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Tagged!

So…checking out the always wonderful Fantasy Cafe, we found out we’ve been TAGGED!

Here’s the deal:

Get yourself to the nearest book, flip to page 123, and copy the 5th sentence out here…

Thea’s: Closest book to me at the time is Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. So, here we go:

A wraith appeared on the right of the church, while on the left of the church something with a half-glimpsed, pointed, unsettlingly birdlike face, a pale, Boschian nightmare, glided smoothly from a headstone into the shadows and was gone.

How sick is that? This is a perfect example of why Gaiman is THE man. How engaging is this sentence? ‘A pale, Boschian nightmare’…eerie stuff.

Ana’s: Closest book to me right now is one I just finished reading and LOVED. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. The fifth sentence is actually the end of a sentence so I will cheat and enter the whole paragraph:

“Aislinn looked away before he could see how tempted she really was, before she
admitted to herself how much she wanted to ignore all reason”

Aislinn, dealing with her attraction-repulsion to all things fey. “He” being Keenan, the Summer King. Seriously, this book is awesome.


And We Tag….

Kristie & Katie from Ramblings on Romance

Kate from What Kate’s Reading

Christine from The Happily Ever After

Kmont from Lurv a la Mode


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  • Comment by Kate on June 23, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    Oh my god, this is too great. You’re not going to believe what’s the closest book to me right now…

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  • Comment by Thea on June 23, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    Oooh I’m excited :p *runs to Kate’s blog*

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  • Comment by Kate on June 23, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    You won’t be excited for long, promise :)

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  • Comment by Christine on June 24, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Yikes!! O_o

    I be tagged!

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