All the Cool Kids Are Doing It
This month’s book meme, that is. Bubs and Johnny Yen and Lulu have played, and I want to get invited to sit at their lunch table.
Here’s what you do:• Grab the nearest book.
• Open to page 161.
• Find the fifth full sentence.
• Post the sentence.
From Tim Sandlin’s Skipped Parts:
The fantasy worked me up enough to do the tongue deal and even to touch Chuckette’s one shoulder.
Don't stop at that sentence. Read Sandlin’s GroVont series; you’ll thank me for it. Tim Sandlin is on my author top-ten list for many good reasons.
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posted by Cup @ 12:08 PM
15 comments
15 Comments:
funny--i am actually on p161 of the latest of 5 books i am juggling..it is a book called 'but enough about me...a jesrsey girl's unlikely adventures among the absurdly famous' by jancee dunn..her writing reminds me of yours--but she has more access to the 'absurdly famous'..it has a blurb by dolly parton SO you know it is good.
not first --- damn...
Oh well. I'm going to do this one tomorrow. Give me something to actually write about!
:)
OK, I'm playing.
Just saw Bruce Campbell at the top of your five. Groovy.
"It made no sense."--not too interesting, from Donna Leon's The Anonymous Venetian. Haven't read it yet, just brought it home on loan from Emily. Mom didn't like it much...
"It made no sense." That is the most beautifully simple and appropriate 5th sentence I've seen yet!
Beth, that was kind of a risque little passage you quoted there. Can you tell us more about "the tongue deal?"
Thank you for visiting my blog and saying nice things... come back again.
I feel I've been to this blog before ... ah yes, Tanya Espanya and Passion of the dale
Fun meme! The nearest book to me is John Hodgman's "The Areas of My Expertise," and here goes:
"But rumors that they will regularly sneak into your hot tub and drown there are largely inventions of the hot tub-grate industry."
M: Anybody has more access to the absurdly famous than I, doll. I'll have to check out the book.
MARNI: I firsted you.
NADINE: I liked your sentence; I've added your book on my to-be-reads.
BLOG PORTLAND: Exactly.
HOLLYC: Let me know if you like it.
BUBS: See, that's the idea: You get intrigued, you get the book. It's well worth reading. Funny and unusuall and written well.
GIFTED TYPIST: You're welcome; I enjoy your blog. Dale is the center of the blogosphere these days, y'know.
ROB: Interesting, intriguing sentence ...
"Turn left here, following both teal diamonds and white blazes, walking gradually closer to the shore."
Now if that ain't a page turner I don't know what is!
"The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change." - Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
Sounds ominous.
DAN: You left us hanging on the edge of our seats! What's the name of the book?
DJ CAYENNE: I'm so impressed that you have Auster at your office elbow.
"Hiking the Jersey Highlands" (1st edition, May 2007).
I can't wait to see how it ends!!
Will he fall in the pond? Will a busty female lifeguard save him?
Oooh; sounds like a page-turner! We'll expect a full report when you're done.
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