Memeing
So I lack decisiveness. I have twelve books equidistant from each other, although The Cellist of Sarajevo has disqualified itself by virtue of a blank page.
So here are my eclectic reading habits:
1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST
The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name - H. Montgomery Hyde: There is something vaguely unsatisfactory about the whole Castlehaven affair.
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand: Le marquis assis sur les côtés, dans des poses insolentes.
The Court of the Air - Stephen Hunt: If the Beadle caught whichever boy or girl it was that had sloped off night duty, they would be for it and no mistake.
The Deceivers - Thaddeus Holt: So the forces for the operation were notionally concentrated in the Clyde on the west coast instead.
The Thousandfold Thought - R. Scott Bakker: Where once they had been bickering kings, the Lords of the Holy War, they were now little more than counsellors, and they knew it.
The Edwardians - Vita Sackville-West: I showed it to Frank, and 'Frank, I said, 'when you're sixty and need a nice piece of wood, you'll find it here, and don't you forget your father put it there for you.'
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House - Kate Summerscale: From his brief appearances in memoirs, newspapers and journals, Jack Whicher emerges as kind, laconic, alert to the comedy in his work.
War and Peace: The Original Version - Leo Tolstoy: "They barely managed to rescue the unfortunate man," the guest continued.
The Balkans (1804-1999): Nationalism, War and the Great Powers - Misha Glenny: Liberal nationalism had apparently suffered a catastrophic defeat.
Kushiel's Scion - Jacqueline Carey: It had to do with the vows he swore as a Cassiline Brother.
Mud, Blood and Poppycock - Gordon Corrigan: The casual observer would be forgiven for failing to notice that between the census of 1911 and that of 1921 the greatest bloodletting in British military history took place.
Yes, I know - I broke the rules. Whatcha gonna do?
So here are my eclectic reading habits:
1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST
The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name - H. Montgomery Hyde: There is something vaguely unsatisfactory about the whole Castlehaven affair.
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand: Le marquis assis sur les côtés, dans des poses insolentes.
The Court of the Air - Stephen Hunt: If the Beadle caught whichever boy or girl it was that had sloped off night duty, they would be for it and no mistake.
The Deceivers - Thaddeus Holt: So the forces for the operation were notionally concentrated in the Clyde on the west coast instead.
The Thousandfold Thought - R. Scott Bakker: Where once they had been bickering kings, the Lords of the Holy War, they were now little more than counsellors, and they knew it.
The Edwardians - Vita Sackville-West: I showed it to Frank, and 'Frank, I said, 'when you're sixty and need a nice piece of wood, you'll find it here, and don't you forget your father put it there for you.'
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House - Kate Summerscale: From his brief appearances in memoirs, newspapers and journals, Jack Whicher emerges as kind, laconic, alert to the comedy in his work.
War and Peace: The Original Version - Leo Tolstoy: "They barely managed to rescue the unfortunate man," the guest continued.
The Balkans (1804-1999): Nationalism, War and the Great Powers - Misha Glenny: Liberal nationalism had apparently suffered a catastrophic defeat.
Kushiel's Scion - Jacqueline Carey: It had to do with the vows he swore as a Cassiline Brother.
Mud, Blood and Poppycock - Gordon Corrigan: The casual observer would be forgiven for failing to notice that between the census of 1911 and that of 1921 the greatest bloodletting in British military history took place.
Yes, I know - I broke the rules. Whatcha gonna do?