After college, I called him long distance and said, now what?
My dad didn't know.
When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married.

-Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk

It's funny how a few lines of such random texts can be so eloquent.

-Peri

Eek, It's been a while, but the only book I have close is Dragons of A Fallen Sun... which isn't mine

("Prince Silvanoshei," Said the queen in a voice he recongized as being her court voice, one she had never used to him. He did not know whether to feel glad or to weep for something irrevocably lost.)

Makes me wonder if I should pick it up to read it more....

"Once she stopped to stare at a normal-looking house for a solid minute, Rex conjuring horrible images as he waited. But finallh Melissa said,. ""They're happy in there. I thinkthat's what it is, anyway."

That's from Midngighters volume two Touching Darkness, but Scott Westerfeld.

-- Eh bien! Voyons s'il y a moyen de faire disparaitre aux yeux de votre porte-clefs les traces de mon passage. Il ne faut pas que cet homme sache ce qui s'est passe, ou tout est perdu pour jamais.

From the Graded French Reader (Premiere Etape, Fifth Edition). The story of Dantes, part of the story of The Count of Monte Cristo.

I love reading French!

YR: I have to say that is a good series! I like it a lot.

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"What's a metaphor?" Jay-Tee asked.

"A figure of speech. Like saying someone has a heart of stone."

I didn't think much of her example. My grandfather's stone heart definitely wasn't a figure of speech.

-- Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier

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Originally posted by Poliester:
-- Eh bien! Voyons s'il y a moyen de faire disparaitre aux yeux de votre porte-clefs les traces de mon passage. Il ne faut pas que cet homme sache ce qui s'est passe, ou tout est perdu pour jamais.
I love reading French!

I hate French. It's because I live in a province where French is more important than English. I just finished reading half (242 pages) of a French book (Un sac de billes, par Joseph Joffo) in one sitting for homework. And now I have the urge to translate that. But I won't. Just the last bit. "Cinquième édition".

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Students are known for this kind of negotiation and hold the money until they get their way. Contracts are sometimes analogues to blueprints: guides subject to modification and clarification as the project progresses. It is unrealistic to expect that all eventualities can be foreseen, much less fully negotiated in advance.

-- The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

Got it at the flea market today. It's going to help me out a lot!!

2008 Show Information & Floor Plans
Please refer to the maps on pages 20-22 for event locations

The only thing I had nearby at the moment was a copy of the 2008 Tucson EZ-Guide for the Gem and Mineral Show. Many of my meteorite friends gather there to swap rocks and stories.

Hehe a friend's book counts, right?

"Now she wouldn't hear the warnings. 'Let's go tonight. You can ride as well as me now.'
'Shay'
'Do this with me. I'll show you a rollercoaster.'
'What's a-'
'Second Warning. Restricted Area.' "

Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. I've wanted to read this book a gazillion times, but i haven't had the chance too and i still can't XD

WHITTY!!! *tackle*

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"What?" shouted Goryon at the top of his voice, his face turning livid. "Insults! Impertinence! Insolence! How dare you! I take no gifts from pig-keepers! Nor will I lower myself to mount the beast again."

Taran Wanderer, by Llyod Alexander.

Yay, Terry Pratchett again!

This book is Hogfather:
"'It isn't an actual wizard's tower, is it?' said Medium Dave. 'They got a very odd sense of humour when it comes to booby traps.' 'No.' 'Guards?' 'I believe so. According to legend. But nothing very much.' Medium Dave Narrowed his eyes. 'There's valuable stuff in this...tower?' 'Oh, yes.' 'Why ain't there many guards, then?' 'The...person who owns the property probably does not realize the value of what...of what they have.' 'Locks?' said Medium Dave. 'On our way we shall be picking up a locksmith.' Who?' 'Mr Brown.'"

This is a cool idea. I was wondering, why page 51? Here is mine:



Alex tried to speak, but his head was reeling. It was all happening too fast. Before he could react, his arm was seized from behind. Combat Jacket had crept up on him while Kasper had been talking. Alex tried to resist, but the man was too strong.



Ark Angle, by Anthony Horowitz

The book nearest me at the moment is really my grammar homework, so I did the book I am reading at the moment instead.

Probably fifty-one pages because it's in the "middle" of the book, and most books which are not picture books have sixty or so pages. Also, it's a random number.

... We can thus theorize that the Gungans may have evolved in a hot climate where threatening predators lived. Hunting mainly at night offered one method for avoiding the heat, while their huge ears offered a method for dealing with the heat when they come out during the day. Environmental conditions may have existed that made it difficult to see near ground level, so that elevating their eyes offered great advantages. ...

— The Science of Star Wars, by Jeanne Cavelos

I could have read from my textbooks, but that wouldn't have been nearly so interesting. (On a side note, I can't find any mention of Jar Jar's frog-like tongue. Wonder what that means.)

It's also an interesting page, because if you're reading a big book, it's like a sneak peek into the story, since it's near the beginning, so other people could want to try out the book.

Huh funny the book closest to me is the book I'm in the midst of reading!!

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"Before that." A sudden coolness in Arhu's voice in his eyes. "Nothing." "Fwau," Rhiow said; a bit roughly, for her, but she thought it necessary. "Something else has to have been said first." She thought she knew what, but she didn't dare lead him...

--The Book of Night with Moon Diane Duane

This actually took me a long time to find. I finally got it from Amazon.com.

Heehee...I'm in my bedroom, recently fitted with two new bookshelves...which to pick...

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I didn't mean to sound smart-alecky. I hope you'll write back. You are such a good correspondent. -C.

And that's from "Once Upon a Marigold," by Jean Ferris.

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"Twenty bars a day I've been buying for weeks and weeks!"
"Think of all the free stuff he'll be getting too!" another boy said enviously. "A lifetime supply!"
"He'll need it, the skinny little shrimp!" a girl said, laughing.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"--used to be one of my favorite books.

I just started a new book, here it is:

"I shall drink to that," I said, "a Greek told me of the steppes, of far grass plains where fierce warriors rode, and of a land still farther called Cathay."
" He was a knowing man. You travel far?"
" As far as necessary"

- The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour

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Charlie seemed to already be in a good mood when he got home. He didn't even go out of his way to be rude to Edward. Edward excused himself from eating with us, as usual.

Muahahaaa Eclipse is awesome!

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'The fig leaf,' said Groat quickly. 'That's what we call it.'
'Why's he got a leaf there?' said Stanley.
'Oh, they all had 'em in the olden days, 'cos of being Classical,' said Groat, relieved to be shjifting away from the heart of the matter. 'It's a fig leaf. Off a fig tree.'

Haha, you can't beat Terry Pratchett. This one isGoing Postal.

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"Are you sure that I drove there?" asked Stuart weakly, although he knew the answer even as he asked the question. Irene would remember exactly; she always did.

For a few moments there was complete silence. The Irene spoke. "I saw you get into it," she said. "You waved goodbye and drove off. So what does this mean?"

When Stuart replied his voice was barely audible. "Then it's still in Glasgow," he said. He waved a hand in a westerly direction. "Somewhere over there."

Irene's tone was icy. "You mean that you have left the car--our car--in Glasgow? That it's been there for several months? And you completely forgot about it?"...

Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith. Must've been all the talk about Edinburgh and Glasgow that's made me pick up the "44 Scotland Street" series again... This series is set in Edinburgh and was (and continues) to be written by McCall Smith serially in The Scotsman newspaper. He started doing it because while visiting California, he'd been invited to dinner by Maxine Hong Kingston and Armistead Maupin had been there and McCall Smith had talked to him about Tales of the City, which Maupin had (famously) written serially for the San Francisco Chronicle. And when he'd gotten back home, he'd said or written something about what a shame it was that one of the Scottish newspapers wouldn't publish something that way, and The Scotsman took him up on the challenge.

BTW, McCall Smith writes four different series, and amazingly somehow manages to churn out four books a year. His most famous is The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency about a female private detective in Botswana. But he also writes the Isabel Dalhousie series (about a philosopher/editor in Edinburgh), the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, about Prof. Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld and the hilarious adventures he gets into in the rarified world of academic Romance Philology (no, really, it is funny). And the 44 Scotland Street series, about a group of people who live in a house in Edinburgh. I enjoy each and every one thoroughly. He's a very human, funny, and wry writer with an eye for the absurdity and truths of simply being human.

I have got to find his kids' books...