- 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.
Here's mine:
A Scout knows there is strength in being gentle. (From the Cub Scout Webelos Handbook.)
I wish I had something more intellectual or interesting laying near me, but those are the rules. My intellectual & interesting books are on my night stand (where I think about reading them each night . . . just seconds before I collapse into exhausted oblivion .)
7 comments:
Here's mine:
"It goes like a motorboat." from The Promise by Chaim Potok.
I'm sitting at my computer which is next to my bookshelf. I tried to grab the closest book, which was the first one on the bottom shelf...but there are about 100 other books that are just as close! Is this supposed to tell something profound?
What does that say about us when my nearest book is the Cub Scout Bear Handbook? Just in case you were wondering..."Save our natural resources." Go Scouts!
Okay here you go:
BYU Studies Vol.47 Nov 2008
"There were things he wanted to say to the Lord."
This volume was AWESOME! We have been reading and highlighting/underlining this entire book since we got it in the mail about two weeks ago. It was about the Revelation on the Priesthood and the above sentence was from some of Pres. Spencer Kimball's thoughts before they all prayed.
Most of my books are either children's books or books on raising kids. But this one truly is a keeper for me!
I have enjoyed reading books by Jack Weyland.
you asked for it:
"I know that lard is not the most fashionable ingredient in the United States, but for starters, it has a unique meaty flavor you just can't duplicate with butter."
:)
The BBQ Bible
(i'm sitting by the cookbooks)
That last comment is hilarious!
Here's mine:
"Peachtree charges an interest rate that you specify on invoices that are overdue by the number of days you indicate."
Yeah, Peachtree for Dummies. How sad is that? It was the closest one.
This was fun. I might have to copy you again! I love your fun ideas! (Hope you don't mind?)
Late to the party: "If we want to find the number of arrangements such that the E's are next to each other, we find the number of arrangements of the six-letter word SIXT(EE)N (where we treat the two E's as a block), which is 6!."
That's from the solutions manual to the Art of Problem Solving's "Introduction to Counting and Probability," and yes, that really was the book closest to me (under my elbows, in fact).
Reading this sentence, I am tempted to introduce the AOPS guys to Michael Clay Thompson....
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