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Welease Woderwick
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Letter to the Church at Ephesus by Paul, Saint.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Jane R
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Sorcery and Cecelia: or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
The story is told via a series of letters exchanged by the two main characters.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[composed mostly of Celie's letters to God]
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Cara
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The Color of Water by James McBride
(Brilliant memoir. Mixed-race child growing up in US. Title was his mother's answer to the question "What color is God?" --IIRC )
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Pondering.
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ArachnidinElmet
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The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Chorister
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The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Golden Key
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Gift From The Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
(Thoughts about life in general, and her life. Much beloved by many.)
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Thunder from the Sea - Joan Hiatt Harlow
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Lyda*Rose
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Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey
My dad loves this book! Written by a submarine captain, this guy thought outside the box, the shelf, and the warehouse and was very successful at his command in the Pacific.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Jane R
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Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
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ArachnidinElmet
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The Lightning Cage by Alan Wall
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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jacobsen
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The Road Home Rose Tremaine
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Golden Key
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Homeland And Other Stories, by Barbara Kingsolver.
The story about the ripple effects of stealing has stuck with me. Really good.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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jacobsen
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The Story of the Amulet by E.Nesbit
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Lyda*Rose
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The Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
The E. Nesbit book featured the Psammead, a sand fairy.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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agrgurich
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Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner
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Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
AJG
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daronmedway
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The Number One Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.
Heard the start of it on Radio 4. Hated it from the first syllable. I'm sure it wasn't supposed to be racist but I couldn't help feeling that the author wanted me to laugh at how "simple" the characters were.
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jacobsen
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[tangent alert] isn't that your response rather than the author's?[/tangent]
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Whimsy.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Leorning Cniht
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quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Whimsy.
Wimsey.
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh.
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Cara
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Well, I haven't read it yet, though I've long admired this author; but it's on everyone's lips:
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
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Pondering.
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Lyda*Rose
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Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective and Judy Norsigian
Quite revolutionary in the day.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Sir Kevin
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quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Whimsy...
In real life, Whimsy is a mare owned by a friend of ours, another Shipmate!
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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ArachnidinElmet
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warm bodies by Isaac Marion
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Jane R
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John Wayne: American by Randy Roberts and James S. Olson
John Wayne's real name was Marion Mitchell Morrison.
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agrgurich
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The spy by James Fenimore Cooper
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Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
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Golden Key
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, by Dorothy Gilman.
The first of the Mrs. Pollifax spy novels. Emily P. is a 60-something widow and garden-club lady who's depressed and at loose ends. Then she remembers that she once wanted to be a spy...
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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jacobsen
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Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Welease Woderwick
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The Night Life of the Gods - Thorne Smith
Very funny - if you haven't read it then you should.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Jane R
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Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters
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Evangeline
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
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Boadicea Trott
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Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
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X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
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ArachnidinElmet
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Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Evangeline
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In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike.
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Jane R
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Lilies that Fester by Hazel Holt
(they smell absolutely vile when they're dying, as any flower arranger could tell you)
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Boadicea Trott
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The Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt
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X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
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jacobsen
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South Riding by Winifred Holtby
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Evangeline
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A Horseman Riding By by R.F. Delderfield
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ElaineC
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To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
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Evangeline
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Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
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jacobsen
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The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Cara
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Down with Skool! by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
one of the immortal Molesworth books.
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Pondering.
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Jane R
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Molesworth Rites Again by Simon Brett
...in which the grown-up Molesworth demonstrates that his spelling has not really improved with age.
[ 02. July 2013, 20:30: Message edited by: Jane R ]
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Welease Woderwick
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Funeral Rites - Jean Genet
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Evangeline
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Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
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ArachnidinElmet
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Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Death of a Peer - Ngaio Marsh
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Jane R
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The White Riders by Monica Edwards
The story is set on Romney Marsh.
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Welease Woderwick
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White Mughals - William Dalrymple
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quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
...The story is set on Romney Marsh.
I thought he was an Australian cricketer! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Jane R
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It was difficult balancing four ponies on top of him all at once, I can tell you...
Which leads us on to
White Murder by David Wishart
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