Grab the book closest

[Belle33]

"That's the longest he's ever gone," she added.

Julie Garwood, Sweet Talk

[Kevben Battleheart]

There were princesses scattered all over the gardens this afternoon.

Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn

[Lilias]

'I knew, too, that she had been the only one who believed from the beginning that I was strong, and now she would be gone and no one would understand as she had.'
--Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun

[Veluux]

"After the last arch, lower your buttocks to your heels with your arms stretched out front and let your back relax."

- Fitness after 40

[TheUltramarine]

και η εντολή ελέγχου επιστροφής τιμής:
return 0;

(Translation:
"and the control order for value return:
return 0;" )

Robert Lafore
Object-oriented programming with C++

[AmberStarfire]

"In addition, many third-party client interfaces are available."

~ MySQL 5.0 Certification Study Guide
by Paul Dubois, Stefan Hinz and Carsten Pedersen

[TheUltramarine]

(A fellow programmer? )

'Οταν ξεπερνάς τον φόβο σου, αισθάνεσαι ελεύθερος.
(Once you surpass your fear, you feel free.)

Spencer Johnson - Who Moved My Cheese

[AmberStarfire]

A MySQL development student, so I guess that's a sort of yes.

[lunarbunny]

I explained that it was aimed at getting people to reduce meat consumption by 15% for personal health and for the environment," Dawn says.

- Cooking Light

[midrider]

Dust staunched the wet and naked heads of the scalped who with the fringe of hair below their wounds and tonsured to the bone now lay like maimed and naked monks in the bloodslaked dust and everywhere the dying groaned and gibbered and horses lay screaming.

Blood Meridian, Carmac McCarthy

[lunarbunny]

Soft, loamy earth was sprouting with grass, young fern,cowslip, primrose, silverweed, milkwort and alkanet.

- The Rogue Crew

[TheUltramarine]

The first Murderer stabbed his victim and left the compartment, turning off the light.

Agatha Cristie - Murder on the Orient Express

[lunarbunny]

Who better than a demon/ to play the disguising part? - My notebook

[ChicagoOkie]

When they finally reached Cedar Mountain and beheld the towering evergreens lit by the sun, all their mighty deeds seemed suddenly minute.

[SpiralSpider]

So he took some tacks

[impishcharm]

I nodded to Verity's serving man, who not only seemed unsurprised to see me, but had added to Verity's request a certain type of spice bread that I had always enjoyed.

Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

[AmberStarfire]

I really enjoyed that series. It's a good one.

[impishcharm]

Hobb is definitely a master at storytelling.  Hard to put down.   

[AmberStarfire]

Have you read Liveship Traders? That one's very good too.

[impishcharm]

No, only read Assassin's Apprentice and now Royal Assassin.  I plan on reading my way through all of her works, eventually.   

[AmberStarfire]

Those were my two favourites. The Tawny Man series wasn't bad, but Soldier Son was terrible, especially book 2. I've got the first one or two books of the newer series.. the name eludes me but it's about dragons, so haven't read that one yet.

Anyway, I won't thread hi-jack. The nearest book to me right now is that Complete Mathematics one I quoted a number of posts back.

[Valerian]

"It took little time for Europeans, eager to overcome the sugar monopoly of the Middle East, to start growing sugar in Brazil and then in the West Indies."

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History, by Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson

[Lynnie]

His job was to protect her, not touch her.

Night Pleasures ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dark-Hunter series )

[Kekec]

They tied her to a post in the yard and scourged her, then shoved her out the gate naked and bloody.

A Storm of Swords by you-all-know-who.

[Oniya]

*laughs*  We certainly do.

'The fox looked this way and that, making sure he was unobserved as he spoke out of the corner of his mouth.'

Martin the Warrior - Brian Jacques