This is a royal twist on an old meme. I just wish I'd found these gems when I was actually twenty-one. This is how it works: You must follow the directions to the letter.

1. Find the nearest bookshelf of your favorite reads, cookbooks, tech books, magazines. It doesn't matter. This will work for all print media. If you don't have seven books lined up on a shelf, grab the first seven you see around the house.
2. Book #1: Turn to page 21. Read the 21st sentence (you may have to turn the page).
Write it down.
3. Do the same with the first seven books or articles you see. The sentences will make a paragraph. You must write them down in the order you found them.
4. When you are finished, read over your "story" and title it.
5. Show us your bibliography at the end of this meme.

The Critical Mind of an Onlooker
“Instead, he began surveying the crime scene, if only to hide his embarrassment at not getting the joke. Effective blue ocean strategy should be about risk minimization and not risk taking. For the duration of the campaign I did my best to say what I thought, keep it clean, and focus on substance. At the same time, proclaim to the Universe that all your good thoughts are powerful, and that any negative thoughts are weak. What would your choice be? In one way or another, each of my books has been - symbolically and substantively - a crusade against simplistic thinking. After that you're a pig.”

Bibliography
Mr. Monk in Outer Space (Lee Goldberg)
Blue Ocean Strategy (W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne)
The Audacity of Hope (Barack Obama)
The Secret (Rhonda Byrne)
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (Stephen R. Covey)
The Road Less Traveled & Beyond (M. Scott Peck, M.D.)
Secrets of the Millionare Mind : Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth (T. Harv Eker)

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Haha... I really don't get what that paragraph is about, thanks to my mums books (that's the nearest). Sounds philosophic and nonsense at the same time. Sigh. Monk book is mine, though. The last sentence was really... something.

Anyway. Happy Tuesday. I had a very sleepy Tuesday morning.