Books meme!
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thierrys:
1. Take five (random!) books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. To add to their indignity, the enchantment also caused them to compulsively finger their bottom lips. I had taken three steps on the dusty lane when the pain struck. So I asked my grandfather this question: "Grandfather, why do they say, 'The big talkers are coming little by little and step by step,' and what do they say when they talk?" The eyes and the faces all turned themselves toward me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.
Book 1: Dune, by Frank Herbert
Book 2: A Keeper of Words, by Anna-Marie Ferguson
Book 3: The Rise of Endymion, by Dan Simmons
Book 4: The Sixth Grandfather, by John G. Neihardt
Book 5: The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
thierrys:1. Take five (random!) books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. To add to their indignity, the enchantment also caused them to compulsively finger their bottom lips. I had taken three steps on the dusty lane when the pain struck. So I asked my grandfather this question: "Grandfather, why do they say, 'The big talkers are coming little by little and step by step,' and what do they say when they talk?" The eyes and the faces all turned themselves toward me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.
Book 1: Dune, by Frank Herbert
Book 2: A Keeper of Words, by Anna-Marie Ferguson
Book 3: The Rise of Endymion, by Dan Simmons
Book 4: The Sixth Grandfather, by John G. Neihardt
Book 5: The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
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Date: 2009-05-12 01:17 am (UTC)