Nearest book meme
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 05:59PM A few other changes were made to the 1855 plate, but this map's primary purpose was to record for posterity the political decision associated with Minnesota taking its place in the Union, an event long predicted by the series of morphing territorial maps.
Minnesota on the Map: a Historical Atlas by David A. Lanegran.
Rules:
* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write this sentence - either here or on your blog.
* Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence.
* Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.
It's the book I keep on the coffee table - a beautiful, fascinating history of the state of Minnesota told through maps made of the place. It only sounds boring.
Thanks to Stephen Abrams of Stephen's Lighthouse for this rather interesting (and easy) meme.
Bloggers, you're it.
Reader Comments (20)
Information Power (really!)
5th entry on pg. 56 is a reference to "Enhancing Teaching and Learning" by Jean Donham, 1997. Of course, I notice that on pg. 190 there is some contributor named Doug Johnson. Well, alrighty then!
See mine at http://bettybunhead.blogspot.com/2008/12/nearest-book-meme.html
I had to choose the second nearest because the first nearest book took me to a graphic organizer.
If thou, to be so seene, beest loath,
By Sunne, or Moone, thou darknest both,
And if my selfe have leave to see,
I need not their light, having thee.
John Donne via Blues, John Hersey
Not sure if it or a textbook was closest, but I'm not lifting that monstrosity off the floor if I don't need to.
I posted mine on my blog at http://cprout.edublogs.org and posted a variation. Instead of using the closest book, use the book you last read (assuming its different from the closest book)
"The French, who had once owned Louisiana and whose people (French Canadians) were the only white men to have much experience in Louisiana, were considering reasserting their position"
From: Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
"Repeatedly, no matter how many people I asked, the same response was elicited: 'When I am knitting, there's nowhere else I'd rather be and nothing else I'd rather be doing."
From:<u> Zen and the Art of Knitting</u> by Bernadette Murphy
The knitting shelf is closest to my home computer, and I guess we are all lucky a pattern book wasn't closer, because K1K2tog, p3 would make no sense at all to non-knitters.
"What are the chances that they all keep their mouth shut?"
From: <I>Dark of the Moon</I>
thought mine would be cool, but no:
From Dead Emcee Scroll: Lost Teachings of Hip-hop.
pg 56, sentence 5 reads: "What's your plan for spiritual health?"
See what I mean.
"Get away," said Montag.
From Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
I put it here.
My nearest book is "The Dumbest Generation" by Mark Bauerlein
More at Wanderings
Thanks to all who are participating in the meme. What a diverse and fascinating selection of materials we are all reading.
Were I to do the meme right now, I'd be reaching for my Kindle that has multiple books and no page numbers!
What to do!
Doug
Ninja, reading Information Power? It HAS to be a class assignment!
Mine is REALLY boring:
"No further explanation is given." from The Organization of Information, Second Edition, Arlene Taylor.
Yep, grad school.
"MySpace is blocked at his high school because of too many profiles 'bashing other students' on them." Anastasia Goodstein, _Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are REALLY Doing Online._
"When?" I asked Oliver.
I noticed that people are doing this on Facebook, but posting the line as their status!
Write down your daily physical activity level score here:____
Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life by Jillian Michaels
"I shall follow the back-track as far as I can -- never was such a day for tracks -- to see where he came from, and then I believe I shall indulge myself with a view of the swifts.
From The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
"Oh, I just read it in a book," said Roxie
--from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's "Roxie and the Hooligans"
(Appropriate, no?)
From Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum by Art Costa and Bena Kallick
"Remember to button your lips if you have something mean to say or you could use it to button your ideas together - to make connections."
Wow
Very cool quote, WMorris!
Doug