in which I succumb to a meme
Jan. 25th, 2003 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyFirst lines of ten favorite books (which turned out to be a smorgasboard of mystery, fantasy, children's literature, and sometimes all three):
The primroses were over.
--Richard Adams, Watership Down
Snow was falling on Riverside, great white feather-puffs that veiled the cracks in the facades of its ruined houses, slowly softening the harsh contours of jagged roof and fallen beams.
--Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint
Harriet Vane sat at her writing-table and stared out into Mecklenburg Square.
--Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.
--C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Although the label on the hair shampoo said Paris and had a picture of a beautiful girl with the Eiffel Tower behind her bare shoulder, it was forced to tell the truth in tiny print under the picture.
--Margaret Mahy, The Changeover
"Aunt Bee," said Jane, breathing heavily into her soup, "was Noah a cleverer back-room boy than Ulysses, or was Ulysses a cleverer back-room boy than Noah?"
--Josephine Tey, Brat Farrar
The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
--Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Polly sighed and laid her book face down on her bed.
--Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.
--Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Ever since his arrival at the Hotel Algonquin, Hamlet had spent most of his time sleeping.
--Val Schaffer, Algonquin Cat
The primroses were over.
--Richard Adams, Watership Down
Snow was falling on Riverside, great white feather-puffs that veiled the cracks in the facades of its ruined houses, slowly softening the harsh contours of jagged roof and fallen beams.
--Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint
Harriet Vane sat at her writing-table and stared out into Mecklenburg Square.
--Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.
--C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Although the label on the hair shampoo said Paris and had a picture of a beautiful girl with the Eiffel Tower behind her bare shoulder, it was forced to tell the truth in tiny print under the picture.
--Margaret Mahy, The Changeover
"Aunt Bee," said Jane, breathing heavily into her soup, "was Noah a cleverer back-room boy than Ulysses, or was Ulysses a cleverer back-room boy than Noah?"
--Josephine Tey, Brat Farrar
The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
--Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Polly sighed and laid her book face down on her bed.
--Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.
--Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Ever since his arrival at the Hotel Algonquin, Hamlet had spent most of his time sleeping.
--Val Schaffer, Algonquin Cat
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Date: 2003-01-25 09:25 pm (UTC)have you read the fall of kings yet?
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Date: 2003-01-26 12:12 pm (UTC)Just out of curiosity, which are the five you don't know?
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Date: 2003-01-26 01:29 pm (UTC)i've not read:
--Margaret Mahy, The Changeover
--Josephine Tey, Brat Farrar (though i've read other tey)
--Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
--Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock (i've read other jones, too)
--Val Schaffer, Algonquin Cat
i own fire and hemlock, i think, so that'll probably be the first one of these that i sample.