Thursday, December 21, 2006
Book Meme
Thanks to Schmutzie for the tag; I love these things.1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open it to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence.
3. Post the next three sentences on your website.
4. Name the book and its author.
5. Tag three people to do the same.
And so, every week, we saw Hercules slaying the Nemean lion, or stealing the girdle of the Amazons ("That's some girdle, eh, Callie?"), or being thrown gratuitously into snake pits without textual support. But our favorite was the Minotaur...
...On the screen an actor in a bad wig appears. "That's Theseus," Milton explains. "He's got this ball of string his girlfriend gave him, see."
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (author of The Virgin Suicides, which was good)
This novel is about a hermaphrodite. I actually haven't started reading it yet, but brought it to work today as I'm proctoring an exam all morning. I plan to read it as I sit stuck in an airport somewhere trying to get to Denver tomorrow (not a positive outlook, I know, but given that DIA is closed today, I'm not holding my breath).
Who's next? How about Karnerblue, Gaunilo (yeah, right!), and Thunder. |
