Book Worm Award Meme

Sheri at Bookopolis has tagged me for a meme! I've done this meme before, but I like it so much that I'll go it again. Here are the rules:

Open the closest book to you—not your favourite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment. Turn to page 56 and write out the fifth sentence as well as the next two to five sentences.Pass this on to five blogging friends.

The book at hand is An Inconvenient Wife, by Megan Chance (it was sitting in my handbag that's sitting next to the couch I'm sitting on).

The fifth sentence on p. 56 of this particular book is dialogue and might be confusing taken out of context. So I'll skip down a bit:

"It wasn't until the next morning that I realized how much I wanted to believe my own words.

I went downstairs to find my father breakfasting in the dining room. It was so odd to see him there that I stopped in surprise.

'Papa! What brings you here this morning?'"

OK, not the most scintillating passage, but that's it. I'm not really into tagging people in particular, so if you're reading this, just consider yourself tagged!

Comments

Michelle said…

Oh that is such an interesting meme! I enjoy your blog...

November 18, 2008 at 12:09 AM

Another giveaway

This time, the publicist at WW Norton sent me two copies of The Glass of Time , by Michael Cox--so I'm giving away the second copy. Cox is the author of The Meaning of Night, and this book is the follow-up to that. Leave a comment here to enter to win it! The deadline is next Sunday, 10/5/08.

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