Melanie has tagged me to do a book meme which is quite a fun one (and suits the summer holiday tone of this blog at the moment!). Here are the instructions:- Take ten books, and transcribe the fifth sentence from page fifty six.
- Make sure that at least five books are fiction, provide five hints, and pass the meme on to six other bloggers.
The quotes:
1. So how do we appropriate what we believe about God? The bottom line is that, with God's help, we must stop in the middle of our struggles and force our line of vision back on the eternal perspective.
2. The show that opened the evening was of work by Elizabeth Blackadder.
3. After three notes went unanswered, I made a personal visit to St James's Place, where I encountered the iron Miss Tilley, who said you were out of town.
4. Let me take a few of the examples that you used to illustrate God as a risk-taker.
5. Grace wins our hearts.
6. Our attitude shouldn't be that we "have" to do all these things for them, but that we "get" to.
7. Their conversation continued in a desultory fashion for a further half-hour.
8. "It was swimming at the bottom, waiting".
9. Haze glanced out the window at the shapes black-spinning past him.
10. If the venerable apostle had to learn to be content, I can expect no less.
Hints:
I've made this REALLY easy for you and have taken all the books from either my reading list, or the EQUIP book club list for the first half of the year. So, I'm not going to give five hints to start with, I'll see if I need to follow up with some more as we go. I'll give you the answers next week. Have fun guessing!!
Now, I'm going to tag: Megan, Rachael, Cathy, Ali, Jean and Soph.
14 comments:
I reckon one must be the Sunday Philosophy club, because that's the only novel on the EQUIP BOOKCLUB list and my guess that is either 2) because there are always shows in McCall Smith's books or 7) because there is always conversation.
Ah ha! I've just googled Elizabeth Blackadder and discovered that she is a Scottish painter and print-maker. So that means that 2) is must a McCall Smith book. Now is it the Sunday Philosophy Club (on the EQUIP LIST) or the World according to Bertie? (on your list)?
It could be the world according to Bertie because that would also feature Pat and Matthew and their gallery. But I've just looked that up and line five on page 56 is not that.
So 2) has to be the Sunday Philosophy Club.
Unless there are some other books with scottish flavours on your list. There's the hole in my logic....
You are right Rachael,
And I'll give you another clue... you are actually pretty close to working out number 7 too!
So does that mean no7 is the bertie one?
I have read several of the books on your list but it isn't helping me at the moment.......
I'm guessing no 1 is You can change (havent read that)
6 is a book on parenting? will come back to that....
and 5 sounds like it could be grace based parenting, though in my copy it isn't the right line....
10 from did I kiss marriage goodbye?
Megan, you've got number 7 and number 10 right. You are getting closer with no 6, but not with number 5!
Oh. You must have a different edition of Bertie. My copy page 56 line 5 says, "Although it is interesting - isn't it ? how trousers are getting lower each year."
Is 3. the PD James?
No, no 3 isn't PD James, but it is fiction and written by an English woman.
Well that doesn't leave too many other options. The Scarlet letter is written by a man. Flannery O'Connor is not English. And the Potato Peel Society has two authors?? Although this begins in London and therefore may explain the St James reference.
Potato Peel Society has one author (Mary Ann Shaeffer) who died just before the book was published, so the final edit was completed by her niece (Annie Barrows)....
...so we can confidently conclude that 3. is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, which sounds like a good read. I'll have to add it to my reading list!
I'm half way through it at the moment - and it is a really good read (so far!).
Number 5 is You Can Change, by Tim Chester, and I just realised that I miscounted the sentences in my own list for the same book. Oops. Anyway, thanks for the tag.
Ali I think we just made the same comment on each others blogs at the same time! I'm still confused about who got it wrong now! Oh well. We still guessed it. :)
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