First Line Meme
Too tired to write something tonight. I've been with my nieces at their school the whole afternoon. A very bad idea. I'm having second thoughts if I'm going to their field trip. *shudders*
Thus, I decided to do this one. Btw, I swiped this from
iluxia 's journal.
1. Pick 10 books or series that are within easy reach.
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.
...and here are the sentences. Have fun! ^^
1.) Once a term the whole school went for a walk - that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys. It was usually a pleasant outing, and everyone looked forward to it, forgot old scores, and behaved with freedom.
2.) It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores.
3.) He sat before the mirror of the second-floor bedroom sketching his lean cheeks with their high bone ridges, the flat broad forehead, and ears too far back on the head, the dark hair curling forward in thatches, the amber-colored eyes wide-set but heavy-lidded.
4.) The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
5.) In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn. This was in 1647, and one of the pleasant features of that summer which I so vividly remember was the weather, which was sunny and mild, flower-fragrant, almost as if the days had been arrested in a seemingly perpetual springtime.
6.) Six years have passed since I stood in front of the ruins of the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion and looked out across the Aegean Sea. Almost one and a half centuries have passed since Baker Hans arrived on the strange island in the Atlantic Ocean. And exactly two hundred years have passed since Frode was shipwrecked on his way from Mexico to Spain.
7.) Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
8.) Going to work was the same everywhere, and the changeover from Marxism-Leninism to Chaos-Capitalism hadn't changed matters much - well, maybe things were now a little worse.
9.) The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.
10.) Like many of us, I think, my father spent the measure of his life piecing together a story he would never understand.
...and a hint (maybe). Some of the lines here are from my fave books. ;)
Thus, I decided to do this one. Btw, I swiped this from
iluxia 's journal.
1. Pick 10 books or series that are within easy reach.
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.
...and here are the sentences. Have fun! ^^
1.) Once a term the whole school went for a walk - that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys. It was usually a pleasant outing, and everyone looked forward to it, forgot old scores, and behaved with freedom.
2.) It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores.
3.) He sat before the mirror of the second-floor bedroom sketching his lean cheeks with their high bone ridges, the flat broad forehead, and ears too far back on the head, the dark hair curling forward in thatches, the amber-colored eyes wide-set but heavy-lidded.
4.) The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
5.) In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn. This was in 1647, and one of the pleasant features of that summer which I so vividly remember was the weather, which was sunny and mild, flower-fragrant, almost as if the days had been arrested in a seemingly perpetual springtime.
6.) Six years have passed since I stood in front of the ruins of the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion and looked out across the Aegean Sea. Almost one and a half centuries have passed since Baker Hans arrived on the strange island in the Atlantic Ocean. And exactly two hundred years have passed since Frode was shipwrecked on his way from Mexico to Spain.
7.) Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
8.) Going to work was the same everywhere, and the changeover from Marxism-Leninism to Chaos-Capitalism hadn't changed matters much - well, maybe things were now a little worse.
9.) The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.
10.) Like many of us, I think, my father spent the measure of his life piecing together a story he would never understand.
...and a hint (maybe). Some of the lines here are from my fave books. ;)