frankie Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 The only one I can remember straight off is Best Served Cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Quite right Sari! Over to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 Yay Hm it's more difficult to pick a book to quote than I thought... They lunched slowly and meditatively, with mute intervals between rushes of talk; for, the spell once broken, they had much to say, and yet moments when saying became the accompaniment to long duologues of silence. Archer kept the talk from his own affairs, not with conscious intention but because he did not want to miss a word of her history; and leaning on the table, her chin resting on her clasped hands, she talked to him of the year and a half since they had met. She had grown tired of what people called "society"; New York was kind, it was almost oppressively hospitable; she should never forget the way in which it had welcomed her back; but after the first flush of novelty she had found herself, as she phrased it, too "different" to care for the things it cared about - and so she had decided to try Washington, where one was supposed to meet more varieties of people and of opinion. And on the whole she should probably settle down in Washington, and make a home there for poor Medora, who had worn out the patience of all her other relations just at the time when she most needed looking after and protecting from matrimonial perils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Aha! At last one that I know! Heard this one on audiotape recently. Its from The Age Of Innocence -by Edith Wharton.Probably out of print as a book now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 Well done, gardengirl Your turn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 ok so my quote is........... 'that was not the reason' he looks up. 'May I speak?' 'Oh for God's sake, 'Henry cries 'I wish someone would.' He is startled. Then he understands. Henry wants a conversation, on any topic. One that's nothing to do with love, or hunting, or war. Now that ********** is gone there's not much scope for it;unless you want to talk to a priest of some stripe.And if you send for a priest, what does it come back to? To love; to A***;to what you want and can't have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 a further clue.... Henry is royal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 This is a wild guess but I'll say Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Correct! Frankie, did you need the second clue? your turn now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 I did indeed, otherwise I would've had no idea! Lemme think and search, I'll be back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 Whether by luck or accident I cannot say, but I found my way to the library a full twenty minutes earlier than I had been commanded to attend. It was not a problem. What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through their choice and treatment of books? My first impression was of the room as a whole, and it struck me by its marked difference from the rest of the house. The other rooms were thick with the corpses of suffocated words: here in the library you could breathe. Instead of the fabric, it was a room made of wood. There were floorboards underfoot, shutters at the tall windows, and the walls were lined with solid oak shelves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 The Thirteenth Tale if I'm not mistaken (Diane Setterfield)?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 The Thirteenth Tale if I'm not mistaken (Diane Setterfield)?? Bingo! Well done, your turn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 (edited) Ok here goes.. I jumped every time I heard a siren. It might have been an ambulance off in the distance or a police chase on television - it didn't matter. Part of me was always braced for TRay or Mr **** ****** to drive up and end my charmed life. We had been at ******'s house eight whole days. I didn't know how long black Mary could keep the curtain drawn. You might need a clue for this but I'm sure someone will know it! Edited October 19, 2013 by chaliepud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Ooh you've removed the names Hayley ... clever I don't think I have read it .. it's not ringing bells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Ooh you've removed the names Hayley ... clever I don't think I have read it .. it's not ringing bells Well, it is in your 'books read' list on Goodreads? I know it's a book that has been read by many on here. I'll add a name if anyone wants a small clue.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vimes Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Is it the Chrome Borne by Mercedes lackey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Oooh, this is tricky, I love this game I have no idea if I've read the book, but it sounds like a book I might read, so I might have read it... But I'm getting no ideas. I don't know why but I was getting a Sookie Stackhouse feeling, but I don't think that's it, but I'm wondering if this is paranormal fantasy, or 'just' a normal thriller.... Does anyone else have any ideas? 8 days inside, in hiding... Who's done that? (And no, personally I don't want any clues yet, I wanna see if others have any ideas. But if someone else wants a new clue, then by all means! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 (edited) Edited October 19, 2013 by chaliepud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 (Edit: smiley faces are not a clue!) :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Oooh, I have a guess. Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Nope! And no clues except to say you're way off the mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 I just came back to say that it can't be it, because poppyshake's not read it... And now I hear I'm way off mark anyhows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vimes Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I didn't think so but it was worth a try lol Nope. í ½í¸ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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