Book meme, quiz thingie
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Five opening lines, some easier than others, but can you identify books and authors? I think most of them are fairly easy, I'm afraid - though one of them is rather misleading. Mix of genres, all twentieth century, both men and women.
1. "Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
2. I am old now and have little to fear from the anger of the gods.
3. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
4. Hughes got it wrong, in one important detail.
5. The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but with little result, as there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
This is partly to use the new icon I snagged fromalexandral. But chiefly because books are wonderful.
dolorous_ettFive opening lines, some easier than others, but can you identify books and authors? I think most of them are fairly easy, I'm afraid - though one of them is rather misleading. Mix of genres, all twentieth century, both men and women.
1. "Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
2. I am old now and have little to fear from the anger of the gods.
3. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
4. Hughes got it wrong, in one important detail.
5. The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but with little result, as there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
This is partly to use the new icon I snagged from
alexandral. But chiefly because books are wonderful.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2006-04-23 11:03 am (UTC)5. Is this "Call for the Dead"? Smiley's fictional debut?
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Date: 2006-04-23 11:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-23 11:12 am (UTC)5 is not Le Carre (it's the misleading one!)
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Date: 2006-04-23 01:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-04-25 11:45 am (UTC)Something, something Byzantium. Or - wait.
Date: 2006-04-23 02:41 pm (UTC)Re: Something, something Byzantium. Or - wait.
Date: 2006-04-23 03:04 pm (UTC)'Chantrey-Pigg is a wonderful if unkind name, isn't it?'
Date: 2006-04-23 03:10 pm (UTC)War in Heaven, I believe, for yr last? I know it's a Chas Williams, and I do think I've an ... inkling ... of the title.
Who would these fardles bear?
Date: 2006-04-23 03:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-23 04:07 pm (UTC)3)I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith.
Funnily enough, I read Towers of Trebizond for the first time only this week, and enjoyed it immensely. And it's a first edition which I found for 50p in a second hand bookshop in Hampstead - worth nothing more, I'm sure, since it's without dustjacket, slightly battered, and has a library bookplate at the front - but it's a 1950's bookplate from the 'WH Smith Lending Library,' the Strand, in beautiful copperplate with price per week's loan 4d, so I'm not complaining...
Re: Something, something Byzantium. Or - wait.
Date: 2006-04-23 05:07 pm (UTC)Nice book. Particularly cherish the idea of the Catholic Commandos and the Protestant Storm Troopers storming a High Anglican Church - in suburban England...
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Date: 2006-04-24 09:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
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