Book meme
Gacked from everyone, most recently miladygrey.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
The nearest was Neruda's Twenty love Poems and a Song of Despair (translated by the excellent W.S. Merwin, if you care to know), which does not have a page 161. Second-closest is Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folk Tales for Mothers and Daughters to Share by Jane Yolen and her daughter Heidi E.Y. Stemple.
"So each day she went to the market to ask the merchants for what they could spare: one peach, one apricot, one little olive."
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
The nearest was Neruda's Twenty love Poems and a Song of Despair (translated by the excellent W.S. Merwin, if you care to know), which does not have a page 161. Second-closest is Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folk Tales for Mothers and Daughters to Share by Jane Yolen and her daughter Heidi E.Y. Stemple.
"So each day she went to the market to ask the merchants for what they could spare: one peach, one apricot, one little olive."