Book meme
Snatched from furius
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.
1)"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
Guessed by roh_wyn: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2)"The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonline lane."
Guessed by flug_des_todes: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.Rowling
3)"Ennis del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminium door and window frames."
Guessed by roh_wyn: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
4)"Least anyone should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line is an old one, thought it ends with me."
5)"Once upon a time, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened."
6)"Even in high summer, Tintagel was a haunted place; Igraine, Lady of Duke Gorlois, looked over the sea from the headland."
Guessed by roh_wyn: Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
7)"The child was wakened by the knotting of the snake’s coil about his waist."
8)"Die Madonnia lebte schon so lange auf dem Hof, daß niemand wußte, wie alt sie war."
(The Madonnia had been living on the farm for so long that nobody knew how old she was.)
9)"Ein eisiger Wind fegte über die Steppe. Er verkündete das Nahen der kalten Jahreszeit. Der jungen Vala verkündete er ihren baldigen Tod". (An icy wind was sweeping over the steppe. It announced the approach of the cold season. To young Vala it announced that death was near.)
10)"So oft habe ich mich schon gefragt, warum das Meerwasser salzig ist, während das Wasser der Flüsse, die sich ins Meer ergießen, nicht salzig ist - und selbst der Regen, der vom Himmel fällt, ist ohne Salz."
(So often I have wondered why the seawater is salty while the waters of the rivers which regorge into the sea are not salty - and even the rain, which falls down from heaven, is without salt.) .
I feel that I need to point out some things, however.
- I couldn't find the English translations for some of them, so I added a translation by myself in brackets for those.
- Some are really pretty much totally easy, I guess, but whatever.
- And yeah, sometimes my tastes in books aren't that refined. I know.