dolor
/ˈdōlər/
noun
- a state of great sorrow or distress
The little girl ghost, Bahar, dripping with river water and dolor, told her solemnly, “Sarai can’t play right now,” which sent a chill up her spine.
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
Author: Lee
First Lines Fridays: January 18, 2019
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
and where he went, and who he met, the pain
he suffered in the storms at sea, and how
he worked to save his life and bring his men
back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,
they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god
kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus,
tell the old story for our modern times.
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Currently Reading: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The night silence, the trees looming over the deserted pathway, the vast dark sky full of stars — it all made him feel as if something was about to happen, and he was ready for it.
– Cynthia Voigt, The Vandemark Mummy, page 75
Version:
Mass Market Paperback, 209 pages
Published August 23rd 1992 by Fawcett
Top 5 Wednesday: January 16, 2019
Most Disappointing Reads of 2018
These are books you read in 2018, not only ones released in 2018.
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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
This book really disappointed me. I had been looking forward to reading this book for years, but kept putting it off for one reason or another. Now I wish I had kept putting it off…
Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
Considering the little mystery and the obvious mental illness, I thought this book would be more interesting than it was. Instead I spent the whole time with a look of vague disgust on my face. Read my review.
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
I’ve discovered Yovanoff books are pretty hit or miss with me. Either I love them or I hate them. Unfortunately this was a hate. I wound up abandoning this book.
I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer
So BORING. The prologue to this book made it seem like it was going to be soooo interesting, but it really wasn’t. DNF.
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham
It just seemed so rambling… I don’t really have much to say about it. I had high hopes and they weren’t met. Read my mini-review.
What were your disappointing reads of 2018?
Completed: The Vandemark Mummy by Cynthia Voigt
Words from Books
flummery
/ˈfləmərē/
noun
- empty compliments; nonsense
- a sweet dish made with beaten eggs, milk, sugar, and flavorings
It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
First Lines Fridays: January 11, 2019
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable.
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Thirsty Thursday & Hungry Hearts: January 10, 2019
Welcome to Thirsty Thursday & Hungry Hearts, an original weekly meme hosted by (un)Conventional Bookworms. “So many of the books we read have food or drinks in them, some we’d love to try, and others we’d never ever want to taste… The idea of Thirsty Thursday & Hungry Hearts is to share a quote with food or drinks that showed up in a recent read, as well as if it’s something you think you’d like or not. Please share the title of the book it happened in, as well as the character who ate or drank the special little something you discovered between the pages of a good read.”
I picked this passage from Cynthia Voigt’s The Vandemark Mummy because it gave me a cavity. Just try to read it without craving ice cream, I dare you.
Mr. Hall smiled up at the waitress. “Water for me too, and two scoops of pistachio, with marshmallow sauce on it, I think, and whipped cream, and some wet nuts, and a maraschino cherry.”
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