Not very novel

123.5

A new book meme is circulating and its rules are these:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

So -
         Young, first year roots are sweet, and resemble salsify or parsnips.

This is as thrilling as life gets when you don't read novels!  The quote is from the book I was reading yesterday, Isabell Shipard's 'How Can I Use HERBS In My Daily Life?' She was writing on Evening Primrose. 

My other current read had little better to offer - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 'FLOW: The Psychology of Optimal Experience', had this to say:

My grandfather at seventy could still recall passages from the three thousand lines of the Iliad he had to learn by heart in Greek to graduate from high school.

Comments

[Jean]

This is mine. Oh dear. (from a book of interviews with the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg that I picked up in a clearance sale)

"That is, they are too close to incommunicability; they are alienated characters in some way, with history, without epos; they are just that, noncommunicative."

I suppose the point of this is that it takes your mind somewhere completely random and unexpected and different. Yes.

[Tamar]

Here are two of mine that I am currently reading:
Amos Oz: A Tale of Love and Darkness:
"The stone walls reflected the moonlight back up into the branches in a pale, skeletal glow."

... and, Erik Sigsgaard: Scolding:
"In this view, a partial adjustment in the form of public focus on scolding, is bound to set up a process that will eventually lead to a genuine culture change unless it is stopped."

Hmm ... I wonder ...

[Richard Lawrence Cohen]

"Give me my children." -- Saul Bellow, SEIZE THE DAY

Spooky!

[Leonie]

'Learning to say no! is certainly helpful in reducing busyness'
'JUST THE TEN OF US' by Margaret Rohan Kelly, mother of eight and a former 'Miss Australia' dealing with the challenges of life in middle years.
I'm going to use the No word more often.

[tihopilik]

Hi all!

I can't be bothered with anything these days, but shrug. I just don't have anything to say recently.


Bye

[tolikimer]

Hi all!

I am really excited. This will be my first time visiting, good work. Good stuff. :-)..!


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