The rules of this game:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
(No cheating!) Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
"I barely remember it," Glenda Ruth said. "Dad thought Kevin, Christian and I ought to grow up on Sparta instead of in the provinces." She shrugged.
From the Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It’s one of a couple actual books that I have right now. Lately, all the books I’ve been reading have been on tape so that I can multitask. I haven’t been getting around to my paper books at all and this one will likely go back unread.
“She was skeptical, because she knew the tricks the mind could play. At the same time, her mind was-in every sense-where she was to spend the evening, and she had to be at ease with herself.” from Atonement by Ian McEwan, which I haven’t finished but have read page 123.
That was fun.