The Book Game!

This showed up on my Facebook feed, and I thought it seemed fun so we could adapt it to YWS, seeing as we're readers and writers and all.

Instructions:
* Grab the book closest to you. Now.
* Go to page 123.
* Find the 6th sentence.
* Post that sentence in a reply to this thread.
* Don't go looking for your favourite book or the coolest one you have -- just grab the closest one!

Odd...the person I took this from is American but they kept the British spelling of "favorite"...

Anyway, so mine is..."The next year, H.H. Clark, an advertising man, wrote an incisive article for a coffee trade journal."

From [u]Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World" by Mark Pendergrast. I'm using it for a paper on how coffee shows the connections between technology and culture.

Hm...if I was in a more creative mood, perhaps this could even spark a story...

Wicked "At last Boq cornered Galinda on the porch and pleaded with her to talk with him."

Crime and Punishment: "There was an ironical smile on his lips, and in this smile there was a touch of a new element, a kind of irritable impatience."

And Anonamuse, I love your avatar! L is awesome.

Inkdeath: "But tonight, yet again, the enchantment didn't seem to be working."

The Exorcist:

And then bending at the waist, started whiring her torso around in rapid, strenuous circles.

There aren't six sentences on that page in mine XD But the last one is: 'Wherever it is, you have company.'

That would be James Patterson, Honeymoon.

"Tell me, what did you think of me before that day I gave you the note?"

1984 by George Orwell

"The Heart of Myrial" Gilarra had begun to lead Kanella and Annas toward the cluster of neat white artisans' dwellings, when suddenly a soldier blocked their way.

There were some short sentences after a little dialogue, so I didn't count them.

Am I spelling 'dialogue' right? Because if so, my computer doesn't know that.






-ClimberSquirrel

"Certe tute iubebas animam tradere, inique, me inducens in amorem, quasi tuta omnia mi forent."

-The Student's Catullus

"Hugh blows the yucca pollen off his blackened shrimp while I push back the sleeves of my borrowed sport coat and serach the meat tower for my promised potatoes."
-from David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day

The Other Boleyn Girl "I think you would find the Bible forbids it," Anne said provocatively.

I laugh because if it was the sixth sentence on page 124, let's just say it would be 'Mature' themes.

From 'The sea of Trolls:

"I was thinking...you don't need Lucy."

From The Princess Bride by William Goldberg: "Inigo, at the age of twenty-seven, began having a few extra glasses of wine at night, to help him get to sleep.