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Fun Line From a Book
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 9:07 am
by Spock
This line in a book I am reading makes me smile.
>>>>"She declared the idea silly, but did so in that way only a wife can—in that way that said she still saw her husband as the impulsive young man who’d won her heart."<<<<
Re: Fun Line From a Book
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:02 pm
by tlynn78
First line I can remember that made me laugh out loud unexpectedly was in an Ivan Doig novel, "Dancing at the Rascal Fair," maybe, something about the young protagonist, who arrived in America by boat, becoming "..reacquainted" with his breakfast. I'd never heard vomiting be described in quite that way before...
Re: Fun Line From a Book
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:19 pm
by Spock
tlynn78 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:02 pm
First line I can remember that made me laugh out loud unexpectedly was in an Ivan Doig novel, "Dancing at the Rascal Fair," maybe, something about the young protagonist, who arrived in America by boat, becoming "..reacquainted" with his breakfast. I'd never heard vomiting be described in quite that way before...
Ooh-Ivan Doig-Great stuff all around.
Re: Fun Line From a Book
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:40 pm
by Spock
One Ivan Doig line that has stuck with me for decades now is from the book where the dad and his 3 (I think) sons are working on the Fort Peck dam and the attractive pregnant wife of one of the sons is working as a waitress and the customers tease her about being bitten by a trouser snake.
That one stuck with me.
Re: Fun Line From a Book
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:59 am
by tlynn78
Spock wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:40 pm
One Ivan Doig line that has stuck with me for decades now is from the book where the dad and his 3 (I think) sons are working on the Fort Peck dam and the attractive pregnant wife of one of the sons is working as a waitress and the customers tease her about being bitten by a trouser snake.
That one stuck with me.
I remember that, too. Great writer!