international book week meme

[rushthatspeaks]

The fifth sentence on page 52 of the book closest to me, sans context: "The audiences, mostly local villagers of all ages, weren't paying attention half the time."*

The closest book to me was EIGHTEEN ENTIRE INCHES AWAY. The horror the horror WHY DID WE CLEAN THE LIVING ROOM.

* You didn't expect me to leave it entirely sans context, did you? How Music Works, David Byrne.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"She caught sight of Lesley's masked face and took an involuntary step backward--works every time."

I have answered people's posts four different times today with the closest book to me, and it was genuinely a different closest book each time. Same computer desk. This is a good life I have.

[encephalogistic.livejournal.com]

"He seemed to be in a dark green place full of tangled roots and hairy vegetable tubes: and all at once he saw shapes in it moving and writhing that were not vegetable but human."

C.S. Lewis writes lots of run-on sentences, so counting was hard.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

One of the previous closest books was Jonathan Israel's Enlightenment Contested, which, whew. So I sympathize.

[(Anonymous)]

That was my entry too on Facebook. Great story don't you think?

[encephalogistic.livejournal.com]

It was! The buildup and climax with Reason and the Giant was spectacular.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

" 'Exactly,' Jupiter said."
The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Is that the second or third Ben Aaronovitch?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Third. Finished it last night.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I haven't been doing this because I can't decide if closest means on the left or the right. I mean, they're both equally close, yes? So closest to which hand? Arrgh!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I have a stack of books next to me and was trying to decide if "closest" meant the one on top, which I could reach most easily, or the next one in the stack, which was askew from the rest of the stack and therefore technically closest to me.

Here's one of them: "Chill for at least an hour."

[papersky.livejournal.com]

What GOOD advice!

Right: She went back to the barn and discovered that the soldiers had provided one small lamp with an open wick fed by coconut oil.

Left: And they are after all my former gods, though my new ones seem no better.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

...but the closest book to me is your book. If I read a sentence from it, spoilers! O noes!

Next closest:

"Jingle Bells!"

(Next several sentences: "Jingle Bells! Jingle all the way! You need a date for New Year's Eve, and Steve Dallas is free that day!")

[telophase.livejournal.com]

"It wasn't until working on the Bouchon cookbook that I understood why."