Thinking over what gave me most pleasure in my childhood I should be inclined to place first and foremost, my hoop. From Agatha’s incredibly delightful autobiography.
The Saga of Katniss Everdeen, Conflicted Killing Machine
It is almost impossible to catch a speedy invisible automobile even when one is a skillful dentist. From Stuart Little, and truer words were never spoken.
Because, look, even the missing are there, the gone and taken are with them in the shade pools of the peppermints by the beautiful, the beautiful the river. CLOUDSTREET’s the name. Gorgeous writing’s the game.
When the life of the party wants to express the idea of a pretty woman in mime, he undulates his two hands in the air and leers expressively. A very nice flowing sentence from The Female Eunuch. Well done, Germaine.
I write this by the light of the Lumogaz lamp on the round wooden table in the barn at Roques. No, not the first sentence of a ripping yarn. Yes, from Michael’s most entertaining Diaries 1969-1979, The Python Years.
Ulysses (quite a lot about the city of Dublin on June 16, 1904) David Copperfield (I’m willin’, like Barkis, in short, to read this again and again and again.) Lorna Doone (I like me a 6’7″ 280 pound humble yeoman farmer.) Cold Comfort Farm (I have it from a reliable source that there be no […]
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. This is from The Remarkable Rocket. Even in his fairy tales, Oscar will be Oscar.
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5 of 5 stars to The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton goodreads.com/review/show/55…
