International Book Week meme

[charlie_cochrane]

(Copied from jay_of_lasgalen) It's International Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence as your status. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your status.

I grabbed a few books, the first of which was the nearest. Any idea what they are?

"And so the Dean went round the table."

"But it seems in the end the only way in which Saruman could have been overcome."

"The presence of your husband's cheeses in her house she would, I instinctively feel, regard as a 'put upon'; and it shall never be said that I put upon the widow and the orphan."

Comments

[beckyblack]

First one, no clue.
Second one, presumably Lord of the Rings, but which volume, no idea.
The third one is Three Men in a Boat. Love that bit about the cheeses.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

3MiaB spot on. 2nd not quite. :)

[beckyblack]

Hmm, baffling. Presumably not the Hobbit or the Silmarillion. Or I'm on the wrong track and it's not from Tolkien at all but something aboutTolkien.

Is the first one a Pratchett?

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Not Pratchett. One of my favourite books, though - and an inspiration behind the Jonty/Orlando books.

See below for answer to number two.

[beckyblack]

Hmm, you like Cadfael, don't you? And Deans go with the church as well as the university. So, an Ellis Peters? Aargh, put me out of my misery, please!!!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Will post the answer tomorrow. (And yes, I do like Cadfael, but it's not those sort of cloisters.)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Is the second one The History of Middle Earth?

Whenever I see the name Dean in a book quote, I immediately think of Dean Moriarty in On The Road, but then I looked again and realised you'd said "the Dean" :}

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

On the Road wouldn't have the hallowed place on my bookshelf number one has.

And yes, you spotted History of Middle Earth - book 8. :)

[kcwarwick.livejournal.com]

Sounds as if the first one should be something like the Barchester Chronicles, something with plenty of churchmen in it...I've just been listening to a very good serialisation of TMiaB on Radio 4.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Oh, I missed that. Will have to see if it's on iplayer.

Getting closer, but wrong sort of Dean and not quite the same cloistered type of community. :)