Book Challenge

Mommy's friend Teresa had this on her blog for a Book Challenge:

Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your blog along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Aunty Teresa said that she found this challenge from Rosemary, on Rosemary's Blog Spot. 

This is what Aunty Teresa posted on her blog:
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux.

"Go," said the conductor.
But I didn't want to go, for besides the overcrowded compartments of Europeans and Americans there were the compartments of Kurds, Turks, Iranians, and Afghans who slept on top of each other and cooked stews between their berths over dangerously flaring kerosene stoves.

The ferry moved off, hooting into the black lake.

(I love the last sentence!)

So, here's what Mommy found in the book closest to her computer:

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

When he came back, he promised her, things would be different.  He'd work full-time, find a real place to live, and lead a less haphazard life.  

He took his climbing gear to the Wilderness Exchange on San Pablo Avenue, a place where much of his disposable income had vanished in the years since he'd become a devoted climber.  It was only a four-minute drive to the shop from his storage space, but Mortenson remembers the passage as indelibly as a cross-country road trip.  "I felt like I was driving away from a life I'd led ever since I'd come to California," he says.  He left with almost fifteen hundred dollars more in his pocket.

Guess I better start reading more than just my Dr. Seuss books!