Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Place your quotes from chick lit page 46 (or some other page) here.

Yikes, sorry, I put this in the wrong spot. I'll be mor careful next month.

Not a problem. I moved it for you.

Thanks, I thought there was probably a way to do so, but I didn't know how.

Lynne- I love your titles for page 46! They just crack me up!

Tara wrote: "Lynne- I love your titles for page 46! They just crack me up!"

dito! :)

Yeah they are super funny Lynne

Thanks, I'm a math teacher and a mother of teenagers, so adoring comments are ALWAYS welcome! LOL

Lynne you always manage to make me laugh :0)

I'm noticing an appalling lack of participation in this conversation by my sister...hmmmmmm?

From Midwives by Chris Bohjalian. ALL of p. 46 is dialogue in quotes. Don't let that scare you off. It's not true throughout most of the book. And it's a GREAT book!

Tanner: I'll repeat my question. Do you think you're qualified to perform this surgery?
Danforth:In even my worst nightmares, I never imagined I'd have to.
Tanner: I'll repeat my question. Do you think you're qualified to perform this surgery?
Danforth: No, and I've never said that I thought I was.
Tanner: And yet you did. With a kitchen knife, on a living woman, you --
Danforth:I would never endanger the mother to save the fetus --
Tanner: You didn't endanger the mother, you killed --
Hastings: Objection!

From Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell

"The trick is to get one big girl - like a Hunter Reno or a Janna Rhodes," says George. "These are girls who have done covers in Europe. If you get one, you can get them all. At a nightclub, you pay attention to the older girls. They always want to go home early because they have to get up and work. You walk them out to a cab, being a gentleman, then you go back in and attack the younger ones."
"These girls just want to be comfortable," says Mr. Felske. "They're so young. They're just finding their way in a grown up world. They're not fully developed, and they meet these guys who know all the tricks. How hard can it be?"

I'm just trying to avoid you and making your already MASSIVE ego any bigger, lol. Only kidding, guys. She actually doesn't have a massive ego, she is a wonderful and VERY CREATIVE person.

I turned my first book into the library and forgot to post a quote from Page 46. Dang!!

From One for the Money by Janet Evanovich:

Another sigh. "You're not going to find him hanging out with a relative or a friend. He's smarter than that. The only thing I can think of is to look for Carmen Sanchez or the guy Morelli said was in the apartment with Ziggy. If I was Morelli, I'd want to get those two missing persons, either to prove my innocence, or to make sure they couldn't prove my guilt. I haven't a clue how you do that. We can't find them, and chances are you can't either."

From Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell:

So now we would be living in a "loft." It was a step forward, a brave experiment, the urban dream. And still I was cooking--joyfully, humorously, easily. This French food stuff was a snap! I wondered why everybody had been making such a big deal out of it all these years.
And then, in the third week, we got to the eggs.

From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen:

Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs. Bennet would have been very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield. She would not listen, therefore, to her daughter's proposal of being carried home; neither did the apothecary,who arrived about the same time, think it at all advisable.

Oh Lyn, that is one of my absolute favourite novels.

From The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd:

(I didn't like any quotes on page 46, so I chose this one from page 147 instead.)

"You hear that?" she said.
A sound rushed up. A perfect hum, high-pitched and swollen, like someone had put the teakettle on and it had come to a boil.
"They're cooling the hives down," she said, and her breath broke over my face with the smell of spearmint. "That's the sound of one hundred thousand bee wings fanning the air."
She closed her eyes and soaked it in the way you imagine people at a fancy orchestra concert drinking up highbrow music.

Lyn M wrote: "I'm just trying to avoid you and making your already MASSIVE ego any bigger, lol. Only kidding, guys. She actually doesn't have a massive ego, she is a wonderful and VERY CREATIVE person.

I tu..."

I finally just have to ask -- have been wondering ever since I start reading comments here. You are sisters, but your names are both variations of "Lyn" (i.e., Lyn M. and Lynne)??? Seems like there's a story there. (:>)

Slayermel wrote: "Oh Lyn, that is one of my absolute favourite novels."

I am LOVING it Slayermel. I read it before, but about 25 or 30 years ago. I remember now why I loved it so much. The characters are so wonderful!

Susan wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "I'm just trying to avoid you and making your already MASSIVE ego any bigger, lol. Only kidding, guys. She actually doesn't have a massive ego, she is a wonderful and VERY CREATIVE p..."

Oh, there is a story, and it's a long one. I think we explained it in the introductions thread when we joined, but I'll copy that post here for those who are new to the group:

I forgot that it would show up, silly me. Anyway, since the cat is out of the bag, I'll let you in on the story. My mother has always liked the name Lynne so when I was born, she wanted to name me Lynette and call me Lynne. Unfortunately, my father did not like the name Lynette, so they settled on Carolyn, thinking they would shorten it to Lynn. Well, as fate would have it, no one in my family called me anything but Carolyn, so when my little sis came around Mom decided to get it right this time and actually named her Lynne. The weird thing is that at about that time I started school, hated the name Carolyn (in fact most people don't even know that is my formal name) and started asking people to call me Lyn (I don't like Carol either). SO there you have it, the long version. FYI- my parents and brother never switched to Lyn, and my sis calls me Care so that is how we keep it clear. So now you know my life history.

Lyn M wrote: "Susan wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "I'm just trying to avoid you and making your already MASSIVE ego any bigger, lol. Only kidding, guys. She actually doesn't have a massive ego, she is a wonderful and V..."

Too funny! (:>)

I know, my mom hates it when I tell people the story, but Lynne and I think it is funny.

Just for the record...I don't think it is SOOOO funny. She took MY name for crying out loud!!!:) But I do like the part in the story where it says "When my little sis came along (me) my mom decided to get it right." She certainly did! Ha, ha, ha.

Here is my quote from Dead to the World, and it actually comes from page 46 this time:

"No witches in Bon Temps," Jason said, looking amazed that Chow would even suggest the idea. There my brother went again, making assumptions.

"Oh, I'll bet there are," I said. "why not? Remember what I told you?" Though I had been thinking of Weres and Shifters when I had warned him there were things in the world he wouldn't want to see.

from Change of Heart:

I knew exactly how she felt. When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the one person who doesn't.

from The Thirteenth Tale

"I am a biographer. I work with facts."
She tossed her head and her stiff curls moved as one. "How horribly dull. I could never have been a biographer. Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?"
"Not in the stories you have told the world so far."
Miss Winter conceded a nod. "Miss Lea," she began. Her voice was slower. "I had my reasons for creating a smokescreen around my past. Those reasons, I assure you, are no longer valid."
"What reasons?"
"Life is compost."
I blinked.
"You think that a strange thing to say, but it's true. All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams, fantasies, everything I have ever read, all of that has been chucked onto the compost heap where over time it has rotted down to a dark, rich, organic mulch. The process of cellular breakdown makes it unrecognizable. Other people call it the imagination. I think of it as a compost heap. Every so often I take an idea, plant it in the compost, and wait. If feeds on that black stuff that used to be a life, takes its energy for its own. It germinates. Takes root. Produces shoots. And so on and so forth, until one fine day I have a story, or a novel."

The Secret Life of Bees

Nothing very interesting on page 46 but here are a couple of others.

p 69
Humming drifted out of the night. It wasn't a gospel tune exactly, but it carried all the personality of one. I followed the sound and found Rosaleen in the middle of the creek, not a stitch of clothes on her body. Water beeded across her shoulders, shining like drops of milk, and her breasts swayed in the currents. It was the kind of vision you never really get over. I couln't help it, I wanted to go and lick the milk beads from her shoulders.

p 200
'I really do need to get back.' I put my hand low on my stomach. 'I'm having a little female trouble.' I tried to look very female and mysterious, slightly troubled by internal things they could not imagine and did not want to. It had been my experience for nearly a year that uttering the words 'female trouble' could get me into places I wanted to go and out of places I didn't.

Not sure why this one is listed as Chick-Lit, but here is the quote from Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian:

"He had set up his playing board this evening after dinner in a corner of the dining room underneath one of the sconces, and theses two cavalry officers were reconnoitering the terrain. It was the summer of 1870, and they were deciding whether this might be a good spot to try and force a battle with the French Army of the Rhine."

The Spellman Files pg 46

I believe that miraculous transformations, the kind that usually involve a preacher smacking you over the head, are rare, so rare that when they do occur, they often cause suspicion. While my change was hardly on the scale of miracle, it was substantial.

Sarah wrote: "The Secret Life of Bees

Nothing very interesting on page 46 but here are a couple of others.

p 69
Humming drifted out of the night. It wasn't a gospel tune exactly, but it carr..."

your page 200 quote reminds me of a story that happened in my husband's 7th grade History class. A boy came up and asked to go to the restroom and my husband said no. About 10 minutes later the same boy came up and said "Can I please go to the restroom, it is my time of the month." My husband asked if he knew what that meant and the boy said "No, but whenever a girl says it she ALWAYS gets to go to the bathroom, and I REALLY got to go!" My husband let him go. :)

LOL - great story, Lynne!!

That is a great story, I've never heard it before. I can just see him laughing!

Oh too funny!