Nearest Book game...

[Coffeeboss]

OK, so this has been whipping around Facebook, and I thought a variation of it would be fun in this group!

Nearest BookShare Rules:

* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence, and share it!

Mine:

People shopping here tramped in food, hit their heads on food, were enveloped in food, tumbled about in food.

(from "Unto a Good Land" by Vilhelm Moberg)

[Meen]

Oooh, this will be fun!

Aww man, mine is boring:

"Go back and read the argument now."

Cracking the LSAT, 2006

[Catherine]

Ooooh. Found one of the good parts:

warm all over, and my hand trembled in her hand. She leaned back and

[Stephen]

"There are 3,232 of them-- and counting."

How's that for makin' you wonder?!!

Stephen, theGayEditor.com

[Charmless]

That's funny 'coz I did one of these just last night at home while I was on myspace, and I ended up grabbing the little psych paperback from my bedside table.

So, I'm reaching for the book nearest my desk right now and here it goes, fifth line, page 56:

"Raise me a dais of silk and down,

Hang it with vair and purple dyes;"

It's from a poem by Christina Rossetti called A Birthday. The book is called Best Loved Poems, edited by Neil Philip, third printing.

Man, I had to look up "dais" and "vair"! And the latter, it turns out, means the bluish-gray and white fur of a squirrel! Yikes!!!. . . The bizarre, not to mention cruel things people did to express their emotions during medieval times!

[[deleted user]]

"The reliably Republican Saturday Evening Post editorialized: Goldwater is a grotesque burlesque of the conservative he pretends to be."

Unfortunately I'm in my office and The Right Nation - Conservative Power in America by Micklethwait and Wooldridge is on my desk.

[Coffeeboss]

Ha! Valentine, I love the words "grotesque burlesque" right next to each other! :D

[Whitaker]

'Say Heil when you go in there,' he warned her stiffly.

From The Book Thief by Markus Zusak which I just started reading, and is turning out to be quite wonderful.

[Ron]

"I had no idea that he would want one, but he did, and I went to work lasy Tuesday--warping--the same work I used to do."
[Mary Paul, "Letters to Her Father," Nov 5th 1848, in Nicholas Coles & Janet Zandy's Working-Class Literature: An Anthology]

[HailHydra]

"He shook his head, no."

From Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

[Louise]

"Guinea Pig" sounds lovely in French: cochon d'Inde.

From Idiom's Delight: Fascinating Phrases & Linguistic Eccentricitie

[ScottK]

There is nothing better than to revere the Buddha - The Teachings of Buddha Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

Funny been meaning to pick this up again soon ! Thanks. :P

[Ann]

"The police, who were worn out, were deeply moved, but since the boat that had been launched to pursue the new Eve had never come back, they had given up a second more costly expedition, and there had been an unconfirmed report that the beautiful palpitating white breasts had never belonged to a living creature of the sort that still haunts our desires.

phew! long sentence from "Soluble Fish," a piece of automatic writing in Breton's Manifestoes of Surrealism

[[deleted user]]

"I was hungry, I was cold, but I continued."

from Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

[Ehrrin]

"No audience is without its idiosyncrasies of belief." from Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

[Alex]

"She wanted to be started.'"

From Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse

[[deleted user]]

"It took me some time to accept the fact that my father's family had its own secrets and untruths."

Things I've Been Silent About

[[deleted user]]

"Cinnabar's soaked with sweat with his hair all stuck to his face and I can feel it trickling it down my back."


China Mountain Zhang