Meme, for the heck of it:

[xyzzysqrl]

momentrabbit did a meme. I might as well too.

Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence and these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

...hmm. Bunch of short sentences in dialogue. I'll post the whole 'fifth'...

"That's right. My colleague. Oh, Guru! Lunchtime! Wake up!" William Lloyd Floyd shouted, and the old hunchbacked guy woke up.

-- Daniel Pinkwater, "Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars".

It was this, part of the big "Five" collection on the table to my left, or the Bone collection on the shelf just below me.

Comments

RE: Meme, for the heck of it.

[demonlifehealer.livejournal.com]

"Hedwig-Hedwig-"
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling.

Re: Meme, for the heck of it.

[xyzzysqrl]

Hello, Potter-fan of much multicolored text! Er, who are you? Should I know you? DO I previously know you? These things worry me.

Re: Meme, for the heck of it.

[demonlifehealer.livejournal.com]

No, I recently reactivated my live journal account and this challenge was in the spotlight and it looked like fun so I did it. In all truth I had an account but I never did anything with it and didn't use it for about a year and then I started to learn how to blog and decided I should start again on livejournal. The challenge was really random but I still liked it. Just a question though...What does Meme mean? I've seen it before but I don't know what it means. Lol.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Everybody else has novels next to them. I have a textbook. XD

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I do," he said.

[xyzzysqrl]

And he was married.

[worldwalkerpure.livejournal.com]

Van Rennsselaer had originally been commited to Crawford; and Martin Van Buren, who was anxious to block Adam's election, urged him to hold firm. - 'Presidential Anecdotes', Revised Edition, by Paul F. Boller, Jr.

In other news, I am extremely impressed that Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars was the book closest to you. Daniel Pinkwater was one of the five great authors of my childhood, and I might not have replied at all if weren't for the sheer nostalgia factor.

[xyzzysqrl]

Actually, the closest book to me was Five Novels by him.

Note on that Amazon page you can get Five and Four as a combo pack. That makes NINE BOOK, for a steal.

And that's wonderful.

[worldwalkerpure.livejournal.com]

I must buy these.

[hat-of-nikitich.livejournal.com]

Closest thing was an overflowing bookcase, so I grabbed blindly! ...And, I also have short choppy sentences, therefore:

"So now I"m a bus monkey. Yep. Ridin' the big banana. Old Yeller."

--James St. James, Freak Show