Write down the 4th Sentence on the 23rd page of the book beside your hand

[Henry IX]

The requirement is imprecise. I don't know whether to start the count with the text of the book, or to include the front matter. And I don't know whether to count a sentence that ends on page 23 but starts on page 22 as the first. So, I will give the resulting sentence using both page-count approaches, and counting a partial sentence as the first.

Nearest book, The Bible: "The Newberry Bible" Large Type Reference Edition.
1. Count front matter: "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"
2. Count text: "And Ahimelech said, 'I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.'"

Next nearest book: "Dandelion Wine", Ray Bradbury, Bantam Books, 1976 edition, 1985 printing
1. Count front matter: "They fell, thrashed, and rolled."
2. Count text: "Candy-store man samples his own stuff, I should think."

[Dark Muse]

The boys seem very cheerful, and I want to go to them: I want to be with Graham, and watch his friends.

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

[BienvenuJDC]

He wore blue silk stockings, blue knee pants with blue buckles, a blue ruffled waist and a jacket of bright blue braided with gold.

The Patchwork Girl of Oz ~ L Frank Baum

[kiz_paws]

He wore blue silk stockings, blue knee pants with blue buckles, a blue ruffled waist and a jacket of bright blue braided with gold.

The Patchwork Girl of Oz ~ L Frank Baum

Oh I LOVE this book!!!

"...It's possible to get the sense you're being toyed with, that Mr. Calvino is fiddling with you and doesn't much care whether Rome is burning or not; that "reality" and "truth" are, for him, categories irrelevant to the hermetic world of art..."

--taken from MOVING TARGETS, by Margaret Atwood

[bouquin]

Aldous knew how it upset her.

[janesmith]

In an alcove, at the turning, standing on an oak coffin stool was a jar.

"The Children's Book"- A.S.Byatt

[kiki1982]

Yeah, I can do it again! I didn't do it earlier because this book was slow.

'A breeze flauntig ever so warmly down the Mall through the thin trees, past the bronze heroes, lifted some flag flying in the British breast of Mr Bowley and he raised his hat as the car approached and let the poor mothers of Pimlico press close to him, and stood very upright.'

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Don't know what to think yet

[neilgee]

He was baptised on February 5 at St Joseph's Chapel of Ease, Roundtown, now the church of St Joseph, Terenure, by the Reverend John O'Mulloy, CC.

James Joyce by Richard Ellman.

[Snowqueen]

Graham did like it very well, and almost always got it.

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

[kiki1982]

And yes, I have started a new book! I don't know why I find this topic so much fun.

'Heureusement quelqu'un vint tirer [Gringoir] d'embarras et assumer la responsabilité.'

'Fortunately, someone came to get [Gringoir] out of his predicament and took up the responsibility.'

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Le Notre Dame de Paris, 1830.

[paradoxical]

'He lit the cigarette and nodded, watching me through the smoke.'

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, R.V. Cassill

(The story is "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin)

[Dark Muse]

But they became throat cutters

The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood

[Dogbrick]

One morning Jem and I found a load of stovewood in the backyard.

To Kill A Mockingbird.

[Hurricane]

Nice-looking merchandise, the kind a rich promoter would buy in the yard and have somebody paste his bookplate in.

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler.

[Mariner]

The Hell's Angels had made headlines before, and the Lynch report--based on a survey of old police files--contained little that was new or startling.

Hell's Angels, A Strange and Terrible Saga - Hunter S. Thompson