Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Nearest Book

A college friend posted this on her Facebook page and I thought I'd bring it to y'all!

Here are the rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Don't hunt on a book shelf for something to impress us, but it has to be a real book!
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence and reference the book in the comments.

I'll get y'all started.

"He was free from that spell, that sorcery, that obsession!" Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Just a... just a normal headache." - Nick Hornby How To Be Good

Meg said...

Hey Flapper! Nice to see one of my favorite bloggers here!

Shoshanah Marohn said...

"Note the spelling of "lea," often misspelled "Lee.""-Dan Foae, Mandolin Gold 100+ of the Most Popular Selections Arranged for Mandolin

Meg said...

See..and now I'm intrigued by both of these books and want to read them. This is awesome!

Anonymous said...

"She eagerly pressed the hanger against my waist and stared at me in the mirror with head tilted, as if hearing a high-pitched noise."

- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl

FoxyMoron said...

"Do you mean," said Mrs Oliver, "that the former victim will have been stabbed with a dagger too?"
Mrs Oliver to Poirot. Cards on the Table, by Agatha Christie.

This is cool Meg.