Here’s a first line quiz. I will award a bag of chocolate to whomever gets all of them correct. If there is more than one person than I will draw a name from a hat.
1. My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name being Philip, my infant tongue could make both of those names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
3. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
4. “What’s it going to be then, eh?”
5. A squat grey building of over thirty four stories.
6. Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.
7. My names was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.
8. It was a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.
9. She dreamed of sanctuary.
10. The corpse grabbed her arm with cool fingers.
Thanks for playing.
Chris Redding
http://chrisredddingauthor.blogspot.com
I’ll Play. Though I don’t know them all.
1) Great Expectations (It’s the only book I know with a character named Pip)
Outlander (My all time favorite novel – except I believe it reads “It WASN’T a very likely place…”
2) Pride and Prejudice
3) To Kill a Mockingbird
7) The Lovely Bones
9) Corpse Whisperer
Something happened and it published before I was done. That should be
Outlander and 10) Corpse Whisperer.
Why do I keep getting a smiley face in stead of the #8?
#1 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
#2 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
#3 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
#4 Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
#5 Brave New World – Ardous Huxley
– Central London Hatchery
#6 Rabitt, Run Study Guide – John Updike
#7 The Lovely Bones – Alice Seabold
#8 Outlander – Diane Gabalander
#9 Sanctuary – Nora Roberts
#10 Corpse Whisperer – Chris Redding
– Good thing I bought your book at
the fair last week!!
Your boss isn’t as dumb as he acts!! I expect a bag of chocolate (sugar free) on my desk when I come back to work next week!!!!
Scott, dear. you couldn’t possibly be as dumb as you act.
But I still want my chocolate when I get back!!