A Bibliophile's passtime (good Books, favorite Books & more stacks o' Book Quotations)

[Rook]

Gonna try and "transfer" a nifty little game...

Pick up the book nearest to you, go to page 77 and read sentence 7.
Share it here, add title if you'd like, or keep Folks guessing..
{u can do this daily, different book or journal magazine nearest, etc}

"She was a bit disappointed to find it was broken,
but the Russian soldiers were overjoyed and gave her
a bolt of beautiful white cloth with a delicate pink flower pattern on it."-
Book: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Author: Jung Chang
:glasses:

[Slowpurr]

'Wollstonecraft was also a trenchant critic of the institution of marriage as it existed in her day.' -A History of Women in America Hymowitz & Weissman

[Cin]

goes to the Red Sox-they're up 6-0 in the fifth inning, courtesy of home

Faithful
Stewart O'Nan & Stephen King

Should we finish a sentence if it goes on to line 8 or starts on line 6 or both. Or just post unfinished sentences?

[Truly Scrumptious]

"Weaknesses: Consistent and pervasive use of volatile fragrant oils that are irritating, allergenic"


Don't Go To The Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 8th edition
Paula Begoun

[The JD]

"That explanation goes a long way toward explaining Winthrop's seemingly schizophrenic behavior."

Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

[Scuba]

With newer models, the numbers are negative when the status is OK and move toward 0 (zero) as CPU temperature increases.

[Kätzchen]

Potok, C. (1972). My Name Is Asher Lev. New York,NY: Random House.

That summer I lived in a house on the edge of the dunes. My room was a low-ceilinged attic with a window that looked out on the dunes and the beach and the ocean. In the early morning, I could see the sun on th ewater and the silver foaming of the surf. The sun rose through the morning mist and burned mist away, and then was golden on the beach and white on the Cape Cod houses a few hundred yards up the dunes, where dark scrub brush grew in the sandy earth. Gulls wheeled and called above the water and the sand, their wings stark white in the sun. I watched the gulls from the window of my roon and from the porch of the house, and I painted them over and over again, using watercolors or washes of oils; painted their soarings into the sun, their wings in the wind, their wide diving circles over the surface of the waves. Often I did not paint at all, but sat on the porch listening and watching, feeling the salt wind on my face, hearing the surf and the cries of the gulls" (Chapter 10: pp. 251).

[Kätzchen]

Potok, C. (1972). My Name Is Asher Lev. New York,NY: Random House.
That summer I lived in a house on the edge of the dunes. My room was a low-ceilinged attic with a window that looked out on the dunes and the beach and the ocean. In the early morning, I could see the sun on th ewater and the silver foaming of the surf. The sun rose through the morning mist and burned mist away, and then was golden on the beach and white on the Cape Cod houses a few hundred yards up the dunes, where dark scrub brush grew in the sandy earth. Gulls wheeled and called above the water and the sand, their wings stark white in the sun. I watched the gulls from the window of my roon and from the porch of the house, and I painted them over and over again, using watercolors or washes of oils; painted their soarings into the sun, their wings in the wind, their wide diving circles over the surface of the waves. Often I did not paint at all, but sat on the porch listening and watching, feeling the salt wind on my face, hearing the surf and the cries of the gulls" (Chapter 10: pp. 251).



*BLUSH*

I totally mis-read the directions to your forum thread, rook.


Let me re-do this:

Page 77, Line 7:

"Finally, I volunteered to answer the phone for her,"

My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok.

[nycfem]

From Sister Spit, edited by Michelle Tea

"Every couple disappeared at some point separately, only to return covered in grass and claiming to have been star gazing."

[cinnamongrrl]

Ohhh great thread! so glad I found it. When I think of it, I need to post an excerpt from Steinbeck's book, "Travels with Charley". I never appreciated him as a writer till I read that book...he is quite eloquent... :)

[Galahad]

"I am of Master Cap's opinion about using the canoe." Cooper, The Pathfinder

[Teddybear]

"Even as he agured with himself, he buttoned up his coat and reached for his leather gloves"

"The Shack where tragedy cofronts eternity" Wm. Paul Young

I wold recommend this book to everyone

[Kätzchen]

'I don't care,' said Ann Veronica to the darkness, 'I'll fight it.'

(From chapter 5: The Flight To London; pp. 77, line 7)

Ann Veronica
H.G. Wells (1909)

[Kätzchen]

Page 77 turns out to be Chapter 16.

Here's line no. 7:

".....allow Jack to spend his days with her. If things were reversed ..."


Hill, Gerri. 2017. The Secret Pond. Bella Books, Inc., Tallahassee, Florida (32302).

[Kätzchen]

"He pays a straight thirty-five cents for them (pies) and takes three dozen a week" -- Ida (head waitress).

From: Mildred Pierce (Ch. 5, page 77, line 7) .

[homoe]

I love this! I don't believe I've ever come a crossed it before!

[Martina]

"They can thrive despite going through tremendous stresses every year."

Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America by Richard Nelson

[Ascot]

"Tully had turned up at school with his face cut, his lip swollen and his eye blacked"

The Casual Vacany, J.K. Rowling

[Kätzchen]

"It's a simple enough question," Nora said. "Am I ever going to see you again?"

From: White Palace (Savan, G., July 1987)

[homoe]

I keep forgetting to post in this thread damn it! I'll Be Back..........

[homoe]

p. 77 sentence 7............

The words and pictures promised sun and sand, tonic and tans, and, somewhat more slyly ,fast times amid the palms of Florida or the south Texas Coast.


Slow Waltz In Cedar Bend........(Robert James Waller same author of The Bridges of Madison County)

[Kätzchen]

"What you need is a wife," she says (page 77, line 7).

Between Two Rivers (Nicholas Rinaldi)

[homoe]

page 77 sentence 7..................

Was your mother breathing when you found her Ben?


Any guesses?

[Kätzchen]

page 77 sentence 7..................

Was your mother breathing when you found her Ben?


Any guesses?

no idea, homoe.... what book was this passage from?

[Kätzchen]

"....when the masses of migrating Manhattanites had been priced out of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill...."

The Nest
(Sweeny, C.; pp. 77, line 7).

[Martina]

"Hello," he shouted.

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

[homoe]

Page 77 line 7


"Hey, hold up there a minute" I shouted!

[homoe]

p 77 line 7


"Why are you checking your phone every two minutes" Sara asked.

[Kätzchen]

"...topped by a rose with two leaves..."

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, 2000, Penguin Classic Books, line 7, pp 77)

[homoe]

p.77 sentence 7


But the shame of losing a job to which his father had devoted his whole life burned like a red-hot poker in his breast.

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7...

He had had it all wrong................

[Kätzchen]

"I'll think good thoughts across to you," ~ Our Souls At Night (page 77, line 7).

[homoe]

no idea, homoe.... what book was this passage from?

Mistress by Patterson

[homoe]

page 77 sentence 7..........

I think I may of twisted my ankle too.


The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

[homoe]

p.77 sentence 7


But the shame of losing a job to which his father had devoted his whole life burned like a red-hot poker in his breast.

Man Called Ove........Fredrik Backman

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7


I scream and I cried but it did no good, she walked out the door anyways!

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7


I scream and I cried but it did no good, she walked out the door anyways!

any guesses?

[homoe]

Page 77 Sentence 7

It's one of those winter's night when the darkness is so thick it's as if the whole area has been dipped headfirst in a bucket of blackness, and The Monster steals out the front door and crosses the half circle of light around the last light in the street so quickly that if Elsa had blinked a little to hard, she would of thought she was imagining it.

My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry

[homoe]

Gonna try and "transfer" a nifty little game...

Pick up the book nearest to you, go to page 77 and read sentence 7.
Share it here, add title if you'd like, or keep Folks guessing..
{u can do this daily, different book or journal magazine nearest, etc}

"She was a bit disappointed to find it was broken,
but the Russian soldiers were overjoyed and gave her
a bolt of beautiful white cloth with a delicate pink flower pattern on it."-
Book: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Author: Jung Chang
:glasses:

Oh,GREAT I never noticed we could do this with magazines as well.....:hangloose:

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7

Hmm, sounds like we're gonna need a bigger movie screen.

April 27-May 4 Issue of Entertainment Weekly

The sentence is used in conjunction with a movie titled The Meg which opens August 10th ..:popcorn:

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7


I was unexpectedly called to a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House that went longer than I expected.


A Higher Loyalty...James Comey

[homoe]

p77 sentence7


I've got to catch a early flight to Los Angeles..


The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry...Gabrielle Zevin

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7


Over the course of the next three weeks, Mat and I painstakingly construct the logbook's body double.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

[Orema]

“And Josephine, who is the queen of high theater, remained with her back turned to the audience and continued the song, singing to the American flag.”

Book: Geoffrey Holder A life in Theater, Dance, and Art.
Author: Jennifer Dunning

[homoe]

p.77 sentence 7

From that point on, Joni would begin (to use her own words) "bring home" the musical talent and ambition that both her grandmothers had urgently passed on to her.


Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller

[homoe]

page 77 sentence 7


Mushrooms can alter the mind instantly (hallucinogenic) or heal slowly (medicinal).

Gypsy Energy Secrets by Milana Perepyolkina

[homoe]

page 77 sentence 7

These folks go for some of the most popular seats-the middle seats in the middle row about midway back.

The Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha

Sidebar: This comes from the chapter/section of how awesome it is getting the prime seat you want in a crowded movie theater.

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7

"If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive one; it's that we often create what we anticipate."

Words That Matter; Everyday Truths To Guide And Inspire
Oprah Magazine

Sidebar: The quote is actually from Martha Beck Life Coach

[homoe]

P77 sentence 7

I wouldn't stand out in Finland, with my fair hair and pale skin.


The Wife by Meg Wolitzer.........

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7

"Extremely smart and intimidatingly beautiful."


Guilded Years by Karin Tanabe

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7


I kept asking the nurses who it was that had saved my life-"Who brought me in?"

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7

He got up and admiring himself in the mirror, turned, and, smiling asked if Carols would like to have one made up for him.

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7

He got up and admiring himself in the mirror, turned, and, smiling asked if Carols would like to have one made up for him.

Widows......Lynda la plante

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7


I kept asking the nurses who it was that had saved my life-"Who brought me in?"

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine....by Gail Honeyman

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7


I scream and I cried but it did no good, she walked out the door anyways!

It's been sooo long since I posted this but no doubt it could of been from any number of lesbian romance novel:glasses:

[homoe]

page 77 sentence 7

Apparently some student, some female student, have been made uncomfortable by the images on his computer.

[homoe]

Page 77 sentence 7

Lydia breathed deep she leaned back against the marbled pillar; put her palms flat against its cool.

[homoe]

Page 77 sentence 7

Lydia breathed deep she leaned back against the marbled pillar; put her palms flat against its cool.

This was from Tell It To The Bees............

[homoe]

page 77 sentence 7

Apparently some student, some female student, have been made uncomfortable by the images on his computer.

This was from The Hundred Year Old House...........

[homoe]

p. 77 sentence 7


A question I am often asked: What does women's participation in numbers on the bench add to our judicial system?


My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett and Wendy Williams

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7



They were sitting in what Channing called the breakfast room, an informal dining area off the kitchen where the family took most of its meals.

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7



They were sitting in what Channing called the breakfast room, an informal dining area off the kitchen where the family took most of its meals.


A Proper Cuppa Tea by MacGregor, KG

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7


He pressed himself against the butcher-block table, which sagged from the blows of his cleaver and his father's before him.

[homoe]

p 77 sentence 7


He pressed himself against the butcher-block table, which sagged from the blows of his cleaver and his father's before him.

Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly

[homoe]

p77 sentence 7


At the top were the initials BC and HRC-Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton-with lines connecting them to a web of perhaps thirty associates, foremost Jim and Susan McDougal.


Contempt: A Memoir of The Clinton Investigation by Ken Starr

[homoe]

p.77 sentence 7.......

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.


Yes, I posted this before but I'm re-reading this & IMO thought it worthy of a second post!

[PlatinumPearl]

"The concept revolutionizes interactions and communication, particularly between introverts, centroverts, and extroverts."

Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected, Devora Zack.

[homoe]

p. 77 sentence 7



But inquire about the specials offered by many of the expensive establishment all the same.


Chicago & The Lakes .... Marco Polo Publication Travel Book

[homoe]

Darn, I keep forgetting about this thread.........:|

[homoe]

Darn, I keep forgetting about this thread.........:|



bears repeating........