Because everybody's doing it! That's why!

It is late. Roomie is noisy. This calls for a meme!

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

Book #1: The Odyssey by Homer: The Norton Critical Edition (translated and edited by Albert Cook)
Book #2: Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
Book #3: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Book #4: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Book #5: Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Tell me, Muse, about the man of many turns, who many ways wandered when he had sacked Troy's holy citadel; he saw the cities of many men, and he knew their thought; on the ocean he suffered many pains within his heart, striving for his life and his companions' return. She was about to look when a hissing to her left attracted her. "For he is forced to make everybody like him." "Reliable historical sources tell us this much," he said. Immediately I knew it would be the homeless bird, flying at last to its home.