Listing Bookmarks
List of Bookmarks
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Rec 4
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"Just a boy good at heart, more brave than a man -- too brave to *become* a man."
Last bookmarked by marrjoram
3 Feb 2012
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In the early fifties, life in the Security Services gets too hot for Ralph.
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James takes more risks than a human cannonball, and Paul humors him because that’s what good friends do.
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In Rapture, the city of possibilities, the only escape is death. One man dies, another is born, decades later, haunted by echoes of the past.
Last bookmarked by reichenbachs
23 Dec 2011
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Rec 2
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A bandit who hates the church but desires a priest... A priest determined to save a lost soul and be a martyr for his congregation... Can both get what they want without losing themselves in something stronger than either of them?
Last bookmarked by mizstorge
24 Nov 2011
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Father Keogh was thinking of Paradise Lost. He found himself thinking of Lucifer, the bright and brilliant angel whose company even God had missed.
(excerpt: "The Singer not the Song" by Audrey Erskine Lindop, Chapter 13, Page 100)Last bookmarked by mizstorge
24 Nov 2011
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Roy Cohn once told a friend that he was "born to end lives."
Last bookmarked by Elfgrandfather
21 May 2011
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Rec 3
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"What was it like?" Sookie asked Bill one night.
"What was what like?" he parroted.
"Watching the world change! You've seen so much! You got to watch the whole 20th century happen. All those changes, like airplanes and presidents."
Bill remembers his travels across 20th century America and all the changes he has seen.
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RPF of the Beatles. First written in 2007. I'm going to be updating parts of this story, mostly to add shorter George/Paul pieces I wrote at the time, and I may be continuing it at some point too.
Paul asks George to help him with a song. In Hamburg, two years later, the two young men begin to grow closer.
Last bookmarked by beatlesangel
24 Apr 2011
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The year is 1958, Dick Grayson is a beatnik history teacher and Damian is a brooding outsider come to shake up all the squares, jocks, hep-cats and kittens. Crazy man, craaazy.
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Rec 1
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Everyone knows that Alan Turing died in 1954. Except James Watson and Nikola Tesla.
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How it began, and how it ended.
Last bookmarked by enamoured_of
13 Jan 2011
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Having mono at Princeton was the best thing that ever happened to him.
Last bookmarked by kangeiko
28 Nov 2010
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It's time for Hilda's next project, "Mapp and Lucia: the opera." Or should that be "Lucia and Mapp"?
Last bookmarked by twtd
29 Sep 2010
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Rec 2
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Roll over, Beethoven and move over, Benjamin Britten… it's Hilda Tablet, the "eminent twelve-tone composeress." When Hilda and her muse, soprano Elsa Strauss, are special guests at the Aldeburgh Festival, they leave havoc, romantic entanglements and modern music in their wake.
Last bookmarked by twtd
14 Sep 2010
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"Skur died saying my father's name. Why?"
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It's not so bad to spoil your own surprise when there's an even better backup surprise.
Last bookmarked by Carenejeans
1 Jan 2010
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Rec 9
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1953. A grand opera for the Coronation. What could go wrong?
Last bookmarked by Loligo
31 Dec 2009
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Rec 1
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The cases that, at first glance, look open-and-shut, are usually the ones that make you wish you had a boring job.