A literary game

[Samantha]

Here is the game: Grab the book nearest you.
Right now.
Turn to page 23
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that sentence and, if you wish, the title.
Do not dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST BOOK..................
I think we could get some very interesting results! : )

[Anouk dM]

"He spoke precise English touched by a British accent."

-Black Order by James Rollins

[Kristen Albertson]

"'But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavor to conceal it, he must find it out.'"

 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

 

Read it twice. Going on my third time. 

[Morgan Faye]

"it was then she knew she would always hate her younger brother."

Blade of Fire, 2nd book of the Icemark chronicels

 

[Katie P.]

"The evolution of Massachusetts' government was somewhat different; the fact that the charter was brought with settlers insured that events in America would be the determining factors."  from Out of Our Past by Carl N. Degler.

 

I suppose that's what I get for procrastinating on my history homework...the most boring sentence here.

[Kristen Albertson]

Being a history geek, to me it's the most interesting. Heh.

[Monica]

"It doesn't matter."

 

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

[Lowri Greene]

"This was in 1556, four years before Raleigh was born." Haha, I suppose this just reinforces my nerdiness. It's from The Book of General Ignorance, from QI.

[Mahima]

"Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement." That was from 1984 by George Orwell :)

[Jennifer Somers Walker]

The formula for the volume of a cub is V=S^3, where S is the length of one edge.

By book, you meant Algebra II & trig book, right? :P

[Moses Fallen]

"Yackum," Bovril repeated.

 

From the amazing book Goliath, third and final book in Scott Westerfeld's trilogy, Leviathan.

[Rebecca Sharp]

"It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see." From the poem The Boy With Nails in His Eyes, from the book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & other stories by Tim Burton.

[Nadia Walrrus]

"Anyway, our love was stretching across  some big watery thing."

 

Not the most interesting sentence, I suppose... It's from Away Laughing On A Fast Camel by Louise Rennison.