123

I've seen this floating around all over blogland for the past two months or more, so I'm going to add my voice.

Here are the directions:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences (i.e., the 5th, 6th, and 7th sentences).
5. Tag five people & post a comment here once you post it to your blog. [I rarely tag people. This is not an exception. Do it if you feel like it, and let me know.]

I just added my latest P.D. James mystery to the book blog. It's sitting next to me, so that's what I'm using. I've got the British paperback faber & faber edition:

'Yes, I suppose so. It was a long time ago.'
'But you can't have forgotten?'

Rather underwhelming, especially for James. Here's the first sentence on that page:

It was interesting, thought Cordelia, the way in which death had replaced sex as the great unmentionable, to be denied in prospect, endured in a decent privacy, preferably behind the drawn curtains of a hospital bed, and followed by discreet, embarrassed, uncomforted mourning.

Now that's a sentence!!