The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, by John M. Barry.

"But part of his genius was an instinct for what mattered and the ability to pursue it vertically and connect it horizontally."

That was talking about Einstein, and as I haven't read the book, I have no clue as to what that is about beyond that.

"Oh, dear Alessandra, I thought you knew everything."

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

This book helped me write my latest quiz.

It's called Cooperstown: Hall of Fame Players and had several contributing writers.

"The first to charge bunts and play them barehanded, he also could range equally well toward the line or into the shortstop's territory to his left."

(It's about Jimmy Collins, third baseman whose career was from 1895-1908)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,
by Stieg Larsson,
''She handed him a cup
from the expresso machine
in the canteen''.
Excellent book, by the way,can't wait to see the movie!

"And, perhaps, also for their souls."

From "One For the road" by Janelle McCulloch.

"You could tell that by the way he was dressed: he was the anti-Geezer when it came to fashion"

"I Am Ozzy" - Ozzy Osbourne

(Good job you didn't ask for the first sentence!)

"Bugs of Alberta" - John Acorn/Ian Sheldon

In reference to the Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus sp.), on page 61, the fifth sentence reads:

"Flying low over the ground, just before sundown, they spread their many-leaved antennae to the wind and sniff - they seek the unmistakable aroma of today's death."

(my my, such a pleasant thought right before breakfast lol)

"She heard them discussing her once in the kitchen when Mark had come to get them."

From Lost In The Forest by Sue Miller

Oh my, I can't put that there, I'm reading Bonk by Mary Roach and she's discussing Kinsey and Napoleon.

"Nobody minded idiots in those days."

From Kazuo Ishiguro's 'An Artist of the Floating World'. It's beside the computer because I'm writing a quiz on it.

"The Saudis were better financed so they had the money and the means to buy the loyalty of the tribal chiefs while the Abu Dhabians had limited resources with which to fight back."

From Mohammed Al-Fahim's From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi, which has been sitting on my coffee table for an awfully long time.

"Even when the winds of nationalism gathered momentum elsewhere in Africa, Senghor remained staunchly loyal to the French cause."

From The State of Africa by Martin Meredith

It was a particularly bad day for the 359th Fighter Group Capt. Wayne Bolefahr reported.

"I'll talk to him about it."

Not a very excited one, I'll admit. It's from "Gourd Girls" by Priscilla Wilson.

David Copperfield.. I was reading it a minute ago.

Klinski as it says at the beginning of this thread:
Go to page 61 and tell us what the fifth sentence is.

"Actually, when it prints on the printer, it is 1 inch."

"Programming in Visual Basic" by Julia Case Bradley and Anita C. Millspaugh

"The entrance to the emergency ward is said to be haunted by the ghost of a man who was killed when his Model T Ford crashed into a tree on the site."

From Ghosts of Kingston: From the Files of the Haunted Walk by Glen Shackleton.

"If there are fewer blocks than threads, the remaining threads will be idle."

Using OpenMP by Chapman, Jost and van der Pas

From "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss:

"You order that all the time."

"Ah-hah, now that's a gimmick."

Jim Cramer's Real Money by James J. Cramer

The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell - on page 61 there is a picture of a seal and a seagull staring at each other...

...so I just grabbed the next one - Stories for Discussion. There's an excerpt from Jupiter Five by Arthur C. Clarke: "At last Jupiter stopped growing: we'd swung into the orbit of Five and would soon catch up with the tiny moon as it raced around the planet."

Frankie sat at a table at the back of the bar,between Jim Dowell,an AP reporter just returned from Paris, Harriet, and Dusty Pankhurst,another one of Murrow's boys.

-from- The PostMistress by Sarah Blake

He had a player piano in his stateroom.

from "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow

"Despite having flown directly from a hospital in London to the ceremony, Elizabeth Taylor looks fresh as a rose in this demure Dior gown that keeps her famous bosom under wraps."

The Complete Book of Oscar Fashion, by Reeve Chace