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February 3, 2012

Once Upon a Book...



Prologue.


Once upon a time in Northern Virginia, a girl sat in a laundromat reading Catherine Coulter's Riptide and waiting for the 4th dryer to finish its cycle. The lady owner interrupted her countless times to chat and she eventually marked her page and chatted back. This paid off. This lady told our girl that before leaving, she should stop by the office and collect a little "present" as a thank you for chatting and lo' and behold it was... a banker's box FULL of books!!!

a few months later...

The girl's younger sister (whom we'll call Slice b/c she took a slice of the girl by stealing her face), wanted a book to read and rummaged through the collection and found Seduction In Death by J.D. Robb. She read it, loved it and after realizing it was part of a series (ant that it wasn't the first book in said series), hunted down the rest of the books and devoured them in a few weeks. Shortly thereafter, she became addicted to this series and their characters, Eve & Roarke. The girl mocked her sister's addiction.

many months later...

After hearing about Eve & Roarke anytime a new book in the In Death series came out, the girl decided to give them a try. She purchased all the books at a discount from Half.com and started with book 1: Naked In Death. The girl no longer mocks her sister.

Epilogue.


The girl has been catching up with the series and just finished reading Survivor In Death. As she prepares to read the next book Origin, her sister called and they talked for endless minutes about who could play their characters in a movie or TV show... As it stands, the girl has plenty of time to waste while she sits at H&R Block on Tremont Street in Boston waiting for turn and created a tentative line-up of actors she envisions when reading her favorite series. It shall appear in a further post.


~ THE END ~





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