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Because that’s what we do here.
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I’m knee deep in the dark, brutally honest and often disturbing Jack Taylor detective series by Irish author Ken Bruen. His disgraced Galway Guard will break your heart so many times you’ll marvel at the strength of the human spirit.
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These aren’t easy lighthearted stories… but they’re powerful with deeply damaged, well written characters. Some hoping for redemption, some forever damned.
They say write what you know, and if that’s true? Mr. Bruen has been to the belly of Hell and back, firmly grasping a bottle of whiskey.
Page 18, line 4?
“I’d been to the off-licence, got my back up.”
Jameson and Guinness in this case.
How about you?
What’s your page 18, line 4 say?
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River's world..... 
“That’s why, years before, she had introduced a game where she became a character named Ruff Ruff, a magical dog.” From Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz. When Lenny heard a classmate yell at that he had a white dad and a black mom but couldn’t understand what the problem was. Ruff Ruff created by Roxie Roker was her way of teaching harsher life lessons in a fun way.
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A much better teacher than Bruen’s bottle of Jameson.
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Says who?
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Every alcoholic I’ve ever known…
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But Jameson had a lesson even for them: Stop drinking
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The Capitol’s massive footprint measures more than 750 feet in length and 350 feet deep.
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
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That was a good one.
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I LOVE a good detective novel. Raymond Chandlier is one of my favorites.
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It’s been a while since I read one of those…
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Since I’m at work, and the nearest book at my reach is a budgeting manual, this is what page 18, line 4 says…
“Unrestricted fund detail drill-down reports should provide the expenditure information by program and fund.” Yeah fun times, but your book however peaked my interest! Now I’m going to see if I can find it on Amazon.
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Your book peaked my interest. Sounds like a line that says “Do a better job with your ledger/spreadsheet”.
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That’s pretty much what this budget book is about, it’s so interesting….not, lol.
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That sounds like a real snoozer. But if you want to read Ken Bruen, start with the first book in the series. The Guards. They’re much better if you read in order and know the back story.
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From Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose:
“… reveals the grandmother’s sense of her own faded gentility…”
Don’t know who the grandmother is yet, but I feel her anxiety. Could this be more random?
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Faded gentility. I can almost picture grandma..
😉
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“Now the massive country was on the verge of being a failed state.” Page 18, line 4, Vince Flynn’s “The Survivor” (hardback edition). Pretty appropriate based on what is currently going on, huh?
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Is that the Mitch Rapp series? I’ve read about a dozen of those…
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Yep. I have them all…to date….Mitch is a badass.
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“The time has come for us to part. Let us divide our possessions.” From a story called the two Hermits, by Kahlil Gibran’s book the Madman. Shocked?
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A little bit, yes.
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The nearest book to me is a cookbook. Page 14 – US Navy Bean Soup
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Blech! No thanks…
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Could be worse. The recipe might call for Kale
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True. Kale makes everything worse…
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Line 4 was in the middle of a paragraph so I will go with this:
“The case of Amy Archer -Gilligan represents a striking exception to the general rule.”
Ripped From The Headlines by Harold Schechter.
*This would have been more fun if it were like Add-A-Story without sharing the title and author.
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Maybe next time…
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From The Ordinance Survey Puzzle Book: page 18 is totally blank.
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Well that’s no fun.
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A Maze of Death. Pnilip K. Dick.
Starts on line 4, goes to line 6.
“Months years—he had not seen the Walker-on-Earth for a long time, and the weight was intolerable.”
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Ooh. I don’t think I’ve read that one…
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One of his best, in my mind. Twists and turns that keep you off balance. Only PKD could have written this.
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“Ain’t life grand,” she said, twirling her pasta with a fork that caught Chester’s eye in the glint of chandelier light, and he knew – like the bee knows the nectar, or the proctologist knows the anus-spreader – that this night was going to end extremely well for them both (though less so for the spaghetti).
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Whaaaaat?
Only you could read a book where spaghetti and anus spreaders are mentioned in the same sentence.
🤣🤣🤣
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It’s entirely made up, lol. I didn’t have a book handy and didn’t feel like getting up out of my recliner.
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I’m strangely disappointed.
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Haha! Maybe I should write this book.
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“Admit that I was just looking for a better view just as hard as everyone else.” Journeys to archers a St. Sebastian by Jeanne Roland
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