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fiefoeLinda Holmes wrote a very sweet contemporary romance with great dialogue. Evvie's recount of the cereal box race, 'the least uplifting thing that brought a town together', was worth the price of admission alone. There were also an unusually high number of onomatopoeia words in the book, unsurprisingly given where the author works.
Georgette Heyer
Dominic was spoiled and willful, Mary was sensible and only wanted to prevent him from making her gold-digging sister his mistress, but got abducted to France for her pains. Dominic's cousin Julianna's comme il faut lover provided the wild chase in the third act.
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M. C. Beaton
The last of the School for Manners series. Typically breezy. Harriet is a plain minister's daughter, and captured an earl's interest when she asked him to rescue a cat from a tree. She's very level-headed and the earl is nowhere as black as everyone thinks, so their path is only impeded by the various enemies the Tribble sisters made along the way. Pairing the spinster sister off with their beaus was a far larger undertaking than the title, really.
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Someone to Watch Over Me / Lisa Kleypas
A mediocre effort at best and only recorded here to remind myself of those lamented old days of being a 人肉扫雷器. Elite Bow Street runner rescues notorious courtesan Vivien from drowning and houses her. Her amnesia and his grudge against her conveniently but unconvincingly allow the fact that she's really Vivien's innocent, country mouse twin to remain obscured for most of the book.
- it's like she'd smashed a glass in her own hand and has nowhere to put the pieces.
- and just like that, she agreed to drive down with Dean on Sunday to pick up the pinball machine he wanted. the widow and the exiled baseball player were roadtripping to fetch a heavy, expensive toy to put in an apartment he didn't intend to stay for that long. and in an isolated moment in her kitchen, it seemed an entirely logical thing for them to do.
- "I feel like Bill's father is somewhere watching, and he's very excited that you are excited, but he's still upset that a Yankee has his precious.""At least he probably has a great coffin."
"Woh, you'd gotten dark since you got a pinball machine." - As he stood at the stove, she mouthed it to herself just to see what it would fell like: "Go".
- (After Andy learned the truth of her marriage:) And she knew he was changing the captions on all those pictures...
- All the hearts were different to her, shaded and pleasantly oblique, and sent in a language only she spoke, which maybe meant it wasn't a language but a diary hiding in plain sight.
- but those secrets were her only things that faced forward instead of backward.
- eyebrows that look like she won them playing poker with Audrey Hepburn's ghost
- And if you’ve been somebody’s first call, it’s hard not to be their first call anymore. She says it’s one of the reasons why parents sometimes feel sad when their kids are getting married. It’s not just the empty nest. They’re not the first call anymore. I’m not Andy’s first call anymore. It doesn’t mean I want to be his girlfriend, and it doesn’t mean I don’t like her. But it was sad. It’s different. The doctor says it’s important to be sad.
- The amount of time people who have just met are supposed to look directly at each other, particularly without talking, is a unit that’s both very short and very precise. When you exceed it, you get suspicious, or you get threatened, or you get this flicker of accidental intimacy
- You’re twenty-two, twenty-three, time is sort of infinite. It’s like a pool where you can’t touch the bottom.
- Your head is the house you live in, so you have to do the maintenance.
- She felt her brows go up, then down. Her mouth tightened, then loosened. Quick, quick, quick, what does a neutral expression look like again? “You did.” She was shocked. No, satisfied. Maybe gleeful. No, wait, she was just toe-curlingly eager. Also panicked
Georgette Heyer
Dominic was spoiled and willful, Mary was sensible and only wanted to prevent him from making her gold-digging sister his mistress, but got abducted to France for her pains. Dominic's cousin Julianna's comme il faut lover provided the wild chase in the third act.
______________________________________
M. C. Beaton
The last of the School for Manners series. Typically breezy. Harriet is a plain minister's daughter, and captured an earl's interest when she asked him to rescue a cat from a tree. She's very level-headed and the earl is nowhere as black as everyone thinks, so their path is only impeded by the various enemies the Tribble sisters made along the way. Pairing the spinster sister off with their beaus was a far larger undertaking than the title, really.
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Someone to Watch Over Me / Lisa Kleypas
A mediocre effort at best and only recorded here to remind myself of those lamented old days of being a 人肉扫雷器. Elite Bow Street runner rescues notorious courtesan Vivien from drowning and houses her. Her amnesia and his grudge against her conveniently but unconvincingly allow the fact that she's really Vivien's innocent, country mouse twin to remain obscured for most of the book.
