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My favourite books (BLT = Before Library Thing)

Children's Books

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (BLT, Mar 2012)
Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman (BLT)
The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop (BLT)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff (BLT)
Just Grandma and Me by Mercer Mayer (BLT)
The Little Fat Policeman by Margaret Wise Brown (BLT)
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch (BLT)
The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey (BLT)
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (BLT)

Adult Books

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (BLT)
The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers (BLT)
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (BLT and again in 2012)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (Aug 2013)
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (BLT)
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (June 2012)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (BLT)
Looking for Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker (BLT and again in 2011)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginedes (BLT)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (BLT and again 2012)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (BLT)
The Road by Cormack McCarthy (BLT)
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (May 2012)
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes (BLT)
Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman (BLT and again Aug 2012)

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Onward we go!! 2013

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January 2013

1. Baby Animals (Children's book) by Garth Williams (ROOT)
~Baby bear holds his toes~

2. Playmates by Robert B. Parker (ROOT / Kobo)
~ Vince Haller invited me to lunch at the Clarendon Club on Commonwealth Avenue with the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Taft University, Haller's alma mater ~

3. The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje (Audio / Kobo)
~He wasn't talking. He was looking from the window of the car all the way.~

4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Kobo / Audio)
~ Mae Mobely was born on an early Saturday morning, in August 1960 ~

5. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Kobo)
~If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth~

6. Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman (Deanne)
~June. Mad Hetti? We got it for you~

7. Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James (Kobo / Audio)
~I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror~


Total Books Read for January - 7 (incl. 1 children's book)

February 2013

8. Elephant Winter by Kim Echlin (Kobo)
~I am called the Elephant-Keeper, which suits me. My name is Sophie Walker. When I am not at the elephant barns, I live in a crowded house near a tacky commercial tourist farm in southern Ontario. I have a daughter and I take care of the elephants~

9. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (Kobo / Audio)
~Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarny~

10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Audio)
~Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways~

11. Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman (Deanne)
~June 16, 1916. Wych Cross, England. Wake up sir, we are here~

12. Bicycle Bear (Children's book) by Michaela Muntean (ROOT)
~When you want to send a package,
when you want to send a hug,
when you want to send some flowers,
or an Oriental rug …~

13. Pigs in the House (Children's book) by Steven Kroll (ROOT )
~In their pigpen
Nice and Wide
Three Cute Pigs lived
Side by side~

14. The Midsummer Banquet (Children's book) by John Patience (ROOT )
~In a few days it would be time for the Midsummer Banquet to be held a Trundleberry Manor~

15. Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food (Children's book) by Stan and Jan Berenstain (ROOT )
~Healthy Food is good for Brother, Sis and Dad ...
How can Mom make them stop eating food that is bad?~

16. I Don't Want to Go (Children's book) by Justine Korman (ROOT )
~Russell Chipmunk didn’t want to go to the family reunion~

17. The Night Before Christmas (Children's book) by Clement Moore (ROOT )
~'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse~

18. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (Audio / Kobo)
~I was sitting outside the Commodore's mansion, waiting for my brother Charlie to come out with news of the job~

Total Books Read for February - 11 (incl. 6 children's books)

March 2013

19. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Children's book)by Judith Viorst (ROOT )
~I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there’s gum in my hair and when I got out of be this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while they water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

20. The Cat's Pajamas (Children's book) by Ida Chittum (ROOT)
~The cat’s pajamas started out as a big piece of red cloth with white flowers~

21. My Christmas Treasury (Children's book)by Gale Wiersum (ROOT)
~Don’t Look by Kathryn Jackson
Don’t look in the closets,
Or under the beds,
Or in any mysterious nook
Where things may be hidden –
It’s simply forbidden
When Christmas is coming –
Don’t look~

22. The Owl and the Pussycat (Children's book)by Edward Lear (ROOT)
~The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note~

23. The Jungle Book (Disney The Jungle Book) (Little Golden Book) by R.H. Disney (ROOT)
~Many strange legends are told of the jungles of far-off India~

24. The Country Mouse and the City Mouse (Children's book) by Patricia M. Scarry (ROOT)
~Annie Mouse lived quietly in the country~

25. Life - Keith Richards (Audio)
~ Why did we stop at the 4-Dice Restaurant in Fordyce, Arkansas, for lunch on Independence Day weekend?

26. Horton Hears a Who (Children's book) by Dr. Seuss (ROOT)
On the fifteenth of May, in the Jungle of Nool,
In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,
He was splashing … enjoying the jungle’s great joys …
When Horton the elephant heard a small noise~

27. The Queen's Witch by Karen Chance (Kobo)
~ Light from inside the weather-beaten structure leaked out through the shutters, striping the plank of driftwood over the door in flickering bands of gold~

28. Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats by Anne McCaffrey (ROOT)
~How much for that pretty kittycat you got there, young lady?~

29. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Kobo)
~When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow~

30. Beloved by Toni Morrison (Kobo)
~ 124 was spiteful ~

31. Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (ROOT)
~Me and Holly were laying around in bed around 10 A.M. on a Wednesday morning when the call come (sic) ~

Total Books Read for March - 13 (incl. 7 children's books)

April 2013

32. The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
~Tran, Tran and Hok broke through the heavy end-of-wet-season clouds~

33. Miracle in the Rain by Ben Hecht (ROOT)
~Another day was ending in New York~

34. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (AUDIO)
~ The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it “the Riddle House,” even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there~

Total Books Read for April - 3



May 2013

35. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (KOBO)
~Don’t let appearances fool you~
The taxi's radio was tuned to a classical FM broadcast~

36. Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
~The neon hammer and sickle buzzed and flickered over the nightclub of the Lan Xang Hotel~

37. Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
~Dr Siri lay beneath the grimy mesh of the mosquito net watching the lizard's third attempt~

38. Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (Audio)
~The post office box was eighteen across, twelve down, and it had a loop of wool wound around the door so Dr. Buagaew wouldn't miss it~

39. Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (Audio)
~As there were no longer any records, the Hmong could not even tell when they actually misplaced their history~

40. The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill (Audio)
~By the time the calendar pages had flipped around to 1978, Vientiane, the capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, had become a dour place to live~

Total Books Read for May - 6

June 2013

41. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Kindle)
~A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692~

42. Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James (Kindle)
~He’s come back. Mommy’s asleep or she’s sick again~

43. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Audio)
~Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity - Good~

44. Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James (Kindle)
~Mommy! Mommy! Mommy is asleep on the floor~

45. Love Songs from a Shallow Grave by Colin Cotterill (Audio)
~I celebrate the dawn of my seventy-fourth birthday hand-cuffed to a lead pipe~

46. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (Kindle)
~The Whistle Stop Cafe opened up last week, right next door to me at the post office, and owners Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamieson said business has been good ever since~

Total Books Read for June - 6

July 2013

47. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (ROOT)
~They were supposed to stay at the beach a week, but neither of them had the heart for it and they decided to come back early~

48. The Cat Who Went To Paris by Peter Gethers (ROOT)
~A few weeks ago, I made my first-ever will~

49. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman (Audio)
~They sat in the chapel and waited~

50. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (ROOT)
~It was a solecism of the very worst kind~

51. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry by Harry Kemelman (Audio)
~On the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement, a holy convocation shall it be unto you, and ye shall fast ... and no manner of work shall ye do on this day ... it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings~

52. Debbie: My Life by Debbie Reynolds
~For a movie star, ultimately there really is no such thing as Hollywood~

53. Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman
~"Now, that's what I call praying, Rabbi," said Harvey Andelman~

54. Animals Say Wacky Things: Forget the Chocolate...I Want Bacon! (Children's book) by James Mayrose

55. Animals Pray Too: Dear God… Twenty-six Caught-on-Camera Prayers for Children (To Inspire and Make Them Smile) (Children's book) by James Mayrose

56. Jimmy the Kid by Donald Westlake
~Dortmunder, wearing black and carrying his canvas bag of burgler tools, walked across the rooftops from the parking garage on the corner~

57. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
~She was glad it was the evening mailboat she was taking, for she did not think she could face a morning departure~

58. The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon
~At ten minutes before eleven in the morning, the sky exploded into a carnival of white confetti that instantly blanketed the city~

59. May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes
~Do you want my recipe for disaster?~

Total Books Read for July - 13 (incl. 2 children's books)

August 2013

60. Gone West by Carola Dunn
~The approach was not inviting.~

61. This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
~"And if it's a boy," said Phyllida cheerfully, "we'll call him Prospero."~

62. I Am Algonquin by Rick Revelle
~I woke up with the stark realization that I was in unrecognizable surroundings~

63. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
~The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend~

64. The Crystal Towers by Mobashar Qureshi
~"This is not good,” he said, in an English accent~

65. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
~While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her~

66. Beatha: A Badger's Story by Louise J. Hastings
~On this overcast evening dusk came early to Bilbrook woods, settling over the trees like a soggy blanket.~

67. Losing my Mind: Dark Secrets of a Wounded Healer by David Mirich
~Over the years, I have found that spiritual teachers, philosophers, and particularly psychologists are notoriously resistant to fully disclosing their inner world to others –at least publicly~

68. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
~The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive~

69. A Little Hair of the Dog by Jane McBride
~ I opened the door and we walked into an apparently empty bedroom~

70. The Shekinah Legacy by Gary Lindberg
~Some day you will read this, my Dear, and see more clearly how things came to be~

71. Are You Afraid of the Dark by Sidney Sheldon
~Sonja Verbrugge had no idea that this was going to be her last day on earth.~

72. Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
~I could smell him--or rather the booze on his breath--before he even opened the door, but my sense of smell is pretty good, probably better than yours.~

73. Redesigning Rose by Lydia Laceby
~I didn't want to betray my husband's trust~

74. Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
~Wakefield Whiteoak ran on and on, faster and faster, till he could run no farther~


Total Books Read for Aug - 15

September 2013

75. The Big Red Button (Children's book) by Max Candee (Kindle)
~Joey sat at the table with his pet chameleon Larry~

76. Ants: Fun Facts and Cool Pictures (Children's book) by James Mayrose (Kindle)
~DO ANTS HAVE FAMILIES? Ants do not live alone~

77. A Ducky Cure for the Hiccups (Children's book) by Max Candee (Kindle)
~Amanda Grace is a very unusual girl~

78. Knock Knock and Fart Jokes (Children's book) by Laura Marie (Kindle)
~Jokes, Jokes, Jokes...
Did you know that laughter has a LOT of positive effects on your body?~

79. Slash and Burn by Colin Cotterill (Audio)
~You know? Being shut up in a cage with a live bear was a piece of cake compared to being drunk and high in charge of half-a-million dollars' worth of flying metal~

80. The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon (ROOT)
~The 727 was lost in a sea of cumulus clouds that tossed the plane around like a giant silver feather~

81. Nothing Lasts Forever by Sidney Sheldon (ROOT)
~District Attorney Carl Andrews was in a fury~

82. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (ROOT)
~Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven~

83. The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill MacLean
~Some Sunday nights you should go to sleep and not wake up until Tuesday~

Total books read in September: 9 (incl. 4 children's books)

October 2013

84. The Demon's Wife by Rick Hautala
~Now, Claire McMullen says she might never have married Samael if she had known that he was a demon~

85. Moon Called- Patricia Briggs
~I didn’t realize he was a werewolf at first~

86. The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater
~Prologue: Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love~

87. Rotters by Daniel Kraus
~This is the day my mother dies~

88. Summer's End by Lisa Morton
~My name is Lisa Morton. I am one of the world's leading authorities on Halloween~

Total books read in October: 5

November 2013

89. The Peculiar by Stefan Bachman
~Feathers fell from the sky~

90. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K.Rrowling
~It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind~

91. Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn
~The perp looked around - what nasty little eyes he had! - and saw there was nowhere to go~

Total books read in November: 3

December 2013

92. The Circle by Dave Eggars
~My God, Mae thought. It's heaven~

93. The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn
~Was I proud of Bernie or what~

94. Dragonbait by David McLain
~It was a warm day in July when Young Finnegan, Handsome-and-Tall, came bounding into the house~

95. Sold by Patricia McCormick
~One more rainy season and our roof will be gone, says Ama~

96. The Sound and the Furry by Spencer Quinn
~"One thing's for sure," the lawyer said, handing Bernie our check, "you earned every cent"~

Total books read in December: 5

Reading Now 2013

The 12 Step Prayer Book by Bill P (Kindle)
~ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference ~ daily read

Alcoholics Anonymous: Big Book Large Print (ROOT / Kindle)
~ We of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the reader will be interested in the medical estimate of the plan of recovery described in this book ~ daily read

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (ROOT)
~Out of the gravel there are peonies growing~
started Jan 2013

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (Kindle)
~Joey sat at the table with his pet chameleon Larry~

The Building of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche (Kindle)
~Adeline thought that never, never in her life had she seen anything so beautiful as 'The Bohemian Girl'~

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
~We had been wandering for so long I forgot what it was like to live within walls or sleep through the night~

Dragonbait by David McLain (Kindle / LTER)
~It was a warm day in July when Young Finnegan, Handsome-and-Tall, came bounding into the house~

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick (Kindle)
~Oscar Morales was fed up~

The Plantagenet Prelude by Jean Plaidy
~From a window of the Chateau de l'Ombriere the Duke of Aquitaine looked down on the scene in the shaded rose garden~

Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook by Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization daily read
~What is an Adult Child?~

Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Anonymous daily read
~Twenty-Four Hours a Day is intended for members of Alchohloics Anonymous as a help in their program of living one day at a time~

Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur by Ruth Nestvold
~ Once upon a time beyond history, in an age almost beyond imagination, there was a girl as fair as the moon, sitting on a horse and watching a fire ~ started Sept 2012

FOR LATER: A to M

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
~ The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended ~

A Beautiful Place to Die Malla Nunn
~Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper switched off the engine and looked out through the dirty windscreen~

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
~ A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories ~

Candide by Voltaire
~There lived in Westphalia, at the country seat of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young lad blessed by Nature with the most agreeable manners~

Cat Striking Back by Shirley Rosseau Murphy (ROOT)
~The setting moon laid its path across the sea, brightening the white sand and the little village, picking out the angles of its crowded roofs and glancing off the windows of the shops and cottages; moon glow caressed the shaggy pines and the cypress trees and pooled dark shadows beneath them along the narrow streets~

Codependent No More by Melody Beattie (ROOT)
~The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day when I met him. Then everything went crazy. – Georgianne, married to an alcoholic~started Feb 2013

Columbine by Dave Cullen
~He told them he loved them. Each and every one of them~

Come to Grief by Dick Francis
~I had this friend, you see, that everyone loved~

The Devil in Pew Seven by Rebecca Nichols Alonzo
~ I ran ~

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
~The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63–65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it~

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
~ Through the frayed curtain at my window, a wan glow announces the break of day ~

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
~ The Salinas Valley is in Northern California ~ Started July 2012

Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
~ Marx has completely changed the way I view the world,” declared the Pallières boy this morning, although ordinarily he says nary a word to me ~

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (KOBO)
~She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance~

The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
~ At the time, unknown, unnamed, the individual who was to throw himself into the Horseshoe Falls appeared to the gatekeeper of the Goat Island Suspension Bridge at approximately 6:15 am ~

Fifteen by Beverley Cleary
~ Today I am going to meet a boy, Jane Purdy told herself, as she walked up Blossom Street to her baby-sitting job ~

First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
~ Having no personal commitment to either of the new consuls, Gaius Julius Caesar and his sons simply tacked themselves onto the procession that started nearest their house, the procession of the senior consul, Marcus Minucius Rufus ~ started in August 2012

Fledgling by Octavia Butler
~ I awoke to darkness ~

Foundling by D. M. Cornish

Frost in May by Antonia White
~Nanda was on her way to the Convent of the Five Wounds~

Get Off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey (ROOT)
~ When the Rowan came storming towards the station, its personnel mentally and literally ducked ~

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
~My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons~

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (ROOT / Kobo)
~In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort~ started Jan 2013

Hood by Stephen Lawhead (KOBO)
~Prologue: The pig was young and wary, a yearling boar timidly testing the wind for strange scents as it ventured out into the honey-coloured light of a fast-fading day~

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
~ This journey took place in a part of Canada which lies in the northwestern part of the great sprawling province of Ontario

In Dubious Battle By John Steinbeck
~ At last it was evening ~

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
~In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster~

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenso
~I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house~

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (KOBO)
~In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D——. He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806~

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
~A fug of tobacco smoke and damp clammy air hit her as she entered the cafe~

Light in August by William Faulkner
~ Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, ‘I have come from Alabama: a fur piece ~ started in August 2012

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
~ IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love ~

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
~ Inside the snow globe on my father’s desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf ~

Marion Bridge by Daniel McIvor
~ In the dream I'm drowning~

Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson
~ They stood on bare moor ~ Started in Sept 2012

Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper (Kobo)
~When I opened my door at mid-morn and saw the strange boy, I should have known something was wrong~

Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley (Kobo)
~ Even in high summer, Tintagel was a haunted place; Igraine, Lady of Duke Gorlois, looked out over the sea from the headland ~ started in July

FOR LATER: N to Z

No Country for Old Men by Cormack MacCarthy
~ I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville~

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
~It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance~

Palindrome by Stuart Woods (Kobo)
~Miller was wakened from his doze by a puff of hot air, redolent of freshly cut grass and newly disturbed dogshit~

Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander
~ When I was a kid, I would often dream of flying~

The Red and the Black by Stendhal
~ The small town of Verrieres may be regarded as one of the most attractive in the Franche–Comte. ~

The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo (Kobo)
~ A grey bird glided in and out of Harry's field of vision ~
started in July 2012

Sandman:The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
~There are tales that are told many times~

Stories: All New Tales by Neil Gaiman (Audio)
~He grew up in Dracula City~
my category - contemporary fiction

Shipping News by Annie Proulx
~ HERE is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns ~

Still Alice by Lisa Genova
~ Alice sat at their desk in their bedroom distracted by the sounds of John racing through each of the rooms on the first floor ~

Survivor in Death by Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb
~A late-night urge for an orange fizzy saved NIxie's life~

The Tenth Chamber by Glenn Cooper
~ The two men were breathing hard, scrambling over slippery terrain, struggling to make sense of what they had just seen ~

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
~Both moons were high, dimming the light of all but the brightest stars~

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
~ The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races, Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all ~

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
~ This is the story of Danny and of Danny’s friends and of Danny’s house ~

To the End of the Land by David Grossman
~Hey, girl, quiet!~

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
~ “Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York ~ started in August 2012

Valley of the Horses by Jean M. Auel
~ She was dead ~ started in April 2012

A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor (ROOT)
~No gulls escorted the trawlers going out of the harbour, at tea-time as they would on the return journey; they sat upon the rocking waters without excitement, perching along the sides of the little boats, slapped up and down by one wake after another~

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
~ These are the tales of the last days before the great darkness descended ~