"Leah Raber sank wearily onto the porch swing, causing the chains to jangle. She leaned her head back, closed her eyes, and imagined herself free-her skirt and apron flung carelessly over the branches of a prickly mulberry, her legs running to the pond, her hair blowing behind her as she leapt into cool, deep waters. She could almost feel the splash as she plunged into the secret world of water and swam among the fronds of the dark pond bottom, the silky liquid sliding against her arms and legs as her feet kicked out, over and over."
book reviews,book challenges,book memes for nonfiction,cozies, mysteries, different genres. (Review books accepted)
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Teaser Tuesday
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He sips his wine before continuing. "The key to conquering seasickness is learning the rhythm of the waves. Once you have mastered that rhythm, you'll be fine. I also suggest you take some ropes to tie yourself in bed, in case you run into a storm."
He sips his wine before continuing. "The key to conquering seasickness is learning the rhythm of the waves. Once you have mastered that rhythm, you'll be fine. I also suggest you take some ropes to tie yourself in bed, in case you run into a storm."
It's Monday! What Are You Reading?
Friday, April 25, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
It's Monday! What Are You Reading?
I'm nearly finished The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith. It really gives a taste of postwar Vietnam and the people, in this case the characters. It's short stories.
I've started Jaspar's War by Cym Lowell. It reads like a movie adventure. At the moment I'm running through the streets of Rome dressed as a nun. This woman's two children have been kidnapped. At almost the same time, she gets news that her husband has been killed in a plane crash. She's determined to find her children.
Still dying to get to The Returned by Jason Mott and I want to read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Well, I have a long list like all book bloggers of what I'm dying to read. Won't bore you with a long list.:)
Plus, I have two more review books.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith
"HER DAYS were measured in banh mi now. The taste of them haunted her every hour of the day, a thousand times worse than any imagined sandwich she had concocted in her head. After spending the lunch hour rearranging the rice in her bowl with her chopsticks, Thuy would retire to the balcony with Kieu, feigning sleepiness while her stomach gurgled in anticipation...Then, when she was certain that Kieu was asleep, she would free herself and disappear into the winding Saigon alleyways, where her feet and her empty stomach led her to where the sandwich vendor was always waiting."http://battleofthebanhmi.com/
These are short stories that take place somewhere in Vietnam. Each story is very different from the one before it. (NetGalley) http://www.bethfishreads.com/
These are short stories that take place somewhere in Vietnam. Each story is very different from the one before it. (NetGalley) http://www.bethfishreads.com/
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
First Chapter First Paragraph
Monday, April 14, 2014
Canyon by Brenda Jackson
"That's why I need to ask you some pertinent questions. Someone is trying to scare you and I need to know why and who."http://www.shouldbereading.wordpress.com
It's Monday! What Are You Reading?
I finished Lights Over Emerald Creek by Shelley Davidow. Now I'm reading The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith. These are short stories about Vietnamese experience. I am also reading Casting the Net by Pam Rhodes. I am really excited about this one. Still reading Derek Walcott's The Prodigal, a wonderful poem.
Wanted to start The Returned by Jason Mott. Didn't get to it. So upset with myself because I know it's good. Friday, April 11, 2014
Lights Over Emerald Creek by S. Davidow ? NetGalley
Emerald Creek, North Queensland, Australia
"At sixteen, Lucy believed she was a pragmatic realist, but what she'd seen twenty four hours ago seemed to defy all logic. It was so inexplicable that it had made the difference between wanting to die, and wanting to live."http://www.rosereader.blogspot.com
"Behind the dune, the landscape was hazy. Intermittently, she thought she saw lights flicker briefly beyond the dense fog."
http://www.fredasvoice.com
"At sixteen, Lucy believed she was a pragmatic realist, but what she'd seen twenty four hours ago seemed to defy all logic. It was so inexplicable that it had made the difference between wanting to die, and wanting to live."http://www.rosereader.blogspot.com
"Behind the dune, the landscape was hazy. Intermittently, she thought she saw lights flicker briefly beyond the dense fog."
http://www.fredasvoice.com
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
First Chapter First Paragraph
"I can hear the air going in and out of my brother's nose. I am awake. He is two years old and almost three and he bugs me lots of times because I am five years old and soon I will be six but it is warm sleeping next to him. I call him Stick. He always falls asleep before me and I listen to the air of his nose. I can hear my parents' voices. They are farther away than I can reach and whispering because they think I can't hear. I let out a squeak to let Momma know I am awake and she says "We're right here" from too far away. I squeak again and the tent zipper undoes and I can see the sky in the crack. Her cool hand brushes my hair back and her fingers touch my cheek. "Shh, Anna," she says and the sky zips away again. When I am inside a tent the outside is far away."http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com
Teaser Tuesday
"I scoop my hands in the water a lot of times but I can't turn the canoe around. I don't know what to do and worry that I am bad again. I look at the canoe and think what Momma said that a canoe is the same pointy on both sides. I need to climb around to where the back is pointing and I can go that way. Only it will be hard not to be tipsy. I put my hands on the sides of the canoe and move my feet."http://www.shouldbereading.wordpress.com
Monday, April 7, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
Friday 56
"Yet she knew she was right. It was fear of falling short. Of not
knowing if a person lived right enough or obeyed the rules enough or did
enough kind works and deeds to get into heaven. According to the Ordnung, no one could know their eternal destination until death, so although death should be a happy homecoming for the good Amish person, it was instead a time of dread andand fear.""http://fredasvoice.com
"Claire's garden had a fairy-tale look to it, bordered as it was by the tall trees of the Wild Wood. Whatever grew here grew in shade. A trailing vine heaped tiny buds of honey suckle all along the waist-high wall of stone built in the tight-fitted herring waist-high wall of stone....Cornwall, and the back of the garden was lush with soft ferns and tall spikes of something that looked darkly tropical. Yet, in defiance of the shadows, Claire had set a sundial squarely at the centre of her garden in the one place where the sunlight always reached, and with a ring of upturned earth around it, ready to be planted."http://fredasvoice.com"Yet she knew she was right. It was fear of falling short. Of not knowing if a person lived right enough or obeyed the rules enough or did enough kind works and deeds to get into heaven. According to the Ordnung, no one could know their eternal destination until death, so although death should be a happy homecoming for the good Amish person, it was instead a time of dread and fear."http://fredasvoice.com
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Cat Thursday
I think he or she is so pretty. She's a Persian and an Australian Mist. Just realized I don't know the names of many breed cats. I know a Persian, Scottish Fold, whatever Grumpy is, Siamese,
Tuxedo and Calico.http://www.thetruebookaddict.blogspot.com
Tuxedo and Calico.http://www.thetruebookaddict.blogspot.com
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Teaser Tuesday
http://www.shouldbereading.wordpress.com
"I scanned his books in search of something I might know. The books themselves were lovely things to look at, bound in half calf leather so thae scent of them along enhanced the beauty of the room. Some had their titles stamped in gilded printing on the spine, and curious, I picked out a copy of Jonathan Swift's poems, so recently printed that I could still smell the sharp scent of fresh ink on the pages. As I read the satirical lines I was struck by the strange realization that Jonathan Swift was alive right now somewhere and walking around, maybe forming ideas for Gulliver's Travels, a book that he hadn't yet written."
"I scanned his books in search of something I might know. The books themselves were lovely things to look at, bound in half calf leather so thae scent of them along enhanced the beauty of the room. Some had their titles stamped in gilded printing on the spine, and curious, I picked out a copy of Jonathan Swift's poems, so recently printed that I could still smell the sharp scent of fresh ink on the pages. As I read the satirical lines I was struck by the strange realization that Jonathan Swift was alive right now somewhere and walking around, maybe forming ideas for Gulliver's Travels, a book that he hadn't yet written."
First Chapter First paragraph
"I lost my only sister in the last days of November. It's a rotten time to lose someone, when all the world is dying too and darkness comes on earlier, and when the chill rains fall it seems the very sky is weeping. Not that there's ever a good time to lose your best friend, but it seemed somehow harder to sit there and watch in that hospital room, with the white-coated specialists coming and going, and see only grey clouds beyond the hard windows that offered no warmth and no hope."
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