International Book Week

Ignore "as your status" unless you're doing it on Facebook

Ah ha! I've just done it on facebook - but will do it again here because it's good fun and very interesting.........

Here's mine:

"So I spent the evening at home, reading."

Crikey, Bags what on earth are you reading?
Here's mine from a book I am struggling with, one of those 'I've started so I'll finish' books. Actually its a 'two in one'. This is from part one:
'Say nothing.'
Sorry Bags, you only wanted a sentence and I've almost written an essay!

"He darted enthusiastically round the bathroom,flapping his lovely angel,s wings, alternatively perching and flying while we immersed the noxious object in the bath to dissolve some of the noisome patina of staling shit"
Hey ho

It's difficult to do that with Kindle, but I've just finished one in paperback to here goes: '
Pertinax and Publius assumed I was a villain.'

"Out with the radio car to review a new film, "Dr Doolittle", the morning programme presenter John Walmsley and myself were not familiar with the habit of hospitality at 11 am. Neither of us made it on air at lunchtime, due to difficulties in describing Dr Doolittle's transport, a shiant pink shea shnail"

I am sorry, I just had to include sentence six as well.

From Kate Adie's autobiography, "The Goodness of Strangers"

I like this game. Can we quote sentence 5 on page 52 of other books, as well as just the nearest?

Sorry, just realised I should not have mentioned the title. Habit. Can't edit it (GRANSNET HELP Could you please go an there and edit it for me?)

How long should we let it run until we "give the answers"? If ever?

Mr Custance, the squire's brother, called on me this morning to go a-fishing, we rode down to the river and Mr Custance's mistress a Miss Sherman and one Sandall, an oldish man a broken gentleman and who keeps a mistress tho he has a wife living, rode with us on horseback.

"My hearing is getting worse, and having to keep my ears peeled the way the gentleman told us to a little while ago, I don't think I can do that in all this noise".

I like the sound of that, Mice. Wonder if it's something I've read in the distant past!

"When we renounce our dreams and find peace," he said after a while, "we go through a short period of tranquility".

This is for OH (clue - he is cooking, as usual.)
Summer is a time of strong contrasts - red and yellow tomatoes, multi-colored peppers, blue and ping hyssop flowers, white and purple variegated eggplants.

Um, sorry - pink hyssop. The other variations on British English are a clue!

Will 17% on Kindle do? No that's far too hard to find. I'll give you
"I wasn't learning very much from looking at him now except that he had well shaped, capable looking hands, not too small, and when he sat on one of the bar stools I saw that he had very short legs."
Sounds like 50 shades? Far from it, much more erudite!

In the plane, the sun had a kind of buoyant dominance, but it had hidden itself away beyond clouds that appeared like pale, soot-coloured sketches of themselves.

[like this thread]

The Gingerbread Man hasn't got a page 52

dog,

Both the books I have to hand here have given me very short sentences! Here's the longer one...

'But he doesn't.'

Got to be War and Peace, Ana.
Has anybody guessed anybody's book, yet?

I may have guessed your first one, Mamie. But the others have flummoxed!

No, Mamie! Not even close...

Was one of yours David Lodge's Deaf Sentence, Mamie? And could the other be Julia Childs on French Cookery?