Nearest Book meme

"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.

9 Replies to “Nearest Book meme”

  1. Only because the new ones had just been unboxed from Amazon. 20 minutes earlier and it would have been Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers.

  2. 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

  3. “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.

  4. “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

  5. 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!

  6. “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.)

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