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07-05-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The building owned its own umbrellas.." |
07-04-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The human body is always falling apart.." |
07-04-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It was just before 4:00 a.m. on a weekday.." |
07-03-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I found myself fascinated by the interesting geometric designs of the twisted iron rebar in front of me.." |
07-03-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I've made grown men cry.." |
07-02-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "When Runer Coghill fell through the ceiling, she interrupted what we can only call a domestic quarrel.." |
07-02-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "People usually become translators in one of two way.." |
07-01-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Once upon a time there were two cities within a city.." |
07-01-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "One of the first signs of weakening intelligence in a people--as in an individual--is a marked decrease in efficiency.." |
06-30-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Follow the yellow brick road to the land of Carson.." |
06-30-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I distinctly recall the first time I ever saw TV.." |
06-29-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Biologically speaking, I came late to the party.." |
06-29-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I will never forget the very first time I met a young man named Johnny Carson.." |
06-28-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions.." |
06-28-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I'm eating a pot pie and CNN's on the tube.." |
06-27-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The former American prison ship Rosalita has been at sea for six years, and wears its history on its skin.." |
06-27-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Before the screaming starts, the night silence of the convent is already alive with its own particular sounds.." |
06-26-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It was bitter cold, the air electric with all that had not happened yet.." |
06-26-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It's probably safe to say it now.." |
06-25-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "There is simply no scientific or mathematical formula that defines conservatism.." |
06-25-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.." |
06-24-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "She only stopped screaming when she died.." |
06-24-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "When it comes to Madam X's age, opinions differ here on Five Spice Street.." |
06-23-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It was a clear autumn night in 2003 when a thumping sound woke me from a deep sleep.." |
06-23-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "A few years ago, browsing in a dusty used-book store in Maine, I came across a curious volume.." |
06-22-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life.." |
06-22-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It was 25 May 1977.." |
06-21-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity, is a man living on the brink of disaster.." |
06-21-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Buffy the Vampire Slayer entered stage left, with a whimper.." |
06-20-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a show that shouldn't exist.." |
06-20-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "From the start, it was different.." |
06-19-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "No fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) needs to be told that it is unlike any other vampire fiction ever produced.." |
06-19-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "As any fan of Buffy knows, Joss loves anguish.." |
06-18-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I haven't given much thought to Buffy the Vampire Slayer since the series ended in May 2003.." |
06-18-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I had never quite been seduced by a television show before.." |
06-17-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The demon howled its outrage.." |
06-17-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "No one stays forever.." |
06-16-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The sun sits flat against the blue sky like someone pressed it on there with a giant thumb.." |
06-16-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "We live in a time when most people don't trust big companies.." |
06-15-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I fell in love with the web a long time ago.." |
06-15-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Long ago in a castle built into the side of a hill a particularly important sect of Buddhist monks lived and worked.." |
06-14-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Defining autobiography is notoriously difficult.." |
06-14-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "My father was a very wise man who hated dishonesty more than he hated stupidity.." |
06-13-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.." |
06-13-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "How deeply we hurt, Juan, how severely we bruise and lacerate.." |
06-12-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "My father is gone.." |
06-12-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Sasha cringed, the large bed and breakfast suite suddenly making her feel claustrophobic.." |
06-11-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "One dude stood all afternoon at the buffet wearing just his boxers, licking the orange dust off barbecued potato chips.." |
06-11-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It's different in Australia.." |
06-10-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The night before Virgil Duffy's funeral, a storm pounded the Puget Sound.." |
06-10-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Who has not, at some point, uttered the words. 'I hate my job'?." |
06-09-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Except for the fact that his mother died, the summer he was ten was the best summer of Justin Hardin's life.." |
06-09-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Donnie's Carhartt overalls are so infused with dirt and grease that they crackle when he walks.." |
06-08-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "As I begin writing this, a compact disc plays in the background.." |
06-08-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "This is a book about a wolf called Brenin.." |
06-07-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Do this in remembrance of me.." |
06-07-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "This is a work of unabashed advocacy.." |
06-06-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The thing I remember most about seeing Shane as a boy is the face of Alan Ladd.." |
06-06-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "As if it had an incipit, I am, then, opening this book.." |
06-05-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "'I don't think that virtue--what we call arete--exists anymore.'." |
06-05-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I am beginning, once again, to have an urge to salute my Uncle Oswald.." |
06-04-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Some people have an inner voice.." |
06-04-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The girl was the first to hear the loud pounding on the door.." |
06-03-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Not that it should or ever did, but this nursery rhyme certainly does not describe today's boys and girls.." |
06-03-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The manuscript that I am hereby making public was entrusted to my care by my client, Antonio R. Martens.." |
06-02-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "For much of recorded history, humans have viewed death as irreversible.." |
06-02-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I feel like giving up.." |
06-01-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "When my daughter Annabel was five years old, she piped up from her car seat, 'What's the 'f' word?'." |
06-01-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "There were enough shavings on the ice for one hundred snow cones or more.." |
05-31-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "In Chicago's traffic court there is a room set aside for silver-suited lawyers.." |
05-31-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The stench of burnt rubber mingled with the queer smell of cooked flesh.." |
05-30-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "My life.." |
05-30-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I can remember what life was like without Twitter.." |
05-29-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It is in our nature to dramatize.." |
05-29-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Dave Taylor has a long history as an online pioneer.." |
05-28-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "A blog, or weblog, is a special kind of website.." |
05-28-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "You may have read about it in magazines or heard about it on TV.." |
05-27-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "If you can read this, you are too close.." |
05-27-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Taller than tall and tougher than tough!." |
05-26-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The gardener, by rights, should be a contented creature in midwinter.." |
05-26-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Sex in a box.." |
05-25-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Billy Wilder said it: you know you're done directing when your legs go.." |
05-25-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "You know how it begins.." |
05-24-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Every few months, someone will ask me, innocently enough, 'So what's your favorite Godzilla movie?'." |
05-24-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "When Godzilla hit the canvas in the tenth, 30,000 Japanese sat in stunned silence.." |
05-23-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Exactly how many movies have I seen?." |
05-23-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "As with so many things, our most basic ideas about the verb go back to the ancient Greeks.." |
05-22-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "'There will be payment for your crimes, foul deceiver.'." |
05-22-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Sex began more than 2,000,000,000 years ago.." |
05-21-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Fragrance has the instantaneous and invisible power to penetrate consciousness with pure pleasure.." |
05-21-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "He teaches me to jump / from a moving train of thought.." |
05-20-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I was six years old the night my mom and I walked into our apartment, switched on the lights, and nothing happened.." |
05-20-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.." |
05-19-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It is a truth universally acknowledged that one person's happiness is frequently bought at the expense of another's.." |
05-19-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Fallen Woman of good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom.." |
05-18-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It is a truth universally acknowledged that crazy things happen at weddings.." |
05-18-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.." |
05-17-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "How can I Tell you EVERYThing that is IN my Heart.." |
05-17-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "My first memory is this.." |
05-16-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "This is a Jupiter μ-30, though I call it The Robot.." |
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