Cologne
Spring 1634
“Agreed.”
1635: The Wars for the Rhine, by Anette Pedersen
Cologne
Spring 1634
“Agreed.”
1635: The Wars for the Rhine, by Anette Pedersen
“In David Lodge’s campus novel Changing Places, two college professors–one American, one British–swap teaching roles for a year.”
I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of The Reading Life, by Anne Bogel
“Down on the southernmost tip of England lies a quaint fishing village in the county of Cornwall.”
Tropic of Stupid, by Tim Dorsey
Cair Paravel, Grantville, Early Spring 1635
They were on holiday, enjoying the warmest day of the year yet on the broad back porch of the rambling old house named after a castle in Narnia.
Second Chance Bird, by Garrett W Vance
“Of all the projects in my professional career, I am setting off on this one with the most serious misgivings.”
The Answer Is… by Alex Trebek
When Lyndon Johnson requested airtime one evening at the end of March 1968, network television bosses in the know assumed the president planned to address the nation on the growing conflict in Vietnam.
Bag Man by Rachel Maddow and Michael Varvitz
“I don’t like to start with an apology–there’s probably even a rule against it, like never ending a sentence with a preposition–but after reading the thirty pages I’ve written so far, I feel like I have to.”
Later, by Stephen King
“What prepared you for your incredibly long successful career as a freelance MAD writer?”
“Some say that as a baby I gurgled in 4/4 time.”
Frank Jacobs: Five Decades of His Greatest Works.
The Upper Vogtland
June 1635
“They’ve passed on, Georg,” said Wilhelm Kuefer, as soon as he came down the ladder.
1635: The Eastern Front, by Eric Flint
Harry Potter and the Phlosopher’s Stane(Scots Edition),2017, translated intae Scots by Matthew Fitt:
“Mr and Mrs Dursley, o nummer fower, Privet Loan, were prood tae say that they were gey normal, thank ye verra much.”
Small aside-my spellcheck has just inquired as to whether I require medical assistance.
“Kin Stewart used to be a time-traveling secret agent.”
Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
“He lay on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.”
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
“A pair of headlights inched down Schnebly Hill Road, down from the Mogollon Rim toward red rock-rimmed Sedona, eleven treacherous miles below.”
Edge of Evil, by J.A. Jance
March 1634, Paris
The early spring showers left a tattered, evening fog over the streets of Paris.
The Battle for Newfoundland, by Herb Sakalaucks
“I was born the third of six children, and the first girl after two sons, on April 1, 1940, in the small village of Ihithe in the central highlands of what was then British Kenya.”
Unbowed: A Memoir, by Wangari Maatha
“This is the story of my life in Germany between 1921 and 1957-- a life that was dominated almost from its beginning by Adolf Hitler.”
A MIND IN PRISON by Bruno Manz
Berlin
Colonel Erik Haakansson Hand gazed down at the man who was simultaneously King of Sweden, Emperor of the United States of Europe, and High King of the Union of Kalmar.
1636: The Saxon Uprising, by Eric Flint
“Now he blesses the certainty of airports.”
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead.
Prague was remarkably pleasant for a city that had been the subject of a Defenestration slightly less than twenty years ago.
“Dye Another Day”, by Mercedes Lackey
First story in Ring of Fire III, edited by Eric Flint
“The summer day was drawing to a close and dusk had fallen on Blandings Castle, shrouding from view the ancient battlements, dulling the silver surface of the lake and causing Lord Emsworth’s supreme Berkshire, sow Empress of Blandings, to leave the open air portion of her sty and withdraw into the covered shed where she did her sleeping. A dedicated believer in the maxim of early to bed and early to rise, she always turned in at about this time; only by getting its regular eight hours can a pig keep up to the mark and preserve that schoolgirl complexion.”
P. G. Wodehouse, A Pelican at Blandings
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(okay, that was two run-on sentences, but it was a perfect introduction to the book, which has dozens of amusing sentences of similar fecundity)