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Literary Meme

November 1st, 2009 by Janet Goodrich

fourbooks2I saw this at Deb on the Run and it looked fun:

1. Pick 5 of your favorite books.

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.

Ready? Here goes:

  1. Since before sunup Old Jack has been standing at the edge of the hotel porch, gazing out into the empty street of the town of Port William, and now the sun has risen and covered him from head to foot with light.
  2. I seemed to be standing in a bus queue by the side of a long, mean street.
  3. Not to disappoint you, but my troubles are nothing — not for an author, at least.
  4. He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted. He crawled upward on his belly over cool rocks out into the sunlight, and suddenly he was in the open and he could see for miles, and there was the whole vast army below him, filling the valley like a smoking river.
  5. London, Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather.

Recognize these? Leave your guesses! If you decide to play, let me know — I’ll come and visit.

*Edited to add: try not to look at the other comments till you make your guesses. ;-)

November 1st, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Bookish reflections

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