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first lines of books

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 17:08

Nice easy one to start us all off

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'

Book and Author then you give one.

No googling allowed

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Mercy · 15/02/2006 18:48

Lucy Maud Montgomery!

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:49

The island of Gont, a single mountain that raises its peak a mile above the storm -racked North East sea, is a land famous for wizards

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JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 18:50

And mine, please!!!

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:51

Waldens pond????

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roisin · 15/02/2006 18:55

Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula le Guin

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:56

Roisin

I love those books. Ged was my first crush

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Mercy · 15/02/2006 18:57

Jones, sounds familiar, is it a children's book??

Martian - is it a Welsh book/drama

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:58

Roisin got it, a Wizard of Earthsea Fantastic book

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Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 18:58

gis a clue jonesy

roisin · 15/02/2006 19:00

Me too MB! Did you know she started writing again? Two more in the series - Tehanu and something else I can't remember.

Try this one:
We came on the wind of the carnival. A warm wind for February, laden with the hot greasy scents of frying pancakes and sausages and powdery-sweet waffled cooked on the hotplate right there by the roadside ...

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 19:02

Oh I'm going to cart all my books upstairs (and downstairs) when the kids are in bed. I like this game!

WigWamBam · 15/02/2006 19:14

JonestheSteam's is Black Beauty.

Blu · 15/02/2006 19:15

Roisin - is that Something Wicked This Way Comes?

roisin · 15/02/2006 19:16

Blu - No

roisin · 15/02/2006 19:17

This is easier:

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Enid · 15/02/2006 19:17

illustrated man

Enid · 15/02/2006 19:18

?

WigWamBam · 15/02/2006 19:19

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham.

Enid · 15/02/2006 19:20

is it? sounds too modern

Rowlers · 15/02/2006 19:20

No idea where we are up to but here's one:

I was born in the year 1632, in the City of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen who settled first at Hull.

WigWamBam · 15/02/2006 19:21

I'm pretty sure it is ...

Although I thought Roisin's other one was Something Wicked THis Way Comes as well, so maybe not!

albatros · 15/02/2006 19:21

Rosin
Chocolate Joanne Harris

roisin · 15/02/2006 19:21

Triffids is the Wednesday/Sunday one Enid - correct WWB! (I'm confusing things by doing to at once!)

You're right the other one is more modern.

Blu · 15/02/2006 19:21

It is 'Triffid'.

roisin · 15/02/2006 19:21

Albatros has it right