Beginnings & Endings

[Emily Spencer]

The answers for last week:

One - 1984 - George Orwell
Two - The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan

Beans have been sent to:
Silvana Mandeville
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Hannah Lovegood
Aurelia West

The next set of quotes:

One:

The smuggler held the bullet between thumb and forefinger, studying it in the weak light of the store room.

Two:

Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcini’s for a little dinner on the way?

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Emily Spencer) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it as such:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Emily Spencer]

The first one to send in the correct answers is:

Prof. Tarma Amelia Black

Who's next?!

Hannah Lovegood
Silvana Mandeville
Aurelia West

[Emily Spencer]

The answers for last week are:

One - Retribution Falls-Chris Wooding
Two - The Hound of the Baskervilles- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Beans have been sent to:
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Hannah Lovegood
Silvana Mandeville
Aurelia West

The quotes for this week are:

One:

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition, and Astrology.

Two:

In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Emily Spencer) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it as such:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Emily Spencer]

The first person to send in the correct answer is:

Silvana Mandeville

Who's next?

Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Hannah Lovegood
Aurelia West

[Emily Spencer]

*I apologize for the lateness of this week's entry; work kidnapped me *

The answer for last week are:

One - The Once and Future King - T. H. White
Two - The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Beans have been sent to:
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Hannah Lovegood
Silvana Mandeville
Aurelia West

The quotes for this week are:

One:

As the iron war club scythed toward her head, Yukiko couldn’t help wishing she’d listened to her father.

Two:

No one dared disturb him or interrupt his thoughts, and presently he turned his back upon the dwindling sun.

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Emily Spencer) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it as such:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Emily Spencer]

The first person to send in the correct answer is:

Iverian Gnash

Who's next?

Prof. Tarma Amelia Black

Hannah Lovegood

Silvana Mandeville

[Emily Spencer]

The answers for last week are:

One - Stormdancer - Jay Kristoff
Two - Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke

Beans have been sent to:

Iverian Gnash
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Hannah Lovegood
Silvana Mandeville

Our last quotes for March are:

One:

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.

Two:

Then the pipers piped and the drummers drummed and we all marched away into the sky.

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Emily Spencer) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it as such:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Emily Spencer]

The first person to guess the correct answer is:

Aurelia West

Who's next?

Silvana Mandeville
Hannah Lovegood
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black

[Emily Spencer]

The answers for last week are:

One-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Two-When Heaven Fell- William Barton

Beans have been sent to:
Aurelia West
Silvana Mandeville
Hannah Lovegood
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black

Our first quotes for April are:

One:

The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.

Two:

Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however, we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Emily Spencer) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it as such:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Emily Spencer]

The first person to get both quotes correct is:

Prof. Tarma Amelia Black

Who’s next?!

Silvana Mandeville
Hannah Lovegood
Aurelia West

[Emily Spencer]

The answers from last week are:

One - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Two - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Beans have been sent to:

Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Hannah Lovegood
Silvana Mandeville
Aurelia West

Here are the next set of quotes:

One:

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

Two:

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Emily Spencer) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it as such:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Emily Spencer]

The first person to send in the correct answer is:
Aurelia West

followed closely by:
Professor Tarma Amelia Black

Who's next?!
Silvana Mandeville
Hannah Lovegood

[Emily Spencer]

The answers from last week are:

One - Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
Two - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beans have been sent to:
Aurelia West
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Hannah Lovegood
Silvana Mandeville

Here are the next set of quotes:

One:

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god; he preferred to drop the Maha- and -atman, and called himself Sam.

Two:

A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR. I am haunted by humans.

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Emily Spencer) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it as such:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Emily Spencer]

The first person to send in the correct answer is:

Hannah Lovegood

Followed closely by:
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black

Who's next?
Aurelia West
Silvana Mandeville

[Emily Spencer]

The answers for last week are:

One - Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
Two - The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Beans have been sent:

Aurelia West
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Silvana Mandeville
Hannah Lovegood

Our last quotes for April are:

One:

Diaries are kept by men: strong brushstrokes on smooth mulberry paper, gathered into sheaves and tied with ribbon and placed in a lacquered box.

Two:

Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him—and it was still hot.

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Emily Spencer) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it as such:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Emily Spencer]

The first person to get the correct answers is:

Prof. Tarma Amelia Black

Who's next!?
Hannah Lovegood
Silvana Mandeville
Aurelia West

[Prof. Sky Alton]

Last week's answers were:
1. Fox Woman by Kij Johnson
2. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Your first snippets for May are...
1.

The year began with lunch

and
2.

Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

You have a week to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Prof. Sky Alton) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it like this:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Prof. Sky Alton]

The first correct solution came from Silvana Mandeville!

The next people up...
Aurelia West
Emily Spencer
Prof. Tarma Amelia Black
Hannah Lovegood

[Prof. Sky Alton]

Beans from last week have been awarded!

The answers were:
1. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

This week's are....
1

In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.

2

"Well, I'm back," he said.

You have a week from now to tell me the name of the book from which the quote came, and the author who wrote that book.

Send me (Prof. Sky Alton) your answers in a HOL Forum Pm titled Beginnings & Endings. Write it like this:

One - As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Two - Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
These are not necessarily correct answers.

[Prof. Sky Alton]

Prof. Tarma Black was the first up with the correct answer this week.

Following on her heels were...
Silvana Mandeville
Hannah Lovegood
Emily Spencer
Aurelia West