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This is going on at FB but don't know why it wouldn't work here.
She must have drifted off to sleep at around four, and now with the alarm sounding at seven-thirty, she was back in a world that was as grim as any she could imagine.
(It's International Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 54, post the 5th sentence as your status. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your status.)
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""If I was short, I would have to pay him for each ice cream eaten."
(A friend of mine did this on FB and I posted that line -- the book is still on my desk. It's especially funny -- or it was to her, because she knows me in real life -- because even though, in the quote, "short" is in reference to funds, I'm a pipsqueak. She found it hilarious. I stood on my tippy-toes and told her to shut her mouf!)
"It happened in the north field, just after planting, the red furrows with their promise of potatoes, his uncle's tractor at the far end, parked beside the lilacs."
Ha! It's from Lamb, by Christopher Moore. The subtitle is The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. It's a fictionalized funny account of Christ's life and most of it takes place during the years of his life that the Bible doesn't address--from about 13 or so til he reappeared in his early 30's. It's funny and irreverent, but never irreverent about Jesus. In fact, a friend of mine read it and was so affected by it that she started going to church again. Regardless of your beliefs, I think it's a really great book.
Really? That's shocking to me. You just type in a line and it comes up with a book? (Yes, it is Doc).
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