Flying Colours (part of the Admiral Hornblower Omnibus)
by CS Forester

For the End of Year Mini Challenge and the Seafaring Challenge.
English
155 pages
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0-14-011940-X (for the whole Omnibus)
First line: Captain Hornblower was walking up and down along the sector of the ramparts of Rosas, delimited by two sentries with loaded muskets, which the commandant had [...]

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, B, Classics, English, Historical, Personal challenges, Seafaring Challenge | 2 Comments »

Not too many hours left of this year now—just over twenty-five here, actually.
I’ve looked over the challenges for next year and finally got around to joining two more I’ve been meaning to sign up for for a while. All lists are now set in stone (with the possible exception of the Decades challenge, which gives [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Love
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Lord John and the Hand of Devils
by Diana Gabaldon

For the End of Year Mini Challenge.
English
317 pages
Century
ISBN: 978-0-7126-8065-3
First line: Lord John Grey jerked his eyes away from the door.
Back cover blurb:
Diana Gabaldon, the New York Times bestselling author of A Breath of Snow and Ashes, delivers three tales of war, intrigue and espionage featuring the [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Love
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A Son Called Gabriel
by Damian McNicholl

For the End of Year Mini Challenge.
English
346 pages
CDS Books
ISBN: 1-59315-231-0
First line: The choice was school or the big stick and seemed easy to make.
Back cover blurb:
Set in the hills of Northern Ireland in the 1960’s and 70’s, A Son Called Gabriel is a deeply felt and often funny coming-of-age [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Love
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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters

For the End of Year Mini Challenge.
English
506 pages
Virago Press
ISBN: 978-1-84408-241-4
First line: So this, said Kay to herself, is the sort of person you’ve become: a person whose clocks and wrist-watches have stopped, and who tells the time, instead, by the particular kind of cripple arriving at her landlord’s door.
Back cover [...]

Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Love
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