omorka | That Book Meme Again

Ganked from several people, including but not limited to

miyarificus:

1) Grab the nearest book.
2) Open the book to page 56.
3) Find the fifth sentence.
4) Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5) Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

There are two books approximately equally close to me at the moment.

2. Add the sugar to the cherries and stir to mix evenly. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
3. Using the large holes on a hand grater, coarsely grate the cold chocolate. Place in a small bowl, cover, and refrigerate until needed.

- The Best Ice Cream Maker Cookbook Ever, Peggy Fallon

Wow, that was boring. Let's try the other one:

Let me give this the appropriate amount of stress: You cannot simply take the techniques that work well with seven people in your living room and use them with four hundred people at a festival.

Putting it as optimistically as possible, I can say that each increase in the size of your congregation brings forth new challenges and new opportunities for the aspiring liturgist.

- NeoPagan Rites: A Guide to Creating Public Rituals That Work, Isaac Bonewits

And let me just add: thanks for stating the obvious, Isaac. :-/ My library (or at least the portion of it that's piled around my computer desk) is totally letting me down today.