From "The Bog Standard,"
"Looking For Inspiration.
1. grab the nearest book. no cheating! the nearest book.
2. open the book to page 123.
3. find the fifth sentence
4. post the text of the next four sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. don't you dare dig for a cool or intellectual book on your shelf. pick out whatever is closest!"
My first try didn't work. The nearest book was a paperback of Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander." Pg. 123 had only one sentence, as it was the end of a chapter.
Book #2 was "Blood Brother," by Anne Bird. Here are the requisite sentences:
"It was during this period that Scott started to obsess about the swimming pool at his house. He drove home to clean it out and to mow the lawn, and two weeks later, he went back to do it again. When he told me he was going back for a third time, I thought it was getting a little bizarre, so I finally confronted him. "What's the big deal with the pool?"
darn it. now I really want to know what the big deal with the pool is!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you have to be a murder trial fan! The book was written by Scott Peterson's sister, who spent quite a bit of time with him between his wife's "disappearance," and his arrest for her murder and that of their unborn child.
ReplyDeleteThe stuff about the pool never came into the trial, but there was speculation that he might have drowned her in the pool, and that his obsessive cleaning of it might stem from his possible fear that her possible DNA might possibly be lurking in there to trap the unwary murderer.
OOOoohhhh. Strange I'd never heard that bit at all ... I followed the Peterson case more closely than many others.
ReplyDeletethanks for clearing that up!
Anything you want to know about the case, let me know. If I don't know it off the top of my head, I know who does!
ReplyDeleteMy friend Loretta wrote "Stone Cold Guilty," which is the most complete book about the investigation and trial, IMO.