with the veritable gables of the city's veritable houses divided from him only by one hundred foot of water - and the dusk moreover being as cold and damp and dim as November can afford, as if all the work were a quarto of grey paper dampened by drizzle until in danger of crumbling imminently to pap: - all this being true, the master of the brig pressed upon him the virtue of sleeping this one further night aboard, and pursuing his shore business in the morning. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford.
Ben Posted January 20, 2017 Posted January 20, 2017 Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened. Pet Sematary by Stephen King.
shirley Posted January 23, 2017 Posted January 23, 2017 The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent I liked this book will certainly read again at some point
shirley Posted January 23, 2017 Posted January 23, 2017 Chaos and confusion reign in New York City's most glamorous department store, Bloomingdale's. The Christmas Mystery - James Patterson
chesilbeach Posted January 23, 2017 Author Posted January 23, 2017 Of the first few hauntings I investigated with Lockwood & Co. I intend to say little, in part to protect the identity of the victims, in part because of the gruesome nature of the incidents, but mainly because, in a variety go ingenious ways, we succeeded in messing them all up. Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
shirley Posted January 24, 2017 Posted January 24, 2017 I had no way of knowing it at the time, but when Aaron told his joke, I was thirty nine seconds away from driving our minivan through a guardrail over a cliff and into a river. Come and get us - James Patterson bookshot
RadRobin Posted January 24, 2017 Posted January 24, 2017 "Kill him!"- Tigerclaw's Fury by Erin Hunter
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