Another meme!

Swiped from slammerkinbabe.

1. Choose five of your all-time favorite books.
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess.

1) Clare: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. (The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. Guessed by erbie.)

2) Karl Cullinane reached out his fork and speared the last stick of asparagus from the stainless-steel serving plate in the middle of the table, not bothering to set the asparagus on his own plate before taking a bite. (The Sleeping Dragon, by Joel Rosenberg. Guessed by drsnicket.)

3) Why is the measure of love loss? (Written on the Body, by Jeanette Winterson. Guessed by shiningmoon.)

4) A change of seasons was upon the Four Lands as late summer faded slowly into autumn. (The Wishsong of Shannara, by Terry Brooks. Guessed by drsnicket.)

5) Robert Langdon awoke slowly. (The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown. Guessed by shiningmoon.)

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That is quite the eclectic collection of books. One of them is a giveaway, one of them is pretty obscure, two of them are fantasy books and the remaining one can be figured out with a little thought. :) (While I have a billion favourites, these ones came to mind first.)

Edit: You know, I occasionally forget that my username is brinshannara and that Brin is from The Wishsong of Shannara. That was pretty frickin' obvious. Go me. ;) (Thanks to slammerkinbabe for pointing this out. ;))

GIP!

I realized I had no Sawyer icons.

This had to be fixed.

          

Not all that fond of the middle one, but I do like my first and last ones. :)

(Screencaps from lost-tv.com. Icons are shareable, just comment and credit, please. :))

Because I feel the need to do something with poetry that is not my paper.

I have decided to create a meme in the same vein as the TV show character/book thingymado.

a. Post a list of 5 first lines to poems you enjoy.
b. Have your friends list guess which poem and author the line comes from.
c. When guessed, tell us why you like that poem.

1) S'io'credesse che mia risposta fosse
2) The art of losing isn't hard to master;
3) In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
4) Whose woods these are I think I know. (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost, guessed by slammerkinbabe.)
5) EVERYBODY

(I should ban moireach from this, but what the hell, I figure I'll let her show off. ;))