Jessica tagged me with this:
1. Grab the nearest book (at least 123 pages)
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Find the 5th sentence.
4. Post said sentence on your blog.
5. Tag five people.
The book nearest me is Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. I just finished it. It is a book of short stories, so this sentence of dialogue doesn’t make much sense out of the blue: “You are wiser than that, Eliot.”
In a sense, each short story in this book is about a person who feels isolated and lonely. In this story, the 30-year-old woman from India feels lonely away from her family. In this sentence, she is telling the ten-year-old boy that she can tell he already knows that he will be alone in his life. He is wiser than she is because he expects to be alone; she doesn’t.
I tag Paige and Liz (but only if you want to participate). I think you are the only people who read my blog that have a blog and haven’t already been tagged. If you read this, you have a blog, and you haven’t been tagged, consider yourself tagged: and let me know that you are reading!
Ha! Someone else tagged me on their blog. The book I’m reading is The Peacegiver by James L. Ferrell (awesome by the way). The 123 page is a title page for the next chapter. 🙂
what do you go by? rebecca? becky? i don’t even know. i just realized i’d never replied to your last email, sorry. but because of that i am checking out your blog and happy to report that i just read interpreter of maladies. it was a book club assignment and i’d never heard of it before. how did you hear about it? does it drive you crazy that I’m not using correct capitalization and possibly misspelling some words? i haven’t read much of your blog but i’m guessing you’re still in australia. i just sent you our blog link we just started last week! take care!
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I’m glad you’ve check out my blog! I read Interpreter of Maladies because it won a Pulitzer in 2000 and I want to read some Pultizer winners and it looked good. I enjoyed it. I’m on a short story kick right now. As for my name, my family calls me Becky (and I think they always will), but I (want to) go by Rebecca. I just checked out your blog. Are you in Korea now? I’m so glad you can be with your husband again! Yes, we’re still in Australia, and I don’t care about spelling and capitalization: I haven’t been a proofreader for a year and everything here is spelled “wrong” anyway (tyres, capitalisation, etc.). Thanks for stopping by!