Page 52, sentence 5.

"No smell came from the hand which told him it must be fresh - in this summer warmth probably less than twenty four hours old." ( sorry - hope everyone has finished their breakfast! )

I have added the title and author of my quote to my profile, if anyone wants to know.

The following morning a cheque had arrived, accompanied by the first of the letters.

I wonder if this would make a coherent story if all the sentences were run as one - a bit like the game of consequences? I like this - it's quirky!

Ana It is just meant to be a quote from a book - any book. Guessing the title and author is a nice extra, but not obligatory. Perhaps we could add those in a temporary note on our profile for people who would like to know and are tempted to read the book.

Yes, it was copied from Facebook and does mean Facebook status. I should have deleted that before posting, but it was past my bedtime.

I remember a thread on the same subject previously. Was it from Bags a year ago?

Seeing all the replies when I logged in was very gratifying. Does this mean that a lot of people like puzzles and similar entertainment? We should have more of them. Prizes and winners are not necessary, the pleasure of the exercise is enough.

"We have bought this house and kept it spic and span for 20 years or more", a housewife in St. Paul's Road told the local paper.

The book quotes Owun, a Northumbrian scribe who compiled the glosses for one part of the Rushworth gospel, but his conventions are not identical with the type of Northumbrian found in the Lindisfarne gospels.

Dialects!

And caught him by the horse hair plume that dangled on his crest

Partly because I was reading this yesterday: @EarlyScotland: Aethelflaed, daughter of Alfred the Great, forged a military alliance with the Scots and Strathclyde Britons t.co/Rk0A4dLt6G

mouse, I need to know what the former and the latter are!!!!!!

Certainly, there are enough variations within both Mercian and Northumbrian for scholars to postulate northern forms of the former and southern forms of the latter.

Meant to say, I like this thread - thank you!!

No sentences on p52 but this is the fifth whatever from a table:

"Schismatomma, white to warm grey, trees, various, Soredia concolourous or paler and becoming confluent."

Elegran, I expected this to be a jingle thread.

My current book, Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach, is blank on page 52!!

All the books in the room where I am sitting are non-fiction reference books. The nearest one:

A similar position exists in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, although it remains unclear f all the district councils are to become Counties.

The nearest fiction (from another room):
"Well, then, we must bear one another's burdens."

It's not the most erudite book I've ever read Sel

Aka yours does sound cheesy

Perhaps if we add them all together...

It was fate.

"Were you sleeping?"

Utterly confused - is this supposed to encourage reading amongst those who don't?

I've gone as far as I'm going, glass!

To sell, she supposed.