Call Me a Dreamer

Via faerie_writer, I'm repeating a meme, which has become a bit more elaborate with time's passage: Bookwormed!.

As always, no need to feel constrained to join in, but you are welcome to play. :)

1) Open the closest book - not a favorite or most intellectual book - but the book closest at the moment, to page 56
2) Write out the fifth sentence, as well as two to five sentences following
3) tag five innocents [or more]
4) or take it a step further and do the same for your manuscript

1) *opens The Grey Horse by R.A. MacAvoy*

2)

"Enough out of you also, my dear."
Maire turned slowly to her sister, with the force of a mountain moving. "You don't pick as much as collect, Eibhlin. And what you call choosing I call advertising, and people do not advertise unless they've got something to sell."
Standún stopped dead and stared at his oldest daughter in shock.

3) *skips this part*

4) *thinks this over, then picks a back-burnered ms. only ms. long enough to have 56 pages* *resists urge to cheat and pick a more interesting passage*

"You wish what, Sweetheart?"
"I wish we could just be one thing. Just happy."
"Me, too, Darling. Me, too."

October birthdays for people on my flist: phillberrie, cvillette, and domynoe. Happy birthday to all of you!

( Now for a little fun with names )