The Nightstand Challenge

[dropzone]

#6 is so annoyingly familiar…

[ShibbOleth]

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Chronos *

[ul]5.Yet it is easy to see that the second sentence has to do not with a prospect of the Senate but with a prospect of accepting.[/ul]

And for the record, Ike did so much as hazard a guess at it.

Ike did hazard some guesses. I stand corrected.
Here’s a hint on this one: the Senate is a red herring.

[ShibbOleth]

*Originally posted by dropzone *
**#6 is so annoyingly familiar… **

And my back pocket hint for dropzone:

It’s an apple tree. If you have read this book this should bring it back in your head.

[tavalla]

*Originally posted by ShibbOleth *
**A friend gave me this book several years ago gushing about how it was just the greatest. I still haven’t got around to giving it a read. As I said, the author is female. I just hope the book doesn’t suck.

Number Eight…

If it is, as I strongly suspect, “The Eight” by Katherine Neville, it doesn’t suck. That’s one of my favourites

Her other two books pretty much do suck, though…she just follows a pretty similar formula.

[tavalla]

:thumps head on keyboard:

If a mod were to fix that coding, I would be very nice to them and never call them a Nazi or commie or anything like that.

Not that I do anyway, but still…

[ShibbOleth]

*Originally posted by tavalla *
Number Eight…

If it is, as I strongly suspect, “The Eight” by Katherine Neville, it doesn’t suck. That’s one of my favourites

We have another winner. I am duly impressed, tavalla! And happy to hear that it’s a good book.

[Ellen_Cherry]

I struck out completely at your game, ShibbOleth, but I concur that The Eight is an engrossing book!

[Chronos]

And my back pocket hint for dropzone:

It’s an apple tree. If you have read this book this should bring it back in your head.

Waitamoment… Apple tree, you say? Is this The Sound and the Fury?

I know that the Senate is a red herring, but it’s still in there somewhere. Most books I’ve read literally do not mention a Senate of any form, in any way.

[The_Punkyova]

Just to put everything in an easy to read format:

1.The trial’s first witness was the deceased, Jacob Wood, testifying by a video deposition taken a few months before his death.

from flymaster John Grisham - The Runaway Jury

2.“You are lazy,” says Big Pig.

3.He returned somewhat despondently to his river again - his faithful, steady-going old river, which never packed up, flitted, or went into winter quarters.

from snermy Wind in the Willows

4.Mrs. Slade nodded. “But she really sent her because they were in love with the same man–”

from Ino Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

5.Yet it is easy to see that the second sentence has to do not with a prospect of the Senate but with a prospect of accepting.

6.Jim eased himself gently out of the tree, panting with apprehension every time the leaves quivered.

7.“You’re – you’re not coming down?” he said in a bewildered voice.

from dropzone Ethan Frome

8.“This is young William Wordsworth, a poet,” said Robespierre as the youth came up to them and took David’s proffered hand.

from tavella The Eight by Katherine Neville

9.Will lay, eyes shut, hearing the beat of the great oil-black wings as if a huge, ancient bird had drummed down to live, to breathe, to survive in the night meadow.

from dropzone Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury

[ShibbOleth]

*Originally posted by Chronos *
Waitamoment… Apple tree, you say? Is this The Sound and the Fury?

I know that the Senate is a red herring, but it’s still in there somewhere. Most books I’ve read literally do not mention a Senate of any form, in any way. **

No, not obscure enough. And the Senate is the reddest of herrings, let me assure you that this book only randomly makes this reference. It could have been a reference to the Girl Scouts for that matter.

[tavalla]

2.“You are lazy,” says Big Pig.

Is it one of the Wibbly Pig books by Mick Inkpen?

[ShibbOleth]

*Originally posted by tavalla *

2.“You are lazy,” says Big Pig.

Is it one of the Wibbly Pig books by Mick Inkpen?

No, the other guesses on this one are closer, but they have the wrong title. Hint: Big Pig is not the main character in this one, just a supporting role.

[tavalla]

I don’t have kids, but friends who do are rapidly getting sick of my phone calls

Goose On The Loose?

[ShibbOleth]

*Originally posted by tavalla *
I don’t have kids, but friends who do are rapidly getting sick of my phone calls

Goose On The Loose?

Some would consider it cheating, but perhaps Google plus the other titles proposed (the ones which I said were close) would turn up a few good guesses…

Or you could ask my daughter.

Now, about number five…

[The_Punkyova]

Is 2. “Goose on the Loose?”

[ShibbOleth]

*Originally posted by The Punkyova *
**Is 2. “Goose on the Loose?” **

No. See previous hints on this one.