Books, Books Aplenty!
I have been tagged by Slow Learner in the book meme, so here's what I am doing:
- Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the next three sentences.
- Tag five people.
The nearest book is one that has been sitting on my end table since I bought it a couple of weeks ago -- I haven't even started it yet! I've been way too busy with school and teaching and all the strenuous marathon watching of Dexter, my new television obsession. Anyway, the book is Dave Eggers' What is the What and here are three intriguing sentences:
-- It went in very easily. I was surprised. And the SPLA man fell forward silently and that was the end of him.
Well, now I am slightly more inspired to finally start this book!
In other reading news, I have mostly been working on the assignments for my lit students: we are finishing up our Modernism unit now and have read the following: James Joyce's "The Dead" (one of the best last sentences in all literature, hands down), Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" (major bleh but there was no time for a novel and no good short story in our anthology), Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" (one of the best first sentences in all literature, hands down), Aimé Césaire's "Notebook of my Return to the Native Land" (several of the most disgusting phrases in all literature, hands down), and William Faulkner's "The Bear" (best short story ever?).
So you can see it has been busy. I am ready for spring break in a major way.
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I'm a new Dexter watcher as well! I'm all caught up and waiting impatiently to see what they will do with the next season.
Just for you, I grabbed the nearest book and followed the meme directions:
Sometimes, howerver, suffixes are tacked onto incomplete roots. Take dispense: If you want a suffix after it to denote "an ability to dispense,"you would add -able and because the last letter of the root is a vowel you drop it and make dispensable. (As you might expect, the dropping of the vowel doesn't always occur.)
The above is brought to you by, "When Words Collide: A Media Writer's Guide to Grammar and Style" which is kept handy for those I have no patience for.
I'm sure I'm being sluttish, but can you tag me for this book thing? I love the whole idea of it and would like then to tag five others.
What is the what: Meh. Couldn't even finish it.
New hairs: Awesome.
Having been a lit major, I've read all of these books and I can't remember much of any of them. I've not read, What is the What, but I have to say you've sparked my interest :D
Nice specs, by the way.