#29

I finished it a few days ago...but I can't seem to keep up with stuff these days.  It should be easy, now that XC and soccer and marathon training are done, but I'm getting lazy.  It's dark before 7 & I'm ready for bed when it gets dark!  Hard to get things done that way.
#29 for 2013 is another Maisie Dobbs novel ~ the fifth one, An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear.  I think this is my favorite so far.  It brings closure to the Simon plot line & we see Maisie in a much better place than she has been in the last three books.  The case is also pretty mysterious...and I was able to piece together most of the clues as we went along.

fl: The old woman rested on the steps of her home, a caravan set apart from those of the rest of her family, her tribe.  ll: So, alone in her flat, Maisie Dobbs danced.

Quotes & Words

{no page #'s in this double book ~ so the number is a location #}

120:
frivolities

{a pretty sounding word}

330: "Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth." {oft quoted in this series & it's struck me everytime I've read it}

414:

pugilist

{a cool word for a boxer}

805: After they had eaten a tea of corned beef, carrots and potatoes.  {funny to think of tea as a meal and not a beverage}

884:

rashers

{a thin slice of bacon}

1028:

acquiescence

{accept something reluctantly but without protest}

1704: {talking about the traveling village vicar who} comes in every Sunday morning and for the usual hatch, match, and dispach work.  {struck me as funny, that description of a pastor's services}

1840:

fiefdom

{talking about the house butler's 'kingdom' of the downstairs}

2661:

supposedly

{only because I've said this work incorrectly for.ev.er and my husband finally corrected me this summer ~ now I don't sound ignorant}