Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: Not for a long time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive. Mr. Vernon Dursey had been woken in the early hours of the morning by a loud, hooting noise from his nephew Harry’s room. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: Lolita, light of my life. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 The passion I had developed for that […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: It was a solecism of the worst kind. He sneezed loudly, wetly, and quite unforgivably into the woman’s face. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 People liked to say that the wrong streetsof Acton got the heat of the day and that’s why things were so different […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special significence, there was much talk and excitment in Hobbiton. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 “There was more than one party at work, Frodo. […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: Scarlet O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 When Scarlet was a year old, and more healthy and vigorous than a baby girl had any right to […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 She threw her arms around Pearl. Across the table, Moody gave […]
2018 has arrived, and I’m kicking it off with a meme entitled My Life According To The Books I Read In 2017. Describe yourself: The Vatican Princess by C.W. Gortner Describe where you currently live: The Other Woman’s House by Sophie Hannah If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Welcome to Dead House […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of Western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansasans call “out there”. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 Nancy was invariably the last of the family to retire; as she had once informed her […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: The doorbell rang at 9:17 on the evening of February 4, 1974. From their perch on the sofa in the living room, Patricia Hearst and Steven Weed looked at each other and shrugged. No one was expected. But it was Berkley, so who knew? Hosted by […]
Hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addict Question: When reading a book, do you use a bookmark to mark your place in the book, or do you just fold over the top corner of the page? Answer I always use a bookmark. It is sinful to dog-ear a book Hosted by Rose City Reader […]