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Sylvia is Currently Reading

Sylvia Walker is currently reading

For Love or Bunny (Bought-the-Farm Mystery #12)

by Ellen Riggs (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: action-and-adventure, animal-characters, animal-rescue, cozy-mystery, family, romance, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in May 2022

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Sylvia Walker said: " One of the joys of reading a series like this is feeling that you are hearing news of old friends, when you read a new one. This one has some tantalising foreshadowing for the next series; it's hard to wait! ...more "

May 11, 2022 01:55PM · see review

Sylvia’s Quotes

“The God of Thunder has fallen into the milk pail!”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

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“Feely, it seemed, was, as Sherlock Holmes once called Dr. Watson, "the one fixed point in a changing world." Throughout the events of the past few days, Feely had somehow managed to remain her same unpleasant self.

Could it be that goodness wanes and waxes like the moon, and that only evil is constant?”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

tags: funny, philosophy, sherlock-holmes

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“Whereas, it is hereby decreed to all felines of the Middle Kingdom: They are enjoined to observe every provision of the judicial codes unless such provisions aforesaid have been abrogated heretofore, though any abrogation is liable to reinstatement at any time whatever and shall be effective retroactively without recourse on behalf of said felines whether or not said felines are presently or will be engaged in litigation. This decree is not susceptible to appeal.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Dream-of-Jade: The Emperor's Cat

tags: humor, legalese

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“like a building, but he saw only dark”
― Geoff Jones, The Dinosaur Four

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“Tea has nothing to do with being hungry," said Nimrod. "For Englishmen, it is like a canonical hour. And almost as much of an important ritual as the tea ceremony in Japan. Except for one thing. With tea, in Japan, recognition is given that every human encounter is a singular occasion which can, and will, never recur again exactly. Thus every aspect of tea must be savored for what it gives the participants. But in England, the significance occurs in the fact that teas is always the same, and will always recur again and again, exactly . For how is the endurance of a great civilization to be measured?”
― P.B. Kerr, The Akhenaten Adventure

tags: culture, philosphy, tea

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