FAR-EVILER = VAL-FREIRE: May 2010

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.

Her right hand, however, on the coverlet, was not merely closed but shut tight; the fingers were clenched, the thumb tucked in-- it was as though, at twenty, she had checked back into the mute fisty defenses of nursery. And here at the couch, it should be mentioned, the sun, for all its ungraciousness to the rest of the room, was behaving beautifully. It shone full on Franny's hair, which was jet black and very prettily cut, and had been washed three times in as many days. Sunshine, in fact, bathed the entire afghan, and the play of warm, brilliant light in the pale-blue wool was in itself well worth beholding.

Zooey, almost direct from the bathroom, with a lighted cigar in his mouth, stood for quite a while at the foot of the couch, at first busy tucking in the end of his white shirt he had put on, then buttoning his cuffs, and then merely standing and looking.
- Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger

Sort of shocked that there was no deluge of dialogue, considering, instead just the observing of the internals. I like that. And nope, I'm not cheating, although this is one of my preferred books, but I just reacquired it, since Its been stolen from me, twice. Guess I'm not the only one who prefers it. Really hate this cover though. meh, maybe it'll get nicked. One could hope.

Give us your books people! I want some new reads to discover, or old ones to fall back in love with, cuz reading three book at once isn't keeping me occupied enough, no sir.

I Tag;