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Well, my guess would be The Iliad, although the present tense seems wrong for that... in any case, it is clearly a book about the Trojan War!I grabbed my book before actually reading all the way through your post :) So here is mine:
"Nothing dramatic occurred, no red ball of fire or the like; rather, more a gradual yellowing along the length of the eastern horizon and an ebbing of the black making way to blue, the sudden surge of the tide's voice at dawn and the screech of the oyster catchers."
"Parzana gazes up at the morning stars, fading, pale, blinking at her indifferently."
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Leslie wrote: "Well, my guess would be The Iliad, although the present tense seems wrong for that... in any case, it is clearly a book about the Trojan War!I grabbed my book before actually reading all the way ..."
Yes it is The Iliad, and it's a line of dialogue, hence the tense.
LauraT wrote: "No idea for all three books if the first is not the Iliad. I'll wait untill they are solved before posting other lines!"Nah - go ahead and post lines from your book!
Nicole wrote: ""Parzana gazes up at the morning stars, fading, pale, blinking at her indifferently.""Is this from And the Mountains Echoed? I cheated and peeked at what you are currently reading...
Dhanaraj wrote: ""The cow jumped over the moon.""Is this Edward Lear? This immediately sprung to mind:
Hey diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle
Leslie wrote: "Dhanaraj wrote: ""The cow jumped over the moon.""Is this Edward Lear? This immediately sprung to mind:
Hey diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle"
You are right, Leslie. In fact, this is a quote from a rhyme that is used by Edna O'brien in her memoir which I am presently reading.
'Well, so they say,' said Hagrid. 'Crikey, I'd like a dragon.'Wild guess anyone? ;)
LauraT wrote: "Harry Potter for sure, which one though? The first Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?"Yep :)
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"She spoke very earnestly. Romayne shrank, with a strange shyness, from letting her see how her sympathy
affected him. He answered lightly. "You go almost as far as my good friend there reading the newspaper," he
said. "Lord Loring doesn't scruple to tell me that I ought to marry. I know he speaks with a sincere interest in my welfare. He little thinks how he distresses me."
Not particularly "illuminating" I'm afraid!
Leslie wrote: "Nicole wrote: ""Parzana gazes up at the morning stars, fading, pale, blinking at her indifferently.""Is this from And the Mountains Echoed? I cheated and peeked at what you are currently reading..."
You got it, Leslie. Ha Ha.
LauraT wrote: "So it's my turn:"She spoke very earnestly. Romayne shrank, with a strange shyness, from letting her see how her sympathy
affected him. He answered lightly. "You go almost as far as my good friend ..."
The Ideal Husband? I don't recall Romayne but it has a Lord Loring I think...
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Sophie :) wrote: "Here's mine: Where was Cate?"
That's too hard for me to guess!
Here is mine: "He had never owned a gun."
Oo Oo Oo! I'm guessing Inspector Morse, Leslie?? Again I'm "cheating" as I know you are reading the whole series in order for the "English Mysteries" group. And it fits his character to a T.So if I'm right with that bit then the book is "The Riddle of the Third Mile", as that's the one I'm starting tomorrow!
Here it goes: "And, for somereason, the lighting in the room makes their teeth seem closer than they should be, as if each mouth was a place, a living room with pink carpet
and the window’s open."
Jenny wrote: "Here it goes: "And, for somereason, the lighting in the room makes their teeth seem closer than they should be, as if each mouth was a place, a living room with pink carpet
and the window’s open.""
What an image!
You are keeping me in suspense Leslie! Was I right?
Jean wrote: "You are keeping me in suspense Leslie! Was I right?"Nope, haven't started The Riddle of the Third Mile yet. It was from A Scanner Darkly.
Then I stand corrected! I thought that was a pretty good guess too - I dare say Morse never owned a gun either.
As Katrina ducked inside their tent, Roran poured the contents of the tub over the fire, extinguishing it.
Love this game, a real brain tickler! Hard to keep track of though, have we guessed all of them apart from Amber's last??!The Kat in the hunger games was a Katniss or something like that, but for some reason your quote puts me in mind of something similar (as in genre) Amber, but haven't a clue really! Roran is an unusual name, it feels like I've heard it before somewhere, but I can't remember for the life of me!
This is the problem with kindle books, I hate that they don't give you page numbers!!
How about this one“There was nothing wild, nothing immodest in her manner: it was quiet and self-controlled, a little melancholy and a little touched by suspicion; not exactly the manner of a lady, and, at the same time, not the manner of a woman in the humblest rank of life.”
I don't think we have guessed Jenny's either. And I haven't a clue. Nor of Amber's.Chatterjack - are the initials of your author TC? (And no, I'm not thinking of Top Cat) 'Cos if so it wouldn't be fair for me to say, as I know you're reading that.
And I agree - I have 2 Kindles within reach, but I'd have to walk right across the room to pick up an actual book...
No, I'm reading TC (top cat made me laugh!) on Kindle! I've got iBooks on the iPad though & I've been dipping in and out of a book on there - I'm not as keen on reading from it though, hurts my eyes if I read for more than an hour or so. My kindle tells me I'm 85% through your TC recommendation - enjoying it, very interesting, although it seems quite different to the Lady & the Unicorn from what I remember, although its a long time since I read that! Thanks for the tip though, I should finish it today!
Yes, Jackie, I think Chevalier is different in each book. I love Remarkable Creatures just becuase I'm nuts about Geology, and Mary Anning is a hero of mine. But Girl With a Pearl Earring is excellent too - she immerses herself so in the time and the place. I definitely want to read more!I now go back to my first thought then, that this is a 19th Century heroine. Any idea anyone?
Do you give up on mine or should i wait a little longer to reveal?
"And it's these damn socialist influences over in Britain."
Wow, Dhanaraj that's a good one. I'm still reeling from the appallingly misleading headline in one of our tabloids today (seen in a supermarket - NOT bought!) I won't spell it out (you can look for yourselves if you're interested) as this is not a political forum. But the sheer hypocrisy, misdirection and manipulation of some newspapers takes my breath away sometimes.
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And you don't live in Italy, when one of the newspapers is owned by the brother of our exprime minister - who owns three tv channels...
Read some books by Marshall Mcluhan. The media politics will stun and frighten you. You realize that you are a helpless victim.By the way, the quote is from a book and is found on page 52, the fifth line. The book is by an Irish and it was first published in 1955.
I had placed an order for a book before two weeks and it had arrived today. And when I looked into the 52nd page the fifth line was interesting. So I shared. The title of the novel is: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.
Jenny wrote: "Here it goes: "And, for somereason, the lighting in the room makes their teeth seem closer than they should be, as if each mouth was a place, a living room with pink carpet
and the window’s open.""
Jenny - is this from Zola?
Dhanaraj - Well the timing fits Samuel Beckett - but it doesn't sound strange enough!
Leslie wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Here it goes: "And, for somereason, the lighting in the room makes their teeth seem closer than they should be, as if each mouth was a place, a living room with pink carpet
and the ..."
No, I had to reach a bit further as it had to be an English book. Should I hint? It is poetry, an we have a poem of his in the Monday Poems.
Jenny wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Here it goes: "And, for somereason, the lighting in the room makes their teeth seem closer than they should be, as if each mouth was a place, a living room with pink ..."
Well, I have no idea but will guess Heaney!
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
@ Kim: It looks like an Oscar Wilde saying.
Leslie wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Here it goes: "And, for somereason, the lighting in the room makes their teeth seem closer than they should be, as if each mouth was a place, a living r..."
Almost ;) it's from Richard Siken's Crush
"Meanwhile X takes it upon himself to remove both bath plugs."
I had forgotten this thread... I have no idea what book Tweedledum is reading, but here is my sentence:"I hope I am not a nuisance, but I saw old Atlee was speaking tonight and I had a couple of rabbits I thought you might like, so I left them with your cook--she's not a St. Ewold's girl but she seems to understand rabbits all right."
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The first one I had was:
""Paris and warlike Menelaus are going to fight it out with their spears for the woman."
That's pretty easy to guess, unfortunately.