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"On a mild autumn night in the Red River Valley of North Dakota, Crystal pulled herself up behind the wheel of an International side-dump, steered out of the sugar processing plant, and started her haul."The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
“Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss.”The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin, which doesn’t really have anything to do with jellyfish and oceans, at least so far. (I’m about 45% done.)
Now that my eldest sister, Maisha, was twelve, none of us knew how to relate to her anymore.Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
"The last months of Bree's life were, absurdly, full of hope."Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews
"I hated the snow in Northeast Minneapolis."Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer
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"What are your feelings on mummies?"
Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong
"'If you'll permit me,' said the Stranger, 'I'd like to tell you a story."The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths.
"Every lawyer in the land could make some small contribution to Geoff Tibballs' extraordinary range of Legal Blunders." - Baroness Helena Kennedy, QCLegal Blunders by Geoff Tibballs
I am reading this for a reading challenge with my local library.
Running. They had to keep running. The Gilded Cage (#2 of The Prison Healer)
“Sometime during your life - in fact, very soon - you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”The Miserable Mill
"Gwen's perfect laugh reaches me from across the hotel lobby just as I step into the elevator"Bad Habits by Amy Gentry
Bad Habits
“Something has happened, something so extraordinary that I cannot file it into Patient One’s official medical file, which is why I am writing it here in a separate physical notebook” Toward Eternity by Anton Hur.
"We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world"A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
“So this was freedom.”-New York by Edward Rutherford for the November Bonus prompt-860 pages
Police Constable Penny Rogers had been right on the bumper of the minibus, sire wailing and lights flashing, for several minutes before it. Finally pulled on to the hard shoulder of the motorway. Were they completely deaf and blind?- How to Age Disgracefully by Claire Polley
The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
A Brief History of Time (other topics)Toward Eternity (other topics)
Bad Habits (other topics)
The Miserable Mill (other topics)
Legal Blunders (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Stephen Hawking (other topics)Geoff Tibballs (other topics)
Amy T. Matthews (other topics)
Louise Erdrich (other topics)
Ursula K. Le Guin (other topics)
November 11, 2024 -- Week 46
What's the first line in the book you're currently reading?