Review for The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics
“How much of your innocence can I ruin in the course of one evening?’
‘I’m already reasonably ruined.”
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ The Beautiful
New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead.
I remember the moment I first heard someone say this. The old man meant to frighten me. He said there was a time when coffins sprang from the ground following a heavy rain, the dead flooding the city streets. He claimed to know of a Créole woman on Rue Dauphine who could commune with spirits from the afterlife.
Waiting on Wednesday ~ A Little Light Mischief
Friday’s Page 69 ~ The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics
Lucy’s delighted laugh gave Catherine so much pleasure she had to excuse herself from the room on the pretext of a missing skein of silk. It took fifteen minutes for her heart to stop racing, and a full half hour before she trusted her hands to be steady again.
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ The Good Thieves
Vita set her jaw and nodded at the city in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.
She stood alone on the deck of the ship. The sea was wild and stormy, casting salt spray thirty feet into the air, and all the other passengers on the ocean liner, including her mother, had taken sensible refuge in their cabins.
But it is not always sensible to be sensible.
Weekly Quote for Week 47-2019 ~ Hither, Page
“If the old lady who’s been giving me tea and biscuits for twenty-five years is a trained assassin, I suppose I might like assassins after all. I might have very positive and warm associations with assassins.”
Top 10 Books October 2019
Weekly Quote for Week 41-2019 ~ The Madman’s Daughter
“Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn’t bother me. I was my father’s daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things.”
