Nantucket Nights - Elin Hilderbrand

Sullivan's Island, Dorothea Benton Frank

The Island of Dr Moreau - H G Wells

The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout

The Millionaire Next Door -- Thomas J. Stanley

Millionaire Murderer - Roger Gorringe

(work of the sociopath ! )

Wealth Management, Scott Wright

Accountancy: A Career Guide - Christopher Wright

It Just Doesn't Add Up -- Paul Moorcraft

I Smell A Rat - John Wooten

The Rat Patrol, Normal Daniels

Studies in the Art of Rat Catching - H C Barkley

The Art of Baking Blind -- Sarah Vaughan

Holy Hot Mess - Mary Katherine Backstrom

Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

The Comfort of Strangers - Ian Mcewan

Comfort Me with Apples - Ruth Reichl

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday -- Alexander McCall Smith

The Comforts of Home, Susan Hill

Comforts for the Troops: The Women Workers at Cadbury's - Fiona Joseph

(this one is for Carolyn)

Sunshine at the Comfort Food Cafe - Debbie Johnson

Moonlight Over Manhattan -- Sarah Morgan

Oh My Stars and Garters, Sarah Dungan

Jenna Starborn - Sharon Shin

Murder in Shinbone Alley - Helen Reilly

The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone - Timothy Ering

Nightmare Alley, William L. Gresham

Adventures in Tornado Alley -- Mike Hollingshead

Windy Day - Anna Milbourne

(we are just feeling the effects of Storm Arwen)

Hanging Out The Wash - Adair Lara

This has a full 5 stars on Amazon........

We all live in a speeded up world,,,we buy instant meals, work overtime, are wired in to our homes and offices, and precariously balance family and jobs. But it seems the more we get done the more there is to do, and while our modern lifestyles have given us faster ways of doing things, they have also quickly taken away the rhythm and serenity of daily life.

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara wrote a column describing her mother's way of slowing down hanging up clothes on a clothesline. More than 1,000 readers responded to her column with their own suggestions writing letters in longhand though they have computers, washing dishes by hand though they have dishwashers, reading their favorite novels again and again. The best of these stories, as well as others, have been combined to create this inspirational collection.

An Old Fashioned Girl, Louisa May Alcott.

I remember hanging out cloth diapers on the clothesline once when it was so cold the first one was frozen by the time I had hung the fifth one. I'll take Pampers and my automatic dryer and slow down another way.

The Modest Maiden - Genia Kuhmeier

The Maidens = Alex Michaelides

Single & Single, John LeCarre

Double or Quits - Erle Stanley Gardner

Know When To Hold 'Em - Kenneth Maddock

A Gambling Man.......David Baldacci

Gamble, Dick Francis

Bet the Farm -- Beth Hoffman

Lose your Shirt at Blackjack - D A Caneilla

Red Jacket - Joseph Heywood

Tales From The Georgia Tech Sidelines - Kim King

( who will figure out the connection ? :0)

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume

Fifth Grade Zombies, R. L Stine

The Lions of Fifth Avenue - Fiona Davis

The Fifth Season ... N.K. Jemisin

The Swans of Fifth Avenue - Melanie Benjamin

Murder on Fifth Avenue, Victoria Thompson

Clean Up On Aisle Five - Amy Barnes