Silly game- anyone up for it?

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

" 'Let's wait just a bit longer, please,' said the girl in dark-blue trousers and the light summer coat. 'I'm sure there's one due pretty soon.' "

War and Peace

"Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened."

I had never heard of Dorothy Rosaman Hartley - so well done Ian42

That was Hardy - Jude the Obscure.

"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family."

It's a reply to Gracemum and Ian42 (not a quote)

Is that a first line or a general (and my!!) philosophy??

Think food.

The Life and Work of the People of England, by Dorothy Rosaman Hartley.

"The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry."

This is very obscure, Elegran!

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart.

My first kitchen was a stone-floored cottage in the Yorkshire Dales. It had a thick rag rug on the hearth and a celing rack that held thin brown oatcake.

The very Hungry Caterpillar.

The day my uncle Camlach came home, I was just six years old.

Think the original Blade runner book was called Do androids dream of electric sheep.

In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.

In Cold Blood. Truman Capote.

"^It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.^"

Oh, I thought that might be a Jane Smiley book but it isn't [won't say what it is cause I googled it]. Now wishing I'd watched Blade Runner properly last night .

Blade Runner. " The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas,a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning....Laurie Lee

Deckard and his wife own an electric sheep which they keep on the roof of their ...

Help, grumppa!! Too hard for me! I feel it should be Tom Brown's Schooldays or an Enid Blyton but honestly puzzled!!

Sounds like Laurie Lee

.....they order, said I, this matter better in France

Answer....

A sentimental journey through France an Italy (author) Laurence Sterne.

Can't get the answer to "That's torn it".... but feel I should know it!!

My first line.....

The stooping figure of my mother, waist deep in the grass?????????????????

A Tale of two Cities

"That's torn it!"

Oops! I meant Anna Karenina of course!

No -one said anything about not using Google!

Answer = Ann Karenina

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times........

Anna Karenina.

- They order, said I, this matter better in France -

Couldn't do Vampire's so I cheated and Googled. The little GREY cells weren't working!

All happy families resemble one another, every unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

Its hard!
I got Catch 22 and 1984.
What a literary lot you are.

The Wind in the Willows....Kenneth Grahame

I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror.