Share a line or two from your current read?

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Share a line or two from your current read?

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1SqueakyChu
Editado: Nov 11, 2006, 12:30 am

What bookcrossing book are your currently reading?

Would you like to share an interesting line (or few lines) from it with us?

What will you do with it when you're finished reading it?

2SqueakyChu
Nov 12, 2006, 9:44 pm

The Book of Proper Names by Amelie Nothomb

“Ten is the most sunlit point in childhood. There is no sign of adolescence visible on the
horizon: nothing but mature childhood, already rich in long experience, without the feeling
of loss that assaults you from the first hints of puberty onward."

This book will be going out on an international bookray when I'm finished reading it.

3bookishbunny
Nov 13, 2006, 2:44 pm

"Milk?" called Reg.
"Er, please."
"One lump or two?"

This was a ploy used by the inquirer to see if the other was listening The funny thing is, I didn't catch it until he explained it. Guess I wasn't listening, either!

The book is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

4ShelfMonkey
Dic 18, 2006, 5:36 pm

5wonderlake
Ene 8, 2007, 8:13 am

The Wuffler & The Querk- a children's book.
A fat character, Mr Bigwig, is trying to get into a basket to be lowered down a mineshaft. He is described as looking
"comical, like a stranded whale" on account of his size, but what's funny about a stranded whale in real life, they're always presented as tragedies on news reports.

Although I have registered the book on my BC bookshelf, I'm keeping it as it was an Xmas present from my OH x
NB. Touchstones greyed out

6bookishbunny
Editado: Ene 8, 2007, 8:25 am

I don't have any BX books with me at work, but here is a line from my current 'desk book', The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul:

Sister Bailey regarded him with a sort of proprietary fondness. She did not know he was a god as such, in fact she thought he was probably an old producer or a Nazi war criminal. Certainly he had an accent she couldn't quite place, and his careless civility, his natural selfishness and his obsession with personal hygiene spoke of a past that was rich with horrors.

7anxovert
Ene 14, 2007, 10:33 pm

from Second Glance by Jodi Picoult:

"After a while, hems on pants began to unravel and words would not stay still on the pages of books. Water never boiled. People in town found they'd wake up without a history-walking out to get the morning paper, they would trip over their own memories, unraveled like bandages across the sidewalk. Women opened their dryers to find their whites had turned to feathers. Meat spoiled in the freezer. The colour blue looked completely wrong."

I've promised to send the book to a fellow bookcrosser when I'm done with it.

8SqueakyChu
Ene 15, 2007, 12:17 am

Here's a funny one from Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk:

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.” :-)