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Portable Magic

Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.

Currently reading

A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Whisper Network
Chandler Baker
Progress: 54 %
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Progress: 28 %
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Carolyn Keene
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Gary Raisor, Richard Chizmar, Al Sarrantonio, Avram Davidson
Progress: 70/512 pages
Leading Change
John P. Kotter
Peanuts Classics
Charles M. Schulz
Progress: 66 %
The Bungalow Mystery
Carolyn Keene
Progress: 192/192 pages
The Bungalow Mystery #3
Carolyn Keene
Progress: 192/192 pages
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Russell H. Tandy, Mildred Benson, Carolyn Keene

HP's BL-opoly - 2nd Dice Roll

 

Instructions for the ring additional task: Read a book where someone gets married, with jewelry on the cover, or where any character is a millionaire/billionaire!

 

The Shuttle - Frances Hodgson Burnett 

Although this would have been an easy task to fill from one of the books on my TBR romance shelf, I decided to tackle one from my TBR vintage bookshelf. I picked up The Shuttle at an antique store in downtown Waxahachie, during their Gingerbread Home Tour three years ago. I'm always attracted to vintage books with illustrations, and this one had the extra lure of an author that I recognized, but had never read any of her books intended for adult audiences. A Little Princess and the Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett are of course two of my favorite children's books. 

 

The Shuttle fits the task because several characters are millionaires, and according to the synopsis, one of them gets married to an awful man and needs to be rescued by her sister.