Read The Quest Of The Warrior Sheep by Christine and Christopher Russell to find out.
“Andreas Schleicher sat down quietly toward the back of the room, trying not to attract attention.”
The Smartest Kids in the World: and How They Got That Way, by Amanda Ripley
“At Graduation, every five or seven or ten years, the Aristoi celebrated in Persepolis.”
Aristoi, by Walter Jon Williams
One of the shorter sentences in the book.
From the pleasantly situated old village of Mayenfeld, a footpath winds through green and shady fields to the foot of the mountains, which on this side look down from their stern and lofty heights upon the valley below. — Heidi, Johanna Spyri
“In 1864, the Reverend J. P. Gulliver, of Norwich, Connecticut, recalled a conversation with Abraham Lincoln about how the president had acquired his famously persuasive rhetorical skill. The source, Lincoln said, was geometry.”
Shape, by Jordan Ellenberg
"From the top deck of the bus, Marty and I were mesmerized by Fifth Avenue as we watched glamorous stores spring up like pages out of Mademoiselle.
Summer at Tiffany, by Marjorie Hart
“God was grumbling his thunder and playing the zig-zag lightning thru his fingers.”
Jonah’s Gourd Vine, by Zora Neale Hurston
San Francisco Bay shimmered under a brilliant blue sky on the morning of May 15, 1917, yet Captain John Stanley Cameron was plagued by a sailor’s nagging superstition as he guided his three-masted barque, the Beluga, out through the heads and into the Pacific Ocean.
The Wolf by Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen
subtitle: (How one German raider terrorized the Allies in the most epic voyage of WWI)
My first introduction to ancient climate came in a freshman course on archaeology taught by a venerable lecturer who had last been in the field sometime before World War I and whose ideas had changed little since.
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian Fagan
“In his day, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was known far and wide as ‘the Red Priest’ for his distinctive red hair and early training as a clergyman, but music lovers today know him best for the omnipresent strains of The Four Seasons piped everywhere from elevators to movie theaters.”
Secret Lives of the Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World’s Musical Masters", by Elizabeth Lunday
“‘Madame Weel-cock?’
Her left eyelid wrenched open, and warm yellow light flooded into the crack.”
Who is Maud Dixon?, by Alexandra Andrews
“Do you really think there’s room for all this baggage on the boat?”
Terns of Endearment, by Donna Andrews
“Orthodox tradition and icons are inseparable from each other.”
Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography, by Irina Yazykova
“I wanted to drive the American roads at century’s end, to look at the country again, from border to border and beach to beach.”
–Roads by Larry McMurtry
What’s two plus two?
Hail Mary by Andy Weir
“Hayden Griffin was plucking a fish when the gravity bell rang.”
Sun of Suns, by Karl Schroeder.
“We’ve been in the new apartment for a week.”
Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What The Tell Us About Ourselves , by Lee Daniel Kravetz.
“There was every possibility that I was dead, and my brain hadn’t got the memo”
A Cast of Vultures by Judith Flanders
“As all our male voices have gone to war, the village choir is to close following Cmdr. Edmund Winthrop’s funeral next Tuesday.”
The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir, by Jennifer Ryan