I thought that Charles Buell was my online friend.  I thought that Charles liked me.  I thought that... well, never mind what I thought.  I can't believe that Charles has done this to me (or should I just call him Charlie?).

He sent me a Bookworm MeMe".  - heavy sigh -

What is a "Bookworm MeMe", you ask?   Well, as charles explained it in his post, here are the rules.

DA RULES according the Charles:

1. Grab the nearest book (cannot be the bible)
2. Open the book to page 56
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next two to five sentences
5. Don't dig around for your favourite book, or the one you think people will think is cool, or show that you're an intellectual.  Pick the closest one.. we'll know if you cheated
6. Tag five other people, and make them do the same.

Okay, so the book I found closest to me page 56 (it would have been entirely different, had I checked out my AR blog from home, before coming to the office...) fifth sentence:

"The 379 acres that the university bought in 1853 for $25,000 had increased in value to at least $3,000,000 by 1863.  But in the financial panic of 1873, some Chicago banks temporarily suspended operations and in the aftermath most construction came to a halt.  It was a difficult period and prices fell to the lowest level in years."

Wow... sound frighteningly familiar 150 years later??  This is from a book entitled Evanstoniana, An Informal History of Evanston and Its Architecture, by Margery Blair Perkins 1984 (currently out of print). I keep it around as a reference book, because it's got photos and history on some of the historic homes in Evanston, and the people behind them.

Okay, okay... now I have to punish tag five other people.... - heavy sigh -

I apologize in advance... I really, really do.

Tana Plewes

Tami Vroma

Russell Lewis

ohmigosh... I gotta do FIVE of these???

Russel Ray

and

Drew Meyers

Keep an eye on them, and you'll see what THEY'RE reading!

AND HEY!!!! I JUST NOTICED... THIS WAS MY 100TH POST!!!!  WOOOO (and also) HOOOOO!