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All right, suckered in (sort of) to do this, so here it is.
Passing on a Facebook meme to here: Thanks Melayna.
1. Pick ten books from your shelves.
2. Take a sentence or a couple from their beginning.
3. Choose a number of yours friends to guess the books in question. (It's a free-for-all.)
4. Googling is cheating.
1. The girl crouched on the stone ledge, hugging her cloak of furs and skins close against the bite of the night. Far to the east, where the towering peaks of the mountains broke and fell away, the moons were rising.
2. Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named Mr. Fitzgibbon.
3. Here begins our tale. The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus, it has ever been.
4. When I left my office that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect for anything unusual to happen.
5. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
6. I stopped when I smelled the magic. It was strong magic. Old magic. And it carried a faint scent of the sea. And yet I was a thousand kilometers away from the nearest body of salt water.
7. The crudely built cart lurched and bounced over the rough coralite terrain, its iron wheels hitting every bump and pit in what passed for a road. The cart was being pulled by a tier, its breath snorting puffs in the chill air.
8. It was a dark and stormy night.
9. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened thought his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
10. In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. He was then about seventy-five and had presided over the diocese of Digne since 1806.
Some are easy. Some I doubt are named, and one is incredibly misleading.
Good luck.
Passing on a Facebook meme to here: Thanks Melayna.
1. Pick ten books from your shelves.
2. Take a sentence or a couple from their beginning.
3. Choose a number of yours friends to guess the books in question. (It's a free-for-all.)
4. Googling is cheating.
1. The girl crouched on the stone ledge, hugging her cloak of furs and skins close against the bite of the night. Far to the east, where the towering peaks of the mountains broke and fell away, the moons were rising.
2. Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named Mr. Fitzgibbon.
3. Here begins our tale. The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus, it has ever been.
4. When I left my office that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect for anything unusual to happen.
5. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
6. I stopped when I smelled the magic. It was strong magic. Old magic. And it carried a faint scent of the sea. And yet I was a thousand kilometers away from the nearest body of salt water.
7. The crudely built cart lurched and bounced over the rough coralite terrain, its iron wheels hitting every bump and pit in what passed for a road. The cart was being pulled by a tier, its breath snorting puffs in the chill air.
8. It was a dark and stormy night.
9. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened thought his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
10. In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. He was then about seventy-five and had presided over the diocese of Digne since 1806.
Some are easy. Some I doubt are named, and one is incredibly misleading.
Good luck.