So Many Precious Books, So Little Time

The Book: Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy

Teasers: Page 50, "Lonliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here."

Page 97, "Professor Peterson's office was the most dangerous place on campus.  Books piled ten feet high leaned dangerously in various directions.  On the tallest tower of books, a note had been hung halfway up: Please walk very slowly or I may fall on you without any warning whatsoever."

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"I have four and a half hours to live. I am leaning against the wing of the yellow-bellied Airspeed Oxford, smoking contentedly while the ground crew chaps run their final checks. The freezing rain hisses as it hits the glowing coal of my cigarette, drums softly on the tin roof of the hangar. Call me Johnnie, by the way. Everyone does."  The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown- page 1

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"Although it's acceptable to order sentences firstly, secondly, thirdly, etc., in your writing, many people (including me) prefer first, second, and third for their simplicity and directness.  Firstly just sounds fussy to me.  And for heaven's sake, don't mix the two forms."

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Scenario: "The moment at a restaurant after you see your food coming from the kitchen but before it lands on your table"

 "Somebody shushes, conversation hushes, and all eyes flicker with delight as you watch your sizzling, glistening meals cruise out of the kitchen and slowly descend in front of you.  Awesome!"

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"Even after so many years, there is no mistaking those hands.  They shaped a queen's destiny and enraged a nation." Page 1

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"The challenge ahead of us is to find this elusive cook and test her for the typhoid germ by examining her body fluids."

"I never used a telephone and I was quite excited at first; I had the impression a voice would magically appear at the other end like in a conversation.  Instead, it required heavy manual labor to produce a reply."

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"I tried to get out of the assignment.  Prenatal visits to a prisoner?  Okay, house arrest, same difference." Emily- Page 11

"The morning after last year's solstice, the family had searched for the toddlers in the blowing, drifting snow.  All day they hunted and the next and the next, taking turns staying with the twins." Pippa- Page 27

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The Book: The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird

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 " She put her head charmingly to one side as if she was trying to remember. “They said they would dig up the body of Ebenezer Macbean and make a pie of his head and feet and hands.” Page 83

"The Devil himself was there! I saw the two of them as they left their wicked Sabbath. Elspeth and the Evil One. Conjoined. His eyes red like fire. There was a — a wailing, like the souls of the damned screaming from Hell.” Page 85

(Note:  This is from an e-book so the page may not be exact.  It is also an Advanced Readers edition).

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