The night was fair, and when the tide receded we lay perfectly still, the fresh wind only sending a lip-lip of ripples against our sides. ‘lip-lip of ripples’ earns Mr. Childers high marks in his The Riddle of the Sands.
She lived in the town of Burnet, which wasn’t a very big town, but was growing as fast as it knew how. Thus in a narrative voice of gentle whimsy is the book, What Kay Did, written.
For there she was. 4 simple words. Superbly selected and placed. That’s from MRS. DALLOWAY by the great Virginia Woolf.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. This from Mrs. Dalloway, a tome chock full of tasty sentences.
Storks in the Fossil children’s nursery were always called Gums after that. Nice rhythm and flow. Ballet Shoes is the book. And a proper nice little book it is.
She sprang from the womb and waved to the crowd. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a sentence. It’s the first one in Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show.
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5 of 5 stars to The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton goodreads.com/review/show/55…
