Friday Fun
Hello and happy Friday, dear Fiction Scribe readers. Happy Leap Year as well.
Today I am taking a breath from the Friday interviews to bring you something a bit different.
For a while I have wanted to give something away on this site, but I didn’t know what to give away or how to give it away (random giveaway? Contest?). I have been a bit hard pressed for time lately, so I didn’t want to have the trouble of tracking something complicated.
Then I found a meme at the lovely Jenera’s blog.
I have seen this meme floating around the blogging world and have even done it a few times. It’s fun, quick, and occasionally humorous.
The meme:
Here are the rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
First thing, you don’t have to tag five people. Just put your response in the comments. You can feel free to carry it over to your blog if you wish, but you have to leave your response in the comments here to get a chance to win.
Win what? A pre-loved copy of Lirael by Garth Nix. I bought this little lovely at a secondhand shop and later got another copy, so I would like to pass this copy on to one of my readers (chosen at random from the comments).
Be sure to leave a valid email address with your comment so I can get your postal address to send you the book. You have this weekend to enter. The winner will be announced in Monday’s Scribes blog carnival post.
Have fun and good luck! (And invite others over to win, eh? A good response to this could encourage more competitions like it in the future…)
February 29th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Okay. As I am sitting next to two book cases, I just grabbed one from the middle.
“You could see everything in a glance. Time to warm it up. She knew the car had to be coaxed into action, and then at no more than forty miles an hour.”
-The Summer King by O.R. Melling
February 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am
The nearest book to me happened to be an old textbook I was re-reading.
“Some of the best examples of taphonomic research have been in the field of forensic entomology. Life cycles of flies are species-dependent and the rate of development is highly sensitive to temperature conditions. In a generalized life cycle, adult flies lay eggs (ovadeposit) near a food source.”
from: Forensic Science - An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques by Stuart H. James and Jon J. Nordby
February 29th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
“These findings remain, but a number of studies now show that there is a relationship–this is an association, not a causal connection–between the D2 receptors and problems with reward and attention. It is believed that an abnormally low density of D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens reduces an individual’s ability to experience pleasure. This diminished capacity would almost ineveitably drive that individual to seek external forms of self-gratification.”
- A User’s Guide to the Brain by John J Ratey, M.D.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Tell them, you suspect some people actually inhabit
Their bodies. You, however, have suffered in
a different
Way.
Do not call it suffering.
from the poem “if you are asked” by Olena Kalytiak Davis ….in the book
shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities
March 1st, 2008 at 12:03 am
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?
And what communion has light with darkness?”
2 Corinthians 6:14 NKJV
from “God’s Survival Guide: A Handbook for Crisis Times in Your Life”
God bless … % )
March 1st, 2008 at 12:36 am
“Just like a girl,” said Edmund to himself, “sulking somewhere, and won’t accept an apology.” He looked round him again and decided he did not much like this place, and had almost made up hi mind to go home, when he heard, very fat off in the wood, a sound of bells. He listened and the sound came nearer and nearer and at least there swept into sigh a sledge drawn by two reindeer.”
Ah, I’ve landed on a great scene. It’s from my Chronicles of Narnia complete series book of course.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:52 am
“In India, the Hindus believed that basil offered protection to the soul in both life and death, so it was frequently used in religious ceremonies to please the god Vishnu, and at funerals. Rubbing basil all over the body was also thought to help protect those who had nightmares about snakes from poisonous venom. In Egypt the aromatic fumes of basil were offered to the gods, and the essences mixed with myrrh and incense were used in embalming.”
(The Aromatherapy Handbook, Daniele Ryman)
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
“And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
‘Thank you!’
He sat back down.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
JK Rowling.
(Oddly enough this is my favorite line in the series, and I am highly disappointed it wasn’t in the movie…)
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
She shut her eyes and crooned,”Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes…”
“Mama,” said Phoebe in a warning tone.
(Ralphie’s Wives by Christine Rimmer)
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 pm
These are all excellent, but I laughed out loud at that one.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
oh no joke, I saw that and thought oh this is too good to pass up.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Many thanks. I appreciate the laughs.