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Book Meme #1

From [-★-]i have my own ways that i stride[-★-] - book thing

"1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same."

I'm not tagging to others, but if you post answers on your blog, leave a comment, OK?

Here's mine (of course, the book I picked had to have three hugely long sentences as the sixth, seventh and eighth ones on page 23. It truly was the closest:

"May never Zeus, the all-wielder,
Against my feeble will
Set his strength; nor ever may I
By the staunchless flood of my father,
By the shores of Oceanus, cease
With hallowed offering of oxen
to worship the gods. May never
My tongue give offence, but always
This purpose abide in my soul.

Ah, sweet to prolong our days
In the courage of hope, and sweet
with ever dawning delights
To nourish the heart.

(Anyone want to guess the book, leave a comment...)

Book Meme #2

Here's another Book meme I found on the Smart Cookie Blog:

"...discovered this book meme on Jen’s site whilst blog reading this afternoon. It’s a list AND its about books, so I pretty much have to do it, too.

Instructions: In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of. In the comments, let me know if you’re up for it. I left some books in just regular old font, these are the ones I am not sure I want to read or not."

Here's mine:

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

2. +Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

3. +To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

4. +Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

5. +The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)

6. +The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)

7. +The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)

8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)

9. *Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)

10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

11. +Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)

12. * Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)

13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)

14. +A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)

17. *Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)

18. +The Stand (Stephen King)

19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)

20. +Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

21. +The Hobbit (Tolkien)

22. +The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

23. +Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

24. +The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)

29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

30. Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom)

31. *Dune (Frank Herbert)

32. +The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)

33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)

34. +1984 (Orwell)

35. *The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)

38. +I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb)

39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

40. +The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)

42. *The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)

44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)

45. +Bible

46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)

47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

48. +Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)

49. +The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

50. + She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)

51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)

52. +A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

54. +Great Expectations (Dickens)

55. +The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

56. *The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)

57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)

58. +The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)

59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

60. *The Time Traveller's Wifc (Audrew Niffenegger)

61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)

64. +Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)

65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)

66. *One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)

68. +Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) -

69. +Les Miserables (Hugo) Saw the play, does that count?

70. +The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

71. +Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)

72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)

73. +Shogun (James Clavell)

74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

75. +The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)

77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

78. +The World According To Garp (John Irving)

79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)

80. +Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)

81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)

82. +Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)

83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)

84. *Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)

85. +Emma (Jane Austen)

86. +Watership Down (Richard Adams)

87. +Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)

89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)

90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)

91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)

92. +Lord of the Flies (Golding)

93. +The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

95. +The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)

96. +The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

97. +White Oleander (Janet Fitch)

98. +A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)

99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)

100. Ulysses (James Joyce)