123 Meme

I’ve been tagged for the 123 Meme by Tigeryogiji.

Here’s how it goes:

Pick up the nearest book.
Open to page 123.
Locate the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences on your blog

Hmmm. What a quandary. Should I be honest and really choose the book nearest to me, which is entitled Health Information Management Technology? I turned to page 123, found the 5th sentence and then read the next three sentences. They made my eyes bleed, so I think I will not do that. I didn't even want to read them, let alone type them!

I could act all smart and esoteric and choose one of Chris's books from the bookshelves, and try to pass them off as mine.

Nay, I will be true to myself and my love of fiction. I am currently reading Black Rose by Nora Roberts. Page 123, sentences 6,7, and 8 are as follows:

"And this time his mouth wasn't light, or polite, or civilized. There was a punch of heat, straight to her belly, as his mouth pressed down on hers, as his body pressed, hard against hers. She felt that sizzle zip through her blood, fast and reckless, and let herself ride on it for just one mad moment."

A Good Sign

I rarely do book reviews here, though I am quite the avid reader. Today, I need to make an exception. Suzanne Brockmann has been a national bestselling novelist for years. She writes romantic suspense.

But this is the best part. In the book that I am currently reading, (Force of Nature) there are two couples. One of them is male/female and the other is male/male. This is a main stream best selling novel that was actually a Selection of the Month at Rhapsody (the romance novel book club)and I am thrilled that both love stories are treated the same way. The yearnings of the gay characters are written about in the same way as the yearnings of the straight characters.

It is my dream that same sex couples and biracial couples will not even cause a blip on anyone's radar in the very near future. Suzanne Brockmann is doing her part to make this a reality. Bravo!

Books

This is a fun little ditty. The books I have read are in bold.


The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Return of the King - JRR Tolkein
Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkein
Two Towers - JRR Tolkein
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
HP & Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown half of it, got bored
HP & Order of Phoenix - JK Rowling
A Prayer for Owen - John Irving
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone - JK Rowling
Fall On Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Stand - Stephen King
HP & Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Hobbitt - JRR Tolkein
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Lion, Witch, & Wardrobe - CS Lewis
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Notebook - Nicolas Sparks
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
1984 - George Orwell
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Bradley
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Bible
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
She’s Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Ender’s Game - Orson Card
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
HP & Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
Fifth Business - Robertson Davis
100 years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
Catch 22 - Heller
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Bridget Jones’ Diary - Fielding
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-exupery In Spanish & English!!
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shogun - James Clavell
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Secret Garden - Frances Burnett
The Summer Tree - Guy Kay
A tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier
Wizard’s First Rule - Terry Goodkind
Emma - Jane Austen
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Brave New World - Aidous Huxley
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Blindness - Jose Saramago
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
In The Skin of a Lion - Ondaatje
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
The Outsiders - SE Hinton
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
A Woman of Substance - Barbara Bradford
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
Ulysses - James Joyce

Ass Time

Here is a list of the books I have read in 2007, lovingly ignoring my school textbooks. And yes, I keep a list:

-M. Alt: The Trouble with Magic,A Charmed Death
-K.M. Moning: Darkfever
-S. Damsgaard: Charmed to Death, The Trouble With Witches
-G.D. Greene: The Juror
-J.D. Robb: Innocence, Born, Conspiracy, Imitation, Naked, Glory, Immortal, Rapture, Vengeance, Loyalty, Visions, Creation, Seduction, Betrayal In Death- these are 14 books. The titles all are ----- In Death
-V. Laurie: Better Read than Dead, A Vision of Murder, Killer Instinct, What's a Ghoul to Do?, Crime Seen
K. Michaels: Can't Take My Eyes off You
S. Blair: A Rogue in a Kilt
N. Roberts: Birthright, High Noon, Key of Valor, Blood Brothers
M. Binchy: Tara Road
Mugglenet: What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7?
M. ANgelou: Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now
D. McCall: Mimosa Grove
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and HP and the Deathly Hallows (4 times)
K. West and K. Lee: The Halloween Tarot
S. McKenzie: Return of the Highlander, Secrets of the Highwayman, Passions of the Ghost
A. Brennon: See No Evil, Fear No Evil
H. Fielding: Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
F. Flagg: Can't Wait to get to Heaven
JC Browne: The Sweet Potato Queens Field Guide to Men
MA Collins: Snake Eyes
S. Smalley: I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough and Doggone it, People Like Me
L. Kurland : When I Fall in Love
B. Cochran: A Coventry Christmas
V. Pettersson: The Scent of Shadows, The Taste of Night
K. Bacchus: Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun
R. Bragg: All Over But the Shoutin'
RN Peck : A Day No Pigs Would Die
R. Welles: Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
H. Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
J. Chapman: Only With a Highlander

I recommend all of them. Some are in the trashy romance category. Some are in the comedy category. Some are brutal and bloody. Some are poignant. But I enjoyed all of them.