It is easy to go down into hell...; but to climb back again...there's the rub
Pick 5-10 favourite books. Post the first line of each book (obscuring names if need be). Challenge your friends list to guess the books. Guess the books from their first lines!
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."
2. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of ---- -----.
3. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable.
4. In the beginning was the word. Or words. Whatever these were.
5. The snow started to fall several hours before her labor began.
6. The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken.
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."
2. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of ---- -----.
3. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable.
4. In the beginning was the word. Or words. Whatever these were.
5. The snow started to fall several hours before her labor began.
6. The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken.