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moonwiseThe book meme that's been going around, ganked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
andmydog among others
The rules:
1. Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books (I'm including plays in this one).
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
If you guess the book and want to know, I'll tell you why it's on my list of favorites. (Some of my favorites are a bit obscure, I have to warn you; I'm a fantasy h0)
1. She scowled at her glass of orange juice. The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley
2. Lest anyone suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I may say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court, for all the good it did me. Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey
3. Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
4. When one of the serfs was caught with a bundle of seditious pamphlets in his pocket, the Marquis vo Derrivalle was understandably infuriated. Illusion, Paula Volsky
5. I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the four corners of the world. Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart
6. The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
7. The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. IT, Stephen King
8. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under the conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
9. The Prince had all his life known the story of Sleeping Beauty, cursed to sleep for a hundred years, with her parents, the King and Queen, and all of the Court, after pricking her finger on a spindle. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, A. N. Roquelaure
10. I grew up with my mother in Chez Stratos, my mother's house in the clouds. The Silver Metal Lover, Tanith Lee
(note: this list is limited to books I have handy; most of my books are up in the attic due to space constraints.)
andmydog among othersThe rules:
1. Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books (I'm including plays in this one).
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
If you guess the book and want to know, I'll tell you why it's on my list of favorites. (Some of my favorites are a bit obscure, I have to warn you; I'm a fantasy h0)
1. She scowled at her glass of orange juice. The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley
2. Lest anyone suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I may say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court, for all the good it did me. Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey
3. Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
4. When one of the serfs was caught with a bundle of seditious pamphlets in his pocket, the Marquis vo Derrivalle was understandably infuriated. Illusion, Paula Volsky
5. I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the four corners of the world. Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart
6. The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
7. The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. IT, Stephen King
8. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under the conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
9. The Prince had all his life known the story of Sleeping Beauty, cursed to sleep for a hundred years, with her parents, the King and Queen, and all of the Court, after pricking her finger on a spindle. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, A. N. Roquelaure
10. I grew up with my mother in Chez Stratos, my mother's house in the clouds. The Silver Metal Lover, Tanith Lee
(note: this list is limited to books I have handy; most of my books are up in the attic due to space constraints.)
