First Sentences Meme
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lishesquexThe Rules:
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.
These seem really easy to me...
1. What would happen if I wrote some pages for you? | Pages For You - Sylvia Brownrigg, guessed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jailbaitjello
2. It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock. | The Passion - Jeanette Winterson, guessed bytangledtale
3. The red-brown leaf ceased its struggle to hang on; surrendered instead to the pull of gravity, to the flow of the wind.
4. My name is Ruth.
5. Why is the measure of love loss? | Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson, guessed bytangledtale
6. Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. | The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, guessed byjailbaitjello.
7. Lest anyone should 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 must say that I am House-born and rared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me. | Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey, gussed byjailbaitjello
8. He was the subject of a conversation he never even knew about.
9. "Later!" The word, the voice, the attitude. | Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman, guessed bytangledtale
10. I told her not to choose pink.
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.
These seem really easy to me...
1. What would happen if I wrote some pages for you? | Pages For You - Sylvia Brownrigg, guessed by
jailbaitjello2. It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock. | The Passion - Jeanette Winterson, guessed by
tangledtale3. The red-brown leaf ceased its struggle to hang on; surrendered instead to the pull of gravity, to the flow of the wind.
4. My name is Ruth.
5. Why is the measure of love loss? | Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson, guessed by
tangledtale6. Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. | The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, guessed by
jailbaitjello.7. Lest anyone should 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 must say that I am House-born and rared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me. | Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey, gussed by
jailbaitjello8. He was the subject of a conversation he never even knew about.
9. "Later!" The word, the voice, the attitude. | Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman, guessed by
tangledtale10. I told her not to choose pink.
