I was starting to get the feeling there was a lot Sloane hadn’t told me. Blood pressure cuffs. Enchiladas. Tall, strange men who weren’t her fiancé. This was turning into a very intriguing book club.

The Lonely Hearts Book Club, Lucy Gilmore

Irish folk songs, as far as I can tell, have mainly to do with drinking, pretty girls, missing your homeland, beating up British soldiers, and taking somebody else’s things.

The Lies of Our Time, Anthony Esolen

Turkeys have been known to attack and seriously injure grown men, and once, down by the road, one of them attacked our dog (a dog who was no longer living when I began to feed deer), as we learned when we heard her screaming as if she’d been hit by a car. We ran to her aid and found her cowering under some bushes. In a nearby tree a big tom turkey was looking down at her with his feathers all fluffed.

The Hidden Life of Deer, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas