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Thanks to The End of Motherhood for the tag. This is exactly what I'm up for on this rainy day.

Here are the rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the 5th sentence
4. Post the next three sentences
5. Tag 5 people

Since all of the books I'm currently reading are less than 10 pages and contain only one syllable words, I had to reach for T.'s current read.

How many clothes would it take to shut out the cold? Shorts and T-shirt, Frisco jeans and wool shirt vest, red sweatshirt with hood, heavy Navy sweater and insulated coveralls. Then Navy cold-weather wool-lined overalls, watch cap, Navy wool-lined cold weather cap, two pairs of felt inner soles and one pair of cardboard inner soles in my pacs, two pairs of woolen socks, two pairs of woolen mittens, and my heavy woolen scarf.

This is from One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke.

I bought this book for T. who, in a parallel universe, is roughing it alone and having many adventures in the Alaskan wilderness.

This passage makes me grateful for my warm bed, my warm partner, and polypropylene.

Hey, Bullseye, Baby!, BipolarLawyerCook, Juggling Life, Magpie Musing, and Viking Conquest --
what are you reading?