The book thing everyone is doing.

1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph

Take care to chop the onion fine. Only the sea and the whistling wind could be heard. Yang was immobilized, though Loki left him the use of his tongue. ”Nothing tasty out there,” he said to Doug who grimaced and nodded. “Concubine?”

1. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquirel
2.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone, J. K. Rowling
3.Unicorn U, Esther Friesner
4. Children on the Night, Mercedes Lackey
5. Mercycle, Piers Anthony