Book Meme

A brief calming exercise before prom.

Stolen from everyone.

1. Choose ten 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.

1. King Uther Pendragon, ruler of all Britain, had been at war for many years with the Duke of Tintagil in Cornwall when he was told of the beauty of the Lady Igraine, the duke's wife.

Guessed by NO ONE. Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory. Come on, people!

2. If someone had asked me a year ago why I thought it was that men leave women and never come back, I would have said this: New Cow. Animal Husbandry, by Laura Zigman. Guessed by miladygrey

3. That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine. Guessed by sweetpiglet.

4. It was a breech birth; and so, right up to the very last moment of innocent ignorance, I remained aware of the midwife’s boisterous bawdy encouragement. Phantom, by Susan Kay. Guessed by mhari.

5. In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. Guessed by miladygrey.

6. Mother taught me to be polite to dragons. Talking to Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede. Guessed by luviena.

7. The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square hourses of Privet Drive. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling. Guessed by sweetpiglet.

8. Fog. That's all I can see. Just fog, the kind that pours in from the bay every morning, seeping over my bedroom windowsills and spilling onto the floor in cold, ropy tendrils...

Guessed by no one. Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator, Meg Cabot.

9. Shadow had done three years in prison. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. Guessed by luviena.

10. When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Guessed by luviena.