by MidwifeMuse a couple of weeks ago and have finally got round to doing it.
1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 or more pages.
It’s the non-fiction paperback Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop that I’m currently reading.
2. Open the book to page 123 and find the 5th sentence.
A further 3,515 suffered heavy damage.
3. Post the next 3 sentences.
Two hospitals, seventeen churches, twenty-four schools, two theatres, eight cinemas, seven post and telegraph offices, one railway station, six banks and ten hotels were also swept away. The list also includes twenty unspecified ‘official buildings’, four ‘military installations’ and forty-three ‘industrial installations’. Given the great breadth of the violence done to Cologne it is hard to see them as anything other than incidental targets.
4. Tag 5 people.
This I’m not going to do. However if anyone wants to do this this tag then please feel free to do so.
I looked back at some of the tag links to see what books people picked up. I also wonder just how many people did this tag, which seems slightly pointless to me. Some bloggers think that being tagged is like receiving a chain letter ! Although I don’t usually like doing them I think that generally it’s just a bit of fun if you’ve been tagged and want to do it. If you don’t then I think you should politely inform the person who tagged you that you’re not doing it.
10 responses so far ↓
midwifemuse // April 20, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Oh it’s not pointless. You see I now know that ‘Resistance’ is worth reading and that 24 schools were bombed in Cologne
nikkipolani // April 21, 2008 at 5:14 am
Just a bit of harmless randomness in one’s day
I’m not reading very coherently these days with a very full load at work and projects (including cramming for a trip to Paris - what to see, what to do… 
have filled up my recreational reading time.
Flighty // April 21, 2008 at 7:38 am
Midwifewifemuse hello! I agree, that’s why I used the word slightly rather than completely.
By the way I enjoyed Resistance. xx
Flighty // April 21, 2008 at 7:40 am
Nikki you’re off to Paris sometime soon? I don’t envy you the flight but I’m sure that you’ll have a wonderful time in what is a great city! xx
Ellie // April 21, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Another tag! I saw this one doing the rounds some time ago. I think it can be interesting when people like yourself have a proper book beside you but I saw some who showed extracts from computer manuals and the like, which was dull!
I have finally succeeded in getting my hands on a Stuart Pawson novel - I’ve been trying to track down a copy in the library and Waterstones here since you mentioned him weeks ago - but he’s proved to be too popular and is never on the shelves! I’m enjoying what I’ve read so far - it’s ‘Laughing Boy’, so thanks for the recommendation.
PS Sorry if this posts twice, it wouldn’t let me post just now - told me I already had. Fingers crossed this time!
Flighty // April 21, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Ellie hello! I think that you’ve made a valid point about what books were chosen!
I’m sure that you’ll enjoy Laughing Boy, and all the others in the series.
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By the way I’ve added you to my Lawn Loungers favourites list here. xx
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It did post twice so I’ve deleted the other one!
Liv // April 22, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I once did this tag but it was for your own blog rather than a book, so you had to go to 5th sentence of 5th blog of 5th month of your first year, or something like that.
But I might try this with my current book, which is at home now.
Flighty // April 22, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Liv I prefer a book to a blog! Obviously the people who make these up have plenty of time on their hands! xx
Louise // April 22, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I have two postcards of Cologne, post the RAF bombing raids. The whole city is a scene of devastation, but somehow the cathedral managed to stay much intact. Was this more luck than judgement? x
Flighty // April 22, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Louise it’s amazing that it was only damaged. Yes it was down to luck as Cologne was the nearest big German city to the British bomber bases and was the target of the first thousand bomber raid in May 1942. By June 1943 it had been bombed at least another fifty times. xx
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