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missmadelynmackEach quote is an epigraph. One contains the title. Arrange them and post your results and ask any who read what they think the book is about.
Title: Breaking God's Windows
(from the Jewish proverb: "If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.")
Opening epigraph: “Of course, I want to
save the world, she said,
but I was hoping to do it
from the comfort
of my regular life.”
~ “Regular Life” by Brian Andreas
Chapter One: “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” (George Bernard Shaw)
Chapter Two: "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." (Joel 2:28)
Chapter Three: "Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." (Christopher Morley)
Chapter Four: "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance." (William Shakespeare)
Chapter Five: "In ev'ry grave make room, make room!
The world's at an end, and we come, we come." (Sir William Davenant)
Chapter Six: "I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse." (Ovid)
Chapter Seven: "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." (Ali ibn-Abi-Talib)
Chapter Eight: "The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice." (Abbe D'Allainval)
Title: Breaking God's Windows
(from the Jewish proverb: "If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.")
Opening epigraph: “Of course, I want to
save the world, she said,
but I was hoping to do it
from the comfort
of my regular life.”
~ “Regular Life” by Brian Andreas
Chapter One: “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” (George Bernard Shaw)
Chapter Two: "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." (Joel 2:28)
Chapter Three: "Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." (Christopher Morley)
Chapter Four: "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance." (William Shakespeare)
Chapter Five: "In ev'ry grave make room, make room!
The world's at an end, and we come, we come." (Sir William Davenant)
Chapter Six: "I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse." (Ovid)
Chapter Seven: "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." (Ali ibn-Abi-Talib)
Chapter Eight: "The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice." (Abbe D'Allainval)
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Date: 2009-08-26 03:01 am (UTC)Beyond the large stained-glass windows is a world on the verge of collapse. Abby dreams of death and fire, never realizing that she has become the Gatekeeper for that struggling world.
Meanwhile, awake, she has to deal with permits, peculiar decor, and a testy, secretive doctorate student who arrived without warning, announcing that she will become the museum's curator.
One night, angry with her dreams and strange atmosphere of the house, Abby yells that she wants nothing more to do with any of it. She throws down all the barriers and a terrible power sashays through.
Caught between this ambiguous person, the increasingly-odd curator, and a role she doesn't want, Abby must decide who is telling the truth, who is lying, who is good, and who or what put into motion the collapse of the world beyond the windows before they can do the same in Abby's own.
Whether she likes it or not, only one place has the answers Abby needs. On the other side of the glass, Abby not only unravels that mystery, but also learns a great deal about her own family.
In the end, Abby has to make a single, earth-breaking decision, selecting one of a hundred possible actions, each with their own benefits and costs.
She cannot save everyone.