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The Surprise Party

by Julia Crouch (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for Christmas Corpse (A Christmas Cozy Mystery, #1)

Christmas Corpse (A Christmas Cozy Mystery, #1) by Mona Marple

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Nobody would pull a cracker about a thing like that.”

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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: books, humor, television

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“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you”
― Stephanie Bennett Henry

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“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
― Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

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