Grab the nearest book?
Tagged by the wondrously generous palmandgo who is the owner of two of the cutest puppies.
What I have to do is
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.
This is the last book that I read while vacation at a state park in Ohio, Dean Koontz's The Darkest Evening of the Year. Had a lovely time and especially enjoyed feeding hummingbirds by hand. I managed to lure two. They are amazing creatures and surprisingly territorial.
He didn't trust himself to be equal to the responsiblity. At first he didn't know that he was rendering not merely the ideal of a golden retriever but also a specific individual. As the face resolved in detail, he realized that from his pencils had come Nickie, so recently rescued. He did not have more difficulty drawing eyes than he did any other detail of anatomy. This time, heowever, he achieved effects of line and tone and grading that continually surprised him. To look real, the eyes must be full of light and marked by the mystery that light evokes in even the most forthright gaze. Brian focused with , for him, such unprecedented passion on the portrayal of this light, this mystery, that he might have been a medieval monk depicting the receiver of the Anunciation.
Tagging
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Sorry for tagging and not following all the rules, I guess I'm a bit of a lonely rebel.