Grab the closest book to you...

[Patti (baconater)]

I've not guessed any of them.

[Fiona (Titch)]

LOL @ Patti x

[Jay-me (Janet)]

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "I've not guessed any of them."

& I bet you are glad you aren't reading some of them.

[Anita]

They sat together at the long table which was one of the luxuries of those condemned to die.

I couldn't guess any of the others either Patti.

[Joo]

I didn't have a book nearby, so went to my bookcase, with the light off so my choice was as random as possible, and just grabbed one to look up. Bearing in mind I've got rid of as many novels as I could, there were only strange books on my shelf. This is the result.

"Although he has a job with regular hours, I never know when to expect him home, yet he seems to think I ought to be able to produce a perfectly cooked meal the moment he enters the house."

That was from a book dated from a bout 1939, called Everybody's Best Friend which delivers sage advice for everyone. Page 52 is in the chapter headed 'For Better, For Worse' under 'All Men Have Their Faults'

The following advice to the query above was "Do not have a meal ready except at such times as you might reasonably expect him. Do not unduly hurry to prepare one when he arrives home at an unreasonable hour; in fact regulate your speed according to the disparity between the time he ought to appear and the time ha actually does"

Oh dear, future queries include "Is having a refrigerator a luxury?" "On an important social occasion should one aim at being strictly correct in speech or should the ordinary, everyday mode of expression be followed?" and "I have heard that if a person escapes from a mental home and is not recaptured within 14 days he cannot be taken back into the mental home, IS this correct?"

There is a lot to be learnt from this weighty tome.

[[deleted user]]

An interesting slice of history there, Joo!

:0)

[Stuart]

"In this fallen world we have as our only guides, prudence, wisdom (rare in youth, too late in age), a clean heart and a fidelity of will..."

[Patti (baconater)]

Soundalike something you'd write Stu.

I love that sort of book, Joo. Have you read any Mrs Beaton?

[Stuart]

Thanks Patti. It's actually from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkein!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Stuart wrote: "Thanks Patti. It's actually from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkein!"

I have that book - its really good and gives all sorts of fascinating insights into the man.

[Leanne]

all watching Ma Costa

[Stuart]

Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Stuart wrote: "Thanks Patti. It's actually from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkein!"

I have that book - its really good and gives all sorts of fascinating insights into the man."

It certainly does. It's really wonderful

[Joo]

@Kew, it certainly is.
@Patti, No, I don't think so.

[Patti (baconater)]

I think I got my Mrs Beaton for free from ummmm what's the name of that free out of copyright book site?

Brain just isn't working this weekend...

[Emma]

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "I think I got my Mrs Beaton for free from ummmm what's the name of that free out of copyright book site?

Brain just isn't working this weekend..."

Project Gutenberg?

[Patti (baconater)]

Thanks Emz. That's the one.

[Karen]

The nearest book is a catalogue from a quilt exhibition of Hungarian quilters... and it's only got 40 pages, so I've picked page 25.

'I can only sew things that I feel, the things that occupy my heart'

Aah.
Just as well it wasn't the Hungarian page!