Book Meme

Got this from Kees et al:

  • Grab the nearest book.
  • Open it to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

 

Here’s mine:

Pure acetic acid is completely miscible with water, ethanol, diethyl ether, and carbon tetrachloride, but it not soluble in carbon disulfide.

Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, vol. 1, AAR-ANO

Yes, I’m sitting here at a library with nixternal before his presentation at the MUG meeting tonight. I don’t own that book, nor would I, even though it has some nice graphics and it is interesting. Most of what is in it I can find on teh intarwebs.

What are you reading?

One comment.

  1. “It will all be spelled out in the will; our fate, too, depends on it…”
    -War and Peace (really, it was the closest book)

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