Jerry Johnston on MormonTimes.com: Let's play 'name that LDS book'
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Some people make "impulse buys" while waiting in lines at supermarkets. I make them while waiting in lines at bookstores.
And the other day, I latched onto a little volume about the size of a bar of soap. It's called "Opening Lines: The First Sentences from Classic Plays, Poems and Books."
Some of the sentences I recognized; others, I didn't. But it was fun guessing where they appeared and who wrote them.
It got me wondering how many opening sentences from LDS books people might be able to place?
So, here's your chance to find out.
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I got one!
Summertime | May 6, 2009 at 10:07 a.m.
No thanks.
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