1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

"At the guest-house the silent heroine addict sat in his usual seat."

Alex Garland, The Beach (Penguin Books, 1996)

via: spirit of hope

They would be from Canada, from her sister Louise who would suggest that she might pput up various old acquaintances passing through London, or find a suitable family for a darling Austrian boy, not so very much older than Martha, whose father was a kind of Count, but was also in the import-export business, or try find to recall a splendid person, the friend of a friend of hers who had had a very, very sad story.