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Date Posted: Sun, August 14 2022, 20:10:37
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Monday, August 15, 2022

The following quote is from Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 17, Reading by Firelight. Copyright 2021 by Diana Gabaldon, all rights reserved.

“The house’s entire library stood in two modest piles on the table beside his wineglass. A small Bible bound in green cloth, very much the worse for wear. He touched it gently, as he did every time he saw it; it was an old companion—a friend that had seen him through many bad times. A coverless copy of Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress…he’d best take that one up to the bedroom; Jem hadn’t shown any interest in it yet, but the lad could certainly read well enough to make out what it was about if he did.
A not-bad copy of Mr. Pope’s translation of The Odyssey—maybe he’d read a bit of that with Jem; he’d likely find the ships and monsters interesting, and it would be an excuse to cram a bit of Latin into the lad’s head while they were about it. Joseph Andrews…a waste of paper, that one; he’d maybe trade it to Hugh Grant, who liked silliness. Manon Lescaut, in French and a fine morocco binding. He frowned briefly at that one; he’d not opened it. John Grey had sent it to him, before…â€

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[> I knew nothing of Manon Lescaut before Googling it just now. It sounds like quite a story that both John and Jamie would like to read. -- DianaH, Mon, August 15 2022, 12:08:29

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[> [> Yes, I need another reading list 🤣 I have a large basket full of tbr. -- kgp, Mon, August 15 2022, 19:20:20

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