i hate reading. zomg april fools. zing!

[alexiscartwheel]

Happy National Poetry month everybody! I'm going to try to post some poems I enjoy during April again this year.

And now, a novel game! isiscaughey has all the fun memes lately.

1. Choose 12 books that you like.
2. Write down the first sentence or so of each of those books.
3. Let other people try to figure out the titles.
4. Cross off books as they are guessed, let us know the correct answers and who guessed them.

1. "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy." The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, meddow
2. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, meddow
3. "My father had a face that could stop a clock." The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, d4ni
4. "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."
5. "Norah, armed to the teeth, slithered on her stomach through the underbrush." The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson, lib_chick42
6. "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it—it was the black kitten's fault entirely."
7. "The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east." The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, isiscaughey
8. "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, isiscaughey
9. "Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways." Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, meddow
10. "A small vagrant breeze came from nowhere and barely flicked the feather tips as the arrow sped on its way."
11. "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed on; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century – and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed – this was the page at which the favourite volume always opened: 'ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH-HALL.'" Persuasion by Jane Austen, isiscaughey
12. "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather."* Bleak House by Charles Dickens, carrotgirl

*I added two more sentences. Cause "London," though amusing, was probably impossible.

Comments

[meddow.livejournal.com]

Yay. Meme. I may nick this one. I'm going to guess the easy ones:

1. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
2. The Hours (although, it could be Mrs Dalloway).
9. I'm not going to cheat and root though my Harry Potter collection, so I'm going to go with Harry Potter The Prisoner of Azkaban.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

1. Yes!
2. It's actually Mrs. Dalloway.
3. Yes! I'm impressed you got it without checking.

[mysticalchild_isis]

7. is the Westing Game
11. is Persuasion

Is 8 Jane Eyre?

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Correct on all three!

The problem with pulling all these books off the shelf to snag first lines is now I want to re-read everything.

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

6 is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and 7 is The Westing Game (yay!).

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

7 is correct, and 6 is so, soooo close.

[d4ni.livejournal.com]

Okay, 3 is The Eyre Affair! Yeah, I think that's all I know that hasn't been guessed already.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed! You win the prize.

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh I am so doing this meme. I'm up way too early to try and guess any of these. 5 sounds like The Hunger Games, but the character's name isn't Norah so that's out. Okay

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

That extra Okay was a mistake. I'm going back to bed now.

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

Okay, 12 is Bleak House by Charles Dickens. But I only know that because I went and dug through all of my Dickens since this sentence sounded Dickensian. So I cheated.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Well, I think you totally deserve props just for having a copy of Bleak House to check!

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was an english major. My bookcase is very pompous looking. ;) I totally didn't notice that you had Jane Eyre on yours too. Oops. I wanted to put Moby Dick on mine, but that opening line is way too obvious. Same with Anne of Green Gables. And HP Goblet of Fire. I figured I had enough giveaways as it was. And picking only 12 books is hard! So many books have amazing opening lines.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Oh me too. I've got a nice chunk devoted to Oxford Worlds Classics. I think they've finally abandoned the old red and beige cover scheme these days.

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah I have some of those. I prefer Penguin though!

[lib-chick42.livejournal.com]

5. is The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson.

I love that book (were you with me in Ottawa when I bought the signed copy? I think so, but I spent a lot of time in Ottawa). I also agree with Sarah that the Hunger Games could be similar.

I wish I'd seen this earlier- I knew some of the others too... and I think I'm going to have to steal this to post elsewhere.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Yep, I was there! I bought a signed copy too, even though I already owned a copy. It's too bad her books aren't more well known here.