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The Book Meme
Post the first sentences from ten of your favorite books and have your friends guess what they are from.
1.At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (guessed by popculturespong)
2. Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of life, exist outside literature?
3.On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas over, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (guessed by carrielh)
4.My name is Eugene Debs Hartke, and I was born in 1940. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut (guessed by briary_flower)
5.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 honey_wheeler)
6. The stone walls of the secret underground chamber were cold and dank, the chill penetrating wool and linen and leather, going straight to the bone.
7.For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (guessed by carrielh)
8.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 carrielh)
9.Once upon a time there was a pair of pants. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (guessed by carrielh)
10.WHAT YOU NEED: You need a large wooden frame and enough space to accommodate it. How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto (guessed by honey_wheeler)
And...go!
sarkastic.The Book Meme
Post the first sentences from ten of your favorite books and have your friends guess what they are from.
1.
popculturespong)2. Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of life, exist outside literature?
3.
carrielh)4.
briary_flower)5.
honey_wheeler)6. The stone walls of the secret underground chamber were cold and dank, the chill penetrating wool and linen and leather, going straight to the bone.
7.
carrielh)8.
carrielh)9.
carrielh)10.
honey_wheeler)And...go!
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Date: 2006-07-19 03:39 pm (UTC)7. Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
8. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
9. Anne Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:02 pm (UTC)And damn, I knew I had a TON of giveaways, but DUDE. You're good.
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-19 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-19 07:07 pm (UTC)Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut.
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Date: 2006-07-19 08:14 pm (UTC)So, did you ever read it? Did you like it? I was nervous about reccing it to you since you aren't a big fan of 1st person narrative.
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Date: 2006-07-20 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 12:59 am (UTC)OMG are you as much of a Vonnegut fanatic as I am?
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Date: 2006-07-20 02:06 pm (UTC)Hocus Pocus is the only one of Vonnegut's books I've read so far, during one of my many breaks from Home. (Can't read and write at the same time.) I have Breakfast of Champions and Bluebeard sitting in my to-read pile but have yet to sit down with either of them. Which is a shame because I adored Hocus Pocus so much. Slowly but surely, I guess.
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Date: 2006-07-21 04:58 pm (UTC)I personally didn't like "Breakfast of Champions" as much as most, and have not read "Bluebeard", but I am a huge Vonnegut fan. I think his most famous, "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Cat's Cradle", are most famous for a reason--I think they're really the best. And right now they are so relevant to our time. I also love "Mother Night", which is about an American working as a double agent in Nazi germany--"We are who we pretend to be so we must be careful who we pretend to be." Wonderful.
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Date: 2006-07-21 10:23 pm (UTC)Those are definitely going on my list of books to buy. Guh. It's been forever and a day since I went to Barnes & Noble.
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Date: 2006-07-26 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 12:09 am (UTC)Fuck's sake. Lifetime? Why? Just. WHY?
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Date: 2006-07-27 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 01:26 am (UTC)Perhaps older people can handle the cheese and the bad acting more so than us younger folk? It's like something we acquire with age, like a thicker skin?
Huh. Something to ponder. Although the ma is a fluke, or an oddity (no big surprise there). She'll be 51 next month and will mock me mercilessly if she catches me watching anything on Lifetime. Or Lifetime-ish.
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Date: 2006-07-27 01:30 am (UTC)And hey, don't knock CBS: They gave us Joan of Arcadia ;)
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Date: 2006-07-27 01:54 am (UTC)And hey, don't knock CBS: They gave us Joan of Arcadia ;)
Yet I have no doubt that they're the reason it took such a nose-dive creatively in the second season. And then promptly canceled it when their tinkering caused it to become unrecognizable to even its most adoring fans, thereby causing the ratings to TANK.
Ah-HA! That was their evil plan ALL ALONG. Bastages.
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Date: 2006-07-27 01:57 am (UTC)OMG How much did you want to cry with the whole late season 2 Adam thing!?!?!
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Date: 2006-07-27 02:08 am (UTC)OMG How much did you want to cry with the whole late season 2 Adam thing!?!?!
See, what I didn't understand is why the AdamBonnie relationship had to turn romantic. Why couldn't they just bond over their mutual love of art and their talent and that's it? I'm sorry. I just didn't see the reason for it.
Although I will say that scene with Helen and Adam and Bonnie bonding over art? AWESOME BEYOND WORDS.
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Date: 2006-07-27 02:09 am (UTC)Yeah it's mostly the people I work with though that's the trouble. That and I think I'd rather go to med school so... heh. Anyway...
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Date: 2006-07-27 02:18 am (UTC)Nooo! That is so not bueno. Not cool. NOT. COOL.
Med school, eh? Wow. I commend you. Of course, growing up with a nurse for a mother who finds it amusing when you do the squicky dance to the tune of one of her gross-out stories - let's just say I'm not a fan of the majority of bodily functions and the myriad ways they can go terribly, terribly awry.
Also, my friend Hyo could tell you stories, girl. STORIES.
And with that, I leave you an icon memorializing better days, when Joan and Adam were together and happy, and no one was bumping uglies with the new art girl.
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Date: 2006-08-11 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 02:43 am (UTC)I would have gotten #3 and #7 too, if someone hadn't beaten me to them. Curses!
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Date: 2006-07-20 02:08 pm (UTC)If it weren't for those crazy kids, eh? Heh.
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Date: 2006-07-20 07:15 pm (UTC)