Book meme, day 9
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litlover1225. Most annoying character ever?
Soooo many candidates for that one. Since I recently re-read Pride and Prejudice, I'll go with Mrs. Bennet. How her family managed to live with her without stuffing a gag in her mouth and locking her in a closet is beyond me.
26. Most quotable novel or 5 of your favourite quotes from any books?
Only five? *pouts* Oh, very well.
a. "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." --C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
b. "'If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle,' said Harriet, severely." --Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
c. "'I believe there's a God -- I believe the whole bag of tricks, there's nothing I don't believe, they could subdivide the Trinity into a dozen parts and I'd believe. They could dig up records that proved Christ had been invented by Pilate to get himself promoted and I'd believe just the same. I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.'" --Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
d. "'Look, Sam!' he cried, startled into speech. 'Look! The king has got a crown again!'
"The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.
"'They cannot conquer for ever!' said Frodo." --J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
e. "A trading-boat, with a sail of the softened colour of a dead leaf, then glided into his view, floated by him, and died away. As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consideration of all his poor blindnesses and errors, ended in the words, 'I am the resurrection and the life.'" --Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
27. Any five books from your "to be read" stack. What makes you select a book for your “to be read” stack?
Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
Under the Harrow, Mark Dunn
Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler
Knowing Dickens, Rosemarie Bodenheimer
The Great Typo Hunt, Jeff Peck and Benjamin D. Herson
I select books for any number of reasons: because I want to review them or have been asked to review them; because they're by an author I already love; because someone recommends them; because they sound intriguing or funny or relevant to my interests; or just because I like the looks of them!
Soooo many candidates for that one. Since I recently re-read Pride and Prejudice, I'll go with Mrs. Bennet. How her family managed to live with her without stuffing a gag in her mouth and locking her in a closet is beyond me.
26. Most quotable novel or 5 of your favourite quotes from any books?
Only five? *pouts* Oh, very well.
a. "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." --C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
b. "'If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle,' said Harriet, severely." --Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
c. "'I believe there's a God -- I believe the whole bag of tricks, there's nothing I don't believe, they could subdivide the Trinity into a dozen parts and I'd believe. They could dig up records that proved Christ had been invented by Pilate to get himself promoted and I'd believe just the same. I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.'" --Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
d. "'Look, Sam!' he cried, startled into speech. 'Look! The king has got a crown again!'
"The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.
"'They cannot conquer for ever!' said Frodo." --J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
e. "A trading-boat, with a sail of the softened colour of a dead leaf, then glided into his view, floated by him, and died away. As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consideration of all his poor blindnesses and errors, ended in the words, 'I am the resurrection and the life.'" --Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
27. Any five books from your "to be read" stack. What makes you select a book for your “to be read” stack?
Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
Under the Harrow, Mark Dunn
Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler
Knowing Dickens, Rosemarie Bodenheimer
The Great Typo Hunt, Jeff Peck and Benjamin D. Herson
I select books for any number of reasons: because I want to review them or have been asked to review them; because they're by an author I already love; because someone recommends them; because they sound intriguing or funny or relevant to my interests; or just because I like the looks of them!
