Book meme

[jcberk]

dr_whom's fault. "Pick ten of your favorite novels, look them up on Amazon.com, and find the list of Statistically Improbably Phrases for those novels. Pick a few SIPs from each novel, list them here, and then have people guess what books they are." I suspect I'm obscure enough (both in who reads this and in what I read) not to bother, but one ID per

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[dr_whom]

I'm dr-whom, not drwhom!

#6 certainly looks like an Ankh-Morpork Watch novel, but I couldn't tell you which one. None of the others suggest anything in particular to me.

[jcberk]

Argh. Fixed. Too tired to read, apparently.

The cigar case is important. :)

[dr_whom]

I can see how it would be, but I can't quite place it. Ah well.

[portnoyslp]

Ooh! #5 is Bellwether, by Connie Willis.

[portnoyslp]

And I want to say #2 is one of the Kate Ross mysteries, but can't identify which one.

[jcberk]

Nope. Clearly I should look them up though, if they're like that... :)

[portnoyslp]

Yeah, they're pretty good. She didn't write many before she passed away, but they're worth a read.

[coraline]

#7 is "a civil campaign" :)
and hi...

[jcberk]

Yup, and hi! I figured the darling little bugs were recognizable.