Theme Thursday: Time

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursdays)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Time (hour, minutes, seconds, duration, etc).  Here's mine from Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas (pp. 142-3):

I awoke several hours later. The room was dark, save for a shaft of moonlight coming in from the back window. The beam illuminated my employer, who sat in my desk chair by the window, fiddling with some coins in his hands. He was deep in thought, as far as I could tell. What had brought him here? Ah, yes. The shooting. I'd almost forgotten. Was he standing guard? If so, he was a little late.

"What o'clock is it?" I asked
"Almost ten," he responded. "How do you feel?"

Theme Thursday: Kid

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursdays)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Kid (child, baby, toddler boy, girl, etc.).  Here's mine from Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train by Frank Thomas (p. 8): 

It was still daylight when we descended from the hansom that had brought us back to Baker Street. I had my latch key ready, but was not allowed to use it for the front door burst open at our approach, revealing Billy. The page boy had evidently been waiting for our arrival from within. His face mirrored concern as he extended a telegram towards the great detective.

Theme Thursday: Run

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Run (race, jog, sprint, etc.).  Here's mine from The Case of the Blind Barber by John Dickson Carr (p. 62-3):

Morgan was shooing his charges before him like chickens. He spoke so fast, under cover of the crashing swell, that he wondered if they heard him: "Don't try to run, you fatheads, or Whistler'll see you! He's still groggy....Stick in the shadow, make a lot of noise with your feet as though you'd heard him and were running to help! Say something! Talk! Run about in circles...."

Theme Thursday: Walk

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Walk (stroll, pace, step, etc).  Here's mine from The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin (p. 54):

It was fortunate--for I certainly did not want to be introduced--that White-Chester turned around at that moment and walked back towards daylight and his Bug.  The aim, I supposed, was not that he would see others but that others would see him, and stop their slackness. 

Theme Thursday: Driven to Distraction

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• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Drive, Driver, Driven, Drove.  Here's the closest I could come in "The Adventure of the Mad Tea-Party" by Ellery Queen (short story in The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America):

He had just miserably made up his mind to seek out a booth, telephone his regrets, and take the next train back to the City when a lowslung coupe came splashing and snuffling out of the darkness, squealed to a stop, and a man in a chauffeur's livery leaped out and dashed across the gravel for the protection of the eaves.

"Mr. Ellery Queen?" he panted, shaking out his cap. He was a blond young man with a ruddy face and sun-squinted eyes.

"Yes," said Ellery with a sigh. Too late now.


"I'm Millan, Mr. Owen's chauffeur, sir," said the man. "Mr. Owen's sorry he couldn't come down to meet you himself. Some guests--This way, Mr. Queen."

He picked up Ellery's bag and the two of them ran for the coupe....

The coupe splashed along in the darkness, its headlights revealing only remorseless sheets of speckled water and occasionally a tree, a house, a hedge.

Theme Thursday: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

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• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Mirror.  Here is mine from The Anatomy of Death by Felicity Young (p. 191):

Dody glanced at her reflection in the hall mirror. "Oh, what a mess, I see what you mean." It wasn't the flying tendrils of hair--they were fairly normal after a busy day at the hospital--it was the red-rimmed eyes betraying her tearful journey home from Olivia's flat.

Theme Thursday: Time

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Time (Clock, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, etc). 

Here is mine from Murder at the Portland Variety by M. J. Zellnik:

From the moment she entered the lobby of Crowther's Portland Variety, Libby Seale could tell something was amiss. (p. 1) 

Where are those moving men? I must be at my train in five minutes! There are nothing but lazy, no-good people in this city. They must hurry...I will stay in this city not a minute longer than I have to!

Theme Thursday: Face

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Face [Features, etc].  Here's mine from "The Gift of the Magi" in The Four Million & Other Stories by O. Henry: 

Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of a quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.

Theme Thursday: Hair

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is HAIR (Mane, Curls, Locks, Etc.).  Here is mine from DeKok and Murder on the Menu by A. C. Baantjer (p. 21):

The woman hesitated a few seconds. Then her face disappeared and the gleaming lacquered door was opened. In the opening stood a tall, thin woman in a dress of unrelieved black.  Her hair was silver gray, pulled tightly along the sides of her face and ending in a chignon.

Theme Thursday: Flowers

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Flower (bouquets, petals, flower names, etc.).

Here's my selection from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (Act II, Scene 1, lines 275-278):

'Twas told me that you were rough and coy and sullen,
And now I find report a very liar;
For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
But slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers.

Theme Thursday: Days of our Lives

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Day (weekday names, usage of the word day, etc.).

Here's my selection from Timeless by Gail Carriger (p. 21)

Biffy looked up, smile in place, knowing he made a fetching picture. He wore his very best brown suit. True, his cravat was tied more simply than he liked--his new claviger needed training--and his hair was slightly mussed. His hair was always slightly mussed these days despite liberal application of Bond Street's best pomade. One, apparently, had to bear up under such tribulations when one was a werewolf. 

Theme Thursday: Month

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• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Month.

Here is my selection from Pearls Before Swine by Margery Allingham (p. 88):

DE: I'm afraid the whole thing sounds crazy to you with so much serious business going on all around. It does to me, but quite apart from the real business abroad a whole series of silly little things, some of them pretty serious and some of them pretty small, seem to be happening in this town at top speed.
AC: I know.  I've not been back for twenty-four hours yet, but already I've noticed a certain March-hare quality; a sinister March hare, if I may say so, about the old home.  It's very odd.  Rather alarming.
DE: Oh, so it's not always like this?
AC: Not at such speed.

[Don Evers; Albert Campion] 

Theme Thursday: Friend

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• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Friend (buddy, confidant, comrade, etc.).

Here is my selection from The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman (p. 11):

That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not.

AND (p. 56):

The night his letter arrived, my parents asked at dinner--a dinner at which I had picked the canned gray button mushrooms out of my mother's pot roast--what it was that was making me and Mr. Berry such fast friends.

Theme Thursday: Respected Ladies

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• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Mom, Grandmother, Aunt, Teacher (an elder woman who deserves respect).

Here is my selection from A First Class Murder by Elliott Roosevelt (p. 3):

The First Lady--Tommy reflected--might pretend reluctance to return to the States on the world's most luxurious passenger liner, but if Tommy knew her friend and employer, Mrs. Roosevelt was every bit as pleased and thrilled as she was.

Theme Thursday

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Rules

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  

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And this week's theme is Drinks (tea, wine, beer, water, anything liquid).

Here is my selection from "The Murder at Troyte's Hill" by C. L. Pirkis in The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (p. 334):

"When shall I see Mr. Craven? At dinner to-night?"
"That's what naebody could say," answered Hales.  "He may not come out of his study till past midnight; sometimes he sits there till two or three in the morning.  Shouldn't advise you to wait till he wants his dinner--better have a cup of tea and a chop sent up to you.  Madam never waits for him at any meal."

Theme Thursday: Agree

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Rules
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages

March is going to be all about making life easy. This month we will do ‘Pick what you see first‘ themes. So open the book you are reading, continue reading; pick the first mention of any name in it and post the snippet. The only condition is ‘No Ebooks’.. lets go traditional. Easy-peasy!!

And this week's theme is Agree: nod, accept, etc.

Here is mine from The Devil to Pay by Ellery Queen: 

"I see," said Glucke, looking elsewhere with his brilliant eyes.  It seemed to Val that Walter nodded the least bit in approval.  It was all so queer--everything. She mustn't lose her head.  It would come out soon.

Theme Thursday: Foolish/Stupidity

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Rules
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages

March is going to be all about making life easy. This month we will do ‘Pick what you see first‘ themes. So open the book you are reading, continue reading; pick the first mention of any name in it and post the snippet. The only condition is ‘No Ebooks’.. lets go traditional. Easy-peasy!!

And this week's theme is Foolish/Stupidity.

Here is mine from The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart:

As Dale approached, unseen, the climax came. The revolver steadied, pointed ferociously at an inoffensive grass-blade some 10 yards from Miss Van Gorder and went off. Lizzie promptly gave vent to a shrill Irish scream. Miss Van Gorder dropped the revolver like a hot potato and opened her mouth to tell Lizzie not to be such a fool.

Theme Thursday: Ending

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Rules
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages

March is going to be all about making life easy. This month we will do ‘Pick what you see first‘ themes. So open the book you are reading, continue reading; pick the first mention of any name in it and post the snippet. The only condition is ‘No Ebooks’.. lets go traditional. Easy-peasy!!

And this week's theme is ENDING (the last sentence on the last page of your current book).

Here's mine from The Case of the Grinning Gorilla by Erle Stanley Gardner (***Spoiler Alert*** Do not read this sentence if you think it all likely that you will read the book. It will definitely spoil the ending for you. If you want to read it--and have difficulty--then highlight the sentence to make it more visible.):



Pocketing the wallet, he put through the call to Helen Cadmus.

Perhaps....since I am reading a mystery...I shouldn't have participated this week.

Theme Thursday: Movement

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Rules
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages

March is going to be all about making life easy. This month we will do ‘Pick what you see first‘ themes. So open the book you are reading, continue reading; pick the first mention of any name in it and post the snippet. The only condition is ‘No Ebooks’.. lets go traditional. Easy-peasy!!

And this week's theme is Movement.

Here is mine from "The Carousel" in The Rose Window & Other Verse from New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (p. 65):

And on the lion rides all white a boy
and holds himself with his small hot hand,
the while the lion shows his teeth and tongue

Theme Thursday: Food

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Rules
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages

March is going to be all about making life easy. This month we will do ‘Pick what you see first‘ themes. So open the book you are reading, continue reading; pick the first mention of any name in it and post the snippet. The only condition is ‘No Ebooks’.. lets go traditional. Easy-peasy!!

And this week's theme is Food [first snippet having any relevance to food, eating, drinks, drinking, etc.]

Here's mine from Strange Murders at Greystones by Elsie N. Wright (p. 92):

"Poor Griggs dropped something in her hurry." Polly stooped to pick it up, and unwrapped it. It contained half a roast chicken. Polly threw herself into a chair and laughed.

"What ho! Old Griggs has been filching from the icebox! Griggs of all people! At her age! I certianly never suspected her of such a thing. Why, she used to make me go without my dinner if I so much as snitched a doughnut from the pantry."