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Five o'clock and freezing.

A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
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we_olive_beatrix wrote:The play-- for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper-- was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.
Ahh Atonement. i loved that book, but it took a while to get into for me. Hope you like it.
Fairytales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten. -Neil Gaiman
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The trawler plunged into the angry swells of the dark, furious sea like an awkward animal trying desperately to break out of an impenetrable swamp.

The Bourne Identity- by Robert Ludlum
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papi_rico wrote:The trawler plunged into the angry swells of the dark, furious sea like an awkward animal trying desperately to break out of an impenetrable swamp.

The Bourne Identity- by Robert Ludlum
This was one of the books where I would say the movie is WAY better. I couldn't stand the female character in this book! Have you read any of the others? Any of the Van Lustbader ones? Do they get better?
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No I haven't, I'm just starting the series now...
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The small boys came early to the hanging.

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
:D one of my favorites
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"In the end I did head back there."

Self's Murder by Bernhard Schlink
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Alphabet for kids: Writer unknown
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Well it depends.
If i start with The Location it's:
"Blackberg. It makes you think of coconut-frosted cookies, maybe drugs."

And yet if i start with the chapter one it's:
"And what do you think this might be?"

Take your pick, I myself prefer the cookie one, but whatever.
It's from Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Yays!
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My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons.

~Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

The Family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen



Those are the two I'm currently reading.
~I'm so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying.~ Oscar Wilde
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I have a break now.

The Blue Notebook, James Levine
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Judgment Day came without warning.
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klog13 wrote:The small boys came early to the hanging.

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
:D one of my favorites
I just loved that book!! Have you read World Without End?
~I'm so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying.~ Oscar Wilde
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"Mom!! Dad!! Help!!" screams a young boy.

Encounter at North Road House by King (not that King the other one)
"When the give you things, ask yourself why.
When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should already have anyway, ask yourself why."
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In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

In Watermelon Sugar (who'd'a thunk?) ~ Richard Brautigan
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