Book Memery
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
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.
L-Like llamrei said, "favorite books" do not necessarily equal "best books I've ever read." But all of these are books that have a very special place in my heart. Basically, if I would turn the last page and then immediately flip back to the front and start again, a book was eligible for this meme. AND TEN WAS FAR TOO FEW.
1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. -- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (llamrei)
2. "I heard a noise," Mrs. Davenport said, "and then I was moving through this tunnel."
3. Many years later she remembered how her parents had looked to her when she was a small child: her father as tall as a tree, and merry and bright and golden, with her beautiful black-haired mother at his side. -- Deerskin, Robin McKinley (blackbird_xiii, lj is just hating on her comment)
4. May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust green trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. -- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (wordsofastory)
5. Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable. -- Dealing With Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede (cesia)
6. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. -- A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett (drazzi)
7. Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it was created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came into being between ten and twenty thousand million years ago. By the same token the earth itself is generally supposed to be about four and a half thousand million years old. These dates are incorrect. -- Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (llamrei)
8. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. -- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (wordsofastory)
9. The rabbit had been run over minutes before. -- Sabriel, Garth Nix (avianthropy)
10. When I first set eyes on Evelyn Barton-Forbes she was walking the streets of Rome-- (I am informed, by the self-appointed Critic who reads over my shoulder as I write, that I have already committed an error.)
And here's a bonus that I couldn't use for obvious reasons:
11. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
---oh, right. If you didn't know it, I am back from Paris. Pictures to follow!
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.
L-Like llamrei said, "favorite books" do not necessarily equal "best books I've ever read." But all of these are books that have a very special place in my heart. Basically, if I would turn the last page and then immediately flip back to the front and start again, a book was eligible for this meme. AND TEN WAS FAR TOO FEW.
1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. -- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (llamrei)
2. "I heard a noise," Mrs. Davenport said, "and then I was moving through this tunnel."
3. Many years later she remembered how her parents had looked to her when she was a small child: her father as tall as a tree, and merry and bright and golden, with her beautiful black-haired mother at his side. -- Deerskin, Robin McKinley (blackbird_xiii, lj is just hating on her comment)
4. May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust green trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. -- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (wordsofastory)
5. Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable. -- Dealing With Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede (cesia)
6. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. -- A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett (drazzi)
7. Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it was created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came into being between ten and twenty thousand million years ago. By the same token the earth itself is generally supposed to be about four and a half thousand million years old. These dates are incorrect. -- Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (llamrei)
8. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. -- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (wordsofastory)
9. The rabbit had been run over minutes before. -- Sabriel, Garth Nix (avianthropy)
10. When I first set eyes on Evelyn Barton-Forbes she was walking the streets of Rome-- (I am informed, by the self-appointed Critic who reads over my shoulder as I write, that I have already committed an error.)
And here's a bonus that I couldn't use for obvious reasons:
11. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
---oh, right. If you didn't know it, I am back from Paris. Pictures to follow!