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What's the fifth sentence?

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  1. LizzieD
    LizzieD
    Member

    Look in the first paragraph on page 23 of your current book and write the fifth sentence here. (I loved this one.)

    "Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. LizzieD
    LizzieD
    Member

    "Devin winced." ~ from Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

    "Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. shreeausten
    shreeausten
    Member

    "I never did find him, and his distinctive face had gradually faded into the stuff of my most hidden memories, forgotten until now."

    from Skystone by Jack Whyte

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. LizzieD
    LizzieD
    Member

    "I think as I put down the phone."

    from The Gathering by Anne Enright

    "Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. Aravis
    Aravis
    Member

    "The why doesn't this mind function correctly?"

    Which, I might add, I ask of myself frequently.

    Posted 8 months ago #

  6. Aravis
    Aravis
    Member

    That should read "Then" not "The."

    Posted 8 months ago #

  7. Jandy
    Jandy
    Member

    "Tangible time?"

    Star Doc by S.L. Viehl

    Welcome back, Aravis! School must be on break.

    "people are inclined to underestimate folks who work with books" - Jayne Ann Krentz
    Posted 8 months ago #

  8. Aravis
    Aravis
    Member

    Thanks Jandy. Yes, on break until Jan. 18th I think.

    Posted 8 months ago #

  9. LizzieD
    LizzieD
    Member

    "'It's such a very unpleasant thing to write about, why not use the word spit and get it over quickly.'"

    The Other Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman

    (((Welcome back, Aravis!!!))

    "Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
    Posted 8 months ago #

  10. Aravis
    Aravis
    Member

    Thanks Lizzie! Good to see you. :0)

    (the 5th sentence of my current book is too boring to share.)

    Posted 8 months ago #

  11. Jandy
    Jandy
    Member

    "Oh, I really don't think---"

    Fired Up by Jayne Ann Krentz

    The 4th sentence is better -

    "...But I do know that historically J&J has a shoot, shovel and shut-up policy when it comes to dangerously unstable multi-talents."

    "people are inclined to underestimate folks who work with books" - Jayne Ann Krentz
    Posted 8 months ago #

  12. Aravis
    Aravis
    Member

    "The police then took a series of pictures of me, never knowing another series had been taken earlier that night." from Alice Sebold's Lucky.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  13. Jandy
    Jandy
    Member

    "She regained her balance quickly--she had been a cheerleader in high school and those skills hadn't left her--but it was still too late.

    Under the Dome by Stephen King

    "people are inclined to underestimate folks who work with books" - Jayne Ann Krentz
    Posted 7 months ago #

  14. Rowyn
    Rowyn
    Member

    "Once counted, strand by aging and fragile strand, 27 percent would remain the property of Dr. Alfredo 'Che' Guevara, the principal investor, a urological surgeon from the border town of Nogales."

    Beethoven's Hair by Russell Martin

    Posted 7 months ago #

  15. LizzieD
    LizzieD
    Member

    "The Chartists are not to be fobbed off with half-measures; they will never trust a party whose object is to transfer the privileges of the aristocracy to the middle class, for this would only lead to more oppression."

    The London Journal of Flora Tristan

    "Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
    Posted 7 months ago #

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