Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find a teaser sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of Story Time With Tonya.
I can't believe another week has rolled around already. This week, we have another selection from my ibooks library, maybe one day I'll have access to my paperbacks again.
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Challenger smiled with weary and tolerant contempt, as a kindly man would meet the yapping of a litter of puppies.
Friday, 22 October 2010
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Poetry - The House
The House
It watches me from its hilltop,
Through the night sky I feel
the House's sorrow, its abandonment
and its neglect.
I gaze up at the abode,
once fit for a King, now only vermin
live behind its filthy brickwork.
A shadow glides behind a second floor window
and on the wind a soft singing is carried to my ears.
The Sombre melody stirs my emotions
like the grass stirring in the breeze.
I watch the shadow move past other windows
into other rooms. There is an elegance
about this being that shouldn't exist.
I turn my back on the house
like so many others before me.
It watches me from its hilltop,
Through the night sky I feel
the House's sorrow, its abandonment
and its neglect.
I gaze up at the abode,
once fit for a King, now only vermin
live behind its filthy brickwork.
A shadow glides behind a second floor window
and on the wind a soft singing is carried to my ears.
The Sombre melody stirs my emotions
like the grass stirring in the breeze.
I watch the shadow move past other windows
into other rooms. There is an elegance
about this being that shouldn't exist.
I turn my back on the house
like so many others before me.
Friday, 15 October 2010
The Friday 56 - The Green Mile by Stephen King
Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find a teaser sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of Story Time With Tonya.
This weeks selection is The Green Mile by Stephen King - a fantastic read.
The restraint room had soft walls, for people whose brains had softened a little.
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find a teaser sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of Story Time With Tonya.
This weeks selection is The Green Mile by Stephen King - a fantastic read.
The restraint room had soft walls, for people whose brains had softened a little.
Friday, 8 October 2010
The Friday 56 - The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pere
Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find a teaser sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of Story Time With Tonya.
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pere
I downloaded this to my ipad an have been reading it in short bursts throughout the week, not sure of what I make of it yet I'm being let down by my lack of knowledge of french history but here's the teaser sentence:
"In an hour?" inquired Danglars, turning pale. "How is that, my friend?"
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find a teaser sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of Story Time With Tonya.
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pere
I downloaded this to my ipad an have been reading it in short bursts throughout the week, not sure of what I make of it yet I'm being let down by my lack of knowledge of french history but here's the teaser sentence:
"In an hour?" inquired Danglars, turning pale. "How is that, my friend?"
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