The Book Game

[zipzapgirl]

Fun game - I love hearing what everyone is reading!

Here''s mine:

"Upon learning of his plans, America''s officials congratulated themselves for displacing him from Sudan"
- Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer, talking about Osama Bin Laden

 

[OUpearlgirl]

"On opening night, a good friend of mine, Jonni Hartman (publicist, mother of the actress Lisa Hartman, and mother-in-law of one of my favorite country-and-western singers, Clint Black) was in the audience."

From Leslie Jordan''s (better known as Beverly Leslie on Will and Grace) "My Trip Down the Pink Carpet"

 

[ladypirate]

OK, my sentence is really long:

"But experienced from within, the Family was perfectly absurd and--granted its own logic--as perfectly rational as the Catholic dirt eaters of Chimayo, New Mexico, who consider the dusty soil in one small spot in the mountains capable of curing any ailment; or Shinji Shumeikai, an international sect of religious aesthetes who believe that by building modernist architectural masterpieces in remote places they''re restoring the planet''s balance, literally."

-From The Family by Jeff Sharlet

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Date: 1/14/2010 9:36:00 AM
Author: zipzapgirl
Fun game - I love hearing what everyone is reading!

Here''s mine:

''Upon learning of his plans, America''s officials congratulated themselves for displacing him from Sudan''
- Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer, talking about Osama Bin Laden

I''m not reading the book I quoted! lol It was just on my bookcase *in my office*. All my reading stuff is next to my bed. All other books are in my living room bookcase.

My current read is "The Sparrow." I''m now reading this for the second time. . ."We have no additional formation regarding the fate of the Congat Consortium''s crew member; they are in our prayers." Not a very exciting line!

 

[lyra]

"My mirror twin my next of kin"--Leonard Cohen

 

[Smurfysmiles]

"He was wearing his usual leopard-pattern Hawaiian shirt, walking shorts, and tennis shoes with black socks."

The Sea of Monsters from the Percy & the Olympians series, book 2

 

[LGK]

"The self-described therianthropes, for example."

-The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan

 

[artdecogirl]

This was hard, I have my computer on the desk with bookcases on both sides so I closed my eyes and grabbed! It was hard not to cheat and find something interesting!!!
"But he had never learnt what member of the family had perished in answer to the particular warning he had heard" from Great Irish Tales of Horrer , Peter Haining

 

[zoebartlett]

"April straightens up, dizzy but steadier, her vision clearer."

ETA: Forgot the title (April and Oliver by Tess Callahan). I haven't read it yet but it's on my list.

 

[zoebartlett]

Date: 1/12/2010 2:33:33 PM
Author: katamari
''However, it turns out that controlling for first-year grades only modestly reduces the disparity in six-year graduation rates between the top and bottom income quartiles, from 8 to 6 percentage points at the flagships and from 11 to 9 points at the state system SEL Bs (Appendix Table 3.9).''


That''s what I get to go back to after lunch. Jealous, much?

I don''t get it.