Playing tag

So I’ve been tagged!

The rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people and post a comment to Candy’s blog (she’s the one who tagged me) once you’ve posted your three sentences.

I have to admit that I have several books that are “nearest”, stacked beside me. It’s pretty random: The Complete Book of Breastfeeding, Your Baby’s First Year (I recently used these 2 books as references for work, fyi), and Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House. And then there’s this, The Tent by Margaret Atwood which is really the book I’ve been reading.

On page 123, sentences 6 to 9 read:

King Log has retired to a villa in the Alps, where he is at present sprouting a fine crop of shitake mushrooms and working on his memoirs, one word at a time. Logs write slowly, and log kings more slowly than most. He has engaged a meditation guru who encourages him to visualize himself as a large pencil, but he can only get as far as the eraser.

And now, to continue the game, I am tagging

• Bambi at Dani’s Treats
• Ganns at gannsdeen
• Gen at hunger pangs
• Nines at Via Filipina
• Toni at Wifely Steps (oops, she’s done it already!)
• Ina at Ruined for Life