Silly game- anyone up for it?

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.^"

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.

The very Hungry Caterpillar.

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

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.

This is very obscure, Elegran!

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

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

Think food.

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

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

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."

War and Peace

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

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.' "

Aha! Inspector Morse - Colin Dexter, I mean "Last Bus to Woodstock"!!


"Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. I lived in Axe-yard, having my wife and servant Jane, and no more in family then us three"

Samuel Pepys??

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

That's Jane Eyre!




It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love
( I love this book)

Love in the time of cholera. I had the story,bit by bit,from various people,and,as generally happens in such cases,each time it was a different story.

Got the dvd of that Envious [lent to me by someone who knows the sort of films I like] but haven't watched it yet.

Oh Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome!

(Cheating slightly here)

"When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?"

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"

The Go Between [I did know it but still had to google the name ]. Saw a musical version of it a while back; was pretty good [once I'd got over the shock of everyone singing as I hadn't realised it was a musical ].

Can we have a reply to 11.31.48 before moving on please?

Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1 William Shakespeare.

The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all.

Don't know that one but sounds like my kinda book ...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?

"Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes."

Animal Farm. I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.