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Subject: Turn to page 21

Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: May 25 19

Turn to page 21 of the book you're reading, and tell us what the first full sentence on the page is.

"Dave put the sandwich down on the road, stood up, and walked away." (p.21 of Stuart Maclean's 'Vinyl Cafe Diaries', a collection of short stories. This quote is from 'Walking Man.')

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And sometimes they scold you when you haven't done anything at all, just because you weren't there when they called, or because Mama is in a bad humor.

Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse

Reply #41. Sep 18 19, 12:50 PM
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"I was a person who seemed to be from two worlds." (Fire in the Sky, by Travis Walton)

Reply #42. Sep 21 19, 6:03 AM
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'Rice Noodles: These are the nicest noodles of all. You don't have to cook them, just presoak them for ten minutes.' from Delia Smith's 'One is fun'.

Reply #43. Sep 25 19, 1:35 AM
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"I left my seat for five minutes and came back to find this young man"--Rudy wrinkled his nose--"who could stand to take a bath, occupying my chair."

Buried in the Stacks (Haunted Library #3) by Allison Brook

Reply #44. Sep 25 19, 6:25 AM
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"I never understood how people could do that."
---- Funny Money by Traci Depree


Reply #45. Oct 02 19, 8:25 AM
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And for another ten, he had worked, with, against, and among the vampires, in shadows deeper still.

----- Prisoner of Midnight by Barbara Hambly

(Good book for Halloween)

Reply #46. Oct 04 19, 6:06 AM
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"While I wasn't feeling particularly holly jolly about Christmas, I was quite interested in Christmas dinner."

"Silent Night" by Robert B. Parker

Reply #47. Oct 04 19, 8:44 AM
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Then Peter was at his house one day, and Arweiler's father was stinking drunk.

----- Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger


Reply #48. Oct 09 19, 5:33 AM
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"Rather than seek another job where she would work for meager wages and a share of the leftover cornbread and greens from the pots and pans she stirred and scrubbed, instead of working for the sort of boss who paid her, in part, with the gizzards and feet she cut from the chickens she fried, Gilmore went into business for herself."

-- "The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South," John T. Edge

Reply #49. Oct 12 19, 6:05 AM
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"My you have grown up to be a lovely Scottish lass."

Flowers and Foul Play by Amanda Flower

Reply #50. Oct 17 19, 7:44 AM
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"Penick took one look at Morgan's move and sent him home."

"Miracle at Augusta" by James Patterson & Peter de Jonge

Reply #51. Oct 17 19, 8:30 AM
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Jessica did not recognize her.

A Season of Secrets by Elizabeth Adams

Reply #52. Oct 21 19, 11:25 AM
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"I'm Stone Barrington; I'm on a charter yacht over at the marina."

Dead in the Water (Stone Barrington #3) by Stuart Woods

Reply #53. Oct 24 19, 4:55 PM
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"May daughter and I were trapped in a seemingly endless bank line." At Knit's End: Meditations for Women who KNIT Too Much, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, author of "The Yarn Harlot"

Reply #54. Oct 25 19, 10:13 PM
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He had a shyness about him that I found endearing, and he clearly adored her.

Courting Cate by Leslie Gould



Reply #55. Oct 29 19, 10:05 AM
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"I was relieved that he seemed almost chuffed by my reflexive enthusiasm."

"The Best Laid Plans" by Terry Fallis

Reply #56. Nov 04 19, 9:05 AM
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As he stood in the cool, evergreen-scented air, in the fresh feel of that fall morning, he understood that the calm probably wouldn't last.

Desolation Mountain by William Kent Krueger

Reply #57. Nov 06 19, 9:39 AM
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I tried to shift, turn my head, but I couldn't move.

The Record Keeper by Agnes Comillion

Reply #58. Nov 06 19, 2:39 PM
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The sun dawned just as it had many times before during Kathleen Clairborne's young life.
---- Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips


Reply #59. Nov 08 19, 7:00 AM
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"What's an Orphan Train?" Maeve asked, interrupting Malloy's story.

Murder in the Bowery by Victoria Thompson

Reply #60. Nov 18 19, 9:05 AM


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