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Taken from sarkastic.


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!

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[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

3. The Virgin Suicides (Gah, I don't know the author's name)
7. Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
8. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
9. Anne Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

4. My name is Eugene Debs Hartke, and I was born in 1940.

Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut.

[popculturespong.livejournal.com]

#1 is Secret Life of Bees... although I never finished it.

OMG are you as much of a Vonnegut fanatic as I am?

[honey-wheeler.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I want to play. I believe #5 is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, and #10 is How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto.

I would have gotten #3 and #7 too, if someone hadn't beaten me to them. Curses!

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