Fiction

SheilaT

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18. I used to recite

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 03:36 PM

Feb 2012

"Speak harshly to your little boy,
and beat him when he sneezes. . . ."
to my sons when they were young. Imagine his surprise when my oldest recently read those books and discovered I hadn't simply made up the rhyme!

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What are you reading the week of February 5, 2012? [View all] DUgosh Feb 2012 OP

Fatal Error, by J.A.Jance Ptah Feb 2012 #1

Under the Dome by Stephen King jannyk Feb 2012 #2

Funny story about Under the Dome matt819 Feb 2012 #25

I did read 11-22-63 and it was good jannyk Feb 2012 #30

The Englishman's Boy - Guy Vanderhaeghe. I just "discovered" this writer and the japple Feb 2012 #3

"Dreaming of the Bones" by Deborah Crombie MaineDem Feb 2012 #4

colleen McCullough's enormous series of hisorical novels pscot Feb 2012 #5

Still on THE TORSE IN THE TOWN by Simon Brett fadedrose Feb 2012 #6

Three Californias, The Wild Shore JitterbugPerfume Feb 2012 #7

Jake Lassiter series by Paul Levine mvccd1000 Feb 2012 #8

Finished Anathem and still Kindling w/Infinite Jest Onceuponalife Feb 2012 #9

Through The Looking Glass hamerfan Feb 2012 #10

I used to recite SheilaT Feb 2012 #18

Am finishing Helene Tursten's first Inspector Huss..looking forward to number two....z Zoigal Feb 2012 #11

If you get MHz Worldview on your cable or satellite system (it's on public access Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #12

Thank you, Lydia. will check it out...didn't know Zoigal Feb 2012 #14

Is NIGHT ROUNDS the first book? n/t MaineDem Feb 2012 #16

The Office of the Dead--the third in Andrew Taylor's Roth Trilogy, Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #13

Oops, forgot my "purse book," which is John Le Carré's The Honorable Schoolboy, Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #20

BOOM TOWN (2006) by Trevor Scott fadedrose Feb 2012 #15

Let us know how it ends up mvccd1000 Feb 2012 #17

Go for this one, m fadedrose Feb 2012 #21

I'll look it up - thanks. mvccd1000 Feb 2012 #22

City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris. SheilaT Feb 2012 #19

MOTOR CITY BLUE (1980) fadedrose Feb 2012 #23

Finished and I liked it... fadedrose Feb 2012 #26

This was book 12 for 2012 - for my info only . . . . nt fadedrose Feb 2012 #27

I hardly remember that one... mvccd1000 Feb 2012 #28

Detroit was the only city occupied and surrendered... fadedrose Feb 2012 #29

Flashback by Dan Simmons matt819 Feb 2012 #24

"V is for Vengeance" by Grafton, latest in her series. TBF Feb 2012 #31