International Book Week

Granny bug is it that one by Sally Vickers about angels? I can't remember the exact title.

A man who loved his tum, but with a big heart....

yes, Lindsay Davis!

18C - but not Tom Jones. Tristram Shandy? Not sure

Is it one of Lindsay Davis' then?

Yes, mine's 18 C

No, Mice, think again! and I haven't worked out yours yet - it sounds sort of 18th century?

Anno I expect you did read it. Can you name it now?

Is there some clever app-type thingy that can tell us all what our books are, I wonder?

Ano, is it one of Stephen Saylor's?

Was one of yours David Lodge's Deaf Sentence, Mamie? And could the other be Julia Childs on French Cookery?

No, Mamie! Not even close...

I may have guessed your first one, Mamie. But the others have flummoxed!

Got to be War and Peace, Ana.
Has anybody guessed anybody's book, yet?

Both the books I have to hand here have given me very short sentences! Here's the longer one...

'But he doesn't.'

dog,

The Gingerbread Man hasn't got a page 52

In the plane, the sun had a kind of buoyant dominance, but it had hidden itself away beyond clouds that appeared like pale, soot-coloured sketches of themselves.

[like this thread]

Will 17% on Kindle do? No that's far too hard to find. I'll give you
"I wasn't learning very much from looking at him now except that he had well shaped, capable looking hands, not too small, and when he sat on one of the bar stools I saw that he had very short legs."
Sounds like 50 shades? Far from it, much more erudite!

Um, sorry - pink hyssop. The other variations on British English are a clue!

This is for OH (clue - he is cooking, as usual.)
Summer is a time of strong contrasts - red and yellow tomatoes, multi-colored peppers, blue and ping hyssop flowers, white and purple variegated eggplants.

"When we renounce our dreams and find peace," he said after a while, "we go through a short period of tranquility".

I like the sound of that, Mice. Wonder if it's something I've read in the distant past!

"My hearing is getting worse, and having to keep my ears peeled the way the gentleman told us to a little while ago, I don't think I can do that in all this noise".

Mr Custance, the squire's brother, called on me this morning to go a-fishing, we rode down to the river and Mr Custance's mistress a Miss Sherman and one Sandall, an oldish man a broken gentleman and who keeps a mistress tho he has a wife living, rode with us on horseback.

How long should we let it run until we "give the answers"? If ever?

Sorry, just realised I should not have mentioned the title. Habit. Can't edit it (GRANSNET HELP Could you please go an there and edit it for me?)