The English countryside in the haying month was a sight to lift the downhearted. Gentle winds brushed the tall grasses of cultivated fields and wild marshlands, rippling them with sea-like waves of green. The darker hues of oak and beech on the rolling landscape gave balance in color and form, while winding rivers and brooks... Continue Reading →
"When you kill someone, it changes you. Totally." - Revenge! (Locations 105-106) The Plot From Amazon: Natalie McMasters is twenty, short and blonde (OK, it’s bleached), a way cute former stripper and a pre-law student at State. Nattie also works as a private detective at her uncle’s 3M Detective Agency. She’s deeply in love with... Continue Reading →
The more I was able to see how reliable God was, the more in love with God I felt in my human way. I also learned that there was also a key difference in the style, use, and approach of the faith that God gives us, as compared with the faith we have in people.... Continue Reading →
“I didn’t get my money.” “I know. I didn’t send it.” “Are you playing games with me?” she asked angrily. “I thought you wanted to help me!” “I do. How does $ 5000 sound?” Kate repeated the number, then silence. “Are you still there?” Samuel asked. “Yeah… What do I have to do? Marry you?... Continue Reading →
"We had a mystery in our lives - our father - and it was thrilling. Nobody but Mum knew anything about him, not even Gran and Granddad, so we knew he must have been a war hero, probably a spy. All Mum would tell us was that he had had to go away to another... Continue Reading →
"What a lot of people don't appreciate these days is that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing to the thing we have now. Almost no resemblance at all." - Literature® (Locations 26-27) The Plot From Amazon: Billy is a bookworm himself,... Continue Reading →
I look up. A man is staring at me. Slowly he kneels. I reach out. He’s no illusion. I can touch him and he doesn’t disappear. I study his face – a foreign face, smiling and frowning at the same time, as if he is about to cry. He sees something in me. Is it... Continue Reading →
He held his black fedora in his hands and twitched his mouth nervously. He wasn't tall at all and wore a narrow, false-looking mustache. His thinning hair was oily and combed back from his wide brow. I couldn't help but notice a bulge in his suit, but he wasn't happy to see me. - Vic... Continue Reading →
At Gettysburg, she’d held him in her arms, briefly. She wanted him so badly that there were occasions when she thought she saw him standing in front of her. A lone Union officer, in the midst of a Confederate camp. - Whippoorwill (Page 247) The Plot From Amazon: Barely fourteen, Ceci Prejean is a tomboy... Continue Reading →
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