Theme Thursday

Theme Thursday is a fun weekly Meme hosted at Reading Between the Pages.

This weeks theme is Flower

I am posting from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Lydgate was almost forgetting that he must carry on the conversation, in thinking how lovely this creature was, her garment seeming to be made out of the faintest blue sky, herself so immaculately blond, as if the petals of some gigantic flower had just opened and disclosed her; and yet with this infantine blondness showing so much ready, self-possessed grace.

Thursday Memes

Theme Thursday is a fun weekly Meme hosted at Reading Between the Pages.

This weeks theme is Day

I am posting from Edgar Wallace's The Yellow Snake

"Today is Monday," he said. "We will be married on Friday by special licence. Friday will be an unlucky day—for somebody."

I haven't participated in Booking Through Thursday for a while. Todays question is
Have you ever bought a book, started reading it and then realised you have already read it? If so, how far did you get? (Can you tell this happened to me for the first time ever this week!?!)
And–did you keep reading??

This happened to me many times. This is the reason I started a blog. I didn't keep track of books I read. When somebody recommends a book to me, something I would like, I buy it to realise that I have read it before. I realise after reading maybe forty, fifty pages. I can't leave a book unfinished. I will have to finish it. Unfinished books haunt me.

Theme Thursday

Theme Thursday is a fun weekly Meme hosted at Reading Between the Pages.

This weeks theme is Month

I am posting from Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest.

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is Drinks, tea, wine, beer, water (anything liquid)

I am posting from Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

She fixed herself a Coca-Cola, made a lot of noise banging the ice-cube tray in the stainless steel sink.

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is Agree, nod, accept

I am posting from Gladys Mitchell's Tom Brown's Body

Mrs Bradley, who had not before encountered these tactful adjectives, nodded solemnly.

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is Yes, Okay, Sure.

I am posting from A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow

“Okay?” she said in a voice more gentle than he’d heard in fourteen months.
“Okay,” he said. She smiled at him, and his eyes widened. “It walks, it talks, it smiles,” he said his voice marveling. “It might even be human.”

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is No, Don't, Negative.

I am reading my little niece's book, The Witches by Roald Dahl and posting from it.


Little boys have to go to school. Mice don't. Mice don't have to pass exams. Mice don't have to worry about money. .......... When Mice grow up, they don't ever have to go to war and fight against other mice. Mice, I felt pretty certain, all like each other. People don't.

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is Foolish/Stupidity

This snippet is from Gladys Mitchell's Tom Brown's Body

I am not so foolish as to suppose that you and Mr Merrys murdered Mr Conway, even if you did go out on Mr Loveday's bicycle.

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is ENDING - Last sentence from the last page of the book

This is from page 327 of Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie

With a sigh of contentment, he drifted once again into sleep.

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is movement - First snippet from the book.

This is from page 3 of The Leopard by Jo Nesbo

She couldn't hear anything, but she could sense a presence. Like a leopard. Someone had told her leopards made so little noise they could sneak right up to their prey in the dark.

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is Food - First snippet from the book.

This is from page 2 of Death Comes to Pemberely by P D James

On Mr Bennet's death, Mr.Collins would install them in one of the larger cottages on the estate where they would receive spiritual comfort from his administrations and bodily sustenance from the leftovers from Mrs Collins's kitchen by the occasional gift of game or a side of bacon.

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Theme Thursday

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This week's theme is Name-The First name you come across while reading.
My snippet is from the opening line of The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

Grant lay on his high white cot and stared at the ceiling. Stared at it with loathing.

Theme Thursday

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This week's theme is Smell, Breathe or anything to do with nose.
My snippet is from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

Theme Thursday

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This week's theme is see, wink, roll
These snippets are from The Charing Cross Mystery by J S Fletcher

And Matherfield suddenly brightened, and gave Hetherwick an unmistakable wink.
one more
The driver showed his understanding by a nod and a wink and moved a little distance off to the kerbstone.

Theme Thursday

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This week's theme is come. My snippet is from The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwil.

She knew that the fog had come to stay for the day at least, and that the gas bill for the quarter was going to beat the record in high-jumping.

Theme Thursday

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This weeks theme is Know.

Here is mine from The Vault by Ruth Rendell

Knowing nothing about natural history and still less about gardening, he was well-informed about art and was familiar with the Alpheton painting.

One more

She saw through that; she knew him too well.

Theme Thursday

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This is from The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill

"I have been reading Mme. Blavatsky's latest book, and getting quite interested in occult philosophy. Unfortunately I have to do all my reading in bed, and I don't find the book as soothing a soporific as most new books. For keeping one awake I find Theosophy as bad as toothache..."

One more

"It's set wet, it'll rain right into the new year," she announced. "And they say a bad beginnin' makes a worse endin'."