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A book meme, stolen from riyirowe:
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.
Note: since a LOT of my books are actually in boxes still, these are just ten books I own that happen to be unpacked - they aren't necessarily my favourites. (One is a book of poetry - feel free to just give me the poet, not the actual book I have.)
1. That morning I woke up crying, as usual. I didn't know anymore whether I was sad or not - my feelings had flowed away with the tears.
2. In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen. Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley; guessed by aramis-chan
3. With the north wind hard at his back, Scully stood in the doorway and sniffed.
4. I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers,
Full of sweet trees and colour of glad grass
5. Visitors to my home always notice the framed black-and-white photograph of my family.
6. 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. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; guessed by merkuria
7. In the sewing-room at Hever, Simonette bent over her work and, as she sat there, her back to the mullioned window through which streamed the hot afternoon sunshine - for it was the month of August and the sewing-room was in the front of the castle, overlooking the moat - a little girl of some seven years peeped round the door, smiled and advanced towards her.
8. When I was twenty-eight I decided to kill my mother. Island by Jane Rogers; guessed by mrs-leary
9. In 1972 I was sixteen - young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions.
10. My Dearest Sophie,
I don't know what to write, or how to write it if I did. I've arrived here in a dream, like someone stumbling over a threshold he never meant to cross.
I think that there's at least one on there that should be REALLY FREAKING OBVIOUS to a good portion of my flist. A couple of others are more obscure - one of which I have only ever known one other person to read, and that was my sister.
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.
Note: since a LOT of my books are actually in boxes still, these are just ten books I own that happen to be unpacked - they aren't necessarily my favourites. (One is a book of poetry - feel free to just give me the poet, not the actual book I have.)
1. That morning I woke up crying, as usual. I didn't know anymore whether I was sad or not - my feelings had flowed away with the tears.
2. In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen. Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley; guessed by aramis-chan
3. With the north wind hard at his back, Scully stood in the doorway and sniffed.
4. I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers,
Full of sweet trees and colour of glad grass
5. Visitors to my home always notice the framed black-and-white photograph of my family.
6. 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. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; guessed by merkuria
7. In the sewing-room at Hever, Simonette bent over her work and, as she sat there, her back to the mullioned window through which streamed the hot afternoon sunshine - for it was the month of August and the sewing-room was in the front of the castle, overlooking the moat - a little girl of some seven years peeped round the door, smiled and advanced towards her.
8. When I was twenty-eight I decided to kill my mother. Island by Jane Rogers; guessed by mrs-leary
9. In 1972 I was sixteen - young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions.
10. My Dearest Sophie,
I don't know what to write, or how to write it if I did. I've arrived here in a dream, like someone stumbling over a threshold he never meant to cross.
I think that there's at least one on there that should be REALLY FREAKING OBVIOUS to a good portion of my flist. A couple of others are more obscure - one of which I have only ever known one other person to read, and that was my sister.