Answers to the Book Meme

Just in case anyone is wondering, here are the authors and titles to go with the first lines posted a while back.



1. Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

2. This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

3. 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, Jane Austen

4. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

5. The window of the bus was a dark square against the featureless night. Lea let her eyes focus slowly from their unthinking blur until her face materialized, faint and fragmentary, highlighted by the dim light of the bus interior. Pilgrimage: The Book of the People, Zenna Henderson

6. Chick with a harp. Her hair was the color of an angry sunset, and it fell to her waist in ripples of copper and red. Gossamer Axe, Gael Baudino

7. The river flowed both ways. The current moved from north to south, but the wind usually came from the south, rippling the bronze-green water in the opposite direction. The Diviners, Margaret Laurence

8. The Khadilh ban-harihn frowned at the disk he had in his hand, annoyed and apprehensive. At the Seventh Level, Suzette Haden Elgin

9. The people in this book might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California. Always Coming Home, Ursula K. LeGuin

10. I know I was all right on Friday when I got up; if anything I was feeling more stolid than usual. The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood