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Meme stolen from
darkout
1) Select 5-10 (or so) favourite books.
2) Post the first line from them.
3) Don't mention the title or author. That's for everyone else to figure out.
4) After someone correctly identifies the book, update the original entry to reflect the fact.
1. Before you fairly start this story, I should like to give you just a word of warning.
2. Each day, Princess Purrfect sat in front of the palace fire, pushing her paws deep into the carpet.
3. Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom.
4. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
shorelle The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. 12 April 1983: Anke was nine when she let the balloon go.
6. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.
the_cannabil The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
7. I.... like... hats!
8. Light came through the window, trickling morning all over the room.
9. Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no ficticious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small : to wit, a workhouse ; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events ; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
Goodness! Some of those are brief! It would be better for these ones if I were able to write two sentances... but no matter.
Tell me if you need help. Although I don't expect anyone to get 2 or 7, as they are picture books.
And 5 doesn't really give you enough to get your teeth into.
Oh well.
darkout
1) Select 5-10 (or so) favourite books.
2) Post the first line from them.
3) Don't mention the title or author. That's for everyone else to figure out.
4) After someone correctly identifies the book, update the original entry to reflect the fact.
1. Before you fairly start this story, I should like to give you just a word of warning.
2. Each day, Princess Purrfect sat in front of the palace fire, pushing her paws deep into the carpet.
3. Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom.
4. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
shorelle The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. 12 April 1983: Anke was nine when she let the balloon go.
6. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.
the_cannabil The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
7. I.... like... hats!
8. Light came through the window, trickling morning all over the room.
9. Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no ficticious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small : to wit, a workhouse ; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events ; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
Goodness! Some of those are brief! It would be better for these ones if I were able to write two sentances... but no matter.
Tell me if you need help. Although I don't expect anyone to get 2 or 7, as they are picture books.
And 5 doesn't really give you enough to get your teeth into.
Oh well.