Book-related Coincidences

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Book-related Coincidences

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Not long ago someone took me out to lunch in a pub called 'The Miller's Daughter', and not long after, I found a (very good) novel of that name. Any other nice coincidences?
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I met my husband because he was reading my favorite book (Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray). What luck he was reading it then and there which caused a conversation!
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Camille Turner wrote: 16 Mar 2018, 12:23 I met my husband because he was reading my favorite book (Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray). What luck he was reading it then and there which caused a conversation!
That's the book that Summer was reading in 500 Days of Summer when she met her husband. Awesome! Glad the book brought you together.
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Sakilunamermaid wrote: 22 Mar 2018, 01:55
Camille Turner wrote: 16 Mar 2018, 12:23 I met my husband because he was reading my favorite book (Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray). What luck he was reading it then and there which caused a conversation!
That's the book that Summer was reading in 500 Days of Summer when she met her husband. Awesome! Glad the book brought you together.
Oh my gosh, I didn't know that! I will have to go back and watch the film -- that's so cool. Thank you! :)
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The book I was reading when I met my husband was the syllabus for Freshman English. HS period 2.
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Nothing of this much significance ever happened to me, but sometimes I have stumbled upon a book and within a short while that very book has been recommended to me by someone.The reverse of this has also happened-I am thinking about buying/reading a particular book and someone comes along holding that very book. Often I have started reading more than one books and found some common theme in those, even if one was a fiction and the other a non fiction. Don't know if these count!
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Okay I haven't experienced any of these beautiful coincidences, I know if I really want to read a book, I almost always get it either someone lends me the very book I want to read or I stumble upon :lol: a copy somehow.
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