I have been tagged again, this time by Yarravillepaul. This is a different sort of one. It is the Page 123 escapade.
The instructions were: “the mandate: pick up a book on the top of your book stack, turn to page 123, read the first five sentences, then post the next three sentences”.
So being a bit anal when it came to instructions, this was the result:
'You saw her come in. She and her brother have been to dinner.'
'You only think so.'
Doesn't give you much does it? This is from an E.M. Forster omnibus I took away to Adelaide with me to ensure I had enough to read during the cricket. It is from The Longest Journey.
I thought that was a bit boring, so to prove I was not THAT anal, I picked up another book, which I haven't yet started, but hope to soon. It is Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach:
Naturally, Florence talked about her plans for the Ennismore Quartet. The week before they had gone to their old college and played Beethoven's Razumovsky right through for her tutor, and he was obviously excited. He told them straight away they had a future, and must at all costs hang together and work extremely hard.
...hhhmmmm, it's got me intrigued....
I'm not really into tagging, but I do note that Miss L. over at Melange, has a post apropos of this, so she may like to participate.
3 comments:
Hi Campbell,
I’ve never heard of the Page 123 escapade before but will gladly participate. This is from the next book on the top of my reading stack “Whitethorn Woods” by Maeve Binchy. “He and I gripped each other’s hands. Janice was going back to her flat, where Franklin would join her later. He and Wilfred were out at yet another business meeting.”
Hmm. This sounds vaguely like one those “romance novels” that I loathe.
I wonder if you being tagged by “Yarravillepaul” about books and my blog pertaining to “Reading Preferences” simultaneously might be worthy of a “coincidence file” according to Nash?
I’m like you Campbell, in regards to tagging. However, we haven’t heard from Nash ( Drift ) for quite sometime, so perhaps he’d like to participate in the Page 123 escapade?? He tagged me last year, so it’s “payback” time!! Crickey!
Hi Campbell,
Do you think Nash has been carried off by bandicoots? Perhaps he thinks the “tag” is arduous (although it’s really quite easy) and is avoiding us like the plague. Hmmm.
Hi Campbell,
8 DAYS and ticking but who’s counting?
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