in which I succumb to a meme
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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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Re: margaret mahy...
Date: 2003-01-29 02:56 pm (UTC)Is The Tricksters the one with the chick writing a novel in it? (Harry short for Ariadne?) Because I've read that once (from the library) and really really really liked it, and I've never been able to find it again. *sob*
I also quite like The Catalogue of the Universe, Memory less so, although I appreciate it intellectually quite a bit. And there's another one I've read once ... The Haunting? something like that--anyway, I need to find & read it again, because I don't think I got it the first time round.
Re: margaret mahy...
Date: 2003-01-30 01:52 pm (UTC)I think I read The Catalogue of the Universe when I was in high school, but I don't recall anything about it. I hadn't heard of any of the others -- perhaps I should examine what my library has to offer.