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.

[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" :}

[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.