Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Teaser Tuesday (May 31)

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page 89 - Information systems are built to stop you from breaking in: people know you're going to do it or try to do it. So in a sense, they're warned....But when people tell you things in confidence or trust you with information they think you're not going to repeat it, they have no defences.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Week Twenty Two - 30 to Go


Like Jack Benny, Spenser will be stuck forever on 39. Like Shane, Spenser leaves triumphantly heading west. Like a best friend who has moved, Spenser will be dearly missed.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Teaser Tuesday (May 24)

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page 338 - The truth was, when the best were taken, they were normally taken easily. A bomb drops on your house, it doesn’t matter how good your hand-to-hand combat skills are---you’re dead.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Week Twenty One - 31 to Go


Michael Connelly is a very good writer. His excellence abounds in this "I bet you cannot put it down until you finish" novel.

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Monday, May 16, 2011

Week Twenty - 32 to Go


Peter Sís uses a red box inherited from his father to take the reader on a magical mystery tour of Tibet.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Week Nineteen - 33 to Go


Coben maintains his snap with Winsdor Horne Lockwood III and his crackle with Esperanza, but this story’s ending produces a pop, which places this novel amongst Coben's best.

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Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Teaser Tuesday (May 3)

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page 35 - ... Wallander realized Hakan von Enke was sacred. He had seen this many times before in his life: a person frightened of something, real or imagined. He was certain he wasn’t mistaken.

Sunday, May 01, 2011

Week Eighteen - 34 to Go


Patterson should limit his writing to the present. Hays Baker is no Alex Cross. Lucy is not Lindsay Boxer.

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