4. Dragonflight
7. A Wrinkle in Time
8. The Hunt for Red October
Karen says 11 is either A Day No Pigs would Die or Charlotte's Web. Probably Charlotte's Web now that she thinks more closely.
12. Peter Pan
All sounds perfect except the TV. A TV has no place in a library.
Like
this?(No TV on the
shelf o'manga though.)
A) If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
B) "Too many!" James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.
C) Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
D) The stars, like all man's other ventures, were an obvious impracticality, as rash and improbable an ambition as the first venture of man onto Earth's own great oceans, or into the air, or into space.
E) The first time I ever lifted, I was half-asleep and I nearly broke my neck.
F) She could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it.
G) In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.
H) The small boys came early to the hanging.
I) Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
J) I am not a good person.
K) Jack Holloway found himself squinting, the orange sun full in his eyes.
L) A sea of mist drifted through the cloud forest, soft, grey, luminescent.
M) There had been something loose about the station dock all morning, skulking in amongst the gantries and the lines and the canisters which were waiting to be moved, lurking wherever shadows fell among the rampway accesses of the many ships at dock [truncated]
N) A porcelain bowl filled with water steamed on the bedside table. Lady Sybil Ramkin Vimes dipped in a cloth, wrung it out and held it to her nose before pressing it to the forehead of the woman lying in the great four-poster bed.
O) If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane, all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
P) These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.
Q) "Oh, no!" cried Mrs. Barleylove miserably. "Oh, no!"
R) Dua did not have much trouble leaving the others.
S) One thing was certain, that the
white kitten had had nothing to do with it—it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
T) The sun did not shine.
U) In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.
V) The night Max wore his wolf suit
W) Once upon a time, there were five Chinese brothers, and they all looked exactly alike.
X) This is George.
Y) The tramp steamer
Drake plowed away from the coast of India and pushed its blunt prow into the Arabian Sea, homeward bound.
Z) The music-room in the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli's C major quartet.
There! That's a good stopping point.
"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he is the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
We were going to add another first line, but then when we looked at it, it was this one. Oops.
