I sang along to this in the car this morning!

From maudelynn:

Take the five nearest books and...
Book 1 first sentence
Book 2 last sentence on page 50
Book 3 second sentence on page 100
Book 4 next to last sentence on page 150
Book 5 final sentence

My brother's first serious girlfriend was eight years older -- twenty-eight to his twenty.  I had a bad dream about the Broken Man, she would say.  "Mortmain, you deserve a medal," she said.  I even prayed to my Higher Power.  "To see this is to be made free."