Page 123 Book Meme.

I have unreluctantly volunteered to do this meme from Franscud's blog. The rules are as follows:

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.
5. Tag five people.

One of the most beautiful questions I have ever been asked by a high school teacher in class was "if you could go back in time (at least 2 decades back), what three books would you bring with you and why?". My famous three answered that question since the day I picked them up at the bookstore for the money I could almost pay my internet service with. They're currently sitting on the shelf above my PC.
All of which are physically very near me.

Here they are....
....Are they here?

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1998)

A bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo. The Price's story, which parallels their host country's tumultuous emergence into the post-colonial era, is narrated by the five women of the family: Orleanna, long-suffering wife of Baptist missionary Nathan Price, and their four daughters – Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May. [citing: wikipedia]

"When we came home my sisters had to cup up my dinner ever day and help me get dressed. It was the best thing that happened. I showed Leah where you could get into the alligator pear tree and she boosted me up."

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002)
The story of a teenage girl who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death. [citing: wikipedia]

"'I was trying to warn her,' Artie said weakly.
Artie returned to his table. He drew hypodermics one after another."

Eating Heaven by Jennie Shortridge (2005)
A novel that combines the theme of family secrets with that of a young woman's struggle to accept herself as she happens to be - overweight. Eleanor Samuels gives up her job as a freelance food writer to care for her ailing Uncle Bennie and discovers, along with some important truths about the past, that you don't have to be thin to have a good life, or loving relationships. [citing: Nancy Pearl]

"She plants a dewy kiss on his cheek, leaving behind tow fat crescents of lip gloss.
'I'm serious, Henry' shey says, play pouting. 'Think about it, and call me.'"

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Melanie, Graham, and Claire, I'm thinking of you.


Happy Tagging!
Tagging Happy!