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http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com '"The pilot's house where I grew up was mostly a women's world. There were five of us. We had the place to ourselves most of the time. My mother made the big decisions--where we went to school, which bank to keep our money in. She had to decide these things often because we moved every couple of years. The house is thus a figure of speech, a way of thinking about a long series of small, cement dwellings we occupied as one fictional home."'

'"As with all the moves we'd been through in the past, my sisters and I didn't know why we were going to California, what the reason or "mission" was. As the weeks shortened to days before we would leave Dothan. Frannie and Jack had more low-voiced conversations in the farm kitchen during cocktail hour. We didn't expect to be told anything. '"The Army"' was as mysterious in its ways as God, and our parents were its guarded ministers. This move, like all the others, had been ordained far beyond us. All we knew was California would be our next home."' Pump Up Our Books http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com  

There is a point in a book where I feel at ease. This is when  I can say this is a book worth reading. I might be able to understand this book, or I know this book will make me laugh. The Heretic by Henry Vyner-Brooks is a book I picked to review. I have no idea the titles of the other books now. I do remember getting excited about this one. When the book arrived in my mailbox, the excitement kind of left. The book is six hundred pages and not an easy read. It's 1536. There is a lot of Church Poltics going on. There are monks, the Pope, the King, etc. Anyway, I've just reached the point where easy breathing is possible, I think. I'm beginning to know one character from another character. I'm beginning to get upset. That's a good sign. Upset because there is a good deal of greed and corruption in the church. People are also martyred, burnt at the stake.  Since I don't want to lose my way, or if I lose my way, I might use posts here to keep myself aware of wh

The main sleuths in Walter Mosley novels are two very different men. In my heart, I still love and adore Easy Rawlins. He remains my first love. In this novel, I  met Leonid Trotter McGill.  Leonid is brutal and street smart. Leonid has a short fuse. He doesn't have time to mess around. You either want him to work for you or you don't. It's that easy.  However, McGill is not just a man ready to punch you out. He's also a family man. Weaved beneath each case in this novel, is the importance of family to McGill. There is Zella, a woman who has just gotten out of prison. She was charged with the shooting of her boyfriend, Harry Tangelo. She found her man in bed with another woman. She has no bitterness when she walks out of the prison. Of prime importance to her is her daughter. Little Zella has been adopted. Zella, the mother, wants to see the parents of her child and talk about getting her back. At the least, she wants to meet the family and to see her chi

'"Well, since you put it that way, I say forget Italy!" He laughed. "Let's just go to Half Moon in Jamaica...I still can't believe you've never gone anywhere in the Caribbean, , though. Especially with all the traveling you've done." Chase had told her that the reason he'd never gone was because his mother preferred to vacation in places like Milan, Rome, Paris, and London."'

Life takes its toll on most people. By middle age or older, we've been hurt emotionally and/or physically a time or two. Each individual chooses how he or she will handle these unwanted lessons of life. Grace's emotional scars come from her mother, Mariam. This woman is unable or unwilling to show unconditional love to Grace, her daughter. Her other daughter, Jamila, can do no wrong.Grace's life is a railroad track. One side of her life is covered with mercy. The other side of her life is covered with nothing good. Act of Grace by Karen Simpson is about love, forgiveness, family and secrets. Throughout the novel, Grace's life is fought on a battlefield beside that railroad track. Grace has a personal relationship with her ancestors who have passed to the other side. These ancestors give Grace guidance. Grace contends with the secret of not knowing how her father died. Her mother with an attitude claims suicide as the cause. The people in Vigilant say his murder wa

"  "Strands of a misshapen combover shifted and fell like damp, loose straw across his forehead as he covered me back up in a perfuctory manner."   http://bermudaonion.net Urban Dictionary: comb-over www.urban dictionary .com/ define .php?term= comb-over Urban Dictionary 5. comb-over . Hairstyle sported by men who refuse to grow bald gracefully. Any remaining hair at the side of the head (sometimes also ear hair) is grown long and combed over the top of the head (see also egg in a nest). 2.  " The beauty too of shakuhachi and cello."