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52 Pages: Eighteenth Page: The Dark is Rising
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, May 10, 2009. Eighteenth Page: The Dark is Rising. Part One: The Finding. James shouted, and slammed the door behind him. Too many kids in this family, that's what. Just. James stood fuming on the landing like a small angry locomotive, then stumped across to the window-seat and stared out at the garden. Will put aside his book and pulled up his legs to make room. "I could hear all the yelling," he said, chin on knees. And your birthday tomorrow.". Into a movie - ...
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52 Pages: February 2009
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, February 22, 2009. Eighth Page: Life is Funny. At first Ebony and I don't want to, but then her mom, Ms. Giles, says she'll pay us, and we say okay because Ebony's twin sisters' day care isn't that far, plus it's across the street from McDonald's. We're fine, thank you. And what's up to you, too? Ebony goes, loud, so he'll hear. Only he asks like he's deaf or something. At times it's jarring. At times it's humourous. At times it's deeply moving. The eldest was a ...
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52 Pages: July 2012
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, July 29, 2012. Twenty-First Page: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Once, in a house on Egypt street, there lived a rabbit who was made almost entirely of china. he had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose. His arms and legs were jointed and joined by wire so that his china elbows and china knees could be bent, giving him much freedom of movement. Or The Tale of Despereaux. Is pretty brilliant, too.). In sh...
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52 Pages: May 2009
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, May 10, 2009. Eighteenth Page: The Dark is Rising. Part One: The Finding. James shouted, and slammed the door behind him. Too many kids in this family, that's what. Just. James stood fuming on the landing like a small angry locomotive, then stumped across to the window-seat and stared out at the garden. Will put aside his book and pulled up his legs to make room. "I could hear all the yelling," he said, chin on knees. And your birthday tomorrow.". Into a movie - ...
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52 Pages: April 2009
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, April 26, 2009. Sixteenth Page: One More Time. You'll probably notice that I'm back-dating. The purpose of that is to make sure that, in playing catch-up, I supply the appropriate number of entries. For the next while, I'll be posting willy-nilly wherever and whenever I can until I'm back and ready to return to our regularly-scheduled Sunday posts. And, to that end . Los Angeles, California, 1986. Dear Carrie, Jody, and Erin,. When you were all little girls, I'm.
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52 Pages: January 2009
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, January 25, 2009. Fourth Page: Beasts of No Nation. In voice that is just touching my body like knife. I can hardly say enough about this book, in which a boy, Agu, in some unnamed African country relates his experiences as a child soldier "recruited" into civil war. I read it this summer and was blown away in a hundred ways. Uzodinma Iweala, who wrote Beasts of No Nation. It immediately jumped into my must-read list. Sunday, January 18, 2009. What could have bee...
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52 Pages: Nineteenth Page: The Redbreast
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, July 15, 2012. Nineteenth Page: The Redbreast. 1 Toll Barrier at Alnabru. 1 November 1999. A grey bird glided in and out of Harry's field of vision. he drummed his fingers on the steering wheel Slow time. Somebody had been talking about 'slow time' on TV yesterday. This was slow time. Like on Christmas Eve before Father Christmas came. Or sitting in the electric chair before the current was turned on. Jo Nesbø's The Redbreast. Finds Harry Hole, a good cop with so...
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52 Pages: Seventeenth Page: The Giver
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, May 3, 2009. Seventeenth Page: The Giver. At first, he had been only fascinated. He had never seen aircraft so close, for it was against the rules for Pilots to fly over the community. Occasionally, when supplies were delievered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bicycles to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community. The central question...
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52 Pages: Sixteenth Page: One More Time
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Recommended reading every sunday. Sunday, April 26, 2009. Sixteenth Page: One More Time. You'll probably notice that I'm back-dating. The purpose of that is to make sure that, in playing catch-up, I supply the appropriate number of entries. For the next while, I'll be posting willy-nilly wherever and whenever I can until I'm back and ready to return to our regularly-scheduled Sunday posts. And, to that end . Los Angeles, California, 1986. Dear Carrie, Jody, and Erin,. When you were all little girls, I'm.
