Thursday, February 14, 2008

Book Tag Thingy

Romany tagged us for this. It looks like fun. Here are the rules:
~Pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages
~Open the book to page 123 and find sentence number 5
~Post the next 3 sentences
~Tag 5 people

Here are our results.
~ The book: "Old Town in the Green Groves", by Cynthia Rylant.
~ Page 123, sentence No 5-8:

[Ma explained,] "It is melted and applied around each pane of glass. It holds all the pieces together to make a picture." Laura looked closely. The lead looked like the same lead that Pa's bullets were made of.

We tag:
Mike W.
Mark & Britt
Jon & Janet
Jimmy & Gretchen
James & Jana

You can just post your results in comments here, or send us to your blog if you've got one!

- Scotty, for all the Nowlins

2 comments:

Romany said...

Thanks Scotty!

It's a fun snapshot of what's going on in people's homes. I've enjoyed following up on people's blogs what books they have close to hand!

OK, well back to the real world now! {g}

Mike said...

From "Empire of the Sun," JG Ballard.

"Basie..." Jim called. "I'll still work for you..." But the steward had lost interest in him.

(Alright, technically the closest book was the dictionary, but I decided against that one)