wordinista (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wordinista) wrote2009-10-21 09:43 pm
wordinista) wrote2009-10-21 09:43 pm
Memememememe
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles
LET'S DO THIS THING:
1. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -- the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) --
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
everstar32. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (note: I COULDN'T NOT INCLUDE THIS ONE.) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) --
darkfrog243. It was a nice day. Good Omens (Pratchett & Gaiman) --
jazzy_fay4. I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose.
5. 3 May, Bistritz -- Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna ealy next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late. Dracula (Bram Stoker) --
mscongeniality6. It begins, as most things begin, with a song. Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman) --
rhymed7. It was a dumb thing to do but it wasn't that dumb. Sunshine (Robin McKinley) --
sarolynne8. Matilda Goodnight stepped back from her latest mural and reaized that of all the crimes she'd committed in her thirty-four year years, painting the floor-to-ceiling reproduction of van Gogh's sunflowers on Clarissa Donnelly's dining room wall was the one that was going to send her to hell. Faking It (Jennifer Crusie) --
janetl9. Harriet Vane sat at her writing table and stared out into Mecklenburg Square. Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers) --
mscongeniality10. At first, all I saw was a white blur out of the corner of my eye. It was a long way away, maybe five hundred yards, and initially I wasn't sure what it was.
Some of these I know are insanely easy. OH WELL.
no subject
Damn but you seem to like in media res.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
...I think my writing Wimseyfic for four of the five Yuletide challenges I've participated in also says a lot (five fics, if you count my NYR submision). I don't know what, exactly, but... a lot of it. ;)
no subject
And, I think it says that you need to not volunteer to write Sayers this year.
no subject
It just feels all wrong inside if I don't at least offer.
no subject
Half the fun is getting to try on new characters for size, ones you thought you´d never write in your wildest dreams. I just feel like the matching algorithm has been cheating you of that.
no subject
no subject
And holy crap! Now I´m suddenly seized with the notion to ask for a ´Suite Francaise´ story and I have no idea if it´s been nominated...
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
5. Dracula
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
At any rate, welcome!
no subject
no subject
no subject
4 and 10 actually both sound familiar, but I can't place them.
no subject
As for #10, I'll give you this hint: it's a non-fiction book.
no subject
no subject
no subject