Originally posted by wellinghall at A Sentence Chain meme!
From eglantine_br

Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph. Post the result to your LJ, and wonder if Oscar Wilde could possibly have written this. (Now with added Oscar! - ( Read more... )

Picked this up in a rare quiet moment, so here are mine :)

1. Twelve Modern Scottish Poets - ed. Charles Kind
2. The Bird Path - Kenneth White
3. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
4. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5. The Owl Service - Alan Garner
6. My adventures during the late War, a narrative of shipwreck, captivity, escapes from French prisons, from ( Read more... )

So, _likimeya asked me the following questions.

1. What is the best thing about Glasgow (aside from the obvious: zombies)?Glaswegians! Okay, they're not always distinguishable from zombies, but for sheer character and friendliness, Glaswegians are unsurpassed. Also art, architecture and parks. Apparently Glasgow has more communal green space than any other ( Read more... )

Because it's ages since I've done a meme, I thought I'd play along with eglantine_br and charliecochrane's gratefulness meme. eglantine_br gave me the letter A, so without further ado...Reasons to be Grateful part A!

Aquarians - I'm sure I've mentioned this in a meme before...I pay absolutely no attention to astrology but I can't help noticing that the vast majority of my friends and ( Read more... )

Erastes posted her list of 15 books children should read and asked for our recommendations. These are books I read as a kid rather than children's books per se. Sadly I didn't come across Ursula Le Guin's Earth Sea series until a I met my current partner. If I had found them as a child I would have devoured them.

1. The Owl Service by Alan Garner. ( Read more... )

_likimeya's meme addiction I thought I had better comply with her request. She told me to:

Write these things in your normal handwriting and post a picture!

1. your lj name
2. your two favorite bands
3. a person you admire right now
4. the person you admire most
5. five people to tag

( I remain as always your obedient etc, etc. )

In reply to sarlania's icon meme.


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....because she asked and I can't say no!

( You're not really that interested are you? )

... first lines from the book meme that remain unidentified are:

3. I was in delightful company: the lady who sat facing me across the massive Renaissance fireplace was none other than Venus; she was no demi-mondiane who had taken a pseudonym to wage war upon the masculine sex, but the goddess of love in person. Venus in Furs by Leopold von ( Read more... )

My rather belated shot at sarlania's book meme. Arranged in chronological order for esmerelda_t's benefit ;) And I agree with _likimeya it's really hard to choose books with first sentences that aren't too obscure or that don't immediately give the game away!
Rules:
1. Choose 10 books that you like ( Read more... )