By Jad:
OK, so this is silly and 2nd grade-ish, but I’m going to plug my favourite writer here, so think about it as something for a good cause.
- Grab the book closest to you.
- Open to page 123, scroll down to the 5th sentence
- Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog
- Name of the book and the author
- Tag 3 People
Martin looked in horror at the glass of orange liquid that Paul Bradley came back with but felt obliged to say, “Thanks” and take a drink. He was sure there were cells in his liver that were committing suicide rather than dealing dealing with Scotland’s two national drinks together in one vile cocktail. The copper tones of the room’s decor, the fluorescent orange of the Irn-Bru, and the marmalade tint of the sodium streetlamp outside the window all contributed to Martin’s sense of alienation, as if he had stepped into a sickly science-fiction world, tainted by some ecological catastrophe.
– Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn.
Isn’t she grand?
Anyway, hmmm… I’m going to tag litlove, for obvious reasons, Deirdre, and Maryam, in case they feel like it.
Natalia A. 
The closest book to me is The Very Best Baby Name Book In The Whole Wide World.
“The lover identifies the new couple he forms with the powerful parental couple of his childhood and thus is has resonance and meaning which like other aspects of the experience of love, relate to his earliest experiences. While we know that the Oedipal child longs to enter into the parental sexual and romantic drama in the place of one of his parents the replacement of the parent is not all that he seeks. Just as importantly he seeks to recreate the envied couple.”
Ethel Spector Person, “Love and Fateful Encounters: The power of romantic passion.”
(Sorry i don’t have a blog:)
Awesome!
“Amos Street, in one or two pictures in my father’s photograph album, looks like an unfinished sketch for a street. Square stone buildings with iron shutters and iron grilles on the verandas. Here and there on the windowsills pale geraniums bloom in pots between the sealed jars of cucumbers or peppers pickling in garlic and dill.”
Amos Oz, “A Tale of Love and Darkness”
Wow, Anna, you can read? Geez.
a billion points for anyone who can name any other author who named a street in his/her book after him/herself.
“Many among us sought to do what was best for the nation under our rule and did so. But many did what was bad in the eyes of God and man. And so there was the cheap Arab labor and appalling exploitation.”
Tom Segev – Elvis in Jerusalem, Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel.
Actually, the nearest book to me was My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey, but it has a chapter ending on page 123, with less than five sentences on that page. So I went for the next nearest book…
It’s a lie, I had MK read/type it for me.
yay, i was tagged! ok will do this asap.
Hey thank you for the tag! That gives me something really fun to do on the weekend!