The Book Thing...

[Enacielle777]

I got this on my myspace account and thought..."How fun." Since she sent it to me on myspace, I figured this would be a better place to share it, as you are willingly coming in rather than me sending an obnoxious email to people...let's see what we are reading these days!

Here are the rules:

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences in quick reply to this thread.

5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

I think this is a fun idea...most writers have a book by hand...hers was very interesting also, so I will share her post as the first reply...then my response!

 

[Enacielle777]

The fifth sentence of page 123 and the next 4...
The House was a lot smaller than I imagined but no less shabby, even under the softening cloak of snow. The shutters hung askew and only the faintest glimmer of light showed from within. It was clear we were visiting the house not in the good days of old Mr. Earnshaw but in the tenure of Mr. Heathcliff, whose barbaric hold over the house seemed to be reflected in the dour and windswept abode that we approached.

Our feet crunched on the fresh snow as we approached the front door and rapped upon the gnarled wood. It was answered, after a very long pause, by an old and sinewy man who looked at us both in turn with a sour expression before recognition dawned across his tired features and he launched into an excited gabble:
"It's bonny behavior, lurking amang t' fields, after twelve o' t' night, wi' that fahl, flaysome divil of a gipsy, Heathcliff!..."
​

Can you guess? Nope, not Wuthering Heights! It's Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots!

 

[Enacielle777]

The fifth sentence of page 123 and the next 4...

5 and 13 lines
in the 2nd and 11th grades...the 2nd-grade students
on 2 tireals...on the remaining 18 trials
4 of the 40 stimulus words
in 7 blocks...in 12 blocks

This is the APA Publication Manual, Fifth Edition. I have to use it when writing papers for school, which is what I have been doing this week!

~Shell

 

[elf_lady_9]

The fifth sentence of page 123 and the next 4...
The House was a lot smaller than I imagined but no less shabby, even under the softening cloak of snow. The shutters hung askew and only the faintest glimmer of light showed from within. It was clear we were visiting the house not in the good days of old Mr. Earnshaw but in the tenure of Mr. Heathcliff, whose barbaric hold over the house seemed to be reflected in the dour and windswept abode that we approached.

Our feet crunched on the fresh snow as we approached the front door and rapped upon the gnarled wood. It was answered, after a very long pause, by an old and sinewy man who looked at us both in turn with a sour expression before recognition dawned across his tired features and he launched into an excited gabble:
"It's bonny behavior, lurking amang t' fields, after twelve o' t' night, wi' that fahl, flaysome divil of a gipsy, Heathcliff!..."
​

Can you guess? Nope, not Wuthering Heights! It's Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots!

he he, i love that book! i survived reading Wuthering Heights for AP Lit this year by remembering the scene where Miss Haversham gives anger management counseling for the characters of WH. soooo hilarious!

 

[elf_lady_9]

"He wanted to dart forward, forgetting Christine; but the black dominoe, who also seemed prey to some strange excitement, caught him by the arm and dragged him from the crush room, far from the mad crowd through which Red Death was stalking...
The black dominoe kept turning back and, apparently, on two occasions saw something that startled her, for she hurried her pace and Raoul's as though they were being pursued. They went up two floors. Here, the stairs and corridors were almost deserted. Then Christine, whom he recognized by the sound of her voice, closed the door behind them and warned him, in a whisper, to remain at the back of the box, and, on no account to show himself."

p123 lines 5-9 of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

 

[Tariel]

As a young woman, I cried when I read sad books or watches sad movies, and these were the kinds of books or movies I preferred. I loved sentimental stories, and even though Eliot eventually coaxed my literary lastes to a level closer to his own, intoducing me to many classics I had never read, I still considered Anne of Green Gables and Little Women the two best books ever written.
This is no longer true. I know that Anne Shirley could never have existed, nor could Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.

you aksed: Winter Birds by Jamie Langston Turner. I don't recommend it.

If I used the other book I have...well...it's not exactly CF-appropriate.

 

[oncewaslost]

He was sleeping in a small tent, on a bed made of pine boughs, covered with a fur robe; he was feverish, and able to retain nothing on his stomach. To get him a nice cool air-pillow, to bathe his head and give him the juice of an orange, was the work of a few moments, and then I left, fearing to weary him, but giving him a whistle with which to call me in case of need. The poor fellow said he had never been ill before, and would rather be dead than on his back, but he had had a long, tough tramp over the mountains, "which knocked me out," said he. On the way back to "the big tent," as it has been christened, while exchanging salutations with the miners, I said, "It is sad to have an invalid neighbor" "Yes, but it's nice to have one who brings sympathy and oranges," they replied.

since you will never guess... Two Women in the Klondike by Mary E. Hitchcock.

yes, not the most exciting thing ever but i have to read all 400+ pages for my thesis.

 

[MrBF1V3]

You did say the closest book...


Quote:
...Today it's a word rather hard to take seriously.

data, datum (n.) Data is not both singular and plural: This data is [these data are] enough to make our case. When data is singular, it is always a mass noun and takes a singular verb and determiner: The data has all been checked. Datum,the old Latin singular, is still in use, particularly as a count noun taking a singular determiner and verb, as in This datum is the missing one, and has it's own plural, the regular English datums, althought his form occurs rarely.

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, ed. Kenneth G. Wilson

Happy All Hallows Eve

B5

btw- the word in question at the beginning of the quote is "dastard" or "dastardly"

Also, I neglected to count any of my WIPs when finding what is closest. None of them are books yet.

 

[ignight]

I got this on my myspace account and thought..."How fun." Since she sent it to me on myspace, I figured this would be a better place to share it, as you are willingly coming in rather than me sending an obnoxious email to people...let's see what we are reading these days!

Here are the rules:

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences in quick reply to this thread.

5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

I think this is a fun idea...most writers have a book by hand...hers was very interesting also, so I will share her post as the first reply...then my response!

haha, here goes nothing!!

"there was just such an informality in the terms of the bequest as to give hope from the law.A man of honour could not have doubted intention, but Mr. darcy chose to doubt it- or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance,imprudence, in the short any thing or nothing.

Sorry I have to go I will try to finish it later

 

[Enacielle777]

Great job everyone! Keep going! I hope to see more of what people are reading...it can really tell you a lot about someone!

 

[VickiY]

"The main objective, however, is philanthropy and this objective should become the prime concern of the tender woman's heart: "These are crucial and desperate times, there are many who are unemployed, deserted, orphans, poor, old, sick and other suffering people waiting for your action."
The appeal of Athenagoras caused mixed reaction from the parish leaders, not that they were opposed to philanthropy, but because some of them felt this could strengthen even more the authority of the clergy at the expense of the laity's authority. Eventually, however, the laymen realized the need; and the Philoptochos movement spread throughout the Archdiocese serving not only the needs of the poor, but in many cases, rescuing even parishes from complete bankruptcies.
To be sure the idea of the Philoptochos was not new in the New World.

From Chapter 5 "Special Projects" on the formation of the Philoptochos Society in 1932 by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America. The title of the book is "From Mars Hill to Manhattan" by the Rev. Dr. George Papaioannou.

 

[oncewaslost]

my books have rotated so i have another one at hand. this one's a novel and not a journal.

"But" -- the woman's bloodless fingers were tightly interlaced -- "all I have, all Natalie has, is in those claims."
"Yes! And it would require another fortune the size of both to comply with the senseless vagaries of the Interior Department and to protect your interests. I grew weary of forever sending good hard-earned dollars after bad ones, merely because of the shifting whim of some theorist five thousand miles away."
"Then I am afraid--" Mrs. Gerard's voice trailed out miserably.

The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance by Rex Beach, 1913.

yet another book for my thesis.

 

[elf_lady_9]

"You came for me," she said, her voice echoing through a tunnel of bewilderment.
"Get out! Get in that car and go like ----, Doctor. If anyone tries to stop you, run him down. Reach the police. . .real ones, with uniforms, you fool." His throat was so hot, his stomach so cold. Fire and Ice; he'd felt them before. Together. Where was it?
"You saved my life," she continued in that hollow tone, the words floating in the air. "You came for me. You came back for me and saved. . .my. . .life."

--The Bourne Identity

*ok, ok so i cheated a little, that's more than five sentences. it's just such a good part, and the sentences were so short, i had to write more.

**some inappropriate words have been omitted to make the quote CF friendly; sadly this book has almost as much swearing as the movie. my tv guardian takes out the swearing in the movie, but it can't in the book.

***I don't usually read adult thrillers, but i loved the movie so much, and this book just happened to be in the display window of my school library this week...

 

[Enacielle777]

I have been reading a lot and my house is a mess....so I thought I would share....


"First, he went out and congratulated everyone on meeting the goals for increased output and reliability.
Zapp!
Next he decided to share thoughts, feelings, and rationale. He carefully explained the situation and its ramifications. He apologized for not foreseeing the situation."

Zapp! by William C. Bynum, Ph.D.

 

[Da_Funkey_Gibbon]

The lodges and gates had been left undisturbed, and the lodge keeper's wife, white-aproned as Mrs Noah, bobbed at the car as it turned into the avenue. The temperate April sunlight fell through the budding chestnuts and revealed between their trunks green glimpses of parkland and the distant radiance of a lake. "English spring," thought Paul. "In the dreaming ancestral beauty of the English country."

-Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall

Fun idea for a thread.

 

[oncewaslost]

alright, this should be my last one for a while. i probably won't be reading much and even if i do i'll probably be far from the computer.

"Mr. Burr has never appeared solicitous for fame," commented Alexander Hamilton about his hated rival, "& that great Ambition unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant who never can keep long in a course which good men will approve." Though self-interest could not be expected to vanish, the quest for glory and reputation, as Hamilton suggested, implied the fusion of personal ambition and public service. Love of fame, the historian Douglass Adair wrote, transformed the desire for self-aggrandizement and personal reward into a "golden concern" for public service.

People who pursued fame were motivated to be better--or at least to appear better--than they were.

Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light by Susan Dunn