What are you reading?

This meme, in slightly differing formats, goes around every so often and is always interesting. The challenge is to find the book closest to you right now, where you are typing this, and open it to page 161, find the fifth sentence, and (as I understand it) put it in your blog. Then, if you wish, pass it onto five others, notifying them in their blogs through comments, to do the same. I received it from Peggy at Musings of Meggie.

The sentence for me is from Paulo Coelho's book Brida. It is a story of a young woman's search for magic and soul mate love. The sentence is: "She was sure that she would make very bad company." I actually had reviewed the book in May which is maybe why it's still on my desk shelf--Brida.

Sometimes when I get something like this, I do it but don't pass it onto anybody else. This will be an exception because I think it's interesting to know what others are reading and it's a way to advertise other blogs.

So the request (which feel free to ignore) goes out to:

Parapluie at Umbrella Painting Journal

Paul at Shadow of Diogenes

Fran at Sacred Ordinary

Ugich at gappa

Darlene at Darlene's Hodgepodge

and anyone else who would be willing to play the game.