favorite books

[schmerica]

I'm stealing this meme from musesfool, who did it several days ago. This was actually pretty hard, really, because I was very strict with myself about going to school, and only brought a small, random assortment of all my books. Fortunately, I have about a thousand all-time favorites.

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.

1. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. (zeplum)

2. Mr. Dunworthy opened the door to the laboratory and his spectacles promptly steamed up. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. (tzikeh)

3. This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. The Princess Bride by William Goldman. (doyle_sb4)

4. Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. (nestra, liz_chan)

5. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. (_aerye_)

Comments

[zeplum.livejournal.com]

1. To Kill a Mockingbird

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

#1 is To Kill a Mockingbird.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

And #4 is on my shelf at home and I can't remember the title to save my life.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Sigh, yes. You and zeplum apparently both got it at the exact same minute.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

4 is "Northern Lights", aka...um...that first book in Pullman's trilogy. And I know I've read 3, and it's killing me that I can't remember it.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Ah, I googled. 3. Of course.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Northern Lights, yes; I have it under the other title, The Golden Compass.

[norah.livejournal.com]

4 is a Philip Pullman book.
5 sounds like Woolf, or Nesbit, and why do I always make these weird disconnected splits when I guess you memes?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes on 4, no on five.

I think it's because I'm just so mysterious.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. -
3. The Princess Bride
4. His Dark Materials
5. Alice in Wonderland

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes on 1, 3, and 4; no on 5.

[copernica3.livejournal.com]

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Subtle Knife? It's one of that trilogy by Philip Pullman, but I'm blanking on which.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes on 1. 4 is one of Pullman's His Dark Materials, but it's The Golden Compass.

[penknife.livejournal.com]

1 is To Kill a Mockingbird.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It is indeed; everybody seems to get that one immediately.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Since no one else has gotten it yet:

2: Doomsday Book

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

YAY.

[liz-chan.livejournal.com]

#4 is the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Golden Compass.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is.

[aerye.livejournal.com]

5. Jane Eyre!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I am so not shocked that you got this.