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  • QOTD for Sunday June 10th. -- Helka, 22:58:38 06/09/12 Sat
    The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 7, Davie Beaton’s Closet. Copyright (c) 1991 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.



    It was only as I walked away that it occurred to me. For a young man on the run, with unknown enemies, Jamie had been remarkably confiding to a stranger.

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  • QOTD for Saturday June 9 -- LynnC, 17:14:04 06/08/12 Fri
    The following quote is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 38, I Meet A Lawyer. Copyright (c) 1994 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    The ram, a huge wooly creature named Hughie, with testicles that hung nearly to the ground like wool-covered footballs, shouldered his massive way into the front rank with a loud and autocratic Bahh! Fergus, who had reached my side by this time, picked up a whole cabbage and hurled it at Hughie with considerable force and fair accuracy.
    "Tais-toi!" he said irritably.
    Hughie shied and let out an astonished, high-pitched Beh! as the cabbage bounced off his padded back. Then, shaking himself back into some semblance of dignity, he trotted off, testes swinging with offended majesty. His flock, sheeplike, trailed after him, uttering a low chorus of discontented bahs in his wake.

    Thanks for sharing my quotes this week! They were random with no theme but it just goes to show how rich these books are. You can open any of them to any page and find an interesting quote.
    I thought this one was particularly funny. Fergus has not only managed to offend the goat but the goat's testicles as well! LOL! Have a wonderful weekend ladies and lads.

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  • Friday Fun Facts -- Karen Henry, 03:05:34 06/08/12 Fri
    My latest collection of Friday Fun Facts about Diana Gabaldon's books has been posted on my blog, Outlandish Observations. I hope you enjoy them, and please come back next week for more!

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  • EVENTUALLY finished EITB... -- Oatcake, 03:10:47 06/09/12 Sat
    ...and I'm glad I dinna have to leave the house today, as I did quite a bit of weepin' for Ian and those who love him *sniff*. DG left us with quite a few loose ends here, no? That makes me feel glad that I'm rather late with finishing - as it means I dinna have to wait THAT long until the story will continue...

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  • QOTD for Friday, June 8 -- LynnC, 18:18:54 06/07/12 Thu
    The following quote is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 45, Mr. Willoughby's Tale. Copyright (c) 1994 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    "I was a Mandarin," Mr. Willoughby began, in Jamie's voice, "a Mandarin of letters, one gifted in composition. I wore a silk gown, embroidered in very many colors, and over this, the scholar's blue silk gown, with the badge of my office embroidered upon breast and back--the figure of feng-huang--a bird of fire."
    "I think he means a phoenix," Jamied added, turning to me for a moment before directing his attention back to the patiently waiting Mr. Willoughby, who began speaking again at once.
    "I was born in Pekin, the Imperial City of the Son of Heaven--"
    "That is how they call their emperor," Fergus whispered to me. "Such presumption, to equate their king with the Lord Jesus!"

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  • QOTD for Thursday June 7 -- LynnC, 18:55:40 06/06/12 Wed
    The following quote is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 13, Midgame. Copyright (c) 1994 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    Then he squatted and gathered up the scattered papers from the Ardsmuir folder. Ardsmuir. That was all he needed for now, even if Jamie Fraser's eventual fate was not recorded in the pages in his hands, it would be somewhere in the history of Ardsmuir prison. It might take another foray into the Highland archives, or even a trip to London, but the next stop in the link had been forged; the path was clear.
    Brianna was coming down the stairs as he pulled the door of the study closed, moving with exaggerated caution. She arched a brow in question and he lifted the folder, smiling. "Got him," he whispered. She didn't speak, but an answering smile spread across her face, bright as the rising sun outside.

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  • QOTD for Wednesday, June 6 -- LynnC, 19:22:13 06/05/12 Tue
    The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 30, Conversations By The Hearth, Copyright © 1991 by Diana Gabaldon, All Rights Reserved.

    "Do you think Jenny's right?" I asked later. "Do men really want to come back inside? Is that why you make love to us?" A breath of laughter stirred the hair by my ear.
    "Well, it's no usually the first thing in my mind when I take ye to bed, Sassenach. Far from it. But then..." His hands cupped my breasts softly, and his lips closed on one nipple. "I'd no just say she was completely wrong either. Sometimes...aye, sometimes it would be good, to be inside again, safe and ...one. Knowing we cannot, I suppose, is what makes us want to beget. If we cannot go back ourselves, the best we can do is to give that precious gift to our sons, at least for a little while..." He shook himself suddenly, like a dog flinging water from its coat.
    "Pay me no mind, Sassenach," he murmured. "I get verra maudlin, drinking elderberry wine."

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  • QOTD for Tuesday, June 5 -- LynnC, 18:24:24 06/04/12 Mon
    The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 39, To Ransom A Man's Soul, Copyright © 1991 by Diana Gabaldon, All Rights Reserved.

    Around and around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel. But something was wrong, it was the weasel chasing me, a weasel with sharp white teeth that pierced my forearm. I hit out at it and the teeth let go, but the claws...around and around the mulberry bush....
    The demon had me up against the wall; I could feel stone behind my head and stone beneath my grasping fingers, and a stone-hard body pressing hard against me, bony knee between my own, stone and bone, between my own...legs, more stony hardness...ah. A softness amidst the hardness of life, pleasant coolness in the heat, comfort in the midst of woe...
    We fell locked together to the floor, rolling over and over, tangled in the folds of fallen tapestry, washed in the drafts of cold air from the window. The mists of madness began to recede.

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  • QOTD for Monday June 4 -- LynnC, 17:06:40 06/03/12 Sun
    The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 1, A New Beginning, Copyright © 1991 by Diana Gabaldon, All Rights Reserved.

    Frank nodded, letting his unscholarly forelock fall across his forehead. He pushed it back automatically. "Interesting," He said, "the whole evolution of profanity."
    "Yes, and it's still going on," I said, carefully picking up a lump of sugar with the tongs.
    "Oh?" said Mr. Bainbridge politely. "Did you encounter some interesting variations during your, er, war experience?"
    "Oh, yes," I said. "My favorite was one I picked up from a Yank. Man named Williamson, from New York, I believe. He said it every time I changed his dressing."
    "What was it?"
    "'Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ,'" I said, and dropped the sugar lump neatly into Frank's coffee.

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  • Holy Cow - quoters needed! -- Judie, 14:08:01 06/03/12 Sun
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  • QOTD for Sunday, June 3 -- LynnC, 19:38:19 06/02/12 Sat
    The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 32, Hard Labor, Copyright © 1991 by Diana Gabaldon, All Rights Reserved.

    Jenny, watching him, said, "That's funny, that is. I've not seen him do that since he was quite small."
    "Do what?"
    She nodded. "Smile in his sleep. He used always to do it, if ye came by and petted him in his cradle, or even later, in his trundle. Sometimes Mother and I would take it in turns to stroke his head and see could we make him smile; he always would."
    "That's odd, isn't it?" I experimented, running a hand gently down the back of his head and neck. Sure enough, I was rewarded at once by a singularly sweet smile that lingered for a moment before the lines of his face relaxed once more into the rather sterm expression he presented when asleep.
    "I wonder why he does that," I said, watching him in fascination. Jenny shrugged and grinned at me.
    "I imagine it means he's happy."

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  • QOTD for Saturday, June 2, 2012 -- Lady Allison, 22:16:58 06/01/12 Fri
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 114, Amanda. Copyright© 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “BORN, to Captain Roger MacKenzie of Fraser’s Ridge and his lady, a girl, on the twenty-first of April. Child and Mother are reported in good Health, the Child’s name given as Amanda Claire Hope MacKenzie”

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  • Friday Fun Facts -- Karen Henry, 03:17:24 06/01/12 Fri
    The latest
    Friday Fun Facts have been posted on my blog, Outlandish Observations.

    Hope you enjoy them, and please come back next week for more!

    Also, please take a moment to vote in the June poll. Thanks.

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  • QOTD for Friday, June 1, 2012 -- Lady Allison, 21:51:55 05/31/12 Thu
    The following quote is taken from The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 13, Beans and Barbecue. Copyright© 2001 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    ‘“Jeremiah Alexander Ian Fraser MacKenzie,” I said, hoping I recalled it correctly. “Is that what you wanted?”
    “Oh, I didn’t mind so much what he was called,” Roger said, edging gingerly around a large puddle that spread across the path. It had begun to sprinkle again; I could feel small chilly drops on my face, and see the dimpling of the water in the puddle where the firelight shone across it.
    “I wanted Jeremiah, but I told Bree the other names were up to her. She couldn’t quite decide between John for John Grey, and –and Ian, for her cousin, bit of course they’re the same name in any case.”’

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  • QOTD for Thursday, May 31, 2012 -- Lady Allison, 21:44:26 05/30/12 Wed
    The following quote is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 52, A Wedding Takes Place. Copyright (c) 1994 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    ‘“Fraser,” said a deep, sure voice beside me. Fergus and Marsali both glanced back in surprise, and Jamie nodded. His eyes met Fergus’s, and he smiled faintly.
    “Fergus Claudel Fraser,” he said, slowly and clearly. One eyebrow lifted as he looked at Fergus.
    Fergus himself looked transfixed. His mouth hung open, eyes wide black pools in the dim light. Then he nodded slightly, and a glow rose in his face, as though he contained a candle that had just been lit.
    “Fraser,” he said to the priest. His voice was husky, and he cleared his throat. “Fergus Claudel Fraser.”’

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  • I am a bit confused. In the EOB William writes Lord John about his love and intentions to marry Dotty, whom he met in a party in New York. This happened early September. Lord John reads the letter early November in his club in London, and decides to go and have a word with Dotty. How can she be in two places in the same time? If we think that she was leaving New York say Mid Septeber, she hardly can be in London for "several weeks having lively social life" in November as is to understand from the text. Has anybody else noted this? So far I understood, sailing from America to Europe took 6-8 weeks. -- Margit, 23:38:38 05/30/12 Wed
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  • QOTD for Wednesday, May 30, 2012 -- Lady Allison, 21:52:29 05/29/12 Tue
    The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 14, A Marriage Takes Place. Copyright (c) 1991 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “I turned to Jamie in sudden panic. “I can’t marry you! I don’t even know your last name!”
    He looked down at me and cocked a ruddy eyebrow. “Oh. It’s Fraser. James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.” He pronounced it formally, each name slow and distinct.
    Completely flustered, I said, “Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp,” and stuck out my hand idiotically. Apparently taking this as a plea for support, he took the hand and tucked it firmly in the crook of his elbow. Thus inescapably pinioned, I squelched up the path to my wedding.”

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  • Today is the 10 year anniversary of my falling under the spell of "Outlander." -- Lemora, 21:43:36 05/23/12 Wed
    In 2002, May 23 was a Memorial Day holiday for my school district, for some reason. I began reading on May 20, after one false start six months earlier. On the eve of May 22, I got to Jamie's bombshell disclosure of his virginity. What!? This book sure was unpredictable! I was going to save any further reading for my picnic and hike the next day, under circumstances where I wouldn't be disturbed. the next morning, I packed my lunch and "Outlander" and set out for my favorite ancient oak tree in the country. I laid out my picnic blanket, scrunched up my pillow against the tree, and began with the chapter about the wedding, then "Revelations Of The Bridal Chamber" and on through "One Fine Day." When I hiked back to my car at sunset, I was lost in DG's version of 18th century Scotland. I sat in my car, playing a CD of Celtic harp music, staring into space for the longest time. That was the point in the book where I became completely enchanted. An incredible series of events have occurred in my life in the past ten years, including the deaths of at least ten people, some of whom I was close to and had known my entire life. That far off, idyllic spring day really does seem like a decade ago!

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  • QOTD for Tuesday, May 29, 2012 -- Lady Allison, 22:41:30 05/28/12 Mon
    The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 8, Man of Worth. Copyright (c) 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    ‘“Will you call the baby Dismus, if it’s a boy?” I asked, joking.
    “No,” he said in all seriousness. “I shall call him Germaine. Germaine James Ian Aloysius Fraser---James Ian for Milord and Monsieur,” he explained, for so he always referred to Jamie and his brother-in-law, Ian Murray.
    “Marsali liked Aloysius,” he added dismissively, making it clear that he had had nothing to do with the choice of so undistinguished a name.”

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  • THE SCOTTISH PRISONER is out in paperback! -- Karen Henry, 04:07:46 05/29/12 Tue
    THE SCOTTISH PRISONER comes out in trade-paperback format (that's the large size paperback) today, May 29, in the US and Canada.

    In honor of the occasion, I posted some of my favorite quotes from SCOTTISH PRISONER on my blog. Hope you enjoy them!

    And if you haven't yet read THE SCOTTISH PRISONER, I highly recommend it!

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  • QOTD for Monday 28, 2012 -- Lady Allison, 22:29:22 05/27/12 Sun
    The following quote is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 1, The Corbies’ Feast. Copyright (c) 1994 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “He wasn’t really asleep, only drifting in a feverish doze, but Melton’s voice in his ear jerked him to alertness.
    “Grey,” the voice was saying, “John William Grey! Do you know that name?”
    “No,” he said, mazy with sleep and fever. “Look, man, either shoot me or go away, aye? I’m ill.”
    “Near Carryarrick.” Melton’s voice was prodding, impatient. “A boy, a fair-haired boy, about sixteen. You met him in the wood.”
    Jamie squinted up at his tormentor. The fever distorted his vision, but there seemed something vaguely familiar about the fine-boned face above him, with those large, almost girlish eyes.”

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  • QOTD for Sunday, May 27, 2012 -- Lady Allison, 20:49:53 05/26/12 Sat
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 5, The Shadows Which Fire Throws. Copyright© 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    ‘“What’s your full name?” I asked again.
    “Ian James FitzGibbons Fraser Murray,” he said, rather crossly. “Why d’ye keep asking me my name?”
    “FitzGibbons?” I said. “Where on earth did you get that one?”
    He groaned and put two fingers against his eyelids, wincing as he pressed gently.
    “Uncle Jamie gave it to me---blame him,” he said. “It’s for his auld godfather, he said. Murtagh FitzGibbons Fraser, he was called, but my mother didna want me named Murtagh.”’

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  • Quote of the Day for Saturday, May 26, 2012 -- ScarlettO, 20:23:12 05/25/12 Fri
    The following quote is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 56, "Turtle Soup" Copyright (c) 1994 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    Jamie brought me some of Murphy's broth - a rich green concoction, swimming in butter and reeking of sherry - and insisted, despite my protests, on feeding it to me with a spoon.

    "I have a perfectly good hand, " I said crossly.

    "Aye, and I've seen you use it, too," he replied, deftly gagging me with the spoon. "If ye're clumsy with a spoon as with that needle, you'll have this all spilt down your bosom and wasted, and Murphy will brain me wi' the ladle."

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  • Friday Fun Facts -- Karen Henry, 03:23:04 05/25/12 Fri
    Here's this week's collection of Friday Fun Facts about Diana Gabaldon's books. I hope you enjoy them, and please come back next week for more!

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  • Quote of the Day for Thursday, May 24, 2012 -- ScarlettO, 18:49:04 05/23/12 Wed
    The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 25, "Bon Voyage" Copyright (c) 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    A bridie was a plump hot pie in a half-moon shape, filled with minced steak and suet and spiced with onionn A rush of hot, rich juice and flaky pastry filled her mouth, and she closed her eyes in bliss.

    "The food was either terribly bad or terribly good," Clare had said, describing her adventures in the past. "That's because there's no way of keeping things; anything you eat has either been salted or preserved in lard, if it isn't half rancid - or else it's fresh off the hoof or out of the garden, in which case it can be bloody marvelous.

    The bridie was bloody marvelous, Brianna decided, even if it did keep dropping crumbs down the top of her bodice.

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  • Quote of the Day for Monday, May 21, 2012 -- ScarlettO, 16:50:53 05/21/12 Mon
    The following is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter, "A. Malcolm, Printer" Copyright 1994 by Diana Gabaldon.

    I was very hungry; I had had nothing to eat since a hasty breakfast of rough parritch and boiled mutton, made soon after dawn at a posthouse in Dundaff. I had one last sandwich remaining in my pocket, but had been relectant to eat it in the coach, under the curious gaze of my fellow travelers.

    I pulled it out and carefully unwrapped it. Peanut butter and jelly on white bread, it was considerably the worse for wear, with the purple stains of the jelly seeping through the limp bread, and the whole thing mashed into a flattened wodge. It was delicious.

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  • Quote of the Day for Wednesday, May 23. 2012 -- ScarlettO, 18:16:40 05/22/12 Tue
    The following quote is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 50, "I Meet a Priest" Copyright (c) 1994 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    Fortunately, at this point Mamacita came back, carrying a steaming clay pot wrapped in towels. She slapped a ladlefull of the contents on each plate, then went out, her feet - if she had any - moving invisibly beneath the shapeless skirt.

    I stirred the mess on my plate, which appeared to be vegetable in nature. I took a cautious bite, and found it to be suprisingly good.

    "Fried plantain, mixed with manioc and red beans," Lawrence explained, seeing my hesitation. He took a large spoonful of the steaming pulp himself and ate it without pausing for it to cool.

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  • "Custom of the Army" e-book dedication! -- Karen Henry, 17:34:58 05/21/12 Mon
    What a wonderful surprise I found at the very end of the brand new "Custom of the Army" e-book.

    "This story is for Karen Henry, Aedile Curule and Chief Bumblebee-Herder"

    WOW!! Just....WOW!! I'm stunned, and delighted, to put it mildly! This is really an honor, and what a thrill for me personally!

    In case you're wondering, both of those titles are referring to my role as Section Leader in the Diana Gabaldon folder on the Compuserve Books and Writers Community, a position I've held since 2008.

    I'm so happy right now, I can't even tell you. THANK YOU, DIANA!!

    Karen

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  • Quote of the Day for Monday, May 21, 2012 -- ScarlettO, 19:47:01 05/20/12 Sun
    The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 23, The Skull Beneath The Skin. Copyright (c) 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    There is a story told of the Earl of Montrose - that after one battle, he was found lying on the field, half dead of cold and starvation, by a young woman. The young woman whipped off her shoe, mixed barley with cold water in it, and fed the resulting mess to the prostrate earl, thus saving his life.

    The cup now thrust under my nose appeared to contain a portion of this same life-giving substance, with the minor difference that mine was warm.

    "What is this?" I asked, eyeing the pale grains floating belly-up on the surface of a water liquid. It looked like a cup full of drowned maggots.

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  • Quote of the Day for Sunday, May 20, 2012 -- ScarlettO, 11:52:20 05/20/12 Sun
    The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 7, Great Propects Fraught With Peril. Copyright (c) 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    While I was familiar with the eighteenth-century willingness to eat anything that could be physically overpowered and dragged to the table, I did not subscribe for the mania for presenting wild dishes as though they had not in fact undergone the intermediary process of being killed and cooked before making their appearance at dinner.

    I thus viewed the large sturgeon with which I sat eyeball-to-eyeball with a marked lack of appetite. Complete not only with eyes but with scales, fins, and tail, the three-foot fish rode majestically on waves of roe in aspic, decorated with a vast quantity of tiny spiced crabs, which had been boiled whole and scattered artistically over the platter.

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  • QOTD for Saturday, May 19, 2012 -- CarolSR, 18:08:25 05/18/12 Fri
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 77, The Eighteenth of April . Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “And without thinking, pulled his hand from his wife’s grasp, rolled over her, and pulling up the shift from her thighs, took her hard and fast, in vicarious sharing of that mindless urge to spawn that attended the imminent presence of death.

    Lay on her trembling, the sweat drying on his back in the breeze from the window, heart thumping in his ears. For the one, he thought. The one who would be the first to fall. The poor sod who maybe hadn’t swived his wife in the dark and taken the chance to leave her with child, because he had no notion what was coming with the dawn. This dawn.”

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  • QOTD for Friday, May 18, 2012 -- CarolSR, 17:12:00 05/17/12 Thu
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 36, Winter Wolves. Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “He felt her body against him in the cold, her full breasts in his hands, her small round buttocks thrusting back, heavy and eager as he rammed her, oh God, he knew he ought not, he knew! And yet he’d done it, night after night, mad for the slippery tight clutch of her, long past the day when he knew he should stop, selfish, mindless, mad and wicked with lust…”

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  • I'm getting audio advertisements when I open this site. Is this spam? How do I stop it. -- JanR, 10:01:11 05/17/12 Thu
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  • Friday Fun Facts -- Karen Henry, 03:58:15 05/18/12 Fri
    This week's Friday Fun Facts have been posted. I hope you enjoy them, and please come back next week for more!

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  • Friday Fun Facts -- Karen Henry, 03:36:05 05/11/12 Fri
    Here's my latest collection of Friday Fun Facts about Diana Gabaldon's books. Hope you enjoy them, and please come back next week for more! :-)

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  • The Books in Norwegian -- Pickle, 14:48:12 05/15/12 Tue
    Would anybody know where I would be able to find the books (specifically Outlander) translated into Norwegian? I've checked a couple of Norwegian bookstore chains and all I've found so far are the English, German and French versions.

    Any ideas?

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  • QOTD for Thursday, May 17, 2012 -- CarolSR, 16:47:33 05/16/12 Wed
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 6, Ambush. Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “He gave an ecstatic groan and redoubled his efforts. Wantonness was winning; she had nearly forgotten where they were.

    Hanging on for dear life and thrilled by the ride, she arched her back and jerked, shuddering against the heat of him, the night wind’s touch cool and electric on thighs and buttocks, bared to the dark. Trembling and moaning, she melted back against the hay, her legs still locked around his hips. Boneless and nerveless, she let her head roll to the side, and slowly, languidly, opened her eyes.”

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  • THE MAD SCIENTIST'S GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION -- Karen Henry, 17:15:11 05/16/12 Wed
    Here's an update on the upcoming anthology, THE MAD SCIENTIST'S GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION, which will include Diana Gabaldon's story, "The Space Between" (that's the Joan-and-Michael story).

    I'll post more information as soon as it becomes available.

    Karen

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  • QOTD for Wednesday, May 16, 2012 -- CarolSR, 17:05:37 05/15/12 Tue
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 6, Ambush. Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “She’d thought his description of Ronnie as “reeking wi’ lust” merely a figure of speech, but evidently not. Bare flesh met bare flesh, and then some. She gasped. So did Roger.
    “Oh, God,” he said. He paused, frozen for an instant against the sky above her, then sighed in an ecstasy of whisky fumes and began to move with her, humming. It was dark, thank God, though not nearly dark enough. The remnants of the fire cast an eerie glow over his face, and he looked for an instant the bonny big, black devil Inga had called him.”

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  • QOTD for Tuesday, May 15, 2012 -- CarolSR, 16:56:27 05/14/12 Mon
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 6, Ambush. Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “He had resumed the humming, pausing momentarily to murmur, “Love you, love you so much….”
    “I love you, too,” she said, reaching back and trying to catch his hand. “Roger, stop that!”
    He did, but immediately reached around her, and grasped her by the shoulder. A quick heave, and she was lying on her back staring up at the distant stars, which were at once blotted out by Roger’s head and shoulders as he rolled on top of her in a tremendous rustling of hay, and loosened clothing.”

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  • QOTD for Sunday, May 13, 2012 -- CarolSR, 17:32:19 05/12/12 Sat
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 35, Laminaria. Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “Trying to calm me, Frank had resorted to rubbing my feet. Then my back, my neck, my shoulders—anything I would let him touch. And gradually, I had exhausted myself and lain quiet, letting him touch me. And…and we were both terrified, and terribly in need of reassurance, and neither of us had any words with which to give it.

    And he made love to me, slowly and gently, and we fell asleep in each other’s arms—and woke up in a state of panic several hours later when my water broke.”

    WELCOME TO MOTHERHOOD, CLAIRE. WELCOME BRIANNA ELLEN RANDALL.

    HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL LALLYMOMS!

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  • QOTD for Monday, May 14, 2012 -- CarolSR, 16:39:33 05/13/12 Sun
    The following quote is taken from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 4, Serpent in Eden. Copyright (c) 2005 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

    “I mean, it’s been a long while since we’ve made love in the daylight.” He lay on his side, facing her, and smiled as he passed a light hand over the deep curve of her waist and the swell of buttock. “Ye’ve no idea how lovely ye look, stark naked, wi’ the sun behind you. All gold, like ye were dipped in it.”

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  • Q.O.T.D. for Saturday, May 12, 2012. The following quote is taken from A Breath Of Snow And Ashes, by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 2 And Sometimes They Aren't (c) 2009 by Diana Gabaldon. -- jayn, 18:18:46 05/11/12 Fri

    Some of the palisades still stood, black against the patchy snow. He would make her a new garden one day, God willing.

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  • Q.O.T.D. for Thursday, May 10, 2012. The following quote is taken from The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 18 No Place Like Home (c) 2001 by Diana Gabaldon. -- jayn, 09:35:01 05/10/12 Thu

    There would be little growing now, only a few sturdy herbs and, and the overwintering things like carrots and onions and turnips, but it made no difference; she always went to see how things were, no matter how short a time she had been gone.

    Again - sorry to be so late, not an orgainzed week at my house

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  • Anyone else getting the girl going to college phone advertisement?? It is only on the Books Boards for me. -- Lady Linda, 12:32:51 05/09/12 Wed
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  • Q.O.T.D. for Friday, May 11, 2012. The following quote is taken from A Breath Of Snow And Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 12 Enough (c) 2009 by Diana Gabaldon. -- jayn, 05:06:35 05/11/12 Fri

    I was glad I hadn’t looked before; I couldn’t have borne to see it in its winter desolation, the ragged stems blackened and stiff, the rags of leaves rotted into the ground. It was still a sight to strike a pang to a gardener’s heart, but no longer desolate. Fresh green sprouted everywhere, spangled with tiny flowers; the kindness of spring laying garlands over winter’s bones. Granted, half the green things growing were grass and weeds; by summer, the woods would have reclaimed the garden, smothering the stunted sproutings of cabbages and onions. Amy had made a new vegetable patch near the old cabin; neither she nor anyone else on the Ridge would set foot here.

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  • new excerpts -- Carmen, 05:35:42 05/10/12 Thu

    Two snippets from WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD

    Links are on the Excerpt Board

    http://www.voy.com/9439/

    Carmen

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  • THE SCOTTISH PRISONER wins an RT Award! -- Karen Henry, 04:19:28 05/10/12 Thu
    THE SCOTTISH PRISONER has won an RT Award for Best Historical Fiction of 2011!

    Details here.

    Congratulations, Diana!

    Karen

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  • International Editions -- Carmen, 05:59:38 05/10/12 Thu

    More international editions came out since my last post.
    I have already done a major update on the gallery, so you can find all the cover images there.

    We have so far

    a new Russian edition of Voyager
    part I-III of the Japanese edition and
    part I of the Italian paperback edition of An Echo in the Bone (the second part is coming soon)
    and the Czech edition of Drums of Autumn is announced for this month

    Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade is coming out in
    the Czech Republic (April)
    Spain (May)
    Italy (June)

    The Scottish Prisoner is due in
    the Netherlands (May)
    Germany (June)

    His Lordship also made it to Brazil (Plague of Zombies) and Romania (Custom of the Army)

    And No Rest for the Dead came out in the Nethetlands.

    Carmen
    Outlandish Cover Gallery

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  • .O.T.D. for Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The following quote is taken from An Echo In The Bone, by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 50 Exodus(c) 2009 by Diana Gabaldon. -- jayn, 07:39:49 05/09/12 Wed

    Ye’re out late, Sassenach. Is aught amiss?”

    “Not at all,” I said. “It just seemed like a nice evening for a walk in a garden.”

    “In a garden,” he repeated, giving me a sideways glance.

    “The commandant’s garden, to be exact,” I said, and touched the pocket of my apron. “I, um, have the key.”

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  • Q.O.T.D. for Tuesday, May 8, 2012. The following quote is taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 43 Whisky In The Jar (c) 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. -- jayn, 05:03:01 05/08/12 Tue

    “It’s a poem, or part of one. Daddy always used to say it, when he’d come home and find Mama puttering in her garden – he said she’d live out there if she could. He used to joke that she – that she’d leave us someday, and go find a place where she could live by herself, with nothing but her plants.”

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  • Q.O.T.D. for Sunday, My 6, 2012. The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 6, Colum's Hall (c) 1991 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. -- jayn, 04:38:59 05/06/12 Sun

    The herb garden, valuable repository of healing and flavours that it was, was cradled in an inner courtyard, large enough to allow sun, but sheltered from spring winds, with its own wellhead. Rosemary bushes bordered the garden to the west, chamomile to the south, and a row of amaranth marked the north border, with the castle itself forming the eastern edge, an additional shelter from the prevailing winds. I correctly identified the green spikes of late crocus and soft-leaved French sorrel springing out of the rich dark earth. Mrs. Fitz pointed out foxglove, purslane, and betony, along with few I did not recognize.

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  • Q.O.T.D. for Monday, May 7, 2012. The following quote is taken from Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 69 Spendours of Versailles (c) 1992 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. -- jayn, 05:23:28 05/07/12 Mon

    A stroll among the parterres and fountains of the palace gardens did a a good bit to restore my quanimity. Most of the trees were still leafless, but the day was unexpectedly warm for late March, and the smell of the swelling buds on the twigs was green and pungent. You could almost feel the sap rising in the towering chestnuts and poplars that edged the paths and sheltered the hundreds of white marble statues.

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  • Lingusistics Question -- LadyStormwing, 19:08:17 05/05/12 Sat
    I'm re-reading "Voyager" for the upteenth time, and at one point, Claire is describing that a surgeon in the 20th century is someone who heals by means of a blade. Jamie says this is an apt description of her, saying she has a "wicked sharp edge". Claire is surprised by his word choice, and he is quick to point out he doesn't mean wicked as in evil or bad, but rather he is using it as a superlative.

    However, Claire has also spent the last 20 years in Boston, where "wicked" is the trademark word of a New Englander's vocabulary, especially in Massachusetts. Wicked good, wicked bad, wicked pissa ("beyond cool"). Do you think she was more surprised by just the word itself, or do you think she recognized it for what it is now - 20th century slang? And Bostonian slang at that? In my experience, it's a pretty geographical term; we say it here in Western MA, but my cousins right over the state line in NY do not.

    FWIW, I'm a child of the '80s, as they say. If "wicked" didn't enter mainstream vocabulary until after the 1960s, my thought process here is null anyway. I'm curious to hear especially from the other Northeast hosters who would know what common slang terms were before the 1980s.

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  • QOTD for Saturday, May 5, 2012 -- TerriC, 17:19:28 05/04/12 Fri
    The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 37, Escape, (c) 1991 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved. Page 771

    “Leave that to me. Get the bottle and help me sit him up.’

    Jamie was half-unconscious as it was, an unwieldy burden who protested being manhandled upright against the bulkhead. “I’m going to die,” he said weakly but precisely, “and the sooner the better. Go away and let me do it in peace.”

    Taking firm hold of Jamie’s blazing hair, Murtagh forced his head up and applied the flask to his lips. “Swallow this, me bonny wee dormouse, or I’ll break yer neck. And forebye ye’ll keep it down, too. I’m goin’ to hold shut yer nose and yer mouth; if ye bring it up, it comes out yer ears.”

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  • Friday Fun Facts -- Karen Henry, 05:45:14 05/04/12 Fri
    Please check out my Friday Fun Facts about Diana Gabaldon's books. Hope you enjoy them, and please stop by next week for more!

    Karen

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  • The Custom of the Army -- Froggielady Lori, 16:42:36 05/04/12 Fri
    I am so confused. Hope someone can unconfuse me. The Custom of the Army is brand new, right? Why do I know about the electric eel story? Does anyone know if it will be coming out on CD or in HB or PB? Can someone please help me??? Please???

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