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Am doing that twenty books-first line meme, because it is mucho fun, and I haven't updated in a while. I should update more. Ah well.
1. Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Guessed by mojokitten.
2. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Guessed by juteux.
3. Snow was falling on Riverside, great white feather-puffs that veiled the cracks in the facades of its ruined houses; slowly softening the harsh contours of jagged roof and fallen beam.
4.The last days of October. Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz alone onstage with a small coffin. Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Guessed by pandoraiam.
5. At the corner of Adelaide Road, where the paving sparkled in the morning sun, Mr. Mack waited by the newspaper stand. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. Guessed by pinkpapyrus.
6. A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind's forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air. Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Guessed by rae_1985.
7. The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette. The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Guessed by juteux.
8. A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Guessed by burnitbackwards.
9. Once our father bought a convertible. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham. Guessed by juteux.
10. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Guessed by juteux.
11. On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Guessed by burnitbackwards.
12. Ecstacy, It's finally spring down here on the Chattahoochee -- the azaleas are in bloom, and everyone is dying of cancer.
13. 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 juteux.
14. Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Guessed by juteux.
15. She scowled at her glass of orange juice.
16. Lest anyone should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line is an old one, though it ends with me.
17. 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. Guessed by reinabelle.
18. Once a term the whole school went for a walk -- that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys. Maurice by E.M Forster. Guessed by quinn222.
19. The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slight sticky plaster-dust.
20. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Guessed by reinabelle.
1. Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Guessed by mojokitten.
2. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Guessed by juteux.
3. Snow was falling on Riverside, great white feather-puffs that veiled the cracks in the facades of its ruined houses; slowly softening the harsh contours of jagged roof and fallen beam.
4.The last days of October. Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz alone onstage with a small coffin. Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Guessed by pandoraiam.
5. At the corner of Adelaide Road, where the paving sparkled in the morning sun, Mr. Mack waited by the newspaper stand. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. Guessed by pinkpapyrus.
6. A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind's forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air. Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Guessed by rae_1985.
7. The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette. The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Guessed by juteux.
8. A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Guessed by burnitbackwards.
9. Once our father bought a convertible. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham. Guessed by juteux.
10. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Guessed by juteux.
11. On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Guessed by burnitbackwards.
12. Ecstacy, It's finally spring down here on the Chattahoochee -- the azaleas are in bloom, and everyone is dying of cancer.
13. 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 juteux.
14. Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Guessed by juteux.
15. She scowled at her glass of orange juice.
16. Lest anyone should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line is an old one, though it ends with me.
17. 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. Guessed by reinabelle.
18. Once a term the whole school went for a walk -- that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys. Maurice by E.M Forster. Guessed by quinn222.
19. The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slight sticky plaster-dust.
20. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Guessed by reinabelle.