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.

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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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.

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.

Read 52 Books in 52 Week in 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.

Read 52 Books in 52 Week in 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.

Read 52 Books in 52 Week in 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.

Week Eighteen - 34 to Go

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

Read 52 Books in 52 Week in 2011