Where's George? Readers discussion

Mike: Maybe sentences instead of lines would be better to avoid these incomplete portions. Like page 55, sentence 3.

Probably because she had so hotly opposed his taking the post, he stressed his pleasure in serving on Braddock's staff: "I am very happy in the general's family, being treated with a complaisant freedom which is quite agreeable to me, and have no reason to doubt the satisfaction I hoped for in making the campaign. - Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Page 108 second paragraph sentence 2.

"These seemed to be confined to major crossroads, but even of that he couldn't be sure, unwilling as he was to leave the main street." - The First Man In Rome by Colleen Mc Cullough

Page 73 first paragraph first sentence.

Around the corner from the old vanished bakery on Richmond hill were the splended, vaguely art deco offices of the Bournemouth Evening Echo, where I worked for two years as a subeditor in a room borrowed from a Dickens novel: papers heaped in untidy stacks, gloomy lighting, two rows of hunched figures sitting at desks, and all of it bathed in a portentous, exhausing silence, the only noises the fretful scratchings of pencils and a soft but echoing tunk sound each time the minute hand on the wall clock clicked forward a notch. - Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Page 145 close your eyes and point if there is more than one sentence do what feels comfortable. :-)

The Gauls had poured down in teeming hordes from the western Alps, spreading across the huge valley of the Padus River in the far north, gradually working their way down peninsular Italy on both east and west. ~The First Man In Rome by Colleen McCullough

Page 88 first complete sentence.

"You like it?" she says. - Divergent by Veronica Roth

Page 200 last complete sentence on the page.

A few men could have brought Naean and Elenia to Caemlyn unnoticed. Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan

Page 146, third complete sentence.

I prefer that they don't. - Jack Short in "The Good War" An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel

Page 300
8th complete sentence

"He was a genuine New Man, the first of his family to hold a seat in the Senate, the first of his family to make his home inside the city of Rome, the first of his family to make a huge fortune, the first of his family to make a mark in the army." ~ The First Man In Rome - Colleen McCullough

Next to last sentence, last page

Look, Ma! I'm abducting the president! Aren't you proud of your baby girl now?

Blackout page 599 2nd quote.

I don't have any quotes on page 599. So here is the second complete sentence.

The new one was industrial gray, hardly an exciting color, but probably a wise choice; gray things hold so few memories. - 11/23/63 by Stephen King

Opening line of the book.

Bill wrote: ""He was a genuine New Man, the first of his family to hold a seat in the Senate, the first of his family to make his home inside the city of Rome, the first of his family to make a huge fortune, th..."

You got an excellent quote out of this one.

Jack, who was from an eccentric Midwestern family, wasn't quite sure what a gentleman was other than someone who opened doors for ladies and didn't curse in mixed company. - Jack Holmes & His Friend by Edmund White

Page 10 Second sentence

Book 1: Even the heavily pregnant Tara joined in the chorus of enthusiasm as a line of men danced out on the stage behind Claude. - Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris

Book 2: This neighbor told me what we needed was a damn good war, and we'd solve our agricultural problems. - "The Good War" And Oral History of WWII by Studs Terkel

Page 314 - Second Paragraph - 3rd sentence

Then I could go check in to a hotel right away, do the second A-200 treatment, wait two hours, wash it off, and go home. - "Jack Holmes & His Friend" by Edmund White

Page 123 - First paragraph, last sentence

Even after the war, when William Wyler made The Best Years of Our Lives, a sensitive move, by no means cheerful - even that had the look of a Life magazine cover.

Pg 294 - Last paragraph, second sentence

I believe I told her Iceland wasn't ready for her book. - The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley

Page 99. First paragraph first sentence

I'd go for days and days eating bread with salt on it or lard. - "The Good War" by Studs Terkel.

page 149 3rd paragraph 3rd sentence

Their skin shone with perspiration, and dust clung to it, creating a weird plastery cosmetic. -The Lower River by Paul Theroux

page 99 random pick sentence.

The feathery thing has me intrigued. - 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Page 265 - surprise me

The Immoralist by Andre Gide doesn't go up that far; so here's one from the last page - "Yet he knows perfectly well how and on what his sister lives; he used to speak of it before without the slightest embarrassment. "

First sentence, halfway page.

Nobody said goodbye to Paris without some sadness, Abigail was told.
-John Adams by David McCullough

Her first thought was of Abby.
- These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen

Page 97, first sentence on the last full paragraph.

Whatever Enrique might feel for me as a sister, I was still under suspicion of treason, and desperately afraid. - The Queen's Vow: A Novel Of Isabella Of Castile by C.W. Gortner

Page 50, fifth sentence on page.

The alyssum was pure Lizzie. -

Last sentence of the book.