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While we're doing book memes....
I was poking around in 2004 for another meme (which is too much effort at the moment) and found this one, which is kind of fun.
1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
Fear twisted Dominic Stanton's stomach, compressed his chest until his breath came shallow and quick. But Don Fey could not be deterred, and I, his faithful servant, went with him. The story, we begin to understand as the leaves emit light onto yet more leaves, piling up and overlapping in densely embroidered frond-like panels, is the forest. There are so many sunflowers available that listing varieties would be a disservice. At a grunted signal from Andy Dalziel, they turned their faces to the rising fell and went to keep their rendezvous on Beulah Height.
(Books are: Why Mermaids Sing, C.S. Harris; Bossypants, Tina Fey; Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama; Your Farm in the City, Lisa Taylor; On Beulah Height, Reginald Hill. They were really (pretty much) the five nearest books.)
1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
Fear twisted Dominic Stanton's stomach, compressed his chest until his breath came shallow and quick. But Don Fey could not be deterred, and I, his faithful servant, went with him. The story, we begin to understand as the leaves emit light onto yet more leaves, piling up and overlapping in densely embroidered frond-like panels, is the forest. There are so many sunflowers available that listing varieties would be a disservice. At a grunted signal from Andy Dalziel, they turned their faces to the rising fell and went to keep their rendezvous on Beulah Height.
(Books are: Why Mermaids Sing, C.S. Harris; Bossypants, Tina Fey; Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama; Your Farm in the City, Lisa Taylor; On Beulah Height, Reginald Hill. They were really (pretty much) the five nearest books.)