Tag back at ya!
Mary just introduced us to a new game of tag that is quite instructional about ourselves and our friends. It's kind of book-tag that involves, well, here are the rules:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag 5 people
So, while sitting at the kitchen computer (yes, that's what we call it... I guess we could call it the forces-us-to-never-eat-at-a-table-like-civilized-people computer) Natalie and I were forced to discuss what is a book and what is not. According to Natalie, who seems to have given more thought to this, the game instruction manual for Empire at War is not a book. Neither are the liner notes for K-Os' Atlantis.
I need to swivel in my chair for this one. To my right is a book shelf full of Tolkien, Lucas and Lewis. They're all pretty close, but the largest book (and, therefore, closest) is Tolkien's illustrated The Hobbit. Page 123:
I tag: Will, Ryan, Karissa, James and Arone. If you have no blog, you can comment here... If you haven't been tagged, feel free to play along anyway.
So they all went to breakfast with him. Beorn was most jolly for a change; indeed he seemed to be in a splendidly good humour and set them all laughing with his funny stories; nor did they have to wonder long where he had been or why he was so nice to them, for he had told them himself. He had been over the river and right back up into the mountains--from which you can guess that he could travel quickly, in bear's shape at any rate.
I wouldn't mind reading this book again. Hmmm... I do have a few hours this morning...
In other news, I watched the first 3 minutes of this today. Can't watch much more.
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I'm at work and only have two books. Thanks to alphabetical order this Strategic Planning book was closer than the Canadian Press Stylebook:
"Develop Contingency Plans
Because nonprofit organizations are operating in turbulent and constantly changing environments, it is useful to devote some of the setting priorities discussions to the "what ifs" of the organization's future. Some of these conversations may already been started during the above future strategy discussion when the...."
- "Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organization: A Practical Guide and Workbook", Michael Allison, 1997.
You're lucky I wasn't at home reading porn. Although it would have been more likely that I would have to tag a comic book.
I posted my book (L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth) on my site. I am no longer IT.
I'm pleased to report that tag has been 60% successful with only Ryan and Arone left to share. Tut, tut...
Huzzah for reading!!
wait... Battlefield Earth??
Yeah. Battlefield Earth?
How pretentious ;)
American Gods:
"A wraithappeared on the right of the church,while on the left of the church 'something' with a half-glimpsed, pointed, unsettlingly bird-like face, a pale, Boschian nightmare, glided smoothly from a headstone into the shadows and was gone. Then the church door opened, a priest came out, and the ghosts, hauntes, and corpses vanished, and only the priest and the drunk were left alone in the graveyard. The priest looked down at the drunk disdainfully, and backed through the open door, which closed behind him, leaving the drunk on his own."
-Neil Gaiman
Crazy. I was hoping for something a little more up-beat, but funky imagery is what I get for picking up a Gaiman.
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