#quoteoftheday #sentenceoftheday #amreading #ushistory #roadtrip #booksky #womenhistorians #wisdom #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand "Americans can be patriots and critics, citizens and dissenters, all at once."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #ushistory #womenhistorians "As a citizen, I love my country, & I hate when its patriotic symbols --the flag, the national anthem, the founding --are co-opted by narrow-minded people who claim that they & they alone are the true Americans."

Another #sentenceoftheday from #BeverlyGage #amreading #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #roadtrip: "I was taught early on that women had become equal too, and that 1972 was the best possible moment in all of human history for a little girl to be born."

#amreading #BeverlyGage #booksky #sentenceoftheday #nonfiction #ThisLandIsYourLand #UShistory "Like many Americans, I grew up on the progress story."

Started #ICameBackForYou today, and I'm already a 4th of the way through. It's nimble, w/c I appreciate. It's my 1st Kate White. #amreading #booksky #thriller #womenmysterywriters #sentenceoftheday "I was a fawner back then, but I have no intention of being one now."

Blazing through #DearDebbie, the book is such a hoot. #recommendedreading #FreidaMcFadden #amreading #booksky #sentenceoftheday Harley, who is having an affair w Debbie's husband: "I almost suggest that she help me chop the salad, but then I think better of giving her a knife."

Waaah! This book! #DearDebbie #amreading Book Club with housewives: "Maybe it's menopause?" #domesticthriller #booksky #sentenceoftheday #FreidaMcFadden

4th (or is it 5th) #sentenceoftheday #booksky #amreading #thrillers #DearDebbie #FreidaMcFadden
Cooper asks for a raise. Cooper's boss: "If that's how you feel . . . then I accept your resignation." Honestly, I would normally feel sympathy for Cooper, but I suspect he is having an affair.

Waaah, #DearDebbie is a treasure trove of #oneliners. 4th #sentenceoftheday #booksky #FreidaMcFadden #amreading
"You do well enough as a worker bee," he says thoughtfully.

I am sold on the idea of a housewife being a treasure trove of unique experience which lends itself to #suspense. #DearDebbie #FreidaMcFadden #domesticthriller #booksky #sentenceoftheday "I wasn't sure if I should invite Harley, because it would be mixing universes."

Third #FriedaMcFadden #sentenceoftheday #DearDebbie #amreading #booksky "I've never felt like more of a loser in my entire life."

#amreading #booksky #FreidaMcFadden #DearDebbie #thriller
Second #sentenceoftheday "But then the second Taylor Swift starts up again."

#amreading #DearDebbie #thriller #sentenceoftheday #booksky "I feel like I'm trying to reach the PRESIDENT or something."

#amreading #DearDebbie #thriller #FreidaMcFadden #booksky #sentenceoftheday "It's true that there are certain naive people who hide the keys to their front door in an easily found location: under a rock, in a flowerpot, or even under the welcome mat."

#booksky #amreading My 1st #FreidaMcFadden. The heroine is a stay-at-home mom of 2 girls who spends her entire day in yoga pants (I'm jealous, I too want 2 b a woman who spends her entire day in yoga pants) #sentenceoftheday "A miracle has occurred: my 17-yr-old is now speaking 2 me in the morning."

Hannah might have committed the biggest boo-boo of her LIFE! #amreading the last pages of The It Girl. #booksky #sentenceoftheday #thriller #spoileralert "Behind her she can hear Will's feet pounding down the stairs."

#sentenceoftheday Hannah, when her husband asks what she wants for breakfast: "I could murder a bacon sandwich."
Almost done w #TheItGirl -- only 50 more pp to go. What kind of thriller takes you TEN DAYS to read? Maybe this isn't really a thriller. It's definitely a #whodunit. #booksky #amreading

OK, here I go, 3rd #sentenceoftheday from #TheItGirl by #RuthWare #booksky Hannah and Hugh are old Oxford buddies going out for a drink in Edinburgh: "He's even wearing his old school tie with the Carne crest." #amreading #mysteries

Another #amreading #mysteries #TheItGirl #booksky Our heroine is Hannah. She sends a text to Hugh, a former Oxford buddy, and her text is this: "Fancy a coffee?" And there it is: our #sentenceoftheday

#sentenceoftheday #RuthWare #TheItGirl #amreading #booksky "There's a kerfuffle behind the bar & in the nick of time the sound of Beck's Odelay got muted & every1 went silent or as close to silent as a room of drunk students could b." (1st time I've read the word KERFUFFLE in a thriller, just sayin)