Found this at Facebook, and couldn't resist putting it here as well. The instructions for Facebook are a little different.... I don't know if we'll have any "takers," but I'm hoping we will, and that over time this will be a really interesting comment stream!
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Here's the game: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. • Turn to page 56. • Find the sixth sentence. • Post that sentence AS YOUR STATUS. AND POST these instructions in a comment to this status • Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.
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One minute I was climbing, the next I was falling.
~Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Ok... I couldn't resist... I grabbed the next closest book:
Count Ashenafi was elevated in the eyes of friends he had yet to make; his legend grew, nurtured by the eloquence of his court performer.
~The God Who Begat A Jackal by Nega Mezlekia
Thick new skin.
~Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
This is what my friend Michelle came up with when I was on the phone with her just now...
Too funny!
The people who had raised her were endowed with an appreciably greater bodily strength than the taller but lighter-weight people she was born to, and though Ayla was not considered particularly strong when she lived with the Clan, she had developed a far greater strength than she normally might have, just to keep up.
-The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel.
Wow - that's one long sentence.
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