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CXXX1 The Game Springs Towards March

17 years ago

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The Golden One - Elizabeth Peters

Erno Goldfinger: Life of an Architect - Nigel Warburton

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veer
Original Author
17 years ago
A Golfer's View - Brad McManus

The connection between the 2 titles above is so subtle that I don't get it!
deep___roots
17 years ago
fairways and greens // "the great" dan jenkins (the qualifier is only my opinion)
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woodnymph2_gw
17 years ago
Golf for Dummies - Gary McCord

p.s. for Vee: Artemis = Diana (the goddess)
donnamira
17 years ago
Sport .... Louise Fitzhugh
grelobe
17 years ago
Show-off - Hayka Catherine

(is it correct, to link: to sport and to show-off?)
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
Love Among the Haystacks - D H Lawrence

grelobe, I'm sure all sportsmen have some 'show-off' in them.
donnamira
17 years ago
Straw Into Gold ... Gary D. Schmidt
dynomutt
17 years ago
Goldfinger -- Ian Fleming

(And we come full circle ....)
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
Miss Silver Comes to Stay Patricia Wentworth
deep___roots
17 years ago
Went South // Marianne Wiggins
woodnymph2_gw
17 years ago
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
donnamira
17 years ago
Smokescreen .... Dick Francis
phoebecaulfield
17 years ago
LaSalle and the Discovery of the Great West Francis Parkman
Kath
17 years ago
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
kathy_t
17 years ago
The Widow of the South -- Robert Hicks
(My current read - first time I've managed that in this game!)
leel
17 years ago

A Gathering Of Widowmakers by Mike Resnick and Jim Burns
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
No Weeds for the Widow - Philip Johnson
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams Dorothy Cannell
dynomutt
17 years ago
Order of assassins: The psychology of murder -- Colin Wilson

(NB: A VERY interesting read. If you can find it -- the darned thing's been out of print for at least a decade!)
deep___roots
17 years ago
the moonstone // wilkie collins
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
double points to deep roots!

Pearls Before Swine Kurt Vonnegut
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
Opals from the Outback - Jim Henry
woodnymph2_gw
17 years ago
The Emerald City of Oz - L. Frank Baum
leel
17 years ago
Imperial Life in the Emerald City--Rajiv Chandrasekaran
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter
kathy_t
17 years ago
Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys
leel
17 years ago
Old Man of the Sea--Ernest Hemingway
donnamira
17 years ago
The Old Woman and the Wave - Shelley Jackson
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
A Guide for Women with Kinky Curly or Wavy Hair - Tomiko Fraser
kathy_t
17 years ago
Women in Love -- D.H. Lawrence
dido1
17 years ago
Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton

(Leel, it's The Old Man AND the Sea)
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows Kris Radish

trust me-it connects.
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
Roger Radish - Jayne Fisher
kathy_t
17 years ago
The Cement Garden -- Ian McEwan

(I'm too dense to get the connection, Cece. Care to explain?)
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
Heavy Clay - F Clews
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
The Clue of the Velvet Mask Carolyn Keene

the connection:
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows is about a group of women who just start walking east(I think-maybe west...)-leaving family, home, jobs and friends behind...within 24 hours they are national news, have their own tame police escort driving at 4 mph behind them, people coming out to the roadside to welcome them with joy, food, drink and offers of overnight accomodations, husbands gallantly assuming all household and childrearing chores with no complaints, and their teenage daughters driving alongside praising them for their adventure. That is where my bookclub really lost it...none of us could imagine our children saying anything but "when's dinner, where are my soccer cleats, and is the laundry done?"
We hated the book, bye the bye. Even as an allegory it was ridiculous.
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
The Vizard Mask - Diana Norman

cece I presume this book isn't true otherwise I'll just hunt out my trusty compass? What did the women do when they got to the other end?
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
The Mask of Zorro Frank Lauria

veer-I don't remember! It was just dumb. An "empowering women" book that just makes women look selfish and whiny.
dynomutt
17 years ago
By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions -- Richard Cohen

(If you're even remotely interested in fencing, read this book.)
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
Champion the Wonder Horse - Arthur Groom
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand
grelobe
17 years ago
The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Muhammad Ali
grelobe
17 years ago
of course mine: The Soul.... was meant to be linked with,
Champion...
but, since ccrdmrbks has been posting here longer than I, (She/He ?) has (precedence/priority (?) )

Seabiscuit Laura Hillebrand (ccrdmnbks)

The Children of Dynmouth - William Trevor
sherwood38
17 years ago
You were posting at the same time-it happens-no biggie!

The Children of Men - PD James
dynomutt
17 years ago
Synthetic Men of Mars -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
georgia_peach
17 years ago
The Years of Rice and Salt -- Kim Stanley Robinson
dido1
17 years ago
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
veer
Original Author
17 years ago
Born on a Blue Day - Daniel Tammet
kathy_t
17 years ago
The Bluest Eye -- Toni Morrison
ccrdmrbks
17 years ago
Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland

grelobe-your title really worked quite well following mine, as Seabiscuit was a champion racehorse!
We've had absolutely to-the-minute simultaneous postings-those can get very comical! But it is all in the time of post-computers see no seniority-or mine would behave better for me than it does for my DS...and sometimes he has to come in and make it behave! ;-) cece

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