Pick-a-Shelf discussion

From Dark to Light......Post your 5 star quotes here and let us know what is so great about the books you have chosen. Any quote will do, but it you are stuck try page 55 (get it double 5s....do I hear groans??)

Ok, page 55 it is. From Zahrah the Windseeker:

"Ah, I've got it!" he exclaimed. "Why didn't we think of this before?!"

We had been looking up facts. But what if what we sought wasn't believed to be a fact? What if people thought it was only a myth or legend?

Still, Dari's inspiration proved far less fruitful than we expected. Only one book popped up which dealt with the myth of dadalocks. It was called Ooni Fashion Magazine's Best of the Year Dari frowned. "What could this have to do with the dada myth?

I love the way you pick quotes, Susan. They always give me just enough of a glimpse to make me curious. Like with this one. Now I want to know what the dad myth is and what DOES a fashion magazine have to do with it.

Lyn M wrote: "I love the way you pick quotes, Susan. They always give me just enough of a glimpse to make me curious. Like with this one. Now I want to know what the dad myth is and what DOES a fashion magazi..."

Oops. I mis-typed, though. It's "dada." I'll have to fix that.

"Dada" describes something about the main character, Zahrah, that is quite unusual.

Susan wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "I love the way you pick quotes, Susan. They always give me just enough of a glimpse to make me curious. Like with this one. Now I want to know what the dad myth is and what DOES a ..."

You are peaking my interest. Sounds like an intersting book.

From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

"Three hundred dollars is a power of money. I wish my mother could get it. Is your husband going over there tonight?"

From Dream a Little Dream:

The Eastwood God was strict Old Testament: You screwed up, punk, and now you're going to pay.

God had been talking to Ethan for years. When he was a kid, the voice had come from Charlton Heston, which had been a major drag, since it had been hard for a youngster to bare his soul to all that mighty Republican wrath.

Adrienne wrote: "From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

"Three hundred dollars is a power of money. I wish my mother could get it. Is your husband going over there tonight?""

Adreinne, that is one of my favorite books. In fact, Mark Twain is probably one of my top two favorite authors of all time.

D.G. wrote: "From Dream a Little Dream:

The Eastwood God was strict Old Testament: You screwed up, punk, and now you're going to pay.

God had been talking to Ethan for years. When he was a kid, the voice had ..."

This one made me laugh out load, D.G. I love the picture of the Eastwood God versus the Charlton Heston God.

From The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time:

"I find people confusing. This is for two main reasons. The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can men lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you just said was very stupid."...The second main reason is that people often talk using metaphors. These are examples of metaphors...They had a skeleton in the cupboard. We had a real pig of a day..."

OOH, I love "We had a real pig of a day". I had never heard that one, but I think I am going to use it.

I have this book Bea and have been wanting to read it. I need to bump it up on the list, lol.

From Divergent, p. 4, author Veronica Roth:

"The gaps between the buildings narrow and the roads are smoother as we near the heart of the city. The building that was once called the Sears Tower -- we call it the Hub -- emerges from the fog, a black pillar in the skyline. The bus passes under the elevated tracks. I have never been on a train, though they never stop running and there are tracks everywhere. Only the Dauntless ride them."

Lynn - Another book that has been on my TBR forever. And all of these quotes are just making me want to read them all the more. I just need more time!

Lyn M wrote: "This one made me laugh out load, D.G. I love the picture of the Eastwood God versus the Charlton Heston God. "

LOL, Lyn! That's why I posted it. This is actually a secondary character that hears God as different TV personalities...he hears God as Oprah too.

D.G. wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "This one made me laugh out load, D.G. I love the picture of the Eastwood God versus the Charlton Heston God. "

LOL, Lyn! That's why I posted it. This is actually a secondary characte..."

That alone would make it worth reading the book. Just to see his take on God as all of these TV personalities.

If I Stay

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that
what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap?

Sherri wrote: "If I Stay

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that
what death would feel like..."

I myself gave this book 5 stars, Sherri. I really liked the way that the author explored the subject. I still have the follow-up book to read, which I hear is also good.

Lyn M wrote: "I myself gave this book 5 stars, Sherri. I really liked the way that the author explored the subject. I still have the follow-up book to read, which I hear is also good."

I decided on 4 stars because while it was very good, I didn't feel an emotional connection to the characters. A reviewer compared it to The Lovely Bones which I read a long time ago, but still manages to stay in my memory as a book that made me cry. If you haven't read it, check it out! I'll definitely be reading the second If I Stay book. I was really surprised to see it was a series.

Sherri wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "I myself gave this book 5 stars, Sherri. I really liked the way that the author explored the subject. I still have the follow-up book to read, which I hear is also good."

I decided o..."

I also read The Lovely Bones quite a while ago. It was before Goodreads, so I may not have it listed on here. I remember liking it, but beind dissatisfied with the ending, but I can't remember why. I may have to read it again.

From page 46 of Clockwork Angel

Mrs. Dark looked suspicious. "You know of the Magister?" She glanced at Tessa. "Ah, I see. Only what she has told you. The magister, little boy angel, is more dangerous than you could ever imagine. And he has waited a long time for someone with Tessa's ability. You might even say he is the one who caused her to be born -"

from The Historian:

"By the time we emerged from the church, Ranov was lounging in the courtyard. He narrowed his eyes at Helen. 'You have slept very late', he said accusingly. I looked carefully at his eyeteeth when he spoke, but they didn't appear any sharper than usual; if anything, they were ground down and gray in his unpleasant smile."

From The Three Musketeers " Athos slowly raised his pistol, stretched out his arm so that the weapon almost touched Milady's forehead, and then, in a voice the more terrible from having the supreme calmness of a fixed resolution, "Madame," said he, "you will this instant deliver to me the paper the cardinal signed; or upon my soul, I will blow your brains out."

Oh wow! What a quote, Paige!

from The Kill Order, p. 55:

"We've been through hell and back, kid. I know it. But it's toughened us up, right? We can do what it takes to live through one more challenge." He glanced up the path toward the village. "Let's hope our friends are okay." ...

Alec gave him a stiff nod -- professional again -- and started up the hill. Mark pulled himself together, swearing to put emotions aside for now, and followed.

They'd just crested the hill when the source of the horrific smell came clearly into view.

So many bodies.

Some quotes that made me think from Magic Slays:

“Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it's a matter of emotion, not logic. You see, angry people aren't interested in justice. they just want an excuse to vent their rage. And once you become their Other, you're no longer a person. You're just an idea, an abstraction of everything that's wrong with their world. Give them the slightest excuse, and they will tear you down. And the easiest way for them to target you as this Other is to find something that's different about you.”

“I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.”

And one that made me laugh:

“Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.”

Awesome quotes, Lauren.

Pg. 225 of The Night Circus

They stand entwined but not touching, their heads tilted toward each other. Lips frozen in the moment before (or after) the kiss. Though you watch them for some time they do not move. No stirring of fingertips or eyelashes. No indication that they are even breathing.

"They cannot be real," someone nearby remarks.

Many patrons only glance at them before moving on, but the longer you watch, the more you can detect the subtlest of motions. The change in the curve of a hand as it hovers near an arm. The shifting angle of a perfectly balanced leg. Each of them always gravitating toward the other.

Yet still they do not touch.

Page 115 of The Light Between Oceans

You could kill a bloke with rules, Tom knew that. And yet sometimes they were what stood between man and savagery, between man and monsters. The rules that said you took a prisoner rather than killed a man. The rules that said you let the stretchers cart the enemy off from no man's land as well as your own men. But always, it would come down to the simple question: could he deprive Isabel of this baby? If the child was alone in the world? Could it really be right to drag her away from a woman who adored her, to some lottery of fate?