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Nearest Book Meme

""Buy it." This was my sister Amy's advice in regard to everything, from a taxidermied horse head to a camouflage thong. "Just get it, " she says. "You'll feel better.""

David Sedaris in When You Are Engulfed in Flames.

Rules:
* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write this sentence - either here or on your blog.
* Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence.
* Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.

Luckily I was on the couch near a huge pile of books that's about to be moved to make room for the Christmas tree. They accumulate over the year due to my wife's three novel a week crack (-ing a book) habit and then they move to storage.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).