Day-Off Meme [The Stars and the Cookie Jar]

Firstly, up with Massachusetts! Go, Commonwealth! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! ("I think that's sick," says the woman in the shell-pink suit ordering a triple venti nonfat caramel macchiato while ruffling through the local paper. The selkie quietly prepares, for her bigoted delectation, a triple venti decaff sugar-free-vanilla caramel macchiato with half-and-half cream for nonfat milk. Ahh, the terrible taste of revenge.) /cheers

Because it beats heck out of laundry, dishes and trash...

Gacked from daegaer .

1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:

On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. The Scoucher took a step back, puzzled, but otherwise seemed unharmed as the medal slid down its chest. There was a glimmering, glittering sheen on the water of the harbour, and Jane saw that over her head the moon had floated free of clouds. "We are horribly afraid, but we are coming with you -- or following you like hounds." This place was never meant for human beings.

[Scarily enough, for being at random, that didn't turn out too badly. I have often thought much of Thomas Hardy's universe wasn't meant for human beings.]

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Grim Tuesday, Garth Nix
Greenwitch, Susan Cooper
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R Tolkien (Ballantine 1965 ed.)
The Steerswoman's Road, Rosemary Kirstein

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So. Very. Cool.

Must try that myself.

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The creepy thing was how well it sort of all flowed together. Do try it. I'm curious.

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I'm going to try it when my DSL starts working again. *this is from work*

Hey, I just read Seaward by Susan Cooper.. is that where you got Strange_Selkie from?

The selkieness in 'Seaward' is a most inspiring thing, and I love that book (Susan Cooper takes the prizes...) Mostly though it's just that I look like a selkie -- very round, with small flipperish feet, and black-chestnut-silver hair worn long and in quantity like a pelt. Also, I swim in the ocean with much more grace than I walk upright on dry land. So various people said I reminded them of a selkie, a seal, whichever, and it stuck. :)
And I stick with it because life seems to have imitated myth, these past couple years, and mythic cred is so hard to come by. (wink)

Well, these almost work:

The door swung shut silently behind them, cutting off the light, music, and wild celebration of the ballroom. It was a pity, for she had remembered him chiefly with the impersonal pleasure one might feel at having saved some work of art from destruction; but the anticlimax would have to be dealt with, like other annoyances of a working day. “Someone has to,” Sorry replied, following her into Jacko’s room. She felt she badly needed to sleep on the situation. A universe of dead bodies . . . possessed by furious motion.

For the above paragraph, blame:

"The Snow Queen," Joan D. Vinge
"Return to Night," Mary Renault
"The Changeover," Margaret Mahy
"Gaudy Night," Dorothy Sayers
"Kissing Carrion," Gemma Files

Two I had not read, and the names from one and the idea in the other (living dead! Braaaaains!) sound wicked cool.

If you have not read "The Changeover," you are missing one of the great camouflaged classics of the fantasy world. ("Camouflaged" because for some reason the copy I own was marketed as young-adult romance, complete with tacky cover. It is young adult; there is romance. There is also possession, genetic witchery, otherworlds, divorce, stamps, New Zealand, and masks. Good stuff.) And "Kissing Carrion" I've just discovered, and Gemma Files is worth reading, just probably not on a full stomach. And if you were talking about two *different* books, er, disregard the review above . . .

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