what librarian could resist a book meme?
Sep. 21st, 2004 11:50 pmSome librarian, maybe, but not this one! This thingie was snagged from
kali_kali.
Directions:
1.Take 5 books off your bookshelf.
...got 'em right here with me!...
2. Book #1 - First Sentence:
"To start off an anthology of short stories with a novella may seem unwise, as many readers (and reviewers) judge a book only from a few lines."
3. Book #2 - Last Sentence on Page Fifty:
"And nobuty ever sall him only his fin." [I kid you not.]
4. Book #3 - Second Sentence on Page One Hundred:
"The woman with the carder looked up and smiled, and it was as if a small patch of Canaan opened up suddenly in this alien land, with old Ninurta holding out a hand in welcome."
5. Book #4 - Next to Last Sentence on Page One Hundred and Fifty:
"I had had enough of treasure-hunting for that day, and for many a day to come."
6. Book #5 - Final Sentence of the Book:
"And I hear, just as plainly as I heard it that August night, above the rain, beyond the years, the high clear bark of the midnight fox."
7. Make the sentences into a paragraph:
To start off an anthology of short stories with a novella may seem unwise, as many readers (and reviewers) judge a book only from a few lines. And nobuty ever sall him only his fin. The woman with the carder looked up and smiled, and it was as if a small patch of Canaan opened up suddenly in this alien land, with old Ninurta holding out a hand in welcome. I had had enough of treasure-hunting for that day, and for many a day to come. And I hear, just as plainly as I heard it that August night, above the rain, beyond the years, the high clear bark of the midnight fox.
okay, so it doesn't hang together the way I hoped, but I like it anyway.
8. Name your sources:
Book 1: Howes, Barbara, ed. The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America.Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1973.
Book 2: Gunning, Thomas G. Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
Book 3: McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Mara, Daughter of the Nile. New York: Puffin, 1953, 1985.
Book 4: Smith, C. Fox. The Ship Aground: A Tale of Adventure. London: Oxford University Press, 1940, 1958.
Book 5: Byars, Betsy. The Midnight Fox. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1968, 1976.
Directions:
1.Take 5 books off your bookshelf.
...got 'em right here with me!...
2. Book #1 - First Sentence:
"To start off an anthology of short stories with a novella may seem unwise, as many readers (and reviewers) judge a book only from a few lines."
3. Book #2 - Last Sentence on Page Fifty:
"And nobuty ever sall him only his fin." [I kid you not.]
4. Book #3 - Second Sentence on Page One Hundred:
"The woman with the carder looked up and smiled, and it was as if a small patch of Canaan opened up suddenly in this alien land, with old Ninurta holding out a hand in welcome."
5. Book #4 - Next to Last Sentence on Page One Hundred and Fifty:
"I had had enough of treasure-hunting for that day, and for many a day to come."
6. Book #5 - Final Sentence of the Book:
"And I hear, just as plainly as I heard it that August night, above the rain, beyond the years, the high clear bark of the midnight fox."
7. Make the sentences into a paragraph:
To start off an anthology of short stories with a novella may seem unwise, as many readers (and reviewers) judge a book only from a few lines. And nobuty ever sall him only his fin. The woman with the carder looked up and smiled, and it was as if a small patch of Canaan opened up suddenly in this alien land, with old Ninurta holding out a hand in welcome. I had had enough of treasure-hunting for that day, and for many a day to come. And I hear, just as plainly as I heard it that August night, above the rain, beyond the years, the high clear bark of the midnight fox.
okay, so it doesn't hang together the way I hoped, but I like it anyway.
8. Name your sources:
Book 1: Howes, Barbara, ed. The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America.Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1973.
Book 2: Gunning, Thomas G. Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
Book 3: McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Mara, Daughter of the Nile. New York: Puffin, 1953, 1985.
Book 4: Smith, C. Fox. The Ship Aground: A Tale of Adventure. London: Oxford University Press, 1940, 1958.
Book 5: Byars, Betsy. The Midnight Fox. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1968, 1976.