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

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

#5 looks like it might be Justice Hall. And #6 is H____ P_____ and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

Correct and correct. You broke through my difficult code *g*

Any ficlet requests?

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to see you tackle Russell fic...

[melwil.livejournal.com]

I shall give it my best shot *g*

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Rest assured, the overall standard is quite low...

[melwil.livejournal.com]

Well I've jumped in on debate now, so I guess it's time to back it up with fic *g*

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

And then you can post it to the letters_of_mary list, so I'll have a reason to read one of their messages!

[cerulgalactus.livejournal.com]

The only one that I knew has been guessed. Drat and botherations.

[laidar.livejournal.com]

8 is Anne of the Island.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Any ficlet requests?

[jennifergearing.livejournal.com]

1. is either Third Form or Upper Fourth at Malory Towers. It's been ages since I read them.

[laidar.livejournal.com]

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

heh.

[baggers.livejournal.com]

#7 is Looking for Alibrandi.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

Neither actually *g*

[melwil.livejournal.com]

Yep!

Ficlet request?

[jennifergearing.livejournal.com]

Crap. It has been too long since I read them. :)

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

9. is Ballet Shoes, 3. I'm guessing is a Drina, but a Drina other than the first one... 1. is Upper Fourth at Malory Towers (I think - I'm honestly doing this from memory.)

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

Okay... having seen a previous guess I now know it isn't Upper Fourth... it's In the Fifth.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

I knew you would do well in this *g*

9. Yes
3. Yes - but not the first and I'm not giving it *g*

Fic requests?

[melwil.livejournal.com]

And yes *g*

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

First Drina is the only one I've got at the moment. So I"ll leave that for someone else.

Christine/Ainsley *g* and if I get a second one... Pauline Fossil in Hollywood.