Silly game- anyone up for it?

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.

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

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

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-

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

Not correct Gracesmum! Go forward a bit.

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."

Notes from Underground Dostoyevsky.

In the beginning was the word.

East of Eden? Steinbeck.

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

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

Cider with Rosie.....

'My suffering left me sad and gloomy'

Envious that's "Cider with rosie'

Animal Farm. I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?

"Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes."

Don't know that one but sounds like my kinda book ...

Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1 William Shakespeare.

The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all.

Can we have a reply to 11.31.48 before moving on please?

The Go Between [I did know it but still had to google the name ]. Saw a musical version of it a while back; was pretty good [once I'd got over the shock of everyone singing as I hadn't realised it was a musical ].

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"

Oh Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome!

(Cheating slightly here)

"When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?"

Got the dvd of that Envious [lent to me by someone who knows the sort of films I like] but haven't watched it yet.

Love in the time of cholera. I had the story,bit by bit,from various people,and,as generally happens in such cases,each time it was a different story.

That's Jane Eyre!




It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love
( I love this book)

Samuel Pepys??

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Aha! Inspector Morse - Colin Dexter, I mean "Last Bus to Woodstock"!!


"Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. I lived in Axe-yard, having my wife and servant Jane, and no more in family then us three"