Comments on: July Meme

By: zak

zak — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:57:06 +0000

“Or maybe most Americans just don’t know how much of their daily commerce is done with European-owned firms.

The wealth and the spirit of the enterprise that are pushing the European investment in American business reflect a transformation of the business climate that has made the New Europe a key player in the new high-tech economy. You can see and feel this palpable change in any number of university towns–Cambridge, England, or Lund, Sweden, or Tampere, Finland, or Brussels or Munich or Milan–where medieval campuses are finding room for new research laboratories in computing, communication, and biotechnology.”

The United States of Europe by T.R. Reid

Thanks for directing me to the longest sentence in the book — one which has punctuation errors no less. When stringing together a list of items, you typically use commas. However, semi-colons are used when the words between the punctuation pauses include comma breaks. It would also exclude the redundant use of the word “or. Thus, the city list should read: “Cambridge, England; Lund, Sweden; Tampere, Finland; or Brussels or Munich or Milan”

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:43:26 +0000

The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of my most favorite books. It might be at the top of the list. I cannot wait for the movie!

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By: Jacki

Jacki — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:32:40 +0000

Oh that is such a great book! I loved it.

I won’t do this because the books I am reading right now are all cookbooks, so they wouldn’t be very interesting.

Oh, and I have to make some more lemonade for this weekend….

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By: frogpondsrock

frogpondsrock — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:19:13 +0000

“goodness gracious it is a talking sausage!”

page 123 and sentence 5 of 1001 cool jokes.. It was the closest book, Oh dear i hadn’t put it away when i was trying to find a silly joke to cheer Dawn up..
cheers kim xxx

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By: Lyvvie

Lyvvie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:53:48 +0000

OH - I should play too…wait a sec…Closest book is Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly which is one of The Husband’s favourites (I’m not as sci-fi as I could be)

“Ah” Said Miss Mab, and reaching out, took Jenny’s small, scratched, boyish brown hands in her own. For a long moment she looked into her eyes. As if the small, cold fingers clasping hers stirred the jewel heap of her dreams, Jenny felt the gnome woman’s mind probing at her thoughts, as she had probed Gareth’s, seeking to see the shape of her essence.”

Of course I choose a book by a comma fetishist.

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By: Lyvvie

Lyvvie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:48:06 +0000

I’m one of the few who really didn’t like that book. I’m a sucker for a HEA, and that one was a bit icky.

I’m going to peek at twitter now.

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By: Cheri

Cheri — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:50:28 +0000

Hmmm…Nearest book? Like, a “real” book? And not a “kid’s” book? LOL

That would be a copy of the Collected works of Jane Austen.
pg 123 is from Sense and Sensibility

“It is a melancholy consideration. Born to the prospect of such affluence! I cannot conceive a situation more deplorable.”

I LOVES me some Jane Austen!

By: Penn

Penn — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:35:35 +0000

I don’t have a blog, so sentences here:
“Dukes of Truth and Loss are most often changelings who did not hesitate to kill their fetch after they found that it had been living their life. These Lost see the removal of fetches as a useful service for both the people abducted by the fae and their families back in the mortal world. A few members of this order are instead changelings who either had no fetch or found that killing it was either impossible or irrelevant.”

From Lords of Summer, by Stephen DiPesa, Jess Hartley, Malcolm Sheppard, John Snead, and Charles Wendig.
It’s a sourcebook for the role-playing-game Changeling: The Lost.

By: Hyphen Mama

Hyphen Mama — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:57:32 +0000

Is SarahO reading “Memoirs of the Hotfessional”?

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By: magpie

magpie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:11:49 +0000

That was a great book…

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