i hate reading. zomg april fools. zing!

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.