Page 123

Paul Raven, over at the Velcro City Tourist Board, has tagged me with a meme. Here’s what the meme, which ori­gin­ates here, tells me to do:

“To par­ti­cip­ate, you grab any book, go to page 123, find the fifth sen­tence, and blog it. Then tag five people.”

So, here goes. This is the fifth sen­tence of page 123 from a book grabbed at ran­dom from my bookshelf:

He asked us where we were going.

This is taken from Eric Newby’s A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, which is a lovely, life-affirming travel book that scared the hell out of me with all its talk of heights.

I’m going to tag: Debra Hamel, Roland Hulme, Petrona, Roger Morris, and Scott Pack.

I can’t res­ist see­ing what’s on magic page 123 of my own novel. Here it is:

It killed Shimoda outright.