Litwit Lounge discussion

This is another opportunity to share a quote from what you're reading, but always from P. 67, any 1-3 sentence sequence. Who knows, these random selections may catch someone's interest to a particular book, lol, or not!

"I once had an astonishing exhibition of their speed - astonishing not only because they were so fast, but because they were having such a good time showing off just how fast they were." ~referring to coyotes in Going Back to Bisbee

EDITED: This game thread originally suggested "P 67, Line 1", but I've found it's just not always a great, fun or interesting line to share. So please choose any 1-3 sentence sequences on P 67 from what you're reading.

"The man collapsed, and Shar looked over the foot of the bed at his glowing, unconscious body, now almost solid and covering a lot of her floor." (Dogs and Goddesses)

"Jealousy consumed us, burned us up like straw."

Night by Elie Wiesel

"...short, burping little bursts, aimed fire, even if it suffered from the fact that they were moving when they did it." (Small Favor by Jim Butcher)
~referring to one of the many times Harry Dresden gets shot at.

"He would be an unconscious part of the antiquity, the impressiveness, the picturesqueness, of England; and poor Bessie Alden, like many a Yankee maiden, was terribly at the mercy of picturesqueness."

An International Episode by Henry James

"All I would have to do is keep you here..." (Sunshine)

"In the kitchen. Wine, beer in the fridge. Whisky in the pantry." (Raven Black)

BTW-- I'm not sure I've been doing this right. Reggia, when you say "line", do you mean line of text or full sentence?

Originally, I had interpreted the game as the first full sentence. However, sometimes that first sentence has just been two words or too generic so I might take a sentence that started on P. 66 and carried over or add the next sentence if the first was really short. Whatever looks good to you -- have fun with it! :-)

Before they left on Friday night, Teri thanked Rachel again for helping her out "in a pinch" earlier that day. What did she mean, Patrick wanted to know.

Winter Birds by Jamie Langston Turner

Thanks, Reggia!

Now that was a thought: Herbert Mateleke and Violet Sephotho! No, it was impossible, and she should not even think such thoughts, especially in the cathedral, and especially when the visiting priest was about to speak.

The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith

"Brother Thomas," he said, smiling again, and I felt an odd catch in my chest.

The Mermaid Chair

In the center of the shelf was a human skull, surrounded by paperback romance novels.
--Jim Butcher, Changes

This benefit was fully repaid; Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world: I do not mean that she made any professions; I never heard one pass her lips; but you could see by her eyes that she almost adored her protectress. Frankenstein

"Me, too," I said and produced two quarters from my pocket, holding them up between my fingers with slow, ominous flair, like David Blaine.
--Jim Butcher, "It's My Birthday, Too" in Side Jobs

"He stood awkwardly in the center of the room, holding the little girl horizontally as she screamed loud enough to be heard anywhere in on the floor, and city employees looked out of their offices to see the commotion." ~Finding Noel

Snicker! A horizontal screamer!

LOL, perhaps upside-down would have been quieter?

Eventually! ;p

:-)

This seemed to anger Kenzo more. He clenched both of his fists and a deep groan rose from down inside him. ~The Samurai's Garden

Grumbling incoherently, I fished in my jacket pocket for sunglasses.
--Rob Thurman, Nightlife

Rhonda wrote: ""Jealousy consumed us, burned us up like straw."

Night by Elie Wiesel"

I remember reading this book when I was younger, the story makes me cry even now, years later. The perciverence, the strength, the survival against all odds. Rhonda I really hope you enjoyed this book as much as I did! So much to take away from it!

"For fun, I had been on a search engine researching fracture pattern interpretation in the skull, and how you can differentiate between blunt-force trauma and ballistic trauma using concentric fractures, and that factoid seemed to be the perfect opening salvo for a conversation."

House Rules - Jodi Picoult

side note: I just finished this book... wow

Charly wrote: "The nurse had asked him to wait while she went to see whether Herr Bodin was awake.
--Stieg Larsson, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest."

How did you like this book? I am currently reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and enjoying it. That being said:

"Blomkvist sighed. Obviously Vanger was not going to let him go in time to catch the afternoon train."

Stieg Larsson

Butting in here, just wanted to add my 2 cents re Girl with Dragon Tatoo series. I enjoyed it; a friend thought the movies were gory, terrible and upsetting; and I'm sorry he is dead and there won't be more.

Yes! Charly I agree with you about Night and I will admit that I would never have read the book if my Mother had never bought it for my brother when he was going through (very THANKFULLY short lived) White Supremist Phase. A powerful book, I wish it were on High School reading lists.



"Ma hesitated. I knew she disliked speaking ill of anyone, especially family."

After all, where's the rest of the mass going to go, I ask myself?
--Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

"Then she got to talking about her husband, and about her relations up the river, and her relations down the river, and about how much better off they used to was, and how they didn't know but they'd made a mistake coming to our town, instead of letting well alone -- and so on and so on, till I was afeard I had made a mistake coming to her to find out what was going on in the town; but by and by she dropped on to pap and the murder, and then I was pretty willing to let her clatter right along." ~Huckleberry Finn

Yes! that is one sentence, lol.

"He didn't fight for what mattered to him most." ~Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man

"They were silent, and the night moved restlessly about the house, nudging them and urging them." ~John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Charly wrote: "Necessary meditations on the actual, including the mean bread-and-cheese question, dissipated the phantasmal for a while, and compelled Jude to smother high thinkings under immediate needs."
While I don't get to GR nearly as much as I once did, I was awed by this Hardy quote, a person who, for me, writes in the style of making life smack you full in the face. Such quotes bring, in the manner of a sudden ice water shower, cognizance to the things which ought to remain truly important, allowing them spirituality without becoming merely ephemeral. Thank you for the reminder, Charly.

I loved this quote. It is still true today. But sometimes when you have too much time on your hands and can't do anything else but think, it can get scarey.

LOL, I'm pretty sure I've been accused of thinking too much myself... be careful, Syra! ;)

I picked up the gourd. My hand trembled. I set it down again, and went to step away. But I could not. I lifted the gourd and walked off with it, into the shelter of a concealing thicket. I set it down again and sat there, considering it. There was not a great amount of liquid left. Makepeace had said that they knew well how to decoct a dose that would not poison. What matter if I tasted it? What harm? Perhaps I would gain by it. I yearned to experience, once again, that sense of holy ecstasy that had fallen upon me at the cliffs.
Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks
(excuse the whole paragraph but it was a key point in the book)

Charly wrote: "Rhonda, this book has been tossed about as a target read for my wife's book club. do you think it would be a good book club read?"

I spent some time writing a review (posted here on GR) on this book and, since you asked my opinion, I ask that you read that for a better answer to your question.

Occasionally I browse Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. I found this one from Raymond Chandler's FAREWELL, MY LOVELY and had to share it: "A blonde to make a bishop
kick a hole in a stained glass window."

Charly wrote: "Rhonda, since your review contains spoilers I'd rather not read it as I hope to get tho the book sooner or later. If you address whether it is a good choice for a book club in your review could you..."
The book is written in a very engaging fashion. It contains interesting snapshots into colonial life of the mid 17th century. Although it does not violate the few facts we know of the period, it takes liberties with the elements which glue together these facts. Lastly, I maintain it is more about a (fictional) young girl's maturation during this period than it is about the first native American Harvard graduate. In regard to the plausibility of this woman's life, I find the story highly doubtful. Many, no doubt, will not allow these details to get in the way of their enjoyment of the book. I hope this helps.

'Before the flight I'm a midlife version of Tom Cruise in Top Gun'
From Fearless by Max Lucado. I've been very slowly working through this with a friend. It's a great book.

'At least it's recognisable,' he said. 'That jumper your mum gave me for my birthday; what does she think I am, a squid?'
From Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, a very funny book with endless puns and silly impossibilities.

"My mother, Leah, said she dreamed of me every night. 'You and I whispered to each other like old friends.'" ~The Red Tent

"They were not afraid, as they gathered on the shining floor of Delmonico's ball-room, of any challenge to the supremacy of these beauties." ~The Buccaneers

Book II -- this is not a typo, it's the only thing printed on P. 67 of The Sun Also Rises. The next line is P. 69, "I did not see Brett again until she came back from San Sebastian." I know, I know, not even a vote for droll. :-p

LOL @ quote above

The woman looked at her blankly. "But he is sleeping, Mma. He cannot talk if he is sleeping."

Mma Ramotswe smiled. "No, nobody can do that. But perhaps he would like you to wake him up."

The woman shook her head. "Men do not like to be woken up, Mma. Sorry."

'But what does it mean?' cried Arthur.
'What, the custard?'
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Niko tipped over a pile of stacked black aprons and towels on the shelf behind us to cover the body and it was as if it had never happened.
Doubletake

"And it was Captain Dobbin who at the end of the day, though wounded himself, took up the lad in his arms and carried him to the surgeon, and thence to the cart which was to bring him back to Brussels."

Vanity Fair

"Fielding... don't think I'm taking it badly, or anything of that sort ... I suppose you won't come on to the polo with us? We should all be delighted."

~from A Passage to India

"Aureliano checked his feet and raised his head. He did not know how he had come there, but he knew what his aim was, because he had carried it hidden since infancy in an inviolable backwater of his heart."

100 Years of Solitude

‘No,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch, who felt a great inclination to tell Vronsky of Levin’s intentions in regard to Kitty. ‘No, you’ve not got a true impression of Levin.

Anna Karenina

"The eyes that shown under the green visor were following the heroine and her elephant across the wide screen and into the circus tent."

A Confederacy of Dunces

"How much time had he before his lower limbs became paralyzed?"

--Louis L'Amour, The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2: Frontier Stories