tagged

This is what happens with me – I tend to wander around oblivious to what’s happening.  I glanced at incoming links on my dashboard today, and realised that Dark Sarcasm has tagged me to complete the following mission, should I choose to accept it:

Pass it on to five other bloggers, and tell them to open the nearest book to page 56. Write out the fifth sentence on that page, and also the next two to five sentences. The CLOSEST BOOK, NOT YOUR FAVORITE, OR MOST INTELLECTUAL!

Luckily for you, dear readers, the closest book to me is The Lady and the Unicorn, by Tracy Chevalier, who’s also the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.  (The second closest book is actually a tax guide to depreciating assets for the 2007-2008 financial year.)  So, to my task:

I repeated the words I had used the other morning, staring at the scratched pew in front of us. ‘It is my one desire to join the convent at Chelles,’ I said. ‘Mon seul desir. My grandmother joined before she died, and my mother is sure to as well.’

I can recommend it – it’s a great book, with cleverly interweaving plots, and characters which are three-dimensional in the traits they possess.  Definitely worth a read.

Okay, so now I’m tagging Catatonic Kid, Freedomgirl, and TitaniumRose. I’m not playing properly, I know, by only tagging three people, but all the others who I’d normally nominate have already been tagged.  Sorry folks.