Author: Lee
Completed: The Haunting by Shirley Jackson
Words from Books
depredation
/ˌdeprəˈdāSHən/
noun
- an act of attacking or plundering
His spirit, depleted by his own depredations, pulsed too fast through his veins, twinning with a whirr and discordant jangle of… of disbelief crashing against evidence, producing a sensation of disfaith.
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
First Lines Fridays: February 1, 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:
It was nighttime, February 1943, and I was standing next to my mother, thinking about the war in Europe. I had a very good relationship with my mother, so there’s no need for any psychoanalysis about why I was thinking of the war.
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January 2019 Reading Wrap-Up
The Vandemark Mummy by Cynthia Voigt
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: December 31 – January 14
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Althea is smarter than everyone.
Least Favorite Thing: Can’t think of anything…
I read this to practice my annotating in preparation for a travelling book project. It really enhanced my enjoyment of the mystery!
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The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: February 10 – 18
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: The art.
Least Favorite Thing: The whining.
I was kind of disappointed in this book, which was a bummer because I’ve been really impressed with this author in the past. But I just found it, and especially the main character Colby, really boring and whiny… It pretty much only got three stars because the ending was good.
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In Progress
Words from Books
espalier
/əsˈpalyər/ or /esˈpälyər/
verb
- train (a tree or shrub) to grow flat against a wall
Flocks of brilliant butterflies moved through like schools of fish, and the upper levels of the amphitheater were espaliered with jeweled fruit trees.
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
First Lines Fridays: January 25, 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:
I’m pretty much fucked. That’s my considered opinion. Fucked.
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Book Haul: January 24, 2019
It was as if there was a wide foggy space between anything he might think of doing and his body that would do it.
– Cynthia Voigt, The Vandemark Mummy, page 154
Version:
Mass Market Paperback, 209 pages
Published August 23rd 1992 by Fawcett
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