A BOOK MEME
and you all should be grateful that I went and took the time to dig some normal books out, because every book in my room is currently packed away except two math textbooks and three books that my aunt gave me for christmas which are pretty terrible, yet still notable for having the single most stuified stu I have ever found in a published work.
Ever.
☇ Take four books off your bookshelf.
☇ Write the first sentence
☇ Write the last sentence on page fifty
☇ Write the second sentence on page one hundred
☇ Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
☇ Write the final sentence of the book
☇ Let your friends guess what book it is.
For purposes of 'first sentence' I am pretending that anything not originally included in the publication doesn't exist, so no forwards that were written later and all that. Also if people don't get most of these I will be SO DISAPPOINTED IN ALL OF YOU.
1☇ Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, and odd looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
☇ When it did come, she was so sorry that she put up her lip ominously.
☇ "Better keep her and make use of her," he added.
☇ It was a lonelier life when she was downstairs than when she was in her attic.
☇ And, somehow, Sara felt as if she understood her, though she said so little, and only stood still and looked after her as she went out of the shop with the Indian gentleman, and they got into the carriage and drove away.
2 (which if you do not get we may not be able to be friends any more)☇ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
☇ When breakfast was over, they were joined by the sisters; and Elizabeth began to like them herself, when she saw how much affection and solicitude they showed for Jane.
☇ When this information was given, and they had all take their seats, Mr Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlor at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the house-keeper's room.
☇ I have certainly meant well through the whole affair.
☇ Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.
3☇ This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
☇ Without a word.
☇ "I'll never improve," the Turk answered, but his arms began to move faster than before.
☇ In the center was a small leather wine holder and, beside it, some cheese and some apples.
☇ It's just fairer than dearth, that's all.
4☇ "Amid the deep white winter snow,
Sleeps Mossflow'r until spring,
While snug in Cavern Hole below,
All Redwall's creatures sing.
☇ It's a terrible thing this fever!
☇ Martin and his friends picked up much of the pigmy shrews' language during the course of the day.
☇ Again Martin halted.
☇ Please feel free to visit us any time you pass by this way."
Ever.
☇ Take four books off your bookshelf.
☇ Write the first sentence
☇ Write the last sentence on page fifty
☇ Write the second sentence on page one hundred
☇ Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
☇ Write the final sentence of the book
☇ Let your friends guess what book it is.
For purposes of 'first sentence' I am pretending that anything not originally included in the publication doesn't exist, so no forwards that were written later and all that. Also if people don't get most of these I will be SO DISAPPOINTED IN ALL OF YOU.
1☇ Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, and odd looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
☇ When it did come, she was so sorry that she put up her lip ominously.
☇ "Better keep her and make use of her," he added.
☇ It was a lonelier life when she was downstairs than when she was in her attic.
☇ And, somehow, Sara felt as if she understood her, though she said so little, and only stood still and looked after her as she went out of the shop with the Indian gentleman, and they got into the carriage and drove away.
2 (which if you do not get we may not be able to be friends any more)☇ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
☇ When breakfast was over, they were joined by the sisters; and Elizabeth began to like them herself, when she saw how much affection and solicitude they showed for Jane.
☇ When this information was given, and they had all take their seats, Mr Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlor at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the house-keeper's room.
☇ I have certainly meant well through the whole affair.
☇ Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.
3☇ This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
☇ Without a word.
☇ "I'll never improve," the Turk answered, but his arms began to move faster than before.
☇ In the center was a small leather wine holder and, beside it, some cheese and some apples.
☇ It's just fairer than dearth, that's all.
4☇ "Amid the deep white winter snow,
Sleeps Mossflow'r until spring,
While snug in Cavern Hole below,
All Redwall's creatures sing.
☇ It's a terrible thing this fever!
☇ Martin and his friends picked up much of the pigmy shrews' language during the course of the day.
☇ Again Martin halted.
☇ Please feel free to visit us any time you pass by this way."