but, off the bookshelf i've left behind
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iceinyourmusic1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph.
It is two weeks before Christmas. The man I thought was the driver introduces himself as Yves, Bella's husband, and when he cheek-cheeks me, I think, Grandmother, what soft lips you have. "I am inclined to agree," says Simon. Plath cuts her finger and experiences revelation. And Harry K. Thaw, having obtained his release from the insane asylum, marched annually at Newport in the Armistice Day parade.
(Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual; Melissa Bank, The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing; Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace; Erica Jong, Fear of Flying; E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime)
ETA: Doing this meme reminded me that it could very well be time to read The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing again. I do like it an awful lot. It got a bunch of negative publicity back when, when everybody was busy lumping it and all the rest of the singles boom novels together, but. I wouldn't really mind if my prose flowed (flowed?) like Bank's.
Oh, sorry, maybe I should have put the Ragtime spoilers behind a cut. Spoil-ers, la-la-la.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph.
It is two weeks before Christmas. The man I thought was the driver introduces himself as Yves, Bella's husband, and when he cheek-cheeks me, I think, Grandmother, what soft lips you have. "I am inclined to agree," says Simon. Plath cuts her finger and experiences revelation. And Harry K. Thaw, having obtained his release from the insane asylum, marched annually at Newport in the Armistice Day parade.
(Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual; Melissa Bank, The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing; Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace; Erica Jong, Fear of Flying; E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime)
ETA: Doing this meme reminded me that it could very well be time to read The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing again. I do like it an awful lot. It got a bunch of negative publicity back when, when everybody was busy lumping it and all the rest of the singles boom novels together, but. I wouldn't really mind if my prose flowed (flowed?) like Bank's.
Oh, sorry, maybe I should have put the Ragtime spoilers behind a cut. Spoil-ers, la-la-la.
