“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
I’m re-reading, again. I love this book.
Re-reading what?
Sorry, I thought it might have been obvious - The Catcher In The Rye
Ever since childhood I’ve wanted to be abducted by Aliens.
Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The telltale sound of a pistol shot draws the immediate attention of New York City patrolman Henry Schwarz, walking west on Twelfth Street, ready to cross First Avenue.”
Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy, by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr.
“There was a fly walking on Cordelia’s hand and she was not allowed to flick it away.”
A Sorceress Comes to Call, by T. Kingfisher.
Jacqueline Cochran waited impatiently in her New York City apartment while a group of men in Canada debated her fate.
The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat, by Eileen A Bjorkman
“‘Don’t ring,’ my brother Alfred admonished me.”
The Quivering Tree: An East Anglian Childhood, by S. T. Haymon
“In that place, the wind prevailed.”
Bless the Beasts and Children, by Glendon Swarthout.
A shilling coin jangled insistently inside an empty tin can, followed by someone whispering ‘Get out, Doug!’ in an urgent hiss.
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two’s Greatest Escape, by Mark Felton
2011, Lincolnshire, England–Ellie
Roman Britain first “invaded” my life on one of the many weekends spent with my grandparents, Mammette and Papa Allan, at their rural Lincolnshire farmhouse.
Things We Found in the Ground: Discovering the History Buried Beneath Our Feet, by Ellie Bruce and Lucie Gray
“Jacob Goldstein had never really had a vacation, although he had been working hard for more than forty-five years.”
Laughing Through the Years: A New Treasury of Jewish Humor, retold by David C. Gross
“A city is a big crowded place that’s full of small crowded places.”
Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual: The Lair of the Clockwork Book, by Bradley W. Schenck.
This is how it began, and how it would end, on the long pale strand of a Lincolnshire beach in the last hour of sun, the daylight moon small as a kite in the sky.
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child, by Laura Cumming
“It was a cold, raw day in late March when the three Kowalskis were to leave the State Home and School, and Hedwig Kowalski’s mood matched the day.”
Ready-made Family, by Frances Salomon Murphy
“It was dawn, and the zombies were stumbling through the parking lot, streaming toward the massive beige box at the far end.”
Horrorstor, by Grady Hendrix.
May 23, 1939
Just off Portsmouth, New Hampshire
“The engine rooms are flooding!”
Strike of the Sailfish: Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier, by Stephen L Moore
It was one of the most notorious murders of its age.
Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer, by Margalit Fos
“The blue-footed booby is an extraordinary-looking bird.”
Why Are Orangutans Orange? Science Questions in Pictures–With Fascinating Answers, edited by Mick O’Hare
“No human could have shaped the thoughts or uttered them.”
Genesis, by Poul Anderson.
“Diahann Carroll knew how to throw a party.”
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics, by Juanita Tolliver
“So. I’m not in an ideal situation right now.”
Full Speed to a Crash Landing, a science fiction novel by Beth Revis.
Thanks to you, I’ll be hearing this via Audiobooks.
Hope you like it better than I did.
“The year my sister Amy was invited to play Mrs. Claus in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was the same year that Hugh had his hip replaced.”
The Land and Its People by David Sedaris (from the essay “Care and Feeding”)
“It’s three days before the Moving On and, just like the sun rises and sets whether you see it or not, the Moving On comes around year after year, same as the Warding Off, whether or not you believe in it.”
Curdle Creek, by Yvonne Battle-Felton
“The nineteenth century’s Apollo moon mission was born on a raw and dying January day in 1854 with a meeting between one of New York City’s richest men and one of its poorest.”
Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age, by James M. Tabor
“Stilwell could hear the plane but couldn’t see it.”
-- Ironwood, by Michael Connelly