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Apr. 12th, 2005 11:25 pmFrom
1. Choose five of your all time favorite books
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess.
I love these 'first sentence' things. Just for fun, I'm going to do it with books I don't have to look up, so forgive me if I misquote a little. Just in order to fool everyone, I did not choose any of the Lymond books.
- There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
- When I was very young I used to dream about a city, which was strange, because it was before I knew what a city was.
- Bifocal glasses are asthma. All those words are spelled correctly. I looked them up. [This one is a dead giveaway to anyone who has read this book.]
- With one particular horse, called Nugget, he embraces.
- Both moons were high, dimming the light of all but the brightest stars. [I've been wanting to reread this one. Maybe being reminded of it here tonight is the incentive I need.]