Bridge of Birds!! My all time favourite book.
Meg | Homepage | 01.25.08 - 6:57 pm | #

I liked "Bridge of Birds" a lot, too. But "Red Sky at Morning" (by Richard Bradford) is my all-time favorite book.
Patrick | 01.25.08 - 9:26 pm | #

Meg, I should have known!

Patrick ... yet another recommendation for my list I see.
Julie D. | Homepage | 01.25.08 - 9:59 pm | #

And now I have the meme post up at the Paragraph Farm. Thanks for thinking of me.
Patrick | 01.25.08 - 10:04 pm | #

Thanks for tagging me! My book is Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed. Check it out! :D
Heather | Homepage | 01.25.08 - 11:17 pm | #

The nearest book was my New Jerusalem Bible, Saints Devotional Edition. (Or the Catechism, but I picked the Bible.)

Page 123, sentences 5-7:
If any member of the House of Israel or any resident alien consumes blood of any kind, I shall set my face against that individual who consumes blood and shall outlaw him from his people. For the life of the creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you for performing the rite of expiation on the altar for your lives, for blood is what expiates for a life. That is why I told the Israelites: None of you will consume blood, nor will any resident alien consume blood. [Leviticus 17:10-12]
Edward | 01.27.08 - 9:07 am | #

Not that I was tagged, but it's a fun exercise. Nearest book: Imitation of Christ:

Disciple: What are these things Lord?
Christ: That you conform your desires and affections to My good pleasure, that you be not full of self-love, but a zealous follower of My will in all things. I understand ell how desires sway you his way or that; but you should consider whether you are moved mainly for My honor or for your own interests.
Memphis Aggie | 01.28.08 - 10:35 am | #

"Mary Dusak was broad and brown of countenance, slightly marked by smallpox, but handsome for all that. She had beautiful chestnut hair, coils of it; her forehead was low and smooth, and here commanding dark eyes regarded the world indifferently and fearlessly. She looked bold and resourceful and unscrupulous, and she was all of these."

Willa Cather's "My Antonia" (I'm only on page 74, so I had to jump ahead of the book to post the above excerpt). :-P
Trubador | Homepage | 01.28.08 - 6:29 pm | #

Trubador ... What a fascinating description ... almost makes me want to pick up the book.

I think the books that people have lying around are interesting ... such a variety.
Julie D. | Homepage | 01.28.08 - 6:44 pm | #

"That is why your religion would never do for me, Marcias. If I ever found a teacher it would have to be one who called little children to him." "That, alas, is not the spirit of the time."

Evelyn Waugh's "Helena", a book I have enjoyed so much I had to reread it right after finishing it the first time. I wasn't tagged either, but Curt Jester asked anyone to add theirs, and I am so enjoying this book that I have to share it with others.
mil | 01.29.08 - 9:19 am | #

mil, thanks!
Julie D. | Homepage | 01.29.08 - 9:28 am | #

from The Classics of Western Spirituality, "Nahman of Bratslav: the Tales"

"Superficially, the story resembles 'The King Who Decreed Conversion,' where we found the distinct contrast between the Gentile king and the pious Jews, between Gentil culture and Judaism, the Law of God. What interests the author here is not so much the king's discovery that he has been saved twice by the Law of the Jews (the page or the tablets, but that the king is not satisfied with this information. His desire for authentication--hence the trance--stems from his will to convince his entire people and, more importantly, to discover why he has had this insight and why it is not permanent."
Shannon | Homepage | 01.29.08 - 11:19 am | #