Game CLXII. It's September
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masgar finished August with
Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
Strangers and Brothers - C P Snow
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Northern California Gardener's September Checklist
By Bill Marken
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Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
Nine Perfect Strangers -- Liane Moriarty
The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L Sayers
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
One Of Us Is Lying - Karen McManus
Trust Me, I'm Lying -- Ryan Holiday
The Other Side of Truth - Beverley Naidoo
The King of Lies - John Hart
Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible - Peter Pomerantsev
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? -- Jodi Taylor
Necessary Errors......Caleb Crane
The Dutch Blue Error - William Tapply
Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland
Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton Porter
Prosthetic Function in Knee Amputees - Lewis Leavitt
Best Foot Forward - Zoe Dawn
( Vee.....quite the cheery book title you gave us !!)
Marching on Together - Rick Broadbent
(yoyo you would be surprised by the number of books on that subject)
Together Is Better, Simon Sinek
Five Feet Apart - Rachael Lippincott
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
LMNO Peas - Keith Baker
Ella Minnow Pea -- Mark Dunn
Clarice Bean, Utterly Me - Lauren Child
Collecting Clarice Cliff - Howard Watson
(well-known decorator of ceramic pots)
Clarice Cliff . . . take a look
The White Mountains - John Christopher
And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Mountains Wild, Sarah Stewart Taylor
Leaves from our Journal of Life in the Highlands - Queen Victoria
(HM's account of her time at Balmoral which went into several print-runs)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, Jane Straus
Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen ---- Mary Norris
Project Semi Colon - Amy Bleuel
The Dot - Peter Reynolds
Dash: Dogs of World War II -- Kirby Larson
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics ... Norton Juster
The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo -- Amy Schumer
Write Away...........Elizabeth George
On Writing - Stephen King
Spelling Counts - Janet Gianotti
Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic, Katy McIntire Almon
Get Smart - Brian Tracey
Confederacy of Dunces - John Toole
The Idiot Brain - Dean Burnett
No Time For Tact - Larry Winget
Time's Convert - Deborah Harkness
World Enough and Time, Robert Penn Warren
Time Enough for Love - Robert A. Heinlein
Time's Winged Chariot - Ernest Thurtle
The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjalian
I'll Fly Away......Wally Lamb
The Last Flight, Beatriz Williams
What You Become in Flight: A Memoir -- Ellen O'Connell Whittet
What it's Like to Be a Bird - David Sibley
A Noisy Nest - Diana Aston
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larson
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
The Secret Life of Bees.....Sue Monk Kidd
What's The Buzz ? - Alison Ofanansky
The Swarm - John Whitman
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
The Honey Makers - Gail Gibbons
Sweet Tooht - Ian McEwan
The Girl With the Lost Smile - Miranda Hart
Grumpy Pants - Claire Messer
Bossy Pants - Tina Fey
The Adventures of Captain Underpants - Dav Pilkey
This is Your Captain Speaking -- John Methven
Listen to Me Now.................Al Nasser
Your Wish is My Command - Donna Koffman
Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had, Tracy Zager
Arithmetic for Beginners - John Brooksmith
It All Adds Up - Saul Bellow
Minus Time ... Catherine Bush
The Blessing of a B Minus, Wendy Mogel, PhD
Why Did I Get a B Minus? Shannon Reed
Top of the Class: Nearly - Liz Pichon
Swing And A Miss - Steven Warrington
Room on the Porch Swing -- Amy Clipston
Porch Swings and Picket Fences, Lisa Tawn Bergren
The Magic Roundabout - Eric Thompson
Excuse Me, Where Is The Exit ? - Stella Deleuze
(Vee......I am missing your connection in that post......help !)
No Way Out - Cara Hunter
(yoyo over here a 'roundabout' is a child's or a playground/fair ride, as is a swing. Or are you familiar with the saying swings and roundabouts?)
Lock Every Door........Riley Sager
Batten Down The Hatches - Pat Scott
Vee, my only experience with a " roundabout " was in Europe where these were traffic circles in cities and towns. Thus my post following that. I'm not familiar with that saying.
Last One Out Shut Off the Lights -- Stephanie Soileau
The Smallest Lights in the Universe, Sara Seager
The Yellow Lighted Bookshop - Lewis Buzbee
The Light Burns Blue - Silva Semerciyan
yoyo re 'roundabouts' ^ ^ ^. We also have them over here at crossroads etc. to ease the flow of traffic.
Swings and Roundabouts in the sense "It's all a matter of swings and roundabouts" means 'a situation in which different actions or opinions result in no eventual gain or loss' ie much of a muchness . . . another 'saying'!
Secret Signals - Simon Mason
One if by Land, Two if by Sea: the real story of Paul Revere - Masonic Service Association
Vee, the playground equipment you call a roundabout is called a merry go round here (at least that's what I grew up calling them).
Donna
Generally in the US a "roundabout" is a looping traffic junction or circle where multiple roads enter.
I've never heard any playground equipment called that.
A Light in the Window -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Window on the Bay - Debbie Macomber
Widow's Watch - Nancy Herndon
Watch the Wall, My Darling, Jane Aiken Hodge
A Smugglers Song - Rudyard Kipling
A Song for the Brokenhearted -- William Shaw
(Vee - How clever of you to recognize that Carolyn's book title is a line from a Kipling poem. I learned this only when, out of curiosity, I looked it up.)
Broken For You - Stephanie Kallos
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption, William Cope Moyers
The Sober Survival Guide - Simon Chapple
Wine Companion 2020 - James Halliday
The Palm-Wine Drinkard ... Amos Tutuola
Everything In Moderation - Daniel Finklestein
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs.........Katherine Howe
Aquinas's Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, Matthew Levering
The Creation and the Angels - Thomas Aquinas
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty - Diane Keaton
All that Glitters isn't Gold - William Johnson
All That Glitters, Frances Parkinson Keyes
The Shining - Stephen King
Bad Things Happen - Harry Dolan
Bon, I think that's true of all Stephen King novels! LOL (BTW, today is his birthday.)
Donna
Birthday Boy - David Badiell
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
All at Sea: Tides Winds Weather & Waves - Martin Lunghi
Figure It Out - Stephen Anderson
Decider ... Dick Francis
David Decides about Thumb Sucking, Susan Heitler
The Afterlife of Billy Fingers - Annie Kagan
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Fearless After Fifty - Michelle Marchildon
Suddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life - Judith Viorst
Essays Over Eighty ... Donald Hall
Time and Tide Wait for No Man - Dale Spender
Why Did No One Tell Me This ? - Natalia Hailes
Tell Me How It Ends, Valeria Luiselli
Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline - Theodore Dalrymple
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change - Jarred Diamond
Don't Worry, Be Happy ! - Poppy O'Neil
IGNORE IT AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE..............Gemma Evans
Good Advice ......Is Just That ! - Stanley Buford
Advice From My 80-year-old Self -- Susan O'Malley
Unexpectedly Eighty and Other Adaptations, Judith Viorst
Bend Or Break - Reed Alexander
The Bending Reed - Elizabeth Dawson
He Stooped to Conquer......Jane Lane
Wolves and Their Relatives -- Erik D. Stoops
The Dogs of War - Frederick Forsyth
Dog Fight: War in the Sky - Mark Postlethwaite
Blessed Are The Peacemakers - William Loftis
Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park
Lake Park - Christina Eschu
Paddle Your Own Canoe - Nick Offenman
( Vee.....that was a double pointer !! )
Show Boat................Edna Ferber
The Ship of Brides -- Jojo Moyes
Ship of Fools, Katherine Ann Porter
The Jumblies: They Went to Sea in a Sieve - Edward Lear
A Pea Green Boat - Lucy Caglar ( and a nod to Lear ! )
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
Please Pass the P's and Q's, Mell Lazarus
Jumping the Queue - Mary Wesley
Wait Your Turn, Tilly ! - Amy Regan
Wait Until Spring Bandini - John Fante
Until the Cows Come Home -- Sandra Donovan
The Evening and the Morning.....Ken Follett
Waters Above the Firmament, Donald L. Cyr
Heaven's Vault - Peter Orullian
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places - Le Ly Hayslip
When They Severed Earth From Sky - Elizabeth Wayland Barber & Paul T. Barber
(This book has been on my TBR shelf for over a decade. Someday!)
Be Careful What You Wish For - Jeffrey Archer
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.............Janelle Brown
I Want My Hat Back .... Jon Klassen
I Want My Life Back - Steve Hamilton
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution - Rob Tannenbaum & Craig Marks
All I Ever Wanted, Kathy Valentine
Be My Valentine - Debbie Mucomber
Cupid's Match -- Lauren Palphreyman
Love Is Blind But The Neighbors Ain't - Maryann Hayatian