Silly game- anyone up for it?

No! It's appointment with Venus! A sad story about trying to rescue the last Allderny cow, before the Nazis exported the,

'She'd been lying in the hammock reading poetry for over an hour'

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst.

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrel Garcia Marquez

"It was the day my Grandmother exploded"

(sorry grannies!!!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qon4S5pHptY

The Crow Road, by Iain Banks.

"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

only thing I can think of is The Wizard Of Oz?Or maybe All The Pretty Horses?

sorry everyone, this answer was meant for the Kansas book I posted in wrong place !

Oh dear rosesarered nearly killed this one stone dead!
I'll have another try and see who recognises this:
"There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching his sheep."

Sounds familiar. Is it in the Bible?

Sounds like the boy who cried wolf. (Aesop?)
Yes, it is, unless someone else has plagiarised it!


"There are some fields near Manchester,well known the the inhabitants as Green Heys Fields, through which runs a public footpath to a little village about two miles distant."

Nope, very old though....[wink|

better luck this time

Got it Annodomini ! I wonder what made me think of it......
BTW my reply was to JessM - bit of a time lapse.

was the story by Aesop gracesmum ?

That's it, Jess although there have been many more modern versions of the boy who cried wolf.

"The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say.

"I met him in the street called Straight"

Not great literature, but one of my favourites.

They came to Baghdad?

No, Mary Stewart's The Gabriel Hounds. As I said, not great literature but I've always loved it. Sadly it could never be written now with the situation in the Middle East.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote?Think the place was Holcomb in Kansas.

ooops! done it again[posted on wrong place.]

is there any way of being able to quote a previous comment, and then commenting yourself, so that everyone knows what comment we are answering??it would be very useful to be able to do that.

Don't think so, other than cutting and pasting the post you are answering - too much of a time lapse and it becomes like a game of "Consequences!!"