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Fun with reading - Book quotes
"No, why?"
Page 26 , sentence 7
I hope I did this correct.
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"The snow and ice that had settled over the still-leafy trees had perilously weighed down the branches, destroying or damaging countless trees.
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
NEXT: page 41, sentence 5
page 41, sentence 5"Jean--Louise--Finch, you are going to die in three days."
from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
NEXT: page 106, sentence 7
"'Her mother is dead," he said. from Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson (so good I recommend it to everyone)
NEXT: page 98 sentence 3
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"And Babe, who never danced because he, Bill, hated it, blushed like a schoolgirl."
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
Next: pg 50, sentence 12
page 50, sentence 12"He saw you downstairs," Haley leered, "but that ain't no alibi."
from "Fall Guy" by George Harmon Coxe in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Otto Penzler
Next: Page 70, sentence 13
Page 70 sentence 13"I drew out all the items I had packed from the kitchen and toolshed.
Seven Locks
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"Making matters worse, the Pacific fleet was in ruins and incapable of running the Japanese blockade in the Philippines."
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth Norman
Next: Page 3, sentence 7
"Trust the post office?"How We Got Here: The 70s The Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better Or Worse: The 70s - The Decade That Brought You Modern Life - For Better or WorsePage 10, sentence 6
"The magician," Cery hissed.
The Magicians' Guild, by Trudi Canavan.
Page 75, sentence 15
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"No one dared to believe that my mother had violated the ban on hunting them."
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
NEXT: Page 64, sentence 11
He scraped the ground with his boot heel, to mark where each boy was supposed to dig.Page 112, sentence 3
"Incensed that male actors like Alan Alda and Carroll O'Connor were making more money, she demanded a pay raise from $30,000 to $150,000 per episode."Page 15. Sentence 5
God, nobody ever said something like that to me before.- The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
Page 10, sentence 21
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A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria RussellNext: page 50, sentence 12
Years of domestic service instinctively urged her to straighten and refold them.
by Hazel GaynorNext: page 143, sentence 6
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During Conchita's labour he had hardly said a thing.
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
Next: page 117, sentence 11
Page 117, sentence 11:Check him out how, exactly?
Flora's Lot by Katie Fforde
Next: Page 1, sentence 1
Page 1, sentence 1:A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.
Summer by Edith Wharton
Next: Page 74, sentence 20
Page 74, sentence 20:That first afternoon they went out together was particularly fine.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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The cameraman turned on his floods and began frantically filming.
The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri
Next: Page 23, sentence 4
Page 23, sentence 4"That is very intersting," I told him, recalling Mrs. Leibler's conversational tips, "because 'Hannah' is a kind of word called a palindrome."
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Next: Page 14, sentence 6
A limited number of modes can be analysed carefully in (conceptual isolation), and then the complications can be built in to analyse a rich variety of real situations. Marxist Theories of Imperialism by Anthony Brewer
Next: page 101, sentence 9
page 101, sentence 9You need feel no guilt at all.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō
Next: page 79, sentence 4
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As for the other - well, Stephen Bonnet was not likely to cross paths with the Lietenant anytime soon - if Bonnet himself was still alive.
From: The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
Next: page 3, sentence 12
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"Because it's worn only in the morning?"
The Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonNext - page 77, sentence 5
page 77, sentence 5She doesn't belong here any more than he belongs in her Second Avenue love nest, sipping tea while Bursteins march in and out.
Away by Amy Bloom
NEXT: page 201, sentence 2
page 201 ,sentence 5I pointed to the people standing beneath the oak tree near the house in the picture on my cell phone.
The Girl on Legare Street by Karen White
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Can you believe it?
Bitter Grounds by Sandra BenítezNEXT: Page 64, sentence 8
page 64, sentence 8"Instead he kept just enough back so I could feel my own helplessness in the torrent of our will."
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Next: page 15, sentence 6
Page 140, Sentence 2I was passing by on my way to the church and figured I should stop by to offer condolences in person.
Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocern
Next: Page 66, Sentence 3
Page 66, Sentence 3: The need to confess was irresistible.The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
Next: page 201, sentence 1
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"Come on," says Bob.
Left Neglected by Lisa GenovaNext: page 17, sentence 11
Page 17, Sentence 11"What's wrong hon? You don't like ham?"
Carolina Booty by T. Lynn OceanNext: page 33, sentence 9
page 33, sentence 9"Not all of us are like that."
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
NEXT: page 88, sentence 2
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The birds were so close that it seemed to Jody he might touch them with his fishing pole.
Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsNEXT: Page 22, sentence 10
Page 22, sentence 10 The city, compelling as it was, felt like a glamorous couture dress I had bought in haste but that didn't quite fit me after all.
, by Jojo Moyes.Next: Page 174, last sentence
page 174, last sentence"A judgement, that's what it is."
from Crooked House by Agatha Christie
Next: page 1, sentence 1
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When given bad news, most women of my station can afford to slump onto their divans, their china cups slipping from their fingers to the carpet, their hair falling prettily from its pins, their fourteen starched petticoats compacting with a plush crunch.
Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
Next: Page 107, sentence 2
Page 107, sentence 2: She opened each email with a paperclip icon.
From: There There, by Tommy Orange (This book and author do not show up in the search function, although the book is listed on Goodreads.)
NEXT: Page 11, sentence 6
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There TherePage 11, sentence 6
This was a Gathering of Highlanders, many of them exiled to the Colonies in the wake of the Stuart Rising, and had Archie Hayes chosen to take official notice of what was said over the cups of ale and whisky passed round the fires the night before ... but then, he had buty forty soldiers with him, and whatever his own opinions of King George and that monarch's possible damnation, he kept them wisely to himself.
(THAT's quite a sentence!)
The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
Next: Page 118, sentence 9
Thanks for the link to There, There! And yes, that WAS quite a sentence!Page 118, sentence 9
I told her I thought it was a sick joke and I didn't appreciate it.
The Trapped Girl by Robert Dugoni
NEXT: page 202, sentence 4
Donna wrote: "Thanks for the link to There, There!" You can type the authors name into the search box. That’s sometimes easier.Page 202, sentence 4
“For my Christmas I asked for a kitten, but my mom says Santa can’t bring a kitten, which is a lie because a girl in my class got one for Hanukkah.”
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Next: page 41, sentence 5
PS: I was about to note that my book doesn’t have a page 202, but it’s in German so I had to switch to the next one down anyway...
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Page 41 , sentence 5
"Thank you very much," I mumbled to my father.
The Time in Between by María Dueñas
NEXT: Page 65, sentence 8
Oops...sorry for going outside the page specifications...Page 65 sentence 8:
There are one or two spots where you have to rope up and belay someone, but you're not climbing ice cliffs.
The Trapped Girl by Robert Dugoni
NEXT: Page 11, sentence 2
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I'll start us off by giving you a page number (from 1 to 125), and a sentence number (from 1 to 20).
You post the sentence from the book that's near to you at this very moment. Citing the book and author (please use the add book/author link) ...
Then post a new page # (1 - 125) and new sentence # (1 - 20).
The next person would turn to that page in his/her book and post the sentence asked for.
Example: If I post "page 32, sentence 4", the next person would go to page 32 of the book that's easiest to grab and post sentence 4 on that page. Then that person will post the next page/sentence request, and so on.
You can get some really short sentences, some really long sentences, and some rather silly sentences, but that's the fun in the game, and it might intrigue someone else enough to check out the book
Please remember to post the book title and author so the rest of us can check out the book if the posted sentence catches our attention!
FIRST task
Page 12, sentence 3