meme
1. Choose 10 books that you like.
2. Write down the first sentence of each of those books.
3. Let other people try to figure out the titles.
4. Cross off books as they are guessed, let us know the correct answers and who guessed them.
All in English; one is the first sentence of a short story, and one that is not the first in the collection, but I had no access to the book itself. I don't have all that many books with me here, so forgive me if the selection is not necessarily all that perfect. XY stands for the name of a character too recognizable to include.
1. The book was thick and black and covered with dust.
(or the poem that comes earlier:
These things are there. The garden and the tree
The serpent at its root, the fruit of gold
The woman in the shadow of the boughs
The running water and the grassy space.) A.S. Byatt's Possession, guessed by noelia_g
2. Last night I dreamed I went to Manderlay again. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, guessed by dark_vanessa, shiv5468 and alienor77310
3. XY was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. - Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind!, guessed by zaleszczotek
4. It.was.me.and.Jamieson.
Just us. Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh, guessed by substancja
5. Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. White Teeth by Zadie Smith, guessed by zaleszczotek.
6. My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters indeed, guessed by zaleszczotek.
7. "What will we do, Prinado? Why, we will perish. We will all die, and the Land will die."A Game of You (Sandman) by Neil Gaiman, guessed by noelia_g
8. They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, guessed by shiv5468.
9. One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father. On Beauty by Zadie Smith, guessed through noelia_g and zaleszczotek's collective effort, I'd say.
10. One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. Company of Wolves by Angela Carter, guessed by dark_vanessa ;>
Have fun.
2. Write down the first sentence of each of those books.
3. Let other people try to figure out the titles.
4. Cross off books as they are guessed, let us know the correct answers and who guessed them.
All in English; one is the first sentence of a short story, and one that is not the first in the collection, but I had no access to the book itself. I don't have all that many books with me here, so forgive me if the selection is not necessarily all that perfect. XY stands for the name of a character too recognizable to include.
1. The book was thick and black and covered with dust.
(or the poem that comes earlier:
These things are there. The garden and the tree
The serpent at its root, the fruit of gold
The woman in the shadow of the boughs
The running water and the grassy space.) A.S. Byatt's Possession, guessed by noelia_g
2. Last night I dreamed I went to Manderlay again. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, guessed by dark_vanessa, shiv5468 and alienor77310
3. XY was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. - Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind!, guessed by zaleszczotek
4. It.was.me.and.Jamieson.
Just us. Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh, guessed by substancja
5. Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. White Teeth by Zadie Smith, guessed by zaleszczotek.
6. My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters indeed, guessed by zaleszczotek.
7. "What will we do, Prinado? Why, we will perish. We will all die, and the Land will die."A Game of You (Sandman) by Neil Gaiman, guessed by noelia_g
8. They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, guessed by shiv5468.
9. One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father. On Beauty by Zadie Smith, guessed through noelia_g and zaleszczotek's collective effort, I'd say.
10. One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. Company of Wolves by Angela Carter, guessed by dark_vanessa ;>
Have fun.