I've been Meme'd by Jessica Hughes!  I like her and have decided not to hurt her for this. ;)

The rules are:

1. Grab the nearest book you lay your hands on*

2. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the intellectual one; just pick the closest!

3. Open the book to page 56

4. Find the fifth sentence

5. Post the text of the next four to five sentences

6. Tag up to 5 people to do the same

*The Bible doesn't count!

My book was a gift from Drew Fristoe that my teenager and I both loved, and ironically page 56 is about Thanksgiving with the family.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

"First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.  Second, the fights are always the same.

They usually start when my mom's dad (my grandfather) finishes his third drink.  It is around this time that he starts to talk a lot. My grandfather usually just complains about [deleted] moving into the old neighborhood, and then my sister gets upset at him, and then my grandfather tells her that she doesn't know what she's talking about because she lives in the suburbs.  And then he says how no one visits him in his retirement home.  And finally he starts talking about all the family secrets, like how cousin so-and-so "knocked up" that waitress from the Big Boy.  I should probably mention that my grandfather can't hear very well, so he says all of these things really loud.

My sister tries to fight him, but she never wins.  My grandfather is definitely more stubborn than she is.  My mom usually helps her aunt to prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is "too dry" even if it's soup.  And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom.

There's only one bathroom in my great aunt's house, so this turns to trouble when all the beer starts to hit my cousins ... "

Well.  On that note, Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

I'll tag Drew Fristoe because he gave me the book and I loved it, and this seems strange to punish him like this but here I go.  Sorry, Drew!  The rest of you can be thankful I'm only tagging Drew.  :)