Friday, September 08, 2006
Book Meme
Ampersand Duck put forth a book meme challenge, thus:
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 sentences on your blog 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.
Nearest book is D'Arcy's, so it doesn't have 123 pages. So, from pages 1...the 4 sentences are:
From Heaven, the Yellow Emperor's kind grandson Kun looked down upon Earth and saw that all the people worked in harmony to save their world from the great flood. Kun called the horned Owl and the wise Tortoise to his side.They whispered into his ear, "The Yellow Emperor possesses Magic Soil that can rebuild the land." Kind Kun watched the people of Earth suffer as they crowded into boats, climbed trees and scaled roofs.
I don't know the title of this book, but it says "Copyright 1995 by Hilary Arnold and Sue Clarke. Published by Hyperion". The really interesting thing is that the book is bound as a Jacob's Ladder, making it a tad hard to read, but interesting all the same. it is a retelling of a flood/creation myth from China from what I can tell, but information is scarce. Google to the rescue again?
*GOOGLE to the rescue* says this. Apparently the title of the book is Heaven & Earth and the cover shown is not the same as the copy we have. Ours has a dragon on one cover and a lion on the other (which perhaps represent Heaven and Earth) but it is a good book.
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 sentences on your blog 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.
Nearest book is D'Arcy's, so it doesn't have 123 pages. So, from pages 1...the 4 sentences are:
From Heaven, the Yellow Emperor's kind grandson Kun looked down upon Earth and saw that all the people worked in harmony to save their world from the great flood. Kun called the horned Owl and the wise Tortoise to his side.They whispered into his ear, "The Yellow Emperor possesses Magic Soil that can rebuild the land." Kind Kun watched the people of Earth suffer as they crowded into boats, climbed trees and scaled roofs.
I don't know the title of this book, but it says "Copyright 1995 by Hilary Arnold and Sue Clarke. Published by Hyperion". The really interesting thing is that the book is bound as a Jacob's Ladder, making it a tad hard to read, but interesting all the same. it is a retelling of a flood/creation myth from China from what I can tell, but information is scarce. Google to the rescue again?
*GOOGLE to the rescue* says this. Apparently the title of the book is Heaven & Earth and the cover shown is not the same as the copy we have. Ours has a dragon on one cover and a lion on the other (which perhaps represent Heaven and Earth) but it is a good book.
# posted by Mummy/Crit : 5:35 PM
