I'm it! Book meme!

[orangerful]

impalalove tagged me!

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5.Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.

When a friend first told me the title of Lewis's new album, I smirked. 'Young Blood' -- does he still have it or does he just want to fuck it? Both, evidently. It's hardly surprising that Lewis has ended up as a dirty old man. After all, he was a dirty young man, forever doomed to live down his marriage to his thirteen-year-old second cousin, Myra Brown.
-- Radio On by Sarah Vowell

This book was directly to my right at arm level. If I had reached in front of me, you would have gotten 'Sandman' which would have been interesting since it's a graphic novel! And if I had reached in front of me but up a bit, you would have gotten Joss Whedon's biography. So just be thankful for small favors :P

Hm...who to tag? Lets see, how about jellibean (since I know she'll jump on a chance to procrastinate more), bittertwee (who knows what she's got lying near by!), sabrinanymph, cheshire_c (two librarians, can't wait to see what random titles they have within reach!), and snarkel (though she's not really a meme kinda girl, it's worth a try to see what she ends up with).

Comments

[cheshire-c.livejournal.com]

I've done this one in my own journal before (http://cheshire-c.livejournal.com/140278.html), so I'll just post here in the comments:

• At the beginning of the twentieth century, American pasta consumption was so small that, per capita, it barely registered at all. By 1930 it was up to nearly four pounds per person per year. In the early 1980s, the amount had risen to more than eleven pounds a year. Today the average American consumes about twenty pounds a year, but we still have a long way to go to keep up with our Italian counterparts--we barely eat a third of what they do.
  ---Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating, by Ari Weinzweig

A great book; you learn a lot about how to determine the quality of food. I recommend it, and just by chance, the library owns it. :-)

[impalalove]

I was so very curious what you would have. Certainly an interesting novel. Is it good? ^^

[bittertwee.livejournal.com]

I would play but.. my computer is hosed at the moment (it half boots and then just stops), so I'm sitting here cross legged on the floor using a friend's laptop. I'm using HP7 as a mousepad because it's about the right height, so that would have to be my answer, and.. yawn. If I rule that out.. I'm sitting in front of my bookshelf and a bunch of books are equidistant from me, so then I'd be picking out the most impressive one, which I've been instructed not to do. So I think I'm disqualified.. (ok, that was way more boring than if I'd just picked a book)

unrelated ps. I got an ad for the gap today which featured John Krasinski as one of their models(??)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

"just by chance" huh? sure sure ;-) nudge nudge wink wink

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

really? You should save that ad. And frame it. hehe.

Also, I heard Bishop Allen's song on a digital photo commercial "click click click click camera". It was really only a matter of time.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I love Sarah Vowell. She doesn't really write novels, they are usually books of essays. But this one was her first book, which is an account of her first few years at NPR and how she got into the radio business. She doesn't hold back, as I'm sure you can tell ;-) 'Assassination Vacation' is my favorite book of hers though (which, oddly enough, I do not own!)

[bittertwee.livejournal.com]

oh that just sucks. It's bad enough when songs from my formative years are used to shill for Taco Bell or Swiffer. But I figured with bands I like now, I at least have a couple of years, especially when they aren't all that popular to begin with. I guess Moby changed all that. Fortunately, I've only heard Belle and Sebastian as intro music on NPR, and ocassionally in the background in movies (they were playing in a bar scene in Devil Wears Prada, for one thing)