Favourite Books - First Line Meme

[melwil]

Pick 5-10 favourite books. Post the first line of each book (obscuring names if need be). Challenge your friends list to guess the books.

Guess the books from their first lines!

1. "Felicity! Look - there's Malory Towers at last!" cried Darrell. In the Fifth at Malory Towers - guessed by sangerin

2. "Can I have another jelly sandwich?" Clue - Children's story by a prominent author

3. "Covent Garden!" D____ cried, leaping to her feet as the train slid to a standstill and the doors opened. Clue - one of the Drina books

4. For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other's existence. Clue - a classic set in Brooklyn during and after WW2

5. Home, my soul sighed. Justice Hall - guessed by lizbee

6. H_______ P________ was a highly unusual boy in many ways. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - guessed by lizbee

7. Panic was my first reaction to the multiple choice options which lay on my desk in front of me. Looking for Alibrandi - guessed by baggers

8. "Harvest is ended and summer is gone," quoted A_____ S______, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. Anne of the Island - guessed by laidar

9. The F_____ sisters lived in the Cromwell Road. Ballet Shoes - guessed by sangerin

10. It was a cataclysm. That was the only word for it. Clue - A Brisbane story


Ficlets for anyone who guesses correctly *g*

Comments

[laidar.livejournal.com]

Nope. :) Im just smug in the knowledge that my love of AoI has done something for the betterment of mankind.

heh.