Tuesday, July 17, 2012




17 July 2012




I am still in the middle of East End Jubilee but the next book in my queue is So Far Away by Meg Mitchell Moore.  I seriously wish I could read multiple books at a time but that concept seems to be beyond me but, since this book is next I will "tease" from it.


"It was a Friday when the girl came into the Archives for the first time, the first Friday after they'd changed the clocks.  Spring ahead, fall back:  Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it.  It had been some time since she'd been a schoolchild.  This was early November, the leaves mostly down, lying wet and slick all over Boston."

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2 comments:

JLS Hall said...

These are both new to me. All those wet leaves sound a little depressing -- hope the rest of the book is NOT.

Boyett-Brinkley said...

I think it is going to be good -- I read a couple of chapters in the store before I bought it -- I couldn't put it down so I had to buy it!

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