currently reading

"They had not passed another living soul since they left the Jintas and the world seemed something silent and wide, belonging only to them."
Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

currently reading

"Mayor Orden switched on a lamp that made only a little circle of light.  He switched it off again and said, 'A light in the daytime is a lonely thing.'"
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down

currently reading

"'No, well, there's the Philo Vance method.  You shake your head and say: 'There's worse yet to come,' and then the murderer kills five more people, and that thins the suspects out a bit and you spot who it is.'
'Wasteful, wasteful,' said Wimsey.  'And too slow.'"
Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

6-word story

"Five times a day a terrible wind blew through them and bent them like grasses to the ground."  Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

sentences i love

Here's favorite from one of the books I'm reading, Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon:

The torches guttered, and the tinge of blood drained from the moon as it rose into the night sky. (p.12)

6-word story

Good morning! I am woefully (woefully) behind on bloglovin blogs - it seems like there are 700,000 posts that keep updating.  Lots to do, lots to read, exciting!  But I digress.  Today I want to talk about those 6-word memoirs that have been going around for a while, which are lovely.  I like the fact that they convey so much in so few words, and that you can come up with so many. 

My favorite is seeing all of the shared memoirs from different people, which NPR did a while ago.

To add some spice, coming along are 6-word summaries of things I've seen during the day.  You know, to mix things up and so on.  Here's mine, something I saw on the way to work this morning:

Four basset hounds wobbling while walking.

 

(I also saw some swans, too, living near people and animals is awe-some.)

What's yours?

 

 

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