The green dragon has a new thread going that we can try!
Pick up the nearest book or reading material to you. Flip to page ....56 and skip down to the fifth line. Now post that line and book and author!
"Her voice was flat, without expression"
Kay hooper, After Caroline
I have two books equally grabable:
"If you want these pieces of information to appear on any reports, forms, or queries..."
Access 2003 for Dummies by Alan Simpson, Margaret Levine Young and Alison Barrows.
or
"...grandfather, who would govern both Castile and Aragon until his death."
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
I've actually done this on a blog meme. It is fun!
And I also have two books in front of me:
"...I had tried. But when I switched to an agile fighter jet with short..."
~
Wesley the Owland
"...men of Colophon, who had been worsted in factional strife and had been..."
~The Histories by Herodotus
Well as i'm at work this is the closet book to me at the moment:
"Tough nylon flags hold up in any weather"
~PeachTree Business Products, property management supplies
The closest "grabbable" book with 56 pages is
The Tale of Despereaux:
"...the word. "I am not sorry. I will not renounce my..."
I have several books near, but none have 56 pages. So I will just open to a spot and write the 5th line.
"Pot had a dot," she read."
Hooray for Reading Day!I have three books right in front of me..I like this game!
#1:ding, tired locked and squealing against the brakes, spinning
~Twilight
#2 Comma Splice: The comma splice consists of two independant...
~ English Composition
#3 Who are split brain persons? What evidence do they provide...
~Introduction to Psychology
I can not figure out how to end the run away italics!
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I'm about to review this book:
"Griffin called me, wanting two suppers in my lady's quarters,"
actually the sixth line, as the fifth is "could do."
Alternate Realities by C.J. Cherryh
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I grabbed the magazine on the desk, but alas there are only two sentences on page fifty-six of October's issue of "Bead & Button."
*goes for next nearest reading source*
"...free-range (pasture fed) diary cattle are infinitely superior to their commer-..."
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The Nutrition Solution: A Guide to Your Metabolic Type.
"...about confronting death. Gross anatomy provides the medical..."
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers"...to be all but over, horses and mules slipped and broke their legs,..."
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Ishi in Two WorldsI am stumped. When did my mother read anything in the living room?
From the drawer to the left of my desk:
"'Let me ask you something, Detective Clancy...don't you have any real crime to solve?'"
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Rocket Man,
William Elliott Hazelgrove(The closest book to me was actually a technical manual from a chemical company but alas, it only had 54 pages.)
"... onstage quickly changed the subject. It was as though Elias..."
Chew on ThisTaken from the closest shelf a room away:
"It was a painting of boats sailing up a creek, surrounded by..."
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The Amulet of Samarkand"...porch, looking up at a ceiling fan above me, moths..."
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The Lightning Thief"...me was more life than I'd ever experienced in all the years..."
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How I Live Now"Sing nodded, dashing back down his hallway."
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Alcatraz the Evil Librarians (verses should be in there, but the touchtone won't work with it)
"...son of Ragnar, where would be the honor in that?"
~
Fire StarMessage edited by its author, Dec 4, 2008, 5:06pm.
"Charlie looked almost impressed."
Broad Street, my current ER.
"...battered and poorly kept but could withstand such treatment..."
The Indigo King(I had to use page 57 because page 56 is just a picture)
....jitters, but I had guy-in-basement jitters and Loretta jitters......
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
Polly, that is so funny that that's the book near you because i have 2 books within reach of me now and here they are:
"...a hand clamped onto my upper arm. I jumped and..."
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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
and
"...-gertip to grandma's back, deftly turned her away from..."
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Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
for those of you wondering "gertip" is Fingertip
"...had finally taken a wife simply to silence all those in his circle who..."
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
"This arrangement copyright © 2006 by Chappel & Co."
"The Salvation Army Caroler's Favorites Part 1 Bb Instrument" by Eric Leidzen, Et all.
"...sixth decade of life. Many of the courtesans had been in his harem..."
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
I like this thread! Let's see here...
"...until he crashed his car by junction twelve. It rolled down an..."
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The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
"'The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks...'"
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (I need to remember to put this book back on the shelf upstairs, I forgot it was in my room)
"The music changed, and Charlie tapped on Edward's..."
-Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (duh!) ;)
"....stealing my socksand then hiding them, usually....."
By: Jennifer L. Holm Penny from Heaven
p.s I know, kinda strange!!
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Hey Espy, are you an Early Reviewer? Cause I'm pretty sure they had a Sanderson book up this month...
I am, and I've already read the book (Foggi got it from the library, and it's what is quoted in 30). I still hope I get the book since it was excellent and I'll want to own it anyway.
"...the small wood above the farm where the rooks and jack-..."
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Prentice Hall Literature, section from
The Birds by Daphne du Maurier (yes, my LA book)
"...cause the crest is greater toward the rear end of the animal,..."
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Catwatching by Desmond Morris
Yay! I have a new book to try this with:
"...quarry because you know it put up a good fight. It's about feeling proud..."
~
The Devious Book for Cats by Fluffy & Bonkers (UK edition! Thanks again LadyN!)
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