VOTING ENDS: FRIDAY 21st AUGUST at 10PM (BST) (Scroll to end for poll)
“It was their final quarrel, that much was clear”
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“Lewis can see the world up here: balanced on the top rung of the ladder, his view is dazzling.”
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“Dear Sidney
Susan Scott is a wonder.”
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“I’m in the shop the next morning, standing behind the counter rummaging through a drawer full of buttons, when a woman comes in, wearing sunglasses and talking on a tiny black mobile phone”
Grab your deer-stalker hat and your pipe! It was elementary, my dear Stitch and Bookers: the winner of the Book the Fifth vote is The Beekeeper’s Apprentice with 21 votes.
Sad losers are:
The Eyre Affair14 votes Full Dark House10 votes Dead Until Dark9 votes
You have 10 days to get the book. Reading begins on Thursday 30 July 2009
VOTING ENDS: THURSDAY 16th July at 10PM (BST) (Scroll to end for poll)
“I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old
with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly
stepped on him”
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“My father had a face that could stop a clock.”
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“It really was a hell of a blast.
The explosion occurred at daybreak on the second Tuesday morning of September, its shock waves rippling through the beer-
stained streets of Mornington Crescent”
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“I’d been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the
bar.”
VOTING ENDS: THURSDAY 11 June at 10PM (BST) (Scroll to end for poll)
“After the battle and the attack were over at Troy,
The town beaten down to smoking brands and ashes,
That man enmeshed in the nets of treachery – the truest
Of men – was tried for treason; I mean
Aeneas, the high-born, who, with his noble kinsmen,
Conquered many countries and made themselves masters
Of almost all the wealth of the Western Isles.”
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“I see it from the motorway. Through the windscreen. The kids in the back. Fallen off the top of Beeston Hill.”
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“They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.”
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“The bells of St. Mark’s were ringing changes up on the mountain when Bud skated over to the mod parlor to upgrade his skull gun.”
With a rather dashing 26 votes from all over the green and pleasant Stitch and Book globe, Cakes and Ale coasts in with its manner and awkward English silences.
VOTING ENDS: THURSDAY 14th May at 10PM (BST) (Scroll to end for poll)
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“I have noticed that when someone asks for you on the telephone and, finding you out, leaves a message begging you to call up the moment you come in, as it’s important, the matter is often more important to him than it is to you.”
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“He appeared at our house on a Sunday in 189…”
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“I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.”
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“I have been here before,’ I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were creamy with meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the scents of summer ; it was a day of peculiar splendour, and though I had been there so often, in so many moods, it was to that first visit that my heart returned on this, my latest.”
Take in a bit of fresh Eyre (sorry) with our Book the Fourth winner, Wide Sargassso Sea.
