Random Bookshelf Reading 95

Random Bookshelf Reading 95

Happy New Year's, Everyone!  Have a blessed and wonderful 2012!

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "'No, I shall not forget, for it is well that I remember; and with it I have so much in memory of you that is sweet, that I take it all together.  Now, you must all be going soon.  Breakfast is ready, and we must all eat that we may be strong.'" (p.296)

From Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 94

Random Bookshelf Reading 94

Question:  Today?

Answer:  ""I shouldn't have said that," she confessed, but she's a bit much. A professional mother.  When she lived in New York, she drove me up a wall.  Even from Florida, I still get the nudging.  What to eat, what to wear, how to act."" (p. 175)

From The Second Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 93

Random Bookshelf Reading 93

Question:  Today

Answer: "Ferguson's laughter almost broke his eardrum; Delaney held the phone up in the air until the doctor stopped spluttering." (p.247)

From The First Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 92

Random Bookshelf Reading 92

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone!

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "Her head began to feel tired and fuzzy, and it throbbed with the beginning of a headache.  Her eyes were hot, as if she had just sat down and read the Book of Revelations straight through." (p.25)

From Carrie by Stephen King.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 91

Random Bookshelf Reading 91

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "The doors open/and the heat undoes itself,/everyone undoes himself,/everyone walks naked./Two of them walk on the table./They are not afraid of God's displeasure./They will have no truck with the angel/who hoots from the fog horn/and throws the ocean into the rocks outside./One of them covers the bedstead./One of them winds round the bedpost/and both of them beat on the floor./"

From the poem, "In the Beach House" in The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton.


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Random Bookshelf Reading 90

Random Bookshelf Reading 90

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "There is so much violence yet to be done./He falls into her body/blind because desire makes him blind/deaf and limbless for the same reason./" (p.289)

From the poem, "And they were both right" by Kapka Kassabova in Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 89

Random Bookshelf Reading 89

Question:  This week?

Answer:  "Billy didn't hesitate.  Scruples was losing money at an almost incredible rate.  Not that i made the slightest difference to her; she could afford it indefinitely, but the figures would look so embarrassing when they were published in Women's Wear.  It was worse than embarrassing--it was a waking, unending nightmare.  People would laugh at her and the one thing in the world she must never be, never again as long as she lived, was a figure of fun.  She had to turn the operation of Scruples into a success.  Scruples must be faultless." (p.223)

From Scruples by Judith Krantz.


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Random Bookshelf Reading 88

Random Bookshelf Reading 88

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "John smiled a little too, then shrugged.  "The other thing I was thinkin is that you can't learn to control something unless you practice it and practice it."" (p.259)

From Firestarter by Stephen King.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 87

Random Bookshelf Reading 87

Question:  Today?

Answer:  ""Flattery will get you everywhere," Walt said agreeably.  He slipped off his sports coat and put on her apron.  "Here it comes, guy," he said, and began feeding Denny his egg." (p.175)

From The Dead Zone by Stephen King.

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Testing! Testing!

Image via WikipediaI'm testing this new Zemanta web thingy that gets free open source pictures of the internet.  Let's see if it works!  Having a great day so far.  Except my car is in the shop. :(

Here is a picture from Zemanta from a poetry book by William Blake.

Random Bookshelf Reading 86

Random Bookshelf Reading 86

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "Oh!  No mortal could support the horror of that countenance.  A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.  I had gazed on him while unfinished;  he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived." (p.57)

From Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.


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Random Bookshelf Reading 85

Random Bookshelf Reading 85

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "I went over to the cigarette machine and got a pack without looking at the brand.  I'd stopped smoking a year ago, but this seemed like a good time to start again.  The smoke rasped sharp in my lungs." (p.137)

From the story "Trucks" in Night Shift by Stephen King.


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Random Bookshelf Reading 84

Random Bookshelf Reading 84

Question:  This week?

Answer:  "When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself." (p.62)

From Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal talks on Zen meditation and practice by Shunryu Suzuki.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 83

Random Bookshelf Reading 83

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "Blood had begun to trickle down from his palms.  Like stigmata, oh yes.  He squeezed tighter, savaging himself with pain.  His wife was asleep beside him, why not? There were no problems.  He had agreed to take her and Danny away from the big bad boogeyman and there were no problems, So you see, Al, I thought the best thing to do would be to--
         (kill her.)" (p.269)


From The Shining by Stephen King.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 82

(Stock Art courtesy of Urban Threads)

Random Bookshelf Reading 82

"The tube grew tighter.  A wave of claustrophobia took his breath. What if he got wedged inside this place?  Trapped alive!  He calmed himself.  There was no room to turn around, of course.  He could only hope the artery led somewhere more reasonable." (p.188)

From The Descent by Jeff Long.


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Random Bookshelf Reading 81

Random Bookshelf Reading 81

Question:  Today?

Answer: "The Snow  It sifts from leaden sieves,/It powders all the wood,/It fills with alabaster wool/The wrinkles of the road.../

From The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 80

Random Bookshelf Reading 80

Question:  Today?

Answer: "A wolf too may listen to a man when a man is happy and is strumming a guitar/" (p.43)

From The Truth In Rented Rooms: Poetry by Koon Woon.


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Random Bookshelf Reading 79

Random Bookshelf Reading 79
Question: This week?

Answer:  "To the State of Love, or the Senses Festival 

I saw a vision yesternight/Enough to tempt a Seekers sigh:/I wisht my self a Shaker there,/And her quick pulse my trembling sphear./It was a She so glittering bright:/You'd think her soul an Adamite;/A person of so rare a frame,/Her bodie might be lin'd with 'same./Beauties chiefest Maid of Honour:/You'd break a Lent with looking on her./Not the fair Abbess of the skies,/With all her Nunnery of eyes,/Can shew me such a glorious prize./  ~John Cleveland (p.218)

From The Metaphysical Poets.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 78

Random Bookshelf Reading 78

Question:  Today?

Answer: "The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell. The line is immaterial.  Mr. Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me.  To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that remind one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.  And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?  As for the particular locality in which the handbag was found, a cloakroom at a railway station might serve to conceal a social indiscretion--has probably, indeed, been used for that purpose before now--but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized position in good society." (p.451)

From The Portable Oscar Wilde.

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Random Bookshelf Reading 77

Random Bookshelf Reading 77

Question:  Today?

Answer:  "hundreds of suitcases full of tragedy rocking back and/ forth waiting to be opened,/" (p.45)

From Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg.


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