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I've done this with a couple authors - it's great, you can then request them for your public library or buy them as you choose.

- a lime perhaps, or

, spoons off orange grease

For my own completion of Donna Rose's ellipsis: "Ah, great word, alas, it is no longer in common use.":)

Life of Pi - Yann Martel Fortunate Son - Walter Mosley Money for Nothing - P. G. Wodehouse A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell A Fatal Inversion - Barbara Vine Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov Talkative Man - R. K. Narayan Under the Banyan Tree - R. K. Narayan, still reading All these...

I just posted this word in another thread: anon! I often use words that create questions. It's fun if you do it on purpose, but embarrassing if it slips out at the wrong moment. Anon

It's lovely Mary Poppins weather - practically perfect. No, I'm not gloating. But I'm off to the great outdoors anon.

My main reason for reading is to hear a story. My secondary reason for reading is to learn something. So my reading patterns reflect the disparity noted in your post, SFG. I think that's why biography is such a popular form of non-fiction; it's more storylike. When I'm learning crochet...

Louise Erdrich is a mixed Ojibwe woman who writes novels from a cross cultural perspective. Titles include The Bingo Palace and The Master Butchers' Singing Club. Great novels, they are, look her up for reviews.

Yes, I suffer ... from allergies, mainly:cool: What's up? (In a general sense, not immediate..)

pal whipped up plenty

My hippiest friends and I were reading Carlos Castaneda, Lord of the Rings, even Kurt Vonnegut, besides some of the books you've already discussed. Autobiography of Malcolm X was one I was fond of. Of course we were a mere twelve years old in 1970, so does it count?! Hardly arbiters of literary...

When Walter Mosely writes mysteries, they're riveting, ringing with cool characters, dialogue, and plot. When he's writing a novel - a more serious voice takes over. The events may carry more tragedy, as the wheel turns on the innocent and the good. In his novel, The Fortunate Son, a young...

down weapons and flee

trip-wire and mouse holes

sweet and secret sunlight

. She opened her phone

I do still use the library quite a lot, but my fond childhood memories of library time are sweet indeed. Could that be why I have this ghost image of a saint hovering near the core of each librarian I meet - just to remember those kind women who never said boo when I checked out adult fiction...

blender, with swords sensibly

, cravats and cigarillos, tantamount