The 10 Books meme
May. 3rd, 2005 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiBut a little different...
All the books here are from the selection I've just moved from my shelves into Cate's room, even though she won't actually read any of them for a few years...
1. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blaxed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
2. One saturday morning early in September, Shelley Latham sat at the breakfast table with her mother and father.
3. No curtain.
No scenery.
The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half-light.
4. (Not the first line, but from the first para...)
The worst books, the ones that I do not even bother to take home from the library, all seem to have the very same sappy story on the inside of the cover; the story is: "How Tomboy Mindy, who loves to play baseball and climb trees with the boys, meets handsome Michael and discovers that growing up gracefully to be a young lady can be even more exciting."
5. One evening at supper, Pa asked, "How would you like to work in town, Laura?"
6. A flock of nuns crossed the road, their crisp wimples fluttering about their heads like the wings of large sea birds.
7. Meg was ten minutes early. It was her mother's opinion that three minutes were more than sufficient but Meg liked to play it safe.
8. "This is the school block, so the house can't be on this one," Ella said.
9. Margaret Lowell shook eherself like a dog and nudged open the back door.
10. For almost a year, I was the best-kept secret at Lincoln High.
And a bonus for anyone who can guess the year without looking:
'Felicity! Look - there's Mallory Towers at last!' cried Darrell.
All the books here are from the selection I've just moved from my shelves into Cate's room, even though she won't actually read any of them for a few years...
1. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blaxed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
2. One saturday morning early in September, Shelley Latham sat at the breakfast table with her mother and father.
3. No curtain.
No scenery.
The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half-light.
4. (Not the first line, but from the first para...)
The worst books, the ones that I do not even bother to take home from the library, all seem to have the very same sappy story on the inside of the cover; the story is: "How Tomboy Mindy, who loves to play baseball and climb trees with the boys, meets handsome Michael and discovers that growing up gracefully to be a young lady can be even more exciting."
5. One evening at supper, Pa asked, "How would you like to work in town, Laura?"
6. A flock of nuns crossed the road, their crisp wimples fluttering about their heads like the wings of large sea birds.
7. Meg was ten minutes early. It was her mother's opinion that three minutes were more than sufficient but Meg liked to play it safe.
8. "This is the school block, so the house can't be on this one," Ella said.
9. Margaret Lowell shook eherself like a dog and nudged open the back door.
10. For almost a year, I was the best-kept secret at Lincoln High.
And a bonus for anyone who can guess the year without looking:
'Felicity! Look - there's Mallory Towers at last!' cried Darrell.
