A Client Is Cancelled
by Richard & Frances Lockridge | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 1560542993 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1560542993 Global Overview for this book
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 2 by SqueakyChu at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA on Monday, March 6, 2023
Released 1 yr ago (3/6/2023 UTC) at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I'm releasing this book for...
***The 2023 4 Elements Release Challenge hosted by GoryDetails. The authors' names contains the word RIDGE.
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Enjoy the book!
***The 2023 4 Elements Release Challenge hosted by GoryDetails. The authors' names contains the word RIDGE.
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Enjoy the book!
I selected this book from the Little Free Library of Twinbrook (#7720) to travel elsewhere...
Journal Entry 4 by SqueakyChu at Potbelly Sandwich Works (Carlyle Center) in Alexandria, Virginia USA on Saturday, March 18, 2023
Released 1 yr ago (3/18/2023 UTC) at Potbelly Sandwich Works (Carlyle Center) in Alexandria, Virginia USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I'm releasing this book at a BCinDC Meetup. This Potbelly has a book exchange shelf!
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Hello and welcome to BookCrossing ... where we make the whole world a library!
Now that you've "caught" this book, it is yours to do with as you like. Read it, keep it, or give it away. It's your choice!
I'd love if you'd enter a note here on BookCrossing about this book -- where you found it, how you like it, and/or where you release it. If you join BookCrossing (free and fun), kindly list me, SqueakyChu, or any other journaler on this thread as your referring person. Thank you so much.
Enjoy the book!
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Hello and welcome to BookCrossing ... where we make the whole world a library!
Now that you've "caught" this book, it is yours to do with as you like. Read it, keep it, or give it away. It's your choice!
I'd love if you'd enter a note here on BookCrossing about this book -- where you found it, how you like it, and/or where you release it. If you join BookCrossing (free and fun), kindly list me, SqueakyChu, or any other journaler on this thread as your referring person. Thank you so much.
Enjoy the book!
This book came home from meet-up with me and has been set aside for the upcoming book festival.
Journal Entry 6 by 6of8 at Day Of The Book (Street Festival) On Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA on Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Released 11 mos ago (4/23/2023 UTC) at Day Of The Book (Street Festival) On Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
This book is one of many being passed along to potential readers at the 2023 Kensington Day of the Book Festival by members of BookCrossing in Washington DC (BCinDC).
Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.
Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.
Journal Entry 7 by KateKintail at Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Released 10 mos ago (5/20/2023 UTC) at Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
This book was leftover from the last book festival. It's going to have one more chance at going home with book festival attendees at the Gaithersburg Book Festival.
Making a journal entry here lets me know the book has been found and is safe in your hands. The book is yours now! Read it, give it to a friend, pass it on, or keep it forever--it's your choice.
If you pass it on to someone or leave it "in the wild" for someone else to find, please make another journal entry or release notes here to explain that it's travelling to find another home.
You can remain anonymous on the website or join BookCrossing. Joining is free, safe, and spam free and you'll get an e-mail every time a new person finds this book. You'll be able to watch it move around and find out what other readers thought of it.
I hope you enjoy the book. Happy reading!
Welcome to BookCrossing!
Making a journal entry here lets me know the book has been found and is safe in your hands. The book is yours now! Read it, give it to a friend, pass it on, or keep it forever--it's your choice.
If you pass it on to someone or leave it "in the wild" for someone else to find, please make another journal entry or release notes here to explain that it's travelling to find another home.
You can remain anonymous on the website or join BookCrossing. Joining is free, safe, and spam free and you'll get an e-mail every time a new person finds this book. You'll be able to watch it move around and find out what other readers thought of it.
I hope you enjoy the book. Happy reading!
I was unable to attend this year's Gaithersburg Book Festival but am happy to take in some of the leftovers. I will do my best to find them new homes including placement at many local Little Free Libraries that I happen upon. I saw this book in the bag Squeaky gave me and again on the table at Kensington and seriously debated taking it home. I am going to take it as a sign that it showed up in my house without me taking any action.
I was looking for a good candidate for the First Line game which would also be a quick read when I picked up this very old mystery that looked a tad worse for wear (at least the dust jacket). The first line was lightly amusing and seemed rife with implications and I figured it was what I was looking for. And it is short, so why not?
This book was not as easy to read as I was anticipating, although it was quick. I am not sure if some of it is the era in which it was written or merely the style of the authors, but likely both. The whole tone of the book is lightly amusing -- like a 50s rom com -- and rife with implications and half-finished sentences where everyone is expecting the other people (in this case, including the reader) to understand the unspoken meanings. Most of the characters in the book seem quite adept at figuring out what is not being said, but I struggled to fill in the blanks because it was too far outside my experience. Luckily the first person narrator is also a trifle dense and some things are explained to him -- but then he seems to understand a lot of things that are not explicitly addressed because it was expected that everyone would understand them. This young couple shortly after WWII are struggling to get by as writers and happen to be skinny-dipping in a neighbor's pool when they find the body of her wealthy uncle with a bullet hole in him. This makes them clear suspects. The whole thing is very relaxed and hip and casual in many ways but the timeline in the story is very short. Not all of it made sense to me and things that I am sure were hilarious or at least droll at the time of writing are completely baffling now. But still I enjoyed the weird Gatsby-esque world these folks seemed to inhabit, despite driving in a decrepit borrowed car which they called It and which is a secondary character in the entire plot. Not a bad choice for a quick read.
This book was not as easy to read as I was anticipating, although it was quick. I am not sure if some of it is the era in which it was written or merely the style of the authors, but likely both. The whole tone of the book is lightly amusing -- like a 50s rom com -- and rife with implications and half-finished sentences where everyone is expecting the other people (in this case, including the reader) to understand the unspoken meanings. Most of the characters in the book seem quite adept at figuring out what is not being said, but I struggled to fill in the blanks because it was too far outside my experience. Luckily the first person narrator is also a trifle dense and some things are explained to him -- but then he seems to understand a lot of things that are not explicitly addressed because it was expected that everyone would understand them. This young couple shortly after WWII are struggling to get by as writers and happen to be skinny-dipping in a neighbor's pool when they find the body of her wealthy uncle with a bullet hole in him. This makes them clear suspects. The whole thing is very relaxed and hip and casual in many ways but the timeline in the story is very short. Not all of it made sense to me and things that I am sure were hilarious or at least droll at the time of writing are completely baffling now. But still I enjoyed the weird Gatsby-esque world these folks seemed to inhabit, despite driving in a decrepit borrowed car which they called It and which is a secondary character in the entire plot. Not a bad choice for a quick read.
This book will be part of the First Line Game at the BCinDC Holiday Party.
Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.
Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.
I unwrapped this book during BCinDC's annual holiday wrapped book first line game.
This was the first line I couldn't resist: It was one of the more interesting murders of that summer and the Pooh and I almost did not attend.
This was the first line I couldn't resist: It was one of the more interesting murders of that summer and the Pooh and I almost did not attend.