Book Meme

Posted on | February 21, 2009 | No Comments

This is hardly inspired for so early on in my blog but I don’t have time today although I do have the inspiration so look forward to more creative book blogging in the future.

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

“This news encouraged Florentino Ariza, since it indicated to him that the beautiful adolescent with the almond-shaped eyes was within reach of his dreams.”
(Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

This is the book I’m currently reading and it is actually a rather poignant quote as at this stage Fermina Daza (the beautiful adolescent) is not within reach of Florentino and his love remains unrequited for over half a century. The novel revolves around the attainability of Fermina’s dream and whether Fermina eventually reciprocates his love, upon the death of her husband, Dr. Juvenal Urbino.