My Latest Five

My Latest Five

I have to start thinking about culling my personal library again and packing up some books in the next month or two, so I thought I’d revisit that old meme and see what the last five printed books I’ve read would create:

    The Meme:

  • Take five books off your bookshelf.
  • Book #1—first sentence
  • Book #2—last sentence on page fifty
  • Book #3—second sentence on page one hundred
  • Book #4—next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
  • Book #5—final sentence of the book
  • Make the five sentences into a paragraph.

The Paragraph: (Actually, there are two, because two different people are talking.)

“Honey, you’re going to be fine,” Aunt Beth said and patted Harriet on her back. She was known instantly as a Westerner.

“I want you to take this money,” I said to Michel, handing him a stack of twenties, the day before I was scheduled to leave. “I’m waiting for a relative of yours.” As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success.

The paragraph this time is not nearly as good as the first two times I did this, but perhaps this doesn’t count because I didn’t include any e-books I’ve read.

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3 thoughts on “My Latest Five”

  3. The final, dying sounds of their dress rehearsal left the Laurel Players with nothing to do but stand there, silent and helpless, blinking out over the footlights of an empty auditorium. He seemed about to say more, but then he stopped himself and stood up instead, walking to the window and staring out into the darkness at the little park across the street. There was such total silence (the whole village was holding its breath) that you could hear each and every word. It was a beautiful spring morning.
    “Wow, these words — they’re so true.”

    #1 – Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
    #2 – The Memory-Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards
    #3 – Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky
    #4 – Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
    #5 – Stranger on a Train, by Jenny Diski

    -.-.-.-

    Hee, this is always fun. 🙂

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