1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, look down to the 5th sentence. (This looks deceptively easy. As I counted down 5 lines in my book, I noticed the periods and capital letters therein. Ah-hah! Can't fool me! Them's sentences in thar! You are forewarned! Ok...maybe it's just me!)
3. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog.
4. Include the title and the author's name.
5. Tag 3 People.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
"Tobacco particulate thickens the air. A shelf of books: Auden, Veblen, Spengler, Steinbeck, Dos Passos, Tropic of Cancer, out in plain view, it must have been smuggled. Salammbo, Strange Fugitive, Twilight of the Idols, A Farewell to Arms."
Yes, indeed, a book with short, choppy sentences a la Papa Hemingway would have been nice for this meme! OK, I'm thinking I should research a couple of the above mentioned authors and titles. Nah--not at this time of night. Since I have yet to read page 123 of this book, I fear that those ringing sentences have truly spoiled the entire story line for me! Ya think?
Now for the FUN part. That would be #5, Tag three people. And, they are... (hearing a faint drum roll right about here)....
The amazingly aerobic Ann at http://wanderingcyberspace.typepad.com
The sweet Shelley at http://kittenyarnsandcrafts.blogspot.com/
and....
Beautiful Beth at http://watersedge.typepad.com/felt_like_knitting/
Do you have any idea of the great amount of self-control it is taking to stop at three??!! To follow the actual rules, for heaven's sake??! Wow! I am so proud of me!! ;)
I'll be checking on you ladies, so give it up!
Anyone else who is doing this, please leave a comment so I can read yours too!
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. ---Catherine Aird
2 comments:
I'll post mine later today. You're not going to be very excited by the book that's closest to me. :)
Max looks just so happy with his scarf!
I love the Fibonacci striping scarf you made. My son is a math major at school and has asked me to make him a Fibonacci striping blanket. But I am such a slow knitter it would take me forever to knit it. I may have to settle for a cap or socks with the Fibonacci sequence in it.
I wanted to let you know that something happened to The Fur Kids site on blogger and also my own blog had some troubles too with missing sections! But I can't figure out what happened to the Fur Kids site, every time I tried to go to it all I got was a commercial, I am so computer green most days that I ended up deleting it.
I liked the idea of a pet site but just ran out of time keeping up with it all so I am not going to try and redo the site. Sorry.
I hope you guys are doing okay with this weird weather going through the area.
Have a happy knitting January!
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