Book Meme

Feb. 10th, 2010 07:55 pm
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Caught from just about everyone on my flist, because it looks like harmless fun.

1. 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

(I did as [livejournal.com profile] primsong did and took the top five books off my bedside table. I hadn't realised one of them was even there... It made for a bizarre mixture, so this should be fun:

Book #1. Jerry White London in the Nineteenth Century
Book #2 Bernard Knight The Sanctuary Seeker
Book #3 Jaclyn Moriarty The Spell book of Listen Taylor
Book #4 Diane Marelli Meet Your Ancestors
Book #5 David Thomson Danny Fox

Early in the morning of Friday 6 April 1810 the House of Commons resolved to confine Sir Francis Burdett, one its number, in the Tower of London. My sword arm is getting too slow and I'd be run through at the first skirmish. Occasionally, the game would pause as the sun-heated tarmac became too much for one or other of the children. I now had enough information to convince me that my Pudvine and Pudwine ancestors were of French origin. And there was so much food left over that Danny Fox didn't have to go out hunting or searching for a very long time.

Erm, well, maybe just strange, then. Never mind. :lol:

Date: 2010-02-10 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] primsong.livejournal.com
Oh I don't know - there's some potential there for children playing at being historic Londoners whilst discussing their French ancestry... kinda... ;-)

Date: 2010-02-11 03:57 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] clocketpatch
It could be the outline for a novel with an odd alternative-history SF theme?

Date: 2010-02-11 06:43 am (UTC)

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