"Baris clapped the Supervisor on its large, muscular back." Doctor Who: The Doctor Trap, Simon Messingham
Rules: * Get the book nearest to you. Right now. * Go to page 56. * Find the 5th sentence. * Write this sentence – either here or on your blog. * Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence. * Don’t look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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9 Replies to “Nearest Book meme”
How did I know it would be a Doctor Who book?
Only because the new ones had just been unboxed from Amazon. 20 minutes earlier and it would have been Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers.
It is: “Harris complicates the idea of a coherent disciplinary discourse and maintains that the job of teachers is to help students negotiate the multiple and contradictory discourses in which they will be implicated as writers and communicators” — Multiliteracies for a Digital Age / Stuart A. Selber
“You always go away, and I have to take care of Zoe and Enzo all by myself, and I can’t do it!” — The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
“You have an active curiosity.” — StrengthsQuest, 2nd. edition
“He had begun the afternoon by taking down from their places the various works in his meagre library which bore more or less relation to the task in hand.” -Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination
Bibliomancy!
I’ve always heard this as turning to p. 23, sentence 5–I wonder when it changed to p. 56? There are a bunch of google results for p. 23 from 2004, and p. 56 from 2008. Interesting!
“dribbling violation: steps, traveling, walking” Flip Dictionary, Barbara Ann Kipfer. Writer’s Digest Books, 2000. (My quote probably would have been a lot more interesting if the nearest book to me hadn’t been a reference tool.)
How did I know it would be a Doctor Who book?
Only because the new ones had just been unboxed from Amazon. 20 minutes earlier and it would have been Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers.
It is: “Harris complicates the idea of a coherent disciplinary discourse and maintains that the job of teachers is to help students negotiate the multiple and contradictory discourses in which they will be implicated as writers and communicators” — Multiliteracies for a Digital Age / Stuart A. Selber
“You always go away, and I have to take care of Zoe and Enzo all by myself, and I can’t do it!” — The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
“You have an active curiosity.” — StrengthsQuest, 2nd. edition
“He had begun the afternoon by taking down from their places the various works in his meagre library which bore more or less relation to the task in hand.” -Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination
Bibliomancy!
I’ve always heard this as turning to p. 23, sentence 5–I wonder when it changed to p. 56? There are a bunch of google results for p. 23 from 2004, and p. 56 from 2008. Interesting!
“dribbling violation: steps, traveling, walking”
Flip Dictionary, Barbara Ann Kipfer. Writer’s Digest Books, 2000.
(My quote probably would have been a lot more interesting if the nearest book to me hadn’t been a reference tool.)
“How can I?”
-A Christmas Carol