Via Nat.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
“I realized what was happening, and in an instant this great truth flashed into my mind: that I was, true, a Latin and not a Greek, but, before these infuriated Latins could realize that, there would no longer be any difference between me and a dead Greek.” - Umberto Eco, Baudolino
This was actually the second nearest book to me. The closest was Stitch ‘N Bitch, but page 23 of that book is an illustration of handy knitting supplies so it didn’t have any sentences.
The “sentence five” meme
For lack of better content, I guess I’ll jump on this bandwagon. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along…
“In the first few days after the tragedy, a young woman in her twenties would stop every morning, look at the pictures, and then burst into tears.”
–David Halberstam _Firehouse_
“It was something they’d reluctantly learned how to deal with, and they’d become well-schooled in the practice of deflecting questions, tell half-truths, and hiding their grief.”
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Everyone’s doing it
“Uh-huh,” Tess said, nodding and smiling; as long you nodded and smiled, she had learned, it didn’t matter what you were saying.
The Sugar House / Laura Lippman
“A Tess Monaghan Mystery”
“They for their part know that, if they went, they would never again see their wives and families.”
… counting from after the 4th period.
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
Nice! Everyone is reading such interesting books
“Do the other women feel the way I do?” she wondered.
A Recipe for Bees — Gail Anderson-Dargatz