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From

lazyclaire

Pick 15 of your favorite books or series. [Since I don't have all my books with me in one place, I only have 12.]
Post the first two to three sentences of each book.
Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books. (comments screened)

1. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. --Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; guessed by

ladyvivien

2. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?

3. It was little more than three miles from the Wall into the Old Kingdom, but that was enough. --Sabriel by Garth Nix; guessed by

cosmic_llin

4. The book was thick and black and covered with dust. Its boards were bowed and creaking; it had been maltreated in its own time. Its spine was missing, or rather protruded from amongst the leaves like a bulky marker. It was bandaged about and about with dirty white tape, tied in a neat bow.

5. The sign was rain-smeared and had never been overly straight. P'tir wit 'Whix spared one eye to read it as he passed, then chuckled to himself: "Fabulous Embassy Row? Tours daily?"

6. I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. --The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin; guessed by

lazyclaire

7. Part of the problem, [Name] thought to herself as she tore desperately down Rose Avenue, is that I can't keep my mouth shut. --So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane; guessed by

mrs_norris_mous

8. [Name] lay awake, disturbed by her cousin's weeing. Soft, the sound. Weary. Without hope.

9. The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.

10. It was a pleasure to burn. --Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; guessed by

lazyclaire

11. "Honey, have you seen your sister?"
"She's on Jupiter, Mom." --The Wizard's Dilemma by Diane Duane; guessed by

mrs_norris_mous

12. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. --Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; guessed by

lazyclaire

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When I clicked on this I was all "WHERE IS IT SINGLE MAN/FORTUNE/WIFE--ah number 12, I see."

Also thank you for your cheery card! I have a half-written response just waiting to be mailed.

:D This is why we're friends. (Well. One reason at least.)

Yay, you did my meme!

Ah! I know two of them for sure, although they're the easy ones:

10) Fahrenheit 451
12) Pride and Prejudice

Is 6) The Left Hand of Darkness? <3 Le Guin
Also is 6) Wuthering Heights? (pretty much solely based on the word Moors)

Haha I like your guess for 2. But no -- in fact "Moors" is being used here to refer to Spanish/north African Muslims! The others were all correct though. :)

Wow, don't I sound uneducated now! I had no idea that was how Moors was spelled when used in that sense.

7 is easy "So you want to be a wizard"
11 is "The wizard's dilemma"

Of course! :) (And yet I think you're one of the few people who reads this journal who would get these so quickly!)

1 is, of course, Jane Eyre!

OF COURSE.

1. JANE EYRE!!!
3. Sabriel?

Correct on both counts! I may not like the other two books in the trilogy nearly as much, but something about Sabriel has made me re-read it more than once... I suspect because Sabriel feels like such a real eighteen-year-old girl.