Silly game- anyone up for it?

Envious that's "Cider with rosie'

Cider with Rosie.....

'My suffering left me sad and gloomy'

Life of Pi. The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.

East of Eden? Steinbeck.

"I am a sick man....a wicked man. I think my liver hurts."

Notes from Underground Dostoyevsky.

In the beginning was the word.

Gosh that's hard.
Genesis

(BTW some people are up early today?)

"S S_______'s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting V under the more flexible V of his mouth."

Not correct Gracesmum! Go forward a bit.

??????
That's the first line in my book. For obvious reasons I haven't given the full name

St John's Gospel - read that passage in assembly many moons ago.

Second one - the Maltese falcon - but I cheated and looked that one up!

My line now:-

A story has no beginning or end : arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back-

Guess who wasn't paying attention at Sunday School I fear!!
Close (but not very)

You were close Gracesmum. Genesis: in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. John: in the beginning was the word.

Bez, I know that one. It's The end of the Affair, I think.

Late in the afternoon of a chilly day on February two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine in a well furnished dining parlour.

Good thing I'm not a Catholic - I'd have to go to confession!!

Don't worry! I'll grant you instantaneous absolution. It's a VERY minor mistake!

Oui - good old Graham Greene. That is a book I have read twice.

Would participantS kindly use inverted commas around the quotes so the ignoramuses like me can distinguish which is a quote and which isn't? Is That is a book I've read twice by Jude the obscure or Bez?

I was replying to Mice

Her quote is about the two gentleman sitting alone over their wine. And i think that is the current one we are looking for - by the way I agree about the inverted commas or something to distinguish the quote -

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

Rebecca!!

"I was born in the city of Bombay....once upon a time."

Midnight's Children

"Britain, an island in the ocean, formerly called Albion, is situated between the north and west, facing, though at a considerable distance, the coasts of Germany, France, and Spain, which forms the greatest part of Europe"

OF THE SITUATION OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND, AND OF THEIR ANCIENT INHABITANTS by Bede
"X and her Y moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
(the punctuation contains a clue maybe)

It was 'and her' that gave it away! But I can't remember which of the trilogy it is. Or even the titles. Shame on me. But it's Lyra and her shape changing 'guardian angel'

"I was ever of the opinion that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population."

Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield?

"When April comes, and with her gentle showers has banished the dreary month of March, when in every copse and valley the young trees bud and flowers show their heads, when birds make melody in the fresh morning time, then men's hearts long for the wide air and joys of the open roads."

Sorry, sorry, sorry - I have just realised tha I have copied this from an edition of this well-known book FOR CHILDREN!!! It may still be recognisable. (Ducks for cover)

The Canterbury Pilgrims.

I googled that.