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Post by Mini Mia on May 8, 2012 22:18:12 GMT -6
Here's the first three paragraphs of page 56:
"I really wanted to go to the Museum of Fine Arts." I knew my voice was edging on petulance.
"Okay." Mark's capitulation would have a hook. "Then you've got to treat me real nice." He held open the covers.
"Don't I always?" Shucking off my legging and baggy sweater, I climbed in to lie next to him. "Didn't I already bring you coffee?"
Beauty by Susan Wilson
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Post by stepper on May 9, 2012 17:18:52 GMT -6
"I wouldn't have been surprised if they had told me that they were divorced and that they had met in the restaurant for the children's sake." Victory Over Darkness Neil T. Anderson
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Post by scamp on May 10, 2012 3:30:11 GMT -6
Disclaimer: any similarity between this quote and this board, the posts contained herein, or any individual poster(s) is purely coincidental.
"There is an evident taste for puns, and a proliferation of proper and nicknames, many of significance only to the original audience." from M L West, "Greek Lyrical Poetry" 2003, this is in reference to the poet Alcman.
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Post by Phalon on May 11, 2012 6:25:58 GMT -6
Oh! I hope she likes it, Siren. I think I started reading it probably over a year ago, and just finished last month. It's not that it was boring, or that I didn't like it; it was beautifully written, and I loved it. It's the kind of book though, because each chapter is a chronicle of the month, I can read a couple of chapters here and there, and pick up again months later when I have time, and not loose my place in the story.
BOLL. Maybe purely coincidental, Scamp, but entirely true.
This one is from "The Instant Ethnic Cook" by Mara Reid Rogers
"2 1-pound eggplants, unpeeled"
The recipe is for Melizanosalata, a Greek roasted eggplant salad. I'd never be able to pronounce it correctly, but it sounds delicious.
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Post by Phalon on May 14, 2012 4:58:13 GMT -6
"The road continues on down to the end of the island, where Beavertail Lighthouse sits atop a huge outcropping of rock, warning all seagoing traffic to stay clear." from America From the Road, by the Reader's Digest Association
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Post by Mini Mia on May 14, 2012 15:00:28 GMT -6
No invitations in, no invitations out.
Sweet And Deadly by Charlaine Harris
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Post by stepper on May 14, 2012 17:32:35 GMT -6
Eat a variety of apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, pears, cherries, kiwi, figs, plums, nectarines, tangerines, peaches, melons, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. - the amazing connection between...food and love...How foods affect your relationships by Dr. Gary Smalley, The Smalley Relationship Center.
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Post by Phalon on May 15, 2012 6:19:35 GMT -6
“Now why’d some worm decide he wanted this plant for his dinner instead of that one?” ~ from "Parrish" by Mildred Savage, 1958 Book Club Edition
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Post by Siren on May 15, 2012 22:14:57 GMT -6
The film "Parrish", with a wooden Troy Donahue in the title role, was on TCM a few weeks ago. I bet that was quite a popular trashy book, back in the day.
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Planting one foot on the bench, Lee looked around him at the two divided units and decided that a little honesty might help.
~from "Brief Garland" by Harold Keith
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Post by Mini Mia on May 16, 2012 21:53:19 GMT -6
"What?" Then, more urgently, he said, "Nickie! What's wrong? Who was that on the phone?"
A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris
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Post by Phalon on May 17, 2012 5:49:59 GMT -6
“She has an answer for everything.” from "Solomon & Sheba" by Jay Williams, 1959
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Post by scamp on May 17, 2012 10:29:07 GMT -6
The recipe is for Melizanosalata, a Greek roasted eggplant salad. I'd never be able to pronounce it correctly, but it sounds delicious. Okay, melizanosalata is really combination of two words: melizano (eggplant) and salata (salad). It's not hard to pronounce: mel as in mellow; i as it; (t)zah, make a "t" and a "z" (a zeeta, techinically) plus ah as in ahhh; no as it no; sa(h) as in sam, but with a aspirated h; la(h) as in blah; ta as in ta-ta. It was not financially prudent for a parish to the halt, the sick, and the lame. from Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law by Lorie Charlesworth
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Post by Phalon on May 19, 2012 21:13:33 GMT -6
Oh, yes...that makes it much easier, (eye-roll). Easier to say, definitely yes, but easy to remember? With my memory? HA!
(Thanks for trying though, Scamp.)
Since I've got it out for the book title thread....
(from page 57 because 56 is the start of a chapter and a blank page)
My mother has become a force I no longer recognize. ~ from "Bridget Jones's Diary", by Helen Fielding
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Post by Phalon on May 20, 2012 6:07:44 GMT -6
Why strive for advancement when the life of a maid-of-honor was but a temporary state, and all the hours of every day led to the dull future of undesired matrimony? ~ from "Brief Gaudy Hour" by Margaret Campbell Barnes; copyright MCMXLIX (you figure it out)
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Post by Phalon on May 21, 2012 6:18:25 GMT -6
"What size do you want to be?" it asked. ~ spoken by The Caterpillar in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
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Post by Phalon on May 24, 2012 6:14:54 GMT -6
High Noon was to be a relatively low-budget "art" picture, and one of the considerations in casting Grace was that, as a neophyte, she would be available at a considerably lower fee than a more established star. ~ from "Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess" by James Spada
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Post by Siren on May 26, 2012 9:56:07 GMT -6
I read somewhere that the director (or was it the editor) developed a crush on Grace, and edited the movie with more Grace/less Cooper. Cooler heads stepped in and fixed it.
"The best thing you can do as a victim is to fight as hard as you can and then report the skirmish to no one."
Merle Haggard, talking about his time in prison in "My House Of Memories", his autobiography
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Post by Phalon on May 29, 2012 6:16:26 GMT -6
"Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess" was one of Mom's books. I think I might keep it to read, just because I love all those movie trivia facts you throw out there, Siren.
Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company. ~ from "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne
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Post by Siren on Jun 3, 2012 22:58:05 GMT -6
Thanks, Gams. I'm glad you enjoy my trivia, because it drives some people crazy.
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Bowie had made sure that a reporter was in attendance before "spontaneously" inviting the kids in.
~from "Thing Of Beauty: The Tragedy Of Supermodel Gia" by Stephen Fried
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Post by quettalee on Jun 6, 2012 22:58:27 GMT -6
“The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.” ~ Ray Bradbury, The Halloween TreeOK, I didn't actually follow the rules of the thread, but I think it's OK this time. RIP Mr. Bradbury ~ 1920-2012 One of my favorite authors.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 28, 2012 6:07:53 GMT -6
I remember many odds and ends out of those last days we spent in Montreuil. ~ from "The Houses in Between" by Howard Spring, 1951
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Post by fallenangel on Jun 29, 2012 19:02:49 GMT -6
" It was nice meeting you !'' he called out as she ran up the steps to her porch. ~ from The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
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Post by Phalon on Jul 1, 2012 6:23:36 GMT -6
JOY'S terribly shy. Her visits are rare. ~ from "Words Words Words" a poetry book by Mary O'Neill
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Post by Siren on Jul 5, 2012 22:15:38 GMT -6
Like a doctor, he was ready to roll, at any hour, if the phone rang.
from "V Is For Vengeance" by Sue Grafton
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Post by katina2nd on Jul 10, 2012 21:15:26 GMT -6
“There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.”
Dian Fossey - Gorillas in the Mist.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 11, 2012 5:44:08 GMT -6
Hi, Katina!
This one is from a book written by another prominent woman primate researcher....
Rodolf seized his prey in one hand and set off up the mountainside, with the other chimpanzees trailing him closely as he pushed his way through the tall grass. ~ from "My Friends The Wild Chimpanzees" by Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall (1967)
(since pages 45-64 are photos, the quote is from page 65)
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Post by katina2nd on Jul 12, 2012 8:44:13 GMT -6
Hi to you as well Gams. You seem surprised to see me in here, go on admit it, you didn't think I read did you? Two fascinating ladies Fossey and Goodall, haven't read "My Friends The Wild Chimpanzees" but have read one of her earlier works "In the Shadow of Man" an excellent book, must dig it out and read it again.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 13, 2012 4:07:59 GMT -6
No, no, no...of course, I knew you could read, Katina; if not, you wouldn't know I said "hi".
"My Friends The Wild Chimpanzees" was Goodall's first book. It was published by the National Geographic Society as part of a series (of unrelated topics) that my parents had when we were growing up (and now somehow ended up on my shelf). I can remember using the books as references for school reports....I can remember actually having to use books as references and going to the library to look up information. Having school-age kids, that seems like a thing of the past; now, they just "google" topics.
This is another from the series:
Other prisoners were sentenced “to ride the wooden Horse, fifteen minutes. (I tried the latter punishment briefly once: the wooden horse was a high sawhorse of sorts. Men rode it with feet adangle and weighted. Even without weights, I cannot recommend the wooden horse.) ~ from "The Revolutionary War" by Bart McDowell
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Post by katina2nd on Jul 13, 2012 21:33:37 GMT -6
No, no, no...of course, I knew you could read, Katina; if not, you wouldn't know I said "hi". Makes sense. After Patton complained about Mauldins "goddamned cartoons" Harry Butcher suggested a meeting between the two. After thundering that "if that little son of a b***h sets foot here I'll throw his ass in jail," Patton relented. A frightened Mauldin arrived convinced he had been sent on a suicide mission. There he sat, big as life even at that distance. His hair was silver, his face was pink, his collar and shoulders glittered with more stars then I could count, his fingers sparkled with rings, and an incredible mass of ribbons started around desk level and spread upward in a flood over his chest to the very top of his shoulder, as if preparing to march down his back too. His face wqs rugged with an odd, strangely shapeless outline, his eyes were pale, almost colorless, with a choleric bulge. His small, compressed mouth was sharply downturned at the corners, with a lower lip which suggested a pouting child as much as a no-nonsense martinet. It was a welcome, rather human touch. Beside him, lying in a big chair, was Willie, the Bull Terrier. If ever dog was suited to master this one was. Willie had his beloved boss's expression and lacked only the ribbons and stars. I stood in that door staring into the four meanest eyes I'd ever seen. They made quite a pair, the twenty five year old baby faced Sergeant and the crusty General. Mauldin gave Patton his best parade ground salute, and Patton arose to offer his hand. Willie rose with his master-and fell off his chair. Patton told Mauldin to sit, and he took Willies place. "The dog not only looked shocked now but offended." "A GENIUS FOR WAR" - Carlo D'este. A bit long winded but I wanted to describe the lead up to the meeting with Willie ...... and the bloke with him of course.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 18, 2012 6:09:32 GMT -6
You know, Giono said to me, there are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness. ~ Norma L. Goodrich, from the book "The Man Who Planted Trees".
The quote isn't from page 56; it's the fifth sentence on the last page of the book: page 51. And Norma L. Goodrich didn't write "The Man Who Planted Trees"; she wrote the "Afterward" describing the author's life, career, and the effect this sweet and inspiring story has had on people the world-over for decades.
Just like the character in the story, the award-winning author who wrote over thirty novels, Jean Giono "left on earth his mark without thought of reward - he gave it away for the good of others." He once said of "The Man Who Planted Trees", "It is one of my stories of which I am the proudest. It does not bring me in one single penny and that is why it has accomplished what it was written for."
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