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We were blessed with excellence, and excellently blessed, and our schoolwork and sports teams and choirs and clubs and shoulders thrummed with the Calvinist confidence that is actually a threat: if you do not become spectacular, it means
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“Catastrophe can be a course correction, you know?”
― Anita de Monte Laughs Last
― Anita de Monte Laughs Last
“Psssh. This is where you females get in your own way. If a rich woman came up o me today and said, 'Marcus, you handsome devil, let me take you away from all this. A man as fine and smart and wonderful and good in bed as you shouldn't have to work.' Well, I wouldn't say, 'But how will I prove myself as a man if I don't work?' I would say, 'Sign me up! Just let me keep doing my radio show, please.”
― Anita de Monte Laughs Last
― Anita de Monte Laughs Last
“You'd think she'd be relieved," I said. "From what I hear, he beat the shit out of her."
"Not at first. She was crazy about him when he first got out. Still is, actually."
"That's probably why she called him the world's biggest asshole at the funeral," I remarked.”
― D is for Deadbeat
"Not at first. She was crazy about him when he first got out. Still is, actually."
"That's probably why she called him the world's biggest asshole at the funeral," I remarked.”
― D is for Deadbeat
“Anna wondered what it was that was so alienating about cars. Somehow, more than any othter machine, they seemed to create a world of their own, a mobile pack-rat midden full of personal artifacts that utterly separated man from the natural environment he hurtled through.”
― Ill Wind
― Ill Wind
“Ann broke in. "I'm sorry, June. This is Kinsey Milhone. She's a private detective Pop hired to help us out."
"Private detective?" she said, with disbelief. "I didn't think there was a such a thing, except on television shows."
"Nice to meet you," I said. "I'm afraid the work we do isn't quite that thrilling."
"Well I hope not. All those gun battles and car chases? It's enough to make my blood run cold! It doesn't seem like a fit occupation for a nice girl."
"I'm not that nice," I said modestly.
She laughed, mistaking this for a joke.”
― F is for Fugitive
"Private detective?" she said, with disbelief. "I didn't think there was a such a thing, except on television shows."
"Nice to meet you," I said. "I'm afraid the work we do isn't quite that thrilling."
"Well I hope not. All those gun battles and car chases? It's enough to make my blood run cold! It doesn't seem like a fit occupation for a nice girl."
"I'm not that nice," I said modestly.
She laughed, mistaking this for a joke.”
― F is for Fugitive
Supernatural Freakshow
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Like to read about haunted houses, haunted swamps and non-romantic, subversive paranormals and eco-gothics in the Shirley Jackson/Michael McDowell vei ...more
Weird Westerns
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The western is a time-honored genre in the literature world, but it wasn't until lately that we've started adding the surreal to the mix and it's been ...more
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
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A book discussion group for Vermont Vita-Learn and Vermont School Library Association members. With a tip of our hats to Lucille Ball! Image attribut ...more
Food in Fiction
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Do you love fiction in which food and/or drink plays a major part? Books like Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, Sideways, Chocolat, Secrets of the T ...more
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