Mommy Brain

I saw this at Can I Borrow Your Book, and decided to play along since I have nothing else to post at the moment.

Here are the directions:

Another (5) Book Meme

1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. For Book #1, quote the first sentence.
3. For Book #2, quote the last sentence on page fifty.
4. For Book #3, quote the second sentence on page one hundred.
5. For Book #4, quote the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty.
6. For Book #5, quote the final sentence of the book.
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph.

Book # 1 - Discovering the Writer Within: 40 Days to More Imaginative Writing by Bruce Ballenger and Barry Lane.

You have always thought you could be a writer.

Book # 2 - The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King.

As if summoned by the noise, the birds appear and land on the pins, sucked into them in some way I cannot imagine.

Book # 3 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

“I hope I may have the honor of calling on you,” he said.

Book # 4 - The Softwire: Betrayal on Orbis 2 by PJ Haarsma.

“You are to confirm the rumors that the female is with child,” he said.

Book # 5 - Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick.

It was a small victory to be sure, but in the winter of 1677 it was the best that Benjamin Church could do.

And the resulting paragraph:

You have always thought you could be a writer. As if summoned by the noise, the birds appear and land on the pins, sucked into them in some way I cannot imagine. “I hope I may have the honor of calling on you,” he said. “You are to confirm the rumors that the female is with child,” he said. It was a small victory to be sure, but in the winter of 1677 it was the best that Benjamin Church could do.

Let me know if you decide to play along!