Grab your nearest book!

[Ally]

"She was the diplomatist of Tipton and Freshitt, and for anything to happen in spite of her was an offensive irregularity."

...From [Book: Middlemarch] by [Author: George Eliot]

[Wendy T]

"I guess so." I groaned, "I just wanted to get in, get out without anyone seeing me."

From...Between The Tides by Patti Callahan Henry

[Usako]

He will have the best of weapons, and equipment, and have had months of hard, and strenuous training to prepare him for success on the battlefield.

Kindle location: 560

[Jennifer W]

His mama was on crack when she had him.

Imani All Mine

[Rosemary]

"Well, hello there," he said in what I suppose was a slow, sexy drawl. Taken from Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen

[Nicki]

"Be happy, little one, be happy."

[Nicki]

from Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by lisa see

[Pam]

"Eli was staring at me again, and it was beginning to get annoying."

From: True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Lola Douglas

[Jennifer W]

"A scarred pay phone is mounted above a rack with a few faded tourist brochures for Canobie Lake Park, Robert Frost Farm, and the New Hampshire Snowmobile Museum."

Wintergirls

[Aylin]

"For a moment, Pei allowed her body to relax into the soft leather seat."

From "The Language of Threads" by Gail Tsukiyama (picked it up used today and haven't put it on the waiting shelves yet).

[Rosemary]

"It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor." Guess what book this came out of!

[Heather]

"But three years was a long time to sleep in a cemetery, and the gates were locked every night."

Ruined: A Novel by Paula Morris

[Wendy]

"You're a midget."

Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich

[Eve]

Heather wrote: ""But three years was a long time to sleep in a cemetery, and the gates were locked every night."

Ruined: A Novel by Paula Morris"

Now, I have to pick up this book and read it!

[Cindy]

Rosemary wrote: ""It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor." Guess what book this came out of!"

I give up!

[Ally]

"Best to say we weren't a true literary society at first."

[Book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society]

[Rosemary]

well, I'm a little embarrassed. My quote was from the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society but I must have been on the wrong page!!!! I'm am such a geek. What page are we supposed to get our sentence from? I'm blushing and laughing at the same time...

[El]

"Well, how is our dear invalid?"

War and Peace, Tolstoy.

[Cindy]

Rosemary wrote: My quote was from the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society "

Page 56....sentence 5! I never would have known if you wouldn't have said something!

[Vikki]

"Expect your prospect to buy."

[Vikki]

Ok you said the book nearest to me and well I just happen to have on my desk 5 inches to the left of my elbow a sales book. Can I Have 5 Minutes of Your Time? A No Nonsense Fun Approach to Sales by Hal Becker So there it is folks on page 56, the fifth sentence!

[Angela]

And Maddie's got a great attitude and lots of support, which all the cancer books say is as important as the actual treatment, if not more.



The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

[Ally]

Rosemary wrote: "well, I'm a little embarrassed. My quote was from the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society but I must have been on the wrong page!!!! I'm am such a geek. What page are we supposed to ge..."

...no need to blush - we probably have different editions!...and I usually ignore that first half-sentence that's actually a hang-over from the previous page!

Ally

[Debbie]

(OK, the first book I grabbed had only a picture on page 56!)

But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Let Us Draw Near by Wilbur Fields

[Joy]

"It was the flare gun or nothing, thanks."

She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot.

[Ally]

"How he'd gotten drunk senior year and kissed me and then squeezed my hand so hard it should've hurt but it didn't, it felt wonderful the way he was holding me and looking into my eyes." ([Book: The Help] by [Author: Kathryn Stockett])

[Kathryn]

"The economy could be better, but the folks down here are the real thing."

The Fixer Upper A Novel by Mary Kay Andrews

[AngieA]

Nick: "Yeah"

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Edward Albee

[Cindy]

Kathryn wrote: ""The economy could be better, but the folks down here are the real thing."

The Fixer Upper A Novel by Mary Kay Andrews"

Oh Kathryn, Are you finished reading this one? It's on my list of 'have to reads'!!

[Rosemary]

The Fixer Upper A Novel by Mary Kay Andrews"I read it, too. It's cute!

[Vikki]

Ok I just want you all to know that last night when I was at Borders I found myself turning to page 56 of every book I picked up and reading the 5th sentence.

[Debbie]

That's a hoot, Vikki!

[Karla]

Alexander sat forward.

Ok that was a lame one!! lol! From Cleopatra's Daughter

[Jennifer W]

"I'd like to show you a couple of my new discoveries."

Graceling

[Vikki]

Debbie wrote: "That's a hoot, Vikki!"

It was entertaining!

[Jennifer W]

"With her words cold upon my heart, I have come to believe it would serve some purpose-whether historical or personal I cannot say- if I were to set down in my own words the story of how I came to be a Saint and marry five wives"

The 19th Wife A Novel

This has been a great book so far, I highly recommend it.

[Brandi]

"Kissing," Tilda said and then laughed when Eve shrieked in delight and Steve jerked back.

From Faking It

[Ahtims]

Remove the stalk and cut each brinjal in four.

From "Vegetarian recipes for all occasions" by B F Varughese

[Ally]

"Nothing is torn, nothing is faded."

[Book: The Piano Teacher] by [Author: Elfriede Jelinek]

Ally

[Pam]

"I mean, we'll probably spend the summer in my grandparents' old place in New Hampshire again and I can go to the beach every day, and when my dad comes up on Saturday, he'll take me to the bookstore to buy some paper dolls."

Pretty in Plaid A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomanical, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase by Jen Lancaster

[Ally]

"He had taken extra care to prepare, because today he would have to persuade them he had come to protect Dante".

[Book: The Dante Club] by [Author: Matthew Pearl]

[Yassemin]

What had happened to him was sort f fuuny because Ralph Miller hadn't touched a bit of machinery since 1952, seven years before, when he stepped up from foreman to the front office.

Salems Lot-King

[Joanne]

Far from being a sub-standard education, as some Mitford biographers have suggested, PNEU was and is a highly regarded, reliable and time-tested system of teaching.

The Sisters The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell

[Rachelle]

"This asshole didn't know a damn thing about Joe.".

[Rachelle]

South of Hell by P J Parrish. Sorry

[Krystle]

"Ellen stood by the counter, holding the envelope in her hand, watching him." --House and Homeby Kathleen McCleary

[Fiona (Titch)]

Irish, though his features didn't look Irish at all.

[Ahtims]

"Yes, such clothes are called uniform" explained his father.
(My World- Book 2)

[Fiona (Titch)]

I will give you 8 books and see what you say.

Book 1:become one of the most formidable thorns in the

Book 2:constantly looked like a cement mixer on full speed

Book 3:in, and he was sticking to it

Book 4:mind in a way that made me wonder if I had imagined it,

Book 5:Jit jogged up beside me as Johnno walked away,

Book 6Meester Masterful ... I think I like it, Cherie ..."

Book 7:porch, looking up at a ceiling fan circling above me, moths

Book 8:were rolling out the yellow crime-scene tape around

Have fun lol x

[Fenixbird]

So did new sources of energy: electricity, in which the U.S. and Germany both led invention & commercial development; and oil which was being refined in the 1850s and widely used by 1900.