As I read my Kindle, I highlight intriguing or beautifully descriptive passages from the novel. Here are a few more from Erdrich: “…my head seemed to balloon out and fill with bees.” “Linda Wishkob was magnetically ugly.” “Travis’ father had taken him into the city to see the Catholic president and his elegant first lady,Continue reading “Louise Erdrich’s The Round House (3)”
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Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London, Book 1 (5)
As I read my Kindle, I highlight intriguing or beautifully descriptive passages from the novel. Here are a few more from Aaronovitch: “There was a ringing in my ears like the sensation you get when swimming near the bottom of the deep end.” “The air was suddenly full of the scent of apple blossom andContinue reading “Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London, Book 1 (5)”
Laura Taylor Namey’s The Library of Lost Things (5)
It’s a treat to be able to highlight quotes in a Kindle and have them saved in a csv file! Here are a few more from Namey: “My stomach instantly fluttered. ‘You,’ he said, ‘are so pretty. But when we’re at Yellow Feather, and I’m staring at you from across the room, and you’re bentContinue reading “Laura Taylor Namey’s The Library of Lost Things (5)”
Great Lines from The Paragon Hotel
“Harry was always dour, but I’d never seen his face turned the color of molding cheese previous.” Bet he could charm the skin off a tomato in person.” While The Paragon Hotel is not my favorite Faye novel, her gift for imaginative and delicious lines shows in this, too.If you’ve not read any Lindsay Faye,Continue reading “Great Lines from The Paragon Hotel”
Laura Taylor Namey’s The Library of Lost Things (4)
Here are a few more great quotes from Namey: “And now he’s going to… His mouth pressed over mine. So this…this was a kiss…” “I bolted back out into the hall with the kind of thoughtless movement people make when they expect an empty space and no company. But I was wrong. There was company—theContinue reading “Laura Taylor Namey’s The Library of Lost Things (4)”
Louise Erdrich’s The Round House (2)
Here are a few more great quotes from Erdrich: “My father’s chin jutted, his hands tightened on the wheel. He had a profile that would look Indian on a movie poster, Roman on a coin.” “…a life that had worn itself into bachelor grooves and a house of womanless chaos.” “She often exuded faint undertonesContinue reading “Louise Erdrich’s The Round House (2)”
Lindsay Faye’s The Fatal Flame (6)
Faye has so many great quotes, I’m sure I’ll return to her work, but here are my last from This Fatal Flame. “I know you deserve someone who wants to carve your name in every tree he ever encounters.” LINDSAY FAYE, Fatal Flame “I liked her and admired her the way I’d esteem a newlyContinue reading “Lindsay Faye’s The Fatal Flame (6)”
An unexpected visitor…
The door sliced open, and a stylish and inky cowboy boot pressed into the gravel drive. Moments later, a figure loomed taller than the car. A thick, gray mustache hung over the man’s lip like an inverted frown. Bushy eyebrows shaded gray and unreadable eyes. The man cleared his throat with a guttural scoop andContinue reading “An unexpected visitor…”
Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London, Book 1 (4)
Here are a few more great quotes from Aaronovitch: “Beverley came running onto the wharf as if there was a set of stairs hidden under the water. She was as dark and sleekly naked as a seal and you could have fired a shotgun past my ear and I still wouldn’t have looked away.” “IContinue reading “Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London, Book 1 (4)”
Lindsay Faye’s God’s of Gotham (7)
Here are a few more from Faye’s The God’s of Gotham: “Footsteps sounded. One set neat and delicate and the other smaller, like its echo.” “‘I need a police man,’ she said. She didn’t. She needed a miracle.” “That glance seared the air like a lightning bolt.” If you’ve not read any Lindsay Faye, I’dContinue reading “Lindsay Faye’s God’s of Gotham (7)”
Laura Taylor Namey’s The Library of Lost Things (3)
Here are a few more great quotes from Namey: “Fake potted plants brushed against buttermilk-white walls. Rows of fluorescent light tubes jiggled and buzzed, shrinking me like a hamster in a too-bright cage.” “He trapped my waist in the tight circle of his arms, angling his face so close to mine, I doubted even aContinue reading “Laura Taylor Namey’s The Library of Lost Things (3)”
Louise Erdrich’s The Round House (1)
As I read my Kindle, I highlight intriguing or beautifully descriptive passages from the novel. Here are a few recent: “The light caught the lines in his face and they deepened to cracks. He looked a thousand years old.” “The moonlight illuminated the edges of things, made suggestions out of shadows.” “I took great gulpsContinue reading “Louise Erdrich’s The Round House (1)”