Meme-hunting
So I'm really going to finish the rest of those replies on my last post eventually. For now, though, here's a fun one I couldn't pass up. These are the first lines of ten of my favorite books; name them. (Introductions are used when they're actually part of the book, and not one of those "this is what I thought when I was writing page 265" things.)
1) There were five of us--Carruthers and the new recruit and myself, and Mr. Spivens and the verger. (yay Julie)
2) Picture Holden Caulfield all grown up, now a university professor, writing a book about translation. (yay Julie)
3) "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you, he's the one." (yay Nebula)
4) Like many of us, I think, my father spent the measure of his life piecing together a story he would never understand. (yay Meaghan)
5) Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
7) I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.
8) Herr Joseph Giebenrath, jobber and middleman, possessed no laudable or peculiar traits distinguishing him from his fellow townsmen.
9) ----'s mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.
10) It wasn't given to Langston Braverman to know the moment she became a different person; she only knew later, looking back on the afternoon a simple storm arrived and stayed for days, the afternoon she first saw the children.
(There should be a lot more nonfiction on that list, but these are hard enough to guess as it is. Yup.)
1) There were five of us--Carruthers and the new recruit and myself, and Mr. Spivens and the verger. (yay Julie)
2) Picture Holden Caulfield all grown up, now a university professor, writing a book about translation. (yay Julie)
3) "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you, he's the one." (yay Nebula)
4) Like many of us, I think, my father spent the measure of his life piecing together a story he would never understand. (yay Meaghan)
5) Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
7) I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.
8) Herr Joseph Giebenrath, jobber and middleman, possessed no laudable or peculiar traits distinguishing him from his fellow townsmen.
9) ----'s mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.
10) It wasn't given to Langston Braverman to know the moment she became a different person; she only knew later, looking back on the afternoon a simple storm arrived and stayed for days, the afternoon she first saw the children.
(There should be a lot more nonfiction on that list, but these are hard enough to guess as it is. Yup.)