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(Another?) Book Meme
Aug. 10th, 2005 11:01 pmEveryone seems to be doing this one. But then, that's what memes are for.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
The only "book" in the same room as me was the White Pages, and I somehow doubt that's what was meant. So I went down to the other end of the hallway and tried to figure out what was actually the nearest book to me.
I have a lot of books. At the moment, many of them are in small piles in strange places, like the dining table and partially blocking the doorway of my bedroom.
A random direction turned up Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (this was the top of a pile of werewolf fiction. I wonder why?...):
I wasn't sure how much time passed that way, ghosting through the darkness while our pursuers struggled to coordinate their efforts and remain quiet at the same time, but it couldn't have been long.
Which is a more rewarding sentence than the one from Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K Hamilton:
"Edward," I said.
Which brings to mind an interesting variation on the meme (for a given value of "interesting"). Same rules - page 123, fifth line - but for an entire series of books. Hamilton's Anita Blake series (From Guilty Pleasures to Cerulean Sins - I don't have Incubus Dreams yet) would then look like this:
"Anita, we woulda told you if we'd known, gratis."
And what was I going to do with Irving?
I was hoping the morgue attendants had just run, gotten out, but I wasn't counting on it.
He was looking all reasonable again.
I stared up into her cool eyes.
I wanted one.
I'd never heard a vampire say "I pray."
"He's walking food, Asher."
"Edward," I said.
"You can bring all your wereleopards and any other shapeshifters that are your allies."
"What?" he asked.
Which could make a weird sort of meta-story. Shame it didn't land on any gore or raunchy stuff ;).
I should see what Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels look like with this.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
The only "book" in the same room as me was the White Pages, and I somehow doubt that's what was meant. So I went down to the other end of the hallway and tried to figure out what was actually the nearest book to me.
I have a lot of books. At the moment, many of them are in small piles in strange places, like the dining table and partially blocking the doorway of my bedroom.
A random direction turned up Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (this was the top of a pile of werewolf fiction. I wonder why?...):
I wasn't sure how much time passed that way, ghosting through the darkness while our pursuers struggled to coordinate their efforts and remain quiet at the same time, but it couldn't have been long.
Which is a more rewarding sentence than the one from Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K Hamilton:
"Edward," I said.
Which brings to mind an interesting variation on the meme (for a given value of "interesting"). Same rules - page 123, fifth line - but for an entire series of books. Hamilton's Anita Blake series (From Guilty Pleasures to Cerulean Sins - I don't have Incubus Dreams yet) would then look like this:
"Anita, we woulda told you if we'd known, gratis."
And what was I going to do with Irving?
I was hoping the morgue attendants had just run, gotten out, but I wasn't counting on it.
He was looking all reasonable again.
I stared up into her cool eyes.
I wanted one.
I'd never heard a vampire say "I pray."
"He's walking food, Asher."
"Edward," I said.
"You can bring all your wereleopards and any other shapeshifters that are your allies."
"What?" he asked.
Which could make a weird sort of meta-story. Shame it didn't land on any gore or raunchy stuff ;).
I should see what Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels look like with this.
