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.

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[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