Memememememe

[wordinista]

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 and authors of your books.

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) -- everstar3

2.  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) -- darkfrog24

3.  It was a nice day. Good Omens (Pratchett & Gaiman) -- jazzy_fay

4.  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) -- mscongeniality

6.  It begins, as most things begin, with a song.  Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman) -- rhymed

7.  It was a dumb thing to do but it wasn't that dumb.  Sunshine (Robin McKinley) -- sarolynne

8.  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) -- janetl

9.  Harriet Vane sat at her writing table and stared out into Mecklenburg Square.  Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers) -- mscongeniality

10.  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.

Comments

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I'm distracted by Top Chef, I needed to grab the low hanging fruit.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I believe you and Ev share the blame in getting me hooked on Sayers. You should be proud! :D



...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. ;)

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I am!

And, I think it says that you need to not volunteer to write Sayers this year.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

But but but.


It just feels all wrong inside if I don't at least offer.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Variety is the spice of Yuletide! And you can always pick up a Wimsey pinch hit or treat.

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.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Very, very true on all points. I shall consider NOT offering to write Wimseyfic this year. (But I am totally going to REQUEST it!)

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Request away, that´s the beauty of Yuletide!


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...

[darkfrog24.livejournal.com]

Huh. I thought it was Strong Poison. Ah wells.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

At the start of Strong Poison, Harriet is in prison. Actually, I believe she actually doesn´t even move to Mecklenberg Square until after Have His Carcase.