There’s an interesting Meme floating around, I first saw it on Elizabeth’s blog, then Deb’s and Maureen’s. While I fail miserably at it (getting exactly 1/15th of them), I thought I’d play along.

Here are the rules:

1. Pick 5 of your favorite books.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.

Here are my five (hint: they are all fiction)
1) When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Elizabeth
2) Clare: It’s hard being left behind. Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffineger - Janelle
3) When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. The Outsiders by SE Hinton - Deb
4) His two girls are curled together like animals whose habit is to sleep underground, in the smallest place possible. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver - Suzanna!
5) Theirs was a land of awesome grandeur, a land of mountains and moorlands and cherished myths. Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman - Margaret (I hadn't thought about it being a Tolkeinesque opener, but it definitely is - I'm a Tolkein flunky, none of his books would ever float to the top of my favorites list, I've barely read any of them - but I loved what Margaret said about Tolkein and Wales.)

And the winner is...

Emma by Jane Austen.

We will begin on Monday, November 16, which gives us two weeks to get the book. I've never read it and look forward to reading a book about which, Austen said, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."

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