Grab a sentence from the nearest…
Topic #73:
Grab the nearest book (or website) to you right now. Jump to paragraph 3, second Sentence. Write it in a post.
Bonus: Make up a sentence to follow the first one, but make it go in an entirely different direction that the actual book or website does.
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In the fall of 1998, Beverly decided to invite a group of friends to dine at the farm. The chickens were laying and it was an extraordinary site.
I love this prompt. Will respond in tomorrow’s post as today’s is done.
from “Revive Us Again” by Mark A. Finley: “The paraclete is one who stands with us at all times comforting, instructing, strengthening, guiding, and filling the future with hope.” Do you have a friend like that?
I love this!
Ha! Nearest book, The Pilgrim’s Progress, third paragraph is all, only one sentence.
“Markets in the future are disregarded to make our model simple to work with, and this simplification will be essentially harmless at this level of analysis.” Do you think the model in question knows Tyra Banks?
So funny. I love it.
wow this is a good one
will definitely do this tomorrow!
“And it distressed me that Lord Cromwell’s name, even more than that of the king, now evoked fear everywhere.”
Dissolution, C.J.Sansom (2003)
Quote taken from the book in my bag, which is my current read – given to me as a gift – as I sit in the cafe within the lovely Pheonix Cinema, London (the oldest purpose built cinema in the UK), eating Smoked Haddock Kedgeree and drinking a pint of ‘Dark Star Espresso Stout’ – just to really set the scene.
What a interesting daily blog idea – I love this one.
I love this post… Opens up to interesting ideas, creativity and current read of bloggers…Gr8 work Scott
Krazy Memoirs
“Outside, the rain had stopped but the glass was still pebbled with bright drops.” The Killing Floor, Lee Child (1997)
A time to remember forever…..
The hit of Hurricane David to the Dominican Republic. The noise of the sea, the shaking and falling of trees, and the absolute chaos in which the country stood for more than 3 months, was a real shock to me. More than one month without running water, no electricity, and no facilities to lead a normal life…Really unforgetable
“I go downstairs half-shot in the middle of the night because the smoke detector’s beeping, trip over the cat and alsmot kill myself, and your symapathies are with the cat.” Full Dark, No Stars – Stephen King
Exciting! The nearest book to me-> Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and it’s all small stuff by Richard Carlson…and I landed in Topic 5…Develop Your Compassion! Just perfect!
Can’t wait to write about it!
Ugh. I hate these. I usually see these when it’s dinner time and I’m sitting next to a cookbook. I’ll just grab my nook. “He assures me that all the facts related therein are strictly and wholly True, but refuses to give either the Surnames of the Persons Concerned, or the Place where these Extraordinary Events occurred.”
The Great God Pan – Arthur Machen (1890)
I did good on this post http://thehiltonburnellfiles.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/grab-a-sentence-from-the-nearest
Here’s mine-> http://wp.me/p15uKP-jY
No momento estou lendo um livro bastante interessante. Quando o peguei nas mãos achei que não iria gostar, comecei a ler qual não foi a minha surpresa? Estou gostando é muito leve, estou quaze no final do livro.
O nome do livro: Tirando os sapatos, autor Nilton Bonder Rabino da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, ele escreve muito bem e o melhor super moderno.
Nem parece Rabino. Não suporto radicalismo.
Abraços a todos!
Mina!
http://getreadingnow.wordpress.com/
Reading is my life
In his 1953 semi-autobiographical book with Guy Bolton Bring on the Girls!, Wodehouse suggests that Jeeves was based on an actual butler called Eugene Robinson that he employed for the purpose of study, and recounts a story where Robinson extricated Wodehouse from a real-life predicament; he also says that he named his Jeeves after Percy Jeeves (1888–1916), a then-popular English cricketer for Warwickshire. Percy Jeeves was killed at the Battle of the Somme during the attack on High Wood in July 1916, two months before the first appearance of the eponymous butler who would make his name a household word.
I grabbed one from Mitch Albom’s Tuesday’s with Morrie..
http://joknut.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/1-3-2/
You can push each other to greater heights of creativity and vividness.
I love this one!!
This was an interest topic. I went and found a sentence and joined in on this one and wrote a post.
“The next thing he knows it`s Sunday lunchtime, and he`s sitting under fake oak beams and prints of fox hunting, nursing a pint of “real” ale born and bred less than twenty miles from where he sits, sipping, looking to take the edge off his hangover.”
Taken from A Man Walks Into A Pub (A Sociable History of Beer)
by Pete Brown
Excelente idea/mecanismo, como todas las de Uds., de planteamiento para desarrollar un “post”. ¡Un millón de gracias, thanks a lot! ¡Congratulaciones!
greetings by
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/under-construction/
A Gate At The Stairs, Lorrie Moore
“Once brought out into the light, he would be in a perpetual, holy condition of bedazzlement and wonder; no story would ever be equal to the thing itself.”
Then he bit into his grilled cheese (yellow American on white bread)
Too much fun:http://wp.me/p1daWe-8n
I got this… from Wikipedia
Guess what… I am preparing my examination for tomorrow. It’s about hormone…
Huh… bloody hormone…
Done
>> http://ittakes10k.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/1-138-of-10000-3rd-paragraph-2nd-sentence
“Then it became interesting and beautiful.”
My sentance: “As the skin gaped open, the underlying fat layer shone like mother-of-pearl.”
First sentance from the introduction: Land of Flowers by Jeff Klinkenberg.
I wanted it to be a more interesting sentance, and I hesitated, but I had to stay honest. I wonder how many people rejected the closest book or the applicable sentance.
I grabbed Haruki Murakami’s “Kafka on the Beach”. The third paragraph only has one sentence, which could be translated as something like “How much?”
That would be a short post.
I wrote about a webpage of my own instead. It’s about a moving letter that a vicar’s wife wrote in 1902 to the woman who would be the vicar’s wife in the the same parish in 2002. The instructions were to leave the letter unopened for 100 years. True story.
http://zolh2011.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/letter-from-a-vicars-wife/
I think perhaps I got lucky looking at what you guys picked. I opened John LeCarre’s A most wanted man and got “tell him it was all my fault” . SO I’ve written about a time when I had to put my hand up for something awful.
Hope you enjoy reading about it.
http://murraylaidlaw.wordpress.com
I will do just that… going to reach for a book… hope it has a easy theme or topic to be able to add to it!!!
“Now I am shadow
“Lost in the forest
“Of a skull.”
3rd poem, 2nd sentence, “from the Desert (The Diary of Beirut Under Seige, 1982)”, from “Fire In the Soul: 100 Poems for Human Rights”, New Internationalist in association with Amnesty International.
Check out my poetry blog:
“Stumbling along the sidewalk: It’s a bumpy world out there.”
http://gsb3.net
Excellent topic… I enjoyed this one because the randomness of the sentence selected was part of the fun.
I just wrote a post on it as per the pingback above.
Elizabeth
This made me feel slightly nostalgic. But my contribution is up on the blog
Scripture teaches that night-and-day prayer is crucial for the fullness of God’s power and purpose to be released (Lk. 18:7–8; Isa. 62:6–7).
So random =]
Love the book I chose: http://tantienhime.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/grab-a-sentence-from-the-nearest/