International Book Week

Ano, is it one of Stephen Saylor's?

Is there some clever app-type thingy that can tell us all what our books are, I wonder?

Anno I expect you did read it. Can you name it now?

No, Mice, think again! and I haven't worked out yours yet - it sounds sort of 18th century?

Is it one of Lindsay Davis' then?

Yes, mine's 18 C

yes, Lindsay Davis!

18C - but not Tom Jones. Tristram Shandy? Not sure

A man who loved his tum, but with a big heart....

Granny bug is it that one by Sally Vickers about angels? I can't remember the exact title.

Nope, neither of those Anno. Mine was Hans Fallada "Alone in Berlin" and OH was using Alice Water's "Pasta, Pizza and Calzone".
Fallada was at hand because we keep starting it and putting it down. OH claims never to have read fiction since he was so depressed by Fallada's Little Man, What Now" - so I am not sure why he bought it.

As Mice surmised mine was by Lindsey Davis - 'the Silver Pigs' - these detective stories are set in Imperial Rome and, in this case, Roman Britain. Good light reading.

Mice it is "Corvus a life with birds" by Esther Woolfson. A really interesting and informative book.

Was that the point of this exercise? To guess each others' titles?
The OP didn't make it clear.

Ana I didn't think it was - I just enjoyed the concept.

I like the concept - and the fun of trying to guess. Granbunny, I was really foxed! Come on everyone else, join in.

The OP doesn't know what the point is other than reading random sentences. I think perhaps the idea is to illustrate how varied books are so that nobody can claim there's nothing for them.

Who cares whether it has a point other than fun?

here's another one: "It fell instead to the sailors from far away, who came thousands of miles from the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, to realise the potential for using these gastropods to make a fortune."

I should have guessed the Lindsey Davis one too, but it's a long time since I read them. That's my excuse anyhow.

I asked whether the point was to guess because everyone else seemed to think so. I agree with Butter!

So, what is the point??

Does there have to be a point? We could just enjoy ourselves. It is a social network, not an obstacle race

I remember doing this last year on Facebook, it's fun.

"I drank enough of that damn Saint-John's wort tea to cheer up a whole Russian gulag, to no noticeable effect."

Simon Winchester, "Atlantic", Bags.
OK, an easy one.
"He plays just too divinely," said Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde.

Bang on, mamie

And I think Baubles' quote is from "Eat, Pray, Vomit"...

"They do not in themselves indicate a widespread use of Latin by the native population."

Mamie is that a subtle way of saying you didn't enjoy "Eat, Pray, Love"?