Silly game- anyone up for it?

"when doth Aprile in his soury sote" as Chaucer wrote

yes it was Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman The Y was her "daemon" - a manifestation of self, rather than guardian.

"X was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, ..."

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

"Alice was beginning to get very tired...." - Alice in Wonderland

"On May 7, 1931, New York City witnessed the most sensational man-hunt the old town had ever known."

Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
but I have no idea of the other one! (Is that cheating?)

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" Dale Carnegie (but had to goggle it!

This is for bags!

"A million years or so have passed since the tool wielding animal called man made its appearance on this planet."

(I am enjoying this thread very much. Thanks, gracesmum.)

I don't believe you're not all googling.

I didn't have to google the "Alice" one! (Most of the others, though...

A History of Pi, by Petr Beckmann.

"If you write thrillers, people think that you must live a thrilling life and enjoy doing thrilling things."

I knew the Alice one. And a couple of others.

There are websites specially for this.

It's really down to who can Google the fastest.

Just goes to show how important the first line of a book is, doesn't it?

What I mean is that it draws you into the book; like the start of a tv programme or a film.

And it's usually the only one that's googleable!

(which would give you the name of the book, I mean...)

Unless there's a famous last line, like Gone with the Wind.

I didn't google the Pi one - just went to Theseus' bit of the bookcase!

In fact, I haven't googled any of the ones that I have posted!!! And I'm sure I am not alone.

Some if us are rather well read. If you start now - lots of suggestions here - you may catch up one day

Who's you?

Cheek!

Not that many there that I haven't read Micelf, over the last sixtytwo years.

Still working my way through all the Game of Throne books at the moment, interspersed with one or two GN freebies. My taste is quite eclectic and I like to keep up with the times.

Delighted to hear it J08. Can I recommend the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius? I'm sure you'd find it helpful.

I'll leave the holy stuff for you Micelf. Perhaps you feel the need.

I certainly don't remember the first line of every book I've read. Why would anyone, unless they'd read it time and time again...?

How white the moonlight is tonight, said Anne.