Port El Kantaoui to go

Booklist 2: Ratings: Total = 16 . Pass = 11. Fail = 5. Percentage = 80.

Dove Season by Johnny Shaw - Fail

Dove Season (Johnny Shaw) - Highlight on Page 3 | Loc. 93-95 | Added on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 06:28 PM

I grabbed a seat at the counter, not bothering to look at the menu. I kept to a strict policy with roadside diners: OOB. Only order breakfast. It was a safe bet and sometimes a pleasant surprise. Lunch and dinner could be a crapshoot. There’s always that one entrée that doesn’t belong.

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Dove Season (Johnny Shaw) - Highlight on Page 39 | Loc. 564-65 | Added on Saturday, January 14, 2012, 09:40 PM

Bobby cut in. “You ain’t in LA no more, brother. Besides, you’re thinking of strippers. Mexican hookers tend to use their real names. Fun fact.”

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Dove Season (Johnny Shaw) - Highlight on Page 164 | Loc. 2261-62 | Added on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 03:11 PM

As Pop had told me, “Boredom brings out the bingo in every old fart.”

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Dove Season (Johnny Shaw) - Highlight on Page 173 | Loc. 2382-87 | Added on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 09:29 PM

I reached past Pop and took the extra pillow. Pop laughed. I pressed the pillow over Pop’s laughing face with one hand, holding his hand with the other. He didn’t resist. Almost imperceptibly, he clutched my hand a little tighter. And I held the pillow, laughing and crying. I could feel Pop laughing underneath the pillow. Laughing as I held the pillow tighter to his face. His shoulders shook. Laughing the Big Laugh. The once-a-year laugh. Pop’s final laugh. And then nothing. Ten seconds or ten minutes, I have no idea. But it wasn’t until my own laughter died down that I realized that Pop’s had, too. I lifted the pillow from his face and set it at his feet. He was smiling. Pop was dead.

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Dove Season (Johnny Shaw) - Highlight on Page 356 | Loc. 4867-71 | Added on Thursday, January 26, 2012, 05:06 PM

“Let’s walk around, make sure,” Bobby said. I nodded. “Did you nod?” Bobby asked. “Cause in the dark, nodding don’t communicate dick.” “I nodded,” I said. “I just nodded back,” Bobby said, and then he walked deeper into the building, waving the light into the corners.

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Dove Season (Johnny Shaw) - Highlight Loc. 5163 | Added on Friday, January 27, 2012, 10:48 PM

I was very fortunate to be a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition in 2010.

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Dove Season (Johnny Shaw) - Highlight Loc. 5175-76 | Added on Friday, January 27, 2012, 10:49 PM

Johnny Shaw was born and raised in the Imperial Valley on the Calexico/Mexicali border.
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