Writer and editor Bryon Quertermous, who had some very positive things to say about Donna Moore's ...Go to Helena Handbasket, put his novels Lunchbox Hero and The Scars We Carry to the "page 69 test" and wrote up the results at his blog, Coping with Sanity.
Lunchbox Hero was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger in 2003. Read chapter one.
Read both pages from the novels and see how the test fared.
--Marshal Zeringue
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- "What is Dominic Smith reading?"
- Pg. 69: "Uncouth Nation"
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- Pg. 69: "Scandal"
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- Andreï Makine's "L’amour humain"
- Pg. 69: "Four Kinds of Rain"
- Dick Adler's "Men’s Adventure"
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- Pg. 69: "The Undercover Economist"
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- Pg. 69: "The Strangler"
- Five best books about natural disasters
- Pg. 69: "In My Skin"
- Vendela Vida's favorite books
- The philosopher and the murder mystery
- "The Fallen Idol"
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- Pg. 69: "Mindless Eating"
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- Pg. 69: "Human Oddities"
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- Pg. 69: "Fatal Purity"
- Unfilmable novels
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- Robert Hughes, "Things I Didn't Know"
- Anniversaries
- Pg. 69: "A Stolen Season"
- Yet another quiz I failed
- Pg. 69: "Fighting For Air"
- Five best books about life on Wall Street
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- Pg. 69: "…Go To Helena Handbasket"
- Erin McKean's book list
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize long-list
- Pg. 69: "The Pale Blue Eye"
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- Jeffrey Rosen's "The Supreme Court"
- Pg. 69: "Driving With the Devil"
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- A literary guide to Colombia
- Pg. 69: "An Unquiet Grave"
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- Pg. 69: "The Concept of Constituency"
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- Pg. 69: "Such a Pretty Girl"
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- Pg. 69: "Anonymous Lawyer"
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- Forthcoming in 2007
- Pg. 69: "An Alphabetical Life"
- Best biographies of dramatists
- Another tough literary quiz
- The best of chick-lit
- Thomas Kinsella's poetry
- Pg. 69: "What the Dead Know"
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- Pg. 69: "The Quality of Life Report"
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- Pg. 69: "Steel Drivin' Man"
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- Pg. 69: "Murder Among the OWLS"
- Five best poetry collections
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- Do women like bad news books?
- The best tyrant biographies
- Pg. 69: "Vagabonding"
- "Philosophy and Bear Mace"
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- Pg. 69: "The Dead Fathers Club"
- Tough questions
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- Pg. 69: "Fear & Greed"
- "Best" romance novel covers
- Pg. 69: "In the Dark"
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