i don't feel a thing.

[samatethecookie]

I'm feeling a lot better. You know what this means? MEME TIME.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven 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.

But after about two seconds of that she realized that Westley was out in the world now, getting nearer and nearer to London, and what if a beautiful city girl caught his fancy while she was just back there moldering? Or, worse, what if he got to America and worked his jobs and built his farm and made their bed and sent for her and when she got there he would look at her and say, "I'm sending you back, the moping has destroyed your eyes, the self-pity has taken your skin; you're a slobby-looking creature, I'm marrying an Indian girl who lives in a teepee nearby and is always in the peak of condition."

Buttercup ran to her bedroom mirror. "Oh, Westley," she said, "I must never disappoint you," and she hurried downstairs to where her parents were squabbling. (Sixteen to thirteen, and not past breakfast yet.) "I need your advice," she interrupted. "What can I do to improve my personal appearance."

"Start by bathing," her father said.
("The Princess Bride," William Goldman)

I didn't count the sentence within the parenthesis. Ignore it. :|

Comments

[gothayesd51708.livejournal.com]

"A cold chill started at the base of my spine and slithered up over my neck. I stopped and looked around me, reading for my blasting rod. I extended my magical sense as best I could, tasting the air to see what had given me the shivers.
I found nothing, and the eerie sensation eased away. I started down the alley, toward a parking garage half a block from the hospital, and tried to look in every direction at once as I went. I passed a little hold homeless man, hobbling along heavily on a thick wooden cane. A while farther on, I passed a tall young black man, dressed in an old overcoat ant tattered and too-small suit, clutching an open bottle of vodka in one heavy-knuckled hand."
--Death Masks, Book Five of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love the imagery in this a lot. I think I'm going to have to check out the series now that you've posted this. It's got me curious.

[gothayesd51708.livejournal.com]

Haha you must tell me what you think of it! I love this series so far. I am reading this one and then I have one more to go before I have to buy the rest of the series in paperback LOL! :)

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know as soon as I get my hands on it! It's been awhile since I've read a series... the last one I read was the Harry Potter series. Since then, it's been novels here and there, but nothing else. I'm trying to get started with this one fantasy series evilwildlex recommended to me called A Song of Ice and Fire. I'm just being lazy. xD;

[gothayesd51708.livejournal.com]

OOOH! I have the first book in that series but I haven't read it yet. Thank you for the reminder LOL!

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

So do I! "A Game of Thrones," right? I read the prologue and the first chapter, talking about the character Bran, before I got distracted.

[gothayesd51708.livejournal.com]

Yup that's the one! It is so long that I keep putting aside to read other books. Plus I get hooked on to too many series HAHA! I will definitely read it soon though. Maybe we can read it at the same time and discuss haha!

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

That's my problem; it's over 800 pages and it intimidates me. Might be a good idea to do what you've suggested; a little motivation is what we probably both need to get started on it, lol.

[gothayesd51708.livejournal.com]

Haha yes! That is also why I'm having trouble starting Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and finishing Outlander haha!

We should totally do that! :)