Happy World Book Day

Stolen from my cousin's Facebook...

It's World Book Day. Game Rules: grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 56. Write down the 5th sentence. Don't choose your favorite book, choose the one nearest to you right now! Post the sentence as your status and copy the rules as your comment. Happy World Book Day, March 2011!

"I believe that he didn't want to bring that dark presence directly into our house."

Fitting.

Excerpts from "Into the Wild"

Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, comformity, conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.

I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality.  I couldn't resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink.

Currently Reading

I gave up on Babbitt in the first few pages.
Considering Candide is so short, I should have finished it.  But I didn't.
So, now I'm reading Committed.  I doubt I'll put this one down unfinished.

"Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant.  (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop.)"

Currently Reading

"It now remains to be seen what are the methods and rules for a prince as regards his subjects and friends. And as I know that many have written of this, I fear that my writing about it may be deemed presumptuous, differing as I do, especially in this matter, from the opinions of others. Buy my intention being to write something of use to those who understand, it appears to me more proper to go to the real truth of the matter than to its imagination; and many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation."

Currently Reading

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Currently Reading

Here If You Need Me

I bought this for Jill last Christmas. She finally got around to reading it recently and insisted that I read it, so I am. I don't mind reading things that I normally wouldn't every now and again.

Currently Reading

Um yeah,

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

"The only trouble was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world."