From Death:

“A new book meme circulating around the sphere is going by the name “123.5,” and its rules are these:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.”
“What were, he asked himself with growing sternness, his intentions?”

From Anita Desai’s Bye Bye Blackbird – winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award

This is unintentionally synchronous as I just watched Bend it Like Beckham tonight and both texts deal thematically with immigrants from India to England choosing their new identities through both assimilation and cultural retention/evolution. Wow, that would be a great way to teach this book.