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  • QOTD for Thursday, October 22, 2009 -- ErinD, 17:40:33 10/21/09 Wed
    The following quote is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 26, "Whore's Brunch" © 1994.

    The door opened very slowly, and after quite a long pause, a head poked its way through the opening, much in the manner of a snail emerging from its shell after a hailstorm.
    It was topped with an ill-cut shag of dark brown hair so thick that the cropped edges stuck out like a shelf above a pair of large ears. The face beneath was long and bony; rather pleasantly homely, save for a pair of beautiful brown eyes, soft and huge as a deer's, that rest on me with a mingled expression of interest and hesitancy.

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  • QOTD for Tuesday, October 20, 2009 -- ErinD, 05:00:31 10/20/09 Tue
    The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 12, “The Return of John Quincy Myers” © 1997.

    “Oh no, ma’am,” she said. “She ain’t washed out. She got them bones as makes shadows. And brown eyes, but don’t be thinkin’ they’s mud-color. You recall that book you got, the one with the pictures of all them strange animals?”
    “If you mean Accounts of an Exploration of the Indian Subcontinent,” Jocasta said, “yes, I recall it. Ulysses read it to me only last month. You mean that Mrs. Fraser reminds you of one of the illustrations?” She laughed, amused.
    “Mm-hm.” Phaedre hadn’t taken her eyes off me. “She look like that big cat,” she said softly, staring at me. “Like that there tiger, a-looking out from the leaves.”

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  • Gave me a bit of a start... -- Crystal, 11:31:20 10/19/09 Mon
    Was checking the obits in today's paper. There was one for Frank Randall, 95 years old. It didn't stop there. He has a granddaughter named Amanda!

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  • QOTD for Monday, October 19, 2009 -- ErinD, 02:56:30 10/19/09 Mon
    The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 3 “The Minister’s Cat” © 1997.

    “Ooh,” she said in delight. “Is that him? He looks like a pirate!”
    He did, and Brianna felt the bottom of her stomach drop another inch or two. Roger was what her mother called a Black Celt, with clear olive skin and black hair, and “eyes put in with a sooty thumb” – thick black lashes round eyes you expected to be blue but that were instead a surprising deep green. With his hair worn long enough to brush his collar, disheveled and beard-stubbled, he looked not only rakish but mildly dangerous.

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  • James and claire fraser Family -- Tami Smith (confused), 10:13:19 10/19/09 Mon
    I know the characters are no real but had anyone ever made a family tree for these two i get confused at times who goes with who and tried to go back a read the older books. also what is clair's birthday, i know she was older than jamie.

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  • Holiday Card Exchange -- RisaB, 07:03:40 10/17/09 Sat
    Get your cards, stamps, and pens ready Hosers, it’s that time of the year! For those who are new to the boards or have never participated in the Holiday Card exchange, I’ll give you a brief rundown of the details. Each year Hosers from all over the world exchange cards as a way to spread a little joy and celebrate our friendships. In order to participate, all you need to do is send me a little information and I’ll get you on the list. Here’s how it works:

    1. Decide how many cards you would like to send. I will do like Michelle did in years past and divide the list up into groups of 10. You can choose to send 10, 20, 30, 40, or you can do the whole list.

    2. Send me how many cards you would like to send, your full name, your board nickname, and your complete address (country too!). Ex:
    James Fraser aka Sassenach Lover
    123 White Sow Drive
    Fraser’s Ridge, NC 12345
    USA
    20 cards

    3. If you don’t want to receive religious themed cards, not a problem, just include that information under your address.

    4. Send all the above information to lolrisab at yahoo. I’m going to set the last day for you to send me your information as December 1, 2009. I’ll email you your list a few days after that. Make sure to check your spam boxes for the lists; this has been an issue in years past.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at lolrisab at yahoo.

    Just a quick update for those people who have already sent me their information; I sent you an email confirmation so you'd know I got your info. If you didn't get an email and you sent me your stuff, try sending it again.

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  • QOTD for Sunday, October 18, 2009 -- ErinD, 02:47:47 10/19/09 Mon
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 77 “The Eighteenth of April” © 2005.

    Roger smiled, envisioning her in the uniform of Saint Finbar’s parochial school, blue overall jumper, white blouse, and knee socks. He’d seen her fifth-grade school photograph once; she looked like a small, fierce, disheveled tiger that some maniac had dressed in doll clothes.

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  • QOTD for Tuesday, October 13, 2009. The following quote is taken from Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon -- Chapter 19, "An Oath is Sworn." Copyright (c) 1992 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved -- Denise H, 17:27:17 10/12/09 Mon
     
         The wiry little man drew the dirk from his belt, without flourishes, but with a good deal of deliberateness, and held it out, haft first. The bony, seamed face was expressionless, but the one black eye rested unwaveringly on Jamie's face.
         "I've failed ye," the little man said quietly. "And I'll ask ye, as my chief, to take my life now, so I needna live longer wi' the shame of it."
         Jamie drew himself slowly upright, and I felt him push away his own tiredness as he brought his gaze to bear on his retainer. He was quite still for a moment, hands resting on his knees. Then he reached out and placed one hand gently over the purple knot on Murtagh's head.
         "There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh," he said softly. "The greatest of warriors may be overcome."

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  • A wee quote to tide us over. This one always makes me giggle. -- CathyS, 09:31:22 10/18/09 Sun
    Sunday, October 18, 2009. The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Copyright (c) 1991 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.


    “Horrocks!” I exclaimed suddenly, sitting bolt upright in bed.
    “Hah?” Jamie, startled out of a sound sleep, shot sideways out of bed, ending on the floor in a crouch, hand on the dirk he had left on top of his piled clothes. “What?” he demanded, staring wildly around the room. “What is it?”
    I stifled a giggle at the sight of him crouched naked on the floor, red hair standing on end like quills.
    “You look like a fretful porpentine” I said.
    He gave me a dirty look and rose to his feet, replacing the dirk on the stool that held his clothes.
    “You couldna wait ‘til I woke to tell me that?” he inquired. “You thought it would make more impression if ye woke me out of a sound sleep by shouting ‘Hedgehog!’ in my ear?”
    “Not ‘hedgehog,’” I explained. “Horrocks. I remembered all at once that I’d forgotten to ask you about him. Did you find him?”

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  • QOTD for Saturday, October 17, 2009. The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon -- Chapter 110, "The Smell of Light." Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. -- Denise H, 21:44:17 10/16/09 Fri
     
         "Ye mean to be off, I suppose."
         He could see thoughts flit through the butler's eyes, quick as dragonflies, wondering, calculating. But Ulysses was no fool, and came to the correct conclusion.
         "The girl's told you, then," he said, quite calmly. "Shall you kill me -- for your aunt's honor?" Had that been said with any trace of a sneer, Jamie might have killed him indeed -- he'd been of two minds on the matter while he waited. But it was said simply, and Jamie's finger eased on the trigger.

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  • QOTD for Friday, October 16, 2009. The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon -- Chapter 33, "In Which Mrs. Bug Takes A Hand." Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. -- Denise H, 17:18:37 10/15/09 Thu
     
         He rubbed a finger slowly up and down the bridge of his nose, eyeing Arch.
         "Oh, aye," he said mildly. "I'm to take your head, am I? Here in my own room and have your wife mop up the blood, or shall I do it in the dooryard, and nail ye up by the hair over my lintel as a warning to Richard Brown? Get up, ye auld fraudster."
         Everything in the room was frozen for an instant -- long enough for me to notice the tiny black mole in the exact middle of Arch's neck -- and then the old man rose, very slowly.
         "It is your right," he said in Gaelic. "I am your tacksman, a ceann-cinnidh, I swear by my iron; it is your right."

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  • Holiday Card Exchange -- RisaB, 08:08:26 10/13/09 Tue
    Get your cards, stamps, and pens ready Hosers, it’s that time of the year! For those who are new to the boards or have never participated in the Holiday Card exchange, I’ll give you a brief rundown of the details. Each year Hosers from all over the world exchange cards as a way to spread a little joy and celebrate our friendships. In order to participate, all you need to do is send me a little information and I’ll get you on the list. Here’s how it works:

    1. Decide how many cards you would like to send. I will do like Michelle did in years past and divide the list up into groups of 10. You can choose to send 10, 20, 30, 40, or you can do the whole list.

    2. Send me how many cards you would like to send, your full name, your board nickname, and your complete address (country too!). Ex:
    James Fraser aka Sassenach Lover
    123 White Sow Drive
    Fraser’s Ridge, NC 12345
    USA
    20 cards

    3. If you don’t want to receive religious themed cards, not a problem, just include that information under your address.

    4. Send all the above information to lolrisab at yahoo. I’m going to set the last day for you to send me your information as December 1, 2009. I’ll email you your list a few days after that. Make sure to check your spam boxes for the lists; this has been an issue in years past.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at lolrisab at yahoo.

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  • QOTD for Wednesday, October 14, 2009. The following quote is taken from Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon -- Chapter 29, "To Grasp the Nettle." Copyright (c) 1992 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. -- Denise H, 17:46:58 10/13/09 Tue
     
         "All right. And ye wish it, I shall punish you." He moved his hips against me in imperious command, and I felt my legs open for him, my gates thrown wide to welcome ravishment.
         "Never," he whispered to me. "Never. Never another but me! Look at me! Tell me! Look at me, Claire!" He moved in me, strongly, and I moaned and would have turned my head, but he held my face between his hands, forcing me to meet his eyes, to see his wide, sweet mouth, twisted in pain.
         "Never," he said, more softly. "For you are mine, my wife, my heart, my soul."

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  • QOTD for Thursday, October 15, 2009. The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon -- Chapter 31, "And So To Bed." Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. -- Denise H, 18:29:35 10/14/09 Wed
     
         "KILL ME." Randall's eyes were fever-bright. "Kill me," he said. "My heart's desire."
         He jerked awake, hearing the words echo in his head, seeing the eyes, seeing the rain-matted hair, Randall's face, wet as that of a drowned man.
         He rubbed a hand hard over his own face, surprised to feel his skin dry, his beard no more than a shadow. The sense of wet, the itching scurf of a month's whiskers was still so strong that he got up, moving quietly by instinct, and went to the window, where moonlight shone through the cracks in the shutter. He poured a little water into the basin, moved the bowl into a shaft of light, and looked in, to rid himself of that lingering sense of being someone else, somewhere else.

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  • Books -- BrandyC, 19:43:19 10/14/09 Wed
    Since I am kind of new here I am not sure how everything is run here at LOL. I was wondering what exactly we can post on the book board. I have a part of ABOSA I wanted to talk about with you ladies but did not know where to discuss it. Could someone please direct me in the right direction. Thanks a million

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  • There's still time to come to our Outlander Halloween Party! Come over to Broch Talk & join the fun! -- Pollsketeers, 06:54:38 10/15/09 Thu
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  • MY PROFUSE APOLOGIES!! My internet has been down at home. I'm at work now and don't have my quotes with me. Oorangie, do you want to continue this week, or shall I pick up posting when I get home (albeit a late Monday quote?) -- my daughter tells me the internet is back up. -- Denise H, 08:04:20 10/12/09 Mon
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  • QOTD for Monday, October 13, 2009. The following quote is taken from Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon -- Chapter 14, "Meditations on the Flesh." Copyright (c) 1992 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved -- Denise H, 11:32:20 10/12/09 Mon
     
         "Kill him? Whatever for?"
         "Well, that's what I asked him myself, Sassenach. I thought perhaps you and he had been waylaid by footpads along the way -- there are dangerous gangs of ruffians about the streets, ye ken, and I thought losin' you that way would be the only thing would make him behave so. But he said you were at the gate, so I came tearing along to see were ye all right, with Fergus at my heels, babbling about betraying my trust and being unworthy to call me master, and begging me to beat him to death. I found it a bit difficult to think, what wi' all that going on, so I told him I'd attend to him later, and sent him to the kitchen."
         "Oh, bloody hell!" I said.

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    Yay! Daughter emailed the quotes to me. Sorry again for missing Sunday's quote. And thank you Oorjanie for posting for me.

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  • QOTD for Sunday October 12, 2009. The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 9 "Two-Thirds of a Ghost". Copyright (c) 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. -- oorjanie, 23:06:00 10/11/09 Sun


    “ “I was right you know---before.” I had known what would happen at Culloden; had told him the fate of Charles Stuart and his men. And neither my knowing nor his had been enough to save us. Twenty aching years of separation, and the ghost of a daughter he would never see lay behind that knowing.”



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    to keep us going for now

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  • QOTD for Saturday, October 10, 2009 -- TerriC, 20:07:32 10/09/09 Fri
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 119, Loath to Depart. Copyright© 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    Then I moved—not suddenly, but with deliberation, my body sliding slowly free of his. I rose, feeling light-headed, and crossed the room. Pushed open the window to feel the sharp touch of the autumn wind on my naked bed-warm skin, and drawing back my arm, hurled the tiny object into the night.

    Then I came back to bed, saw his hair a dark mass on the pillow, and the shine of his eyes in the moonlight.

    “I love you,” I whispered, and slid under the sheet beside him, putting my arms around him, hugging him close, warmer than the stone—so much warmer—and his heart beat with mine.
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    The theme this week was Claire's momentous decisions. I saved this for last because not only is it a decision to stay - it's also one of the rare times we hear her tell Jamie she loves him. Thanks for the comments. And, BTW, today is my 28th anniversary. :-)

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  • QOTD for Friday, October 9, 2009 -- TerriC, 18:14:05 10/08/09 Thu
    The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 49, Choices. Copyright (c) 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “I was…deciding,” I said, with great reluctance. It was no good to lie; he would have to know, sooner or later, if Bree—

    “Deciding what?”

    “About Bree. What was the best way to do it.”

    “To do it?” His eyebrows shot up. He glanced at the open medicine case, then at the scalpel, and a look of sudden shocked comprehension washed over his face.

    “You mean to—”

    “If she wants me to.” I touched the knife, its small blade stained with my own blood.

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  • Now might be a good time to test the waters with the audiobook format. Google "audible promo code" and you'll see you can get Echo (or one of DG's other books) for FREE with a one month free trial. You have to give them your credit card info and remember to cancel after the free month. I found the audiobook a great way to do a "reread" and catch every detail after a first what-happens-next read. -- MacPudel, 10:28:18 10/09/09 Fri
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  • Has anyone RENTED the audiobooks from Recorded Books? I have all the unabridged ones Audible has. Would love to hear FC and ABOSAA, but can't afford to buy them right now. -- Kemara, 15:19:28 10/09/09 Fri
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  • ECHO for $9.99 -- Bess, 14:24:13 10/09/09 Fri
    For those who use a Sony Reader, ECHO is only $9.99 at the Sony eBook store!

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  • Raymond and Claire -- Peggy, 09:15:24 10/09/09 Fri
    Relatively new to DG. I just found her in January. What exactly is Raymond doing to/for Claire after Claire lost Faith? I think he is a time traveler, but is he from the future, past, or an alien (as in space)?

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  • Does anyone know the order of the books--including the LJG books? I did a reread of the series before AEITB. However I've only read the 1st LJG book. With all the questions & issues surrounding LJG brought up in AEITB, I thought it would be interesting to read them all together. Not to mention I can't get myself to read anything else right now (tried and put down 3 different books). Jamie withdrawl syndrome, memmbe I need rehab.... -- juliefun, 09:13:21 10/08/09 Thu
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  • Claire's ring -- Peggy, 16:53:08 10/06/09 Tue
    Where is it that Jamie finally gives Claire back Franks ring. The time when Jamie throws the ring on the table and says d*mm Frank and all Randals. I think it was in ABOSAA, but I can't seem to find it.

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  • When Malva and Mrs. Bug shaved Claire's head.... -- Nifty, 17:52:48 10/07/09 Wed
    Has it ever been answered with certainty whether Malva and Mrs. Bug acted out of malice when they cut Claire's hair during her illness? Naturally I'm inclined to think they did -- especially considering that Malva was the one who made Claire sick to begin with (in an attempt to get Jamie for her own). It was hard for me to conceive of any malice on Mrs. Bug's part, though...until the end of ABOSAA, and then I wondered.

    So has it ever been answered with certainty?

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  • QOTD for Thursday, October 8, 2009 -- TerriC, 19:02:42 10/07/09 Wed
    The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 13, An Examination of Conscience. Copyright (c) 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice.

    “ ‘Wither thou goest,’ ” I said, “ ‘I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there I will be buried.’ ” Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. “You do what you have to; I’ll be there.”

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  • Reread advice needed -- FBR, 07:46:09 10/08/09 Thu
    I have already read the first three books three times each. I've read Drums two times and FC & ABOSAA once. Do I reread the entire story again before I read Echo? That will take me a REALLY long time. Or do I just reread FC & ABOSAA so that I can get through Echo?

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  • This is why I love these books -- Nifty, 18:03:22 10/05/09 Mon
    Now that Echo is behind me, I've dug out all my books and have been re-reading bits and pieces. Just read this one from Outlander: Frank has just recounted to Claire how he saw the ghost of the Highlander outside, and he asks Claire if she had any Scots in her Charge during the war. Claire replies that she had. "Nice chaps, most of them. Very stoic about things generally, but terrible cowards about injections." That passage startled a laugh out of me. That's always one of Jamie's favorite things to complain about: Claire and her needles. (Her hypodermic syringes, her accupuncture needles, her rattlesnake syringe.)

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  • Head on over to Broch Talk for our October HALLOWEEN PARTY! -- Pollskteers, 09:39:45 10/08/09 Thu
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