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Friday, September 21, 2012

Theme Thursday: Run



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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 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...."

2 comments:

  1. Great example! I like the descriptions...they made me laugh. Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.

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  2. There's a lot of running going on there!

    Thanks for visiting my blog.

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