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Can has meme. Can has fancy book.
From just about everybody, and only because I actually have a book on my desk for once (books do not live on the desk. They live on the shelves, or the floor by the bed, or the coffee table, all things far from the desk):
1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
"All had this led to a kind of 'arrested development' in which youth kicked its heels in frustration, denied the chance to shine, its dreams of glory perpetually deferred."
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
(This being on Evelyn Waugh's view of how the pretty much total lack of career opportunity in 1920s England shaped the character of the Youth Movement, as told in a letter to his agent. Sound familiar? *g*)
I got that today in the mail. It is brand spanking new, just released, really awesome-looking, and a research book for The Enchanted Generation. Since it is too cold to go anywhere or do anything, I may start it this weekend, the prospect of which fills me with gleeeee.
Moral: the trick to doing all that research needed to write a solid historical novel? Set it in a period that the prospect of reading about gives you gleeeee. *g*
1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
"All had this led to a kind of 'arrested development' in which youth kicked its heels in frustration, denied the chance to shine, its dreams of glory perpetually deferred."
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
(This being on Evelyn Waugh's view of how the pretty much total lack of career opportunity in 1920s England shaped the character of the Youth Movement, as told in a letter to his agent. Sound familiar? *g*)
I got that today in the mail. It is brand spanking new, just released, really awesome-looking, and a research book for The Enchanted Generation. Since it is too cold to go anywhere or do anything, I may start it this weekend, the prospect of which fills me with gleeeee.
Moral: the trick to doing all that research needed to write a solid historical novel? Set it in a period that the prospect of reading about gives you gleeeee. *g*
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