bibliomeme taken from Angelamermaid
Step 1: Pick out 10 books you love.
Step 2: Write down the first line (or two, if you feel it necessary)--and try to avoid using specific terms, character or place names if possible.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess where the quote is from. (No fair Googling!)
Step 4: When someone guesses correctly, italicize the quote and put the title and author after it, with credit to the first correct guesser.
1. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (sunspotted)
2. When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (jazzpaws)
3. This is a very dull page. What is on the next page? The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone (mercury_ca)
4. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (angelamermaid)
5. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (sunspotted)
6. The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles.
7. It was a bright day with just enough wind to float a flag. Andy and the Lion: A Tale of Kindness Remembered or the Power of Gratitude by James Daugherty (sunspotted)
8. Hi, teach!
Looka her! She's a teacher? Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman (sunspotted)
9. The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (angelamermaid)
10. One day, the most wicked demon of them all, the devil, was exceptionally cheerful, for he had created an unusual mirror.
Apparently, I remain strongly attached to the stories I read when I was a kid.
Step 2: Write down the first line (or two, if you feel it necessary)--and try to avoid using specific terms, character or place names if possible.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess where the quote is from. (No fair Googling!)
Step 4: When someone guesses correctly, italicize the quote and put the title and author after it, with credit to the first correct guesser.
1. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (sunspotted)
2. When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (jazzpaws)
3. This is a very dull page. What is on the next page? The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone (mercury_ca)
4. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (angelamermaid)
5. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (sunspotted)
6. The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles.
7. It was a bright day with just enough wind to float a flag. Andy and the Lion: A Tale of Kindness Remembered or the Power of Gratitude by James Daugherty (sunspotted)
8. Hi, teach!
Looka her! She's a teacher? Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman (sunspotted)
9. The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (angelamermaid)
10. One day, the most wicked demon of them all, the devil, was exceptionally cheerful, for he had created an unusual mirror.
Apparently, I remain strongly attached to the stories I read when I was a kid.