A book thing

Sarah over at Trying to Grok has an interesting post about bloggy things to do. In it she outlines the following:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your Blog (Please include the book and author) along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.

Ok, the nearest book was David McCullough's 1776.

Larger than Boston but smaller than Philadelphia, New York had a peacetime population of perhaps 20,000 people crowded into an area of less than a square mile, less than a tenth of the Island of Manhattan--or York Island, as it was then known--which from the Battery to its northern boundary at the Harlem River reached nearly eleven miles. That far larger stretch north of the city, known as the Outward, was a mix of woods, streams, marshes, and great rocky patches interspersed with a few smalll farms and large country estates, all the way to King's Bridge, where a narrow wooden bridge over the Harlem connected to Island to the mainland.

Well, that was only 2 sentences, but a whole paragraph!! That David McCullough needs to shorten his prose a bit.

Now you go do it, and link back to me!!

Posted by psugrad98 at August 29, 2006 09:04 AM | TrackBack