Archive for November, 2009

November 17th Quote Installments

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Being ‘down’ is part of the process, in my opinion, I’d be very leery of anybody who was ‘up’ all the time. Personally, i think a drug screening would be warranted.
Mr Modem AKA Richard A Sherman
Be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
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Crazy Eights: A Jake Hines Mystery by Elizabeth Gunn

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

My first glimpse of Elizabeth Gunn and Jack Hines and, although I’m not yet addicted, this was a novel I enjoyed as it was a quick read and had very good aspects of it.
I found the beginning court room drama slow going but once the verdict was in things started heating up and became interesting. [...]

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Monday, November 9th, 2009

An unusual novel for me to purchase but one I fell upon by chance and quite enjoyed. The Lovely Bones is written from the perspective of a murdered teenager, barely old enough to experience a school girl crush, and the characters view from heaven, or Sebold’s version of heaven.
The reader follows the murder and the [...]