1.  As the scenery whizzed by at 186 mph, I finished reading Leroux's novel, finishing not long before the train arrived at Waterloo Station.

2.  Duncan read the novel and prayed that Willis would prove a man of his word.

3.  For Will Patton, who read the novel for the audiotape version, the book was an actor's decathlon.

4.  Former cellmate Francis Larsen said Faye occupied herself with needlepoint, watching shows like "Wheel of Fortune," thumbing through People magazine and reading romance novels.

5.  From the moment she read Chute's novel, first-time director Jennifer Warren was reportedly obsessed with it.

6.  Had this bar-hopper cruising for women been reading Victorian novels?

7.  He began to receive phone calls from a Mrs. Toole, who wanted Percy to read a novel written by her son.

8.  He could read a novel, too.

9.  He acknowledged that "Ulysses" puzzles and intimidates many readers and that most people in Ireland have not read the novel, which was published in 1922.

10.  He killed the time doing a crossword puzzle and reading a novel and guarding his place with a sheet of paper that said 8:30 p.m.