Nearest Book Meme

Stephen's Lighthouse offers the following meme for bloggers:

Rules: * Get the book nearest to you. Right now. * Go to page 56. * Find the 5th sentence. * Write this sentence - either here or on your blog. * Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence. * Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.


Here's mine:

We could join the rebel militia in the Bongo area, if we so desired, or simply live there for a while in peace and wait for the civil war to sort itself out.


John Bul Dau in God Grew Tired of Us*

(*This is the true story of one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan.)