Book Meme
May 5, 2006 – 10:27 pm by kimschFound at Ramblings of a GOP Soccer Mom.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
My Result:
At one angle of the building was a little turret with a belvedere of round arches.
The book? A Treasury of Short Stories - Favorites of the past hundred years from Turgenev to Thurber from Balzac to Hemingway with biographical sketches of the authors. Edited by Bernardine Kielty. Published by Simon and Schuster - New York - 1948.
The story? Quattrocentisteria (How Sandro Botticelli Saw Simonetta in the Spring) By Maurice Hewlett. The story is from Hewlett’s 1899 book Little Novels of Italy.
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Your work isn’t finished, however.
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