2. Open book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post text of sentence on your blog. Please include book and author along with these instructions.
5. No digging about for the "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! (I know you were thinking about it!) Just pick up whatever is closest.
My book is "The Coma" by Alex Garland (author of The Beach and screenwriter of 28 Days Later)
page 123, 5th sentence
" So I climbed the stairs and forced myself to be unhurried, and as i climbed i noticed that the lightness and the sense of translucence remained."
This book is a really good buy, just like The Beach (if you didnt like the movie, just read the book). His words are simple and direct but evokesvivid imagery, as if you were looking at a stark but beautiful snapshoot from a movie. And the black and white illustrations are nice. I want to enlarge them and frame them on my wall
Next up is his other book, The Tesseract, which is actually set in the Philippines. So let's see if he captures the essence of our country from a foreigner's eyes