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Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear.

“Even if she hadn’t been the last person to walk through the turnstile at Warren Street tube station, Jack Barker would have noticed the tall, slender women in the navy blue, thigh-length jacket with a matching pleated skirt short enough to reveal a well-turned ankle. She had what his old mother would have called ‘bearing.'”

I like this start! Not only do we have a description, and a second character interested in the first, but we know she’s last into the station. Why?

I’m not starting this book today, because I have a busy day ahead of me, because I’m going mountain biking, because I’m still reading Frederica, and because I don’t want to start any new books until tomorrow, 2011, for the sake of the Where Are You Reading? challenge. 🙂 BUT I’m glad to have it here, thank you HPL!

I also picked up Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, by Steven Watts. So today is my library loot day. Yay local library for having what I want/need.

Y’all enjoy your new year’s eve and please BE SAFE out there, people are crazy. See you in the next decade!

Filed under: book beginnings | Tagged: mystery, nonfiction |