Ship Full o' Pirates

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Not really.

It’s a meme.  Michelle, at Heart of the Prairie either gave me permission, or complimented my blog by default, you choose.  Anyway, she left it open to be taken.  “Stole” is an exaggeration, so, you decide.  I’m either an unrepentant thief.  Not really.  My opinion.  Or I’m a huge liar, or at least an exaggerator.  This is likely, but I trust you know that my tongue is, firmly,in my cheek.

The rules of this meme are as follows:

Grab the nearest book.

Open the book to page 56.

Find the fifth sentence.

Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal/blog along with these instructions.

Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Tag five other people to do the same.

But first, a moment of silence for me.  A blue funk has settled over my whole demeanor at having not gotten to actually create these rules.

Alright-y.  Enough of that.  Smiles and sunshine are back in place.  All pity parties should be brief, got that girls?  Pirates do not indulge at all!  That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.

Now, all silliness aside, you may wonder what sort of book is here closest to me.  Doctor Suess?  Calvin and Hobbes?  Runny Babbit?

Wrong.  I’ve got a real book sitting here.

Hubby handed it to me a couple of evenings ago.   The nice folks at Vision Forum have asked me to read it and give y’all a review of it.  But, of course, I haven’t touched it.  Once I start a delay, I get a pretty good head of steam goin’. Oooops!

This is why I got excited when I saw Michelle’s meme.  I thought it would be the perfect kick in the duff opportunity for me to give you a little glimpse of things to come.

The title is To Have and To Hold: A Tale of Providence and Perseverance in Colonial Jamestown and was written by Mary Johnston and is available from Vision Forum.

To the stake was fastened an Indian warrior, captured, so my interpreter informed me, from some hostile tribe above the falls.  His arms and ankles were secured to the stake by means of thongs passed through incisions in the flesh; his body was stuck over with countless pine splinters, each burning like a small torch; and on his shaven crown was tied a thin plate of copper heaped with red-hot coals.  A little to one side appeared another stake and another circle of brushwood; the one with nothing tied to it as yet, and the other still unlit.  Suddenly, four Indians grabbed me by the arms and dragged me towards the other pile of brush!

Confession time.

I had no idea this was gonna be exciting.  I was really putting off getting started on it.  Forget that, I’m reading it this afternoon!

OK.  Whom shall I tag?  Who do I know that reads great books?

• Carri, of “all the time in the world” fame.  She blogs at Home of the Petersonclan.
• KimC, of course.  I know she has a good book nearby.  She blogs at Life in a Shoe.
• Jenn, at Sunshine on my Shoulders, because I wanna get to know her better.
• Mandy, because she’s a Texan.  She blogs at MandyMom.com.
• Faith, my long time friend in real life.  She reluctantly blogs at Godsfaith.  Y’all go poke around over there and offer her some encouragement.

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