A sort of Facebook meme...

[beltaneeve]

I just received this from a friend:

Here's the game: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence AS YOUR STATUS. AND POST these instructions in a comment to this status. Don't dig for your favorite book the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

So, this was it...

Women are

Comments

[lifefailsme]

Oh excellent choice there!

I wont do this meme cos I did it a few weeks ago, needless to say my quote was from a Doctor Who book :)

[beltaneeve]

Thank you. The book was on my desk because I was researching something about magical rituals for a writer friend!

Oh, and I've yet to you yours...they were *hard* questions!

[gillo]

What counts as the closest book? I have at least five within two feet of my keyboard. At least sixty within three feet. Yes, I sit between overloaded bookshelves here.

FWIW:
Secondly, even if you limit yourself, as Frayn does, to one writer, a letter, unlike a journal, is always addressed to a specific addressee, whose anticipated response conditions the discourse, and makes it rhetorically more complex, interesting and obliquely revealing. (David Lodge,
The Art of Fiction) (Required for work, thus on my "currently in use stack.)

[beltaneeve]

Closest book? Close your eyes and grab the first? I took the one from the top of the pile on my desk. It could so easily have been a computer manual!

The Art of Fiction sounds interesting - do you recommend it?