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The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh, #13)
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Love PD James and obviously she's a great writer, but her books (even though nominally set in the present day) always seem very old-fashioned to me. I feel like you could have almost a PD James drinking game around everything that doesn't seem like it belongs in this century. Like...
Take a sip every time someone:
* Writes a letter
* Eats a home cooked meal (have two sips if it's made by an actual personal cook)
* Employs a maid, laundress, butler or other personal servant
* Talk about something that happened during WWII (two sips if it's something secret and dangerous that happened during WWII, three sips if this secret is the key to solving the mystery)
Take a sip every time someone:
* Writes a letter
* Eats a home cooked meal (have two sips if it's made by an actual personal cook)
* Employs a maid, laundress, butler or other personal servant
* Talk about something that happened during WWII (two sips if it's something secret and dangerous that happened during WWII, three sips if this secret is the key to solving the mystery)
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January 22, 2010
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January 22, 2010
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January 22, 2010
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Nov 01, 2014 04:46PM
The old kindle dictionary's working overtime on this one!
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Amen. susurration, "concerted intake of breath so low it seemed no more than the susurration of the freshening breeze"
