I’ve done this meme once before, but I love it. Actually, the last time I did it, afterwards, I found myself doing the same thing with several more books. I’m doing it again thanks to Ken over at Teaching and All That Jazz. Thanks Ken!
Here are the rules: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal/blog along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Tag five other people to do the same.
So here ya go:
“His eyes, wen they caught his father’s, turned defiant. As if on its own, his hand shot up and in a single swift motion seized the gun.”
I cheated. The nearest book is the Cub Scout Handbook. The excerpt above is from A Patent Lie, the second nearest book.
Here’s what the Cub Scout Handbook has to say:
“A scout is obedient to the rules of his family, school, and troop. He obeys the laws of his community and country. If he thinks these rules and laws are unfair, he tries to have them changed in an orderly manner rather than disobeying them.”
So I wonder if Sage will ever join NORML.
If you want to do it, go for it!
“The image may flicker at higher shutter speeds.”
This is harder than I thought. The first book I found was a children’s book. It didn’t have page 56. The second book I found was written in Chinese.
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I probably shouldn’t since the book I’m reading is the Monster of Florence and it’s pretty gruesome in spots.
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I would probably actually do this if I were tagged, but since I’m not I won’t. First of all, I’m too lazy to get off the couch to get a book when I have a bunch of other stuff I need to get done yet tonight and secondly because the nearest book(s) is a stack of college textbooks so I know it wouldn’t be any fun
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“If he thinks these rules and laws are unfair, he tries to have them changed in an orderly manner rather than disobeying them.”
I disapprove. Oh, how I disapprove.
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“I like Tom’s idea; it seems quite obious they would have a focus on circularity; they would have an understanding of celestial mechnics. Furthermore–
You’re talking about the balloons now?
I’m talking about all sentient life on the planet. I think that’s what Tom was saying. I think I agree with it.” –Medea: Harlans World, edited by Harlan Ellison
–Okay, the closest book I grabbed was one my husband is reading. His taste in books does not mirror my own, but that made this little exercise even more fun!! Peace, JP/deb
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