Book memes
And just because I'm bored and want to proclaim my revived love of books:
Grab and Go Meme:
+Grab the nearest book.
+Open it to page 56.
+Find the fifth sentence.
+Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
+Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
'There was not a ghost of a chance of their finding it now.' --- To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The One Book Meme:
1. One book that changed your life:
John Milton, Paradise Lost
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
4. One book that made you laugh:
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (I distinctly remember laughing at Snape reading the message from the Marauders on their map)
5. One book that made you cry:
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
6. One book that you wish had been written:
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight (sorry, but I figured the world could do without it since it's caused such a ruckus)
8. One book you’re currently reading:
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
10. Now tag five people: Or just do it if you feel like it!
Grab and Go Meme:
+Grab the nearest book.
+Open it to page 56.
+Find the fifth sentence.
+Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
+Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
'There was not a ghost of a chance of their finding it now.' --- To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The One Book Meme:
1. One book that changed your life:
John Milton, Paradise Lost
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
4. One book that made you laugh:
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (I distinctly remember laughing at Snape reading the message from the Marauders on their map)
5. One book that made you cry:
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
6. One book that you wish had been written:
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight (sorry, but I figured the world could do without it since it's caused such a ruckus)
8. One book you’re currently reading:
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
10. Now tag five people: Or just do it if you feel like it!