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Fun!

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
5. Tag three to five other people to do the same. 

Here's mine: from Ptolemy's Gate, book 3 of The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud:

"The minister did not flaunt his status; he displayed few treasures in the reception rooms, and employed just two human servants to keep house. He slept on the third floor, in a plain, whitewashed room adjoining his library. These were his private chambers, which no one visited."

Gads but that's a boring couple of sentences from what is otherwise a really fun fantasy book! Sigh.

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