OK, I skipped this one the first time through

[sraun]

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.

5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Far more disturbing to Ingrey was the question, When?

I admit it - I'm feeling evil. The closest book today is my ARC of The Hallowed Hunt. And I didn't even have to spoiler it!

Comments

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

You cruel, evil man.

So go discuss it on the spoiler list so I can be tantalized!

Ok I bite

[judith-dascoyne.livejournal.com]

(character); leaning, proclivity, bias

That is what my (very old) copy of Roget's says

: )

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Evil, Evil man!!! ;-p

I think I can place it fairly easily, though!! :-)

[sraun]

It's actually farther along than I've gotten - I'm actually currently on page 75. The surrounding text constituted a certain amount of spoiler, in that it gave away something I didn't know yet.

I'll go discuss it on lmb-spoilers after I've finished it.

[filkferengi]

Cool! And you're posting this on the main Bujold list when?

[sraun]

Let's see - in about ... six months, isn't it?

[filkferengi]

Oh, come on; whet the appetite. Tease and tantalize; you know you want to. ;)

[nara-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh, evil!

(But delightfully so, of course.)

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Heh. I got Choose one n that works for all i. (I'm at work; the nearest book was Robin Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry.)

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I love the name Ingrey. Having preordered HH, I can hardly wait for July!

The closest book to me right now is Man-Kzin Wars III.

"The petulance left Suuomalisen's face."

Too bad the fifth sentence is so uninteresting. Much better is no. seven: "But what information could I have worth the while of such as you, Herrenmann?"

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

The nearest book: _Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Separation Handbook_ (a truly gripping read).

Unfortunately, the page in question is a diagram of the Solid Rocket Booster to External Tank Aft Attach Struts. It has no "sentences", per se, and even defining a numerical order for the text blocks is a bit problematic.

I'd say the relevant bit of text is either "NSI Cable" or "Lower Strut (Cover Removed)".

Okay. Let's disqualify that one on the basis of "it's a 3-ring binder, not a bound book", and go after a "real" book.

Because the charge for the calcium ion is +2 (Ca is a member of Group IIA) and the charge on the phosphate ion is -3, the formula cannot be Ca(PO4), because the algebraic sum of the charges on the ions must be zero for the compound.

(sorry about the bad subscript in the phosphate term--I don't know how to code subscripts in html)

The book in question: Nebergall, Holtzclaw, and Robinson, _General Chemistry_, 6th ed., c. 1980

Heh. Kinda fun, doing this at work!

[kaylarudbek.livejournal.com]

You are truly an evil, evil man....so are you going to circulate the ARC?