Summer Vacation

The end of summer is quickly approaching. I had so many books, none of them were about craft, I was looking forward to reading but one thing lead to another and, well my to be read pile is towering next to my desk. I have one last chance. We go on vacation to the beach next week. Perhaps I can laze by the pool or on the beach and read, read, read. What do you do on vacation?

Several people guessed the authors and titles of the opening lines I posted last week. I hope you enjoyed the challenge. Did you guess which one was mine? 

1.    “As their elegant traveling chaise rocked and swayed along the rutted country road, Lady Anne Gilbert leaned her cheek against her husband’s shoulder and heaved a long, impatient sigh.”

     Whitney, My Love by Judith McNaught

2.    “How does a person reenter a life she left behind years earlier?”
     Summer of Roses by Luanne Rice

3.    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
     Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4.    “It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances, at least not at first glance.”
     Outlander by Diane Gabaldon

5.    “The noon whistle blew and the saws stopped whining.”
     Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer

6.    “I should not have stayed away from the Manor so long. Something stirs.”
     Knight of Runes by Ruth A. Casie

7.    “Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?”
     The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks

8.    “Douglas Montgomery sat in the back seat of the rental car, Robert and his pudgy thirteen-year-old daughter, Gloria, in the front.”
     Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux

9.    “Cam called in markers, pulled strings, begged favors and threw money around in a dozen directions.”
     Sea Swept by Nora Roberts

10. “They said he killed his first wife.”
     The Bride by Julie Garwood

11. “Come to me.”
      A Dance Through Time by Lynn Kurland

12. “There were pictures in the fire. Dragons.”
     Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts

13. “Fae archers stood at the Sidhe wall and trained their arrows toward the tree line as a slow, unseasonable frost overtook the branches.”
     Left for Dead: A Crimson Moon Novel by L.A. Banks

14. “When the rumbling Cessna heaved into the sky, Kate Jansen completely lost her nerve.”
     The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship by Lisa Verge Higgins

15. “As darkness slowly fled from his eyes, the boy woke, his head aching and his body sore, as if he had been beaten.”
    The Lost by Caridad Pineiro

16. “It is always a mistake to underestimate the possibilities of a train compartment.”
    Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander