charlie_cochrane: (lessons for survivors)
charlie_cochrane ([personal profile] charlie_cochrane) wrote2013-09-21 01:26 pm

International Book Week meme

(Copied from [livejournal.com profile] 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."

[identity profile] kcwarwick.livejournal.com 2013-09-21 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2013-09-22 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
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. :)