Where is it from?

[Frostina]

**shudders at the thought of Jane Austen**

and, no. its not a lovey dovey thing!

Try again!

Edited August 23, 2012 by Frostina

[Andy78]

**notes Frosty does not deny the straight romance. Shudders even deeper, I may be left traumatised for life after this one**

 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

[Frostina]

Nope.

 

It's not a 'romance'!

[Andy78]

It reads very 19th century, but it's not a romance . . . hmmmm. Well it's not from a horror or sci-fi novel I know that. It doesn't sound very Dickens, Twain, Verne etc

 

Err . . . Erm . . . I'll get back to you.

[Frostina]

19th Century, yes!

not strictly a romance, no.

 

Drama is more appropriate if i were to say. its been categorised as a lot of things, and if you were to look into the list you would also find romance, but that's really not the central focus in the book.

[comicfan]

Frosty my dear I never expected to see LIttle Women from you. Alcott I didn't think was your taste. I had to read that book. shudders.

[Frostina]

Frosty my dear I never expected to see LIttle Women from you. Alcott I didn't think was your taste. I had to read that book. shudders.

 

C'mon Wayne! i LOVE Jo! oh how easily i could relate when i was growing up! lol

[Andy78]

Calling Waynie, come in Waynie. Where art thou??

 

Please put Linus down, as we await the next line.

 

[comicfan]

Sorry, wanted confirmation before I put something up.

 

Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him-him; his wife, Rachel; and now, newborn Sophie. But despite his attention, his paranoia, his ceaseless fretting from the moment Rachel peed a blue stripe on the pregnancy stick to the time they wheeled her into recovery at Francis Memorial, Death slipped in.

[Xtro]

Got to admit I found Christopher Brookmyer and Colin Bateman better buys, but Bateman's been off form the last two or three, so maybe I'll go back and take another attempt at this one (the Beta Male was what gave me the memory jog.)

[LJH]

OOOOOOOOO Xtro you were so close with one of those names but i can't tell cos I googled it. (well, I didn't know in the first place LOL). But then again, even if you get the author you have to get the title to win the round.

[podga]

What? A welcome home gift for little old me? Why, how generous! Thank you!

 

A Dirty Job, by Chistopher Moore

[Andy78]

Welcome back Podga. It's always nice when people give you a gift

[Frostina]

gift indeed!

 

**waits for Podga to quote**

[podga]

I'm trying to figure out something difficult, because so far my quotes have been way too easy for such an erudite forum

[podga]

OK, here goes:

 

"That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do."

[Palantir]

Mr Bones?

Grr! - that should say something - but it doesn't!!

[comicfan]

Gee, my story was a gift and yours sends me scratching my head.

[Xtro]

Don't tell me, it's one of Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme novels? - Mr Bones - The Bone Collector?

[podga]

Don't tell me, it's one of Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme novels? - Mr Bones - The Bone Collector?

 

OK, I won't. It's not.

[Andy78]

I think it's Paul Auster's Timbucktu

[podga]

I think it's Paul Auster's Timbucktu

 

It is, indeed!

[Andy78]

It was the only Mr Bones I could think of

 

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this."

[Slytherin]

Twilight - Stephanie Meyer (didn't have to google this time )

[Andy78]

Yes, it is Zombie's favourite book **looks around, "Who said that?"**