Frogdancer is quite confident that I can read. However, she didn't consider whether I can count. Numbers and I just don't mix. So when Frogdancer tagged me for a book meme that required me to count I was a little nervous but here goes.
The deal is I grab the book closest to me (with more than 123 pages), go to page 123 and write out sentences 5,6 and 7. Then, as is meme lore, tag 5 people.
I'm warning you, this is not going to be pretty. Not just because of the counting challenge but because the closest book to me is my current bookclub read Love Life by R. Kluun. This book can really be described as a racy book about breast cancer. Yep, racy.
The author is a monophobe that beds a wide range of women while his wife is dying from an extremely severe form breast cancer. So far he's not endearing himself to me. The quoted section takes place just after his wife has a mastectomy. The author is talking to a work colleague:
'I held her head up with one of those little containers under
it, you know, one of those foetus-shaped egg-boxes.'Maud hugs me. 'Has she - has she seen what it looks
like?'
That's the 3 sentences allowed, but so you are not left in the lurch here are the next two:
'No. The doctor recommends we take the bandage off together'.
I tag Fairlie, S from TeamSAK (when she's feeling up to it), ArmyWife, and anyone else who wants to join in (Fe, are you reading this?).
8 comments:
Thanks for the recommendation. I noticed the Spiderwick Chronicles on your sidebar. This is my son's favorite series after HP and LOTR.
Yes, Mrs G, TSC are good. I read one each week during the kids' swimming lessons. Must finish before the movie is released here in OZ on April 3.
Eeeewww...I don't think I'll be reading that one.
And now, I'm off to find the nearest book.
Don't think I could read that one either. Interesting idea though. And I completely stink at numbers, so I would have been quite flustered as well.
The closest book to my was actually Master A's Usborne Children's Encyclopaedia on the desk but I thought that might be a bit boring so I reached for the closest book on the shelf behind me and got Foetal Attraction by Kathy Lette. Okay, here goes.
Pg 123, sentences 5,6 & 7:
'In English, I think you'd say he was a disingenuous crustacean,' Maddy elaborated. The rest of the room regarded her with blank impatience. 'It loses a little in the translation ... Well?'
From what I remember of the book (read many years ago) it was a bit racy also. Kathy Lette not being one to shy away from a bit of shock tatic 'n all.
I'm sorry but I don't know anyone else to tag. I've never been very good at the whole 'chain mail' thing.
Spiderwick Chronicles seems to be all the rage with the young readers. It has popped up a number of times this week with varying people.
Hi ArmyWife!!! Thanks for doing the meme! Tennis coach was asking after you. Not the same now we have to run even harder on the court.
Alice, I'm rapidly reading TSCs before the movie comes out so I wonder if others are doing the same?
Yes I'm here!
I couldn't resist this meme as the nearest book to me is "They F*** You Up" by Oliver James (How to survive family life)
P 123,sentences 5, 6 & 7...
"No, but at that time I didn't have any morals at all"
"What do you mean by this?"
"I just didn't care about human life or anything else."
It's actually a great book.... that particular section is about psychopaths (obviously).
What a relief that "Love Life" is over! That book exhausted me.
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