First Line Challenge for Adults
Try and guess the name of the book from the first line.
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Anne's challenge
"It was seven minutes after midnight." *
10 points
Amy's challenge
"I grew up around a father and mother who read every chance they got, who took us to the library every Thursday night to load us up on books for the coming week." *
10 points
Aileen's challenge
"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so twirled in quantity that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut." *
10 points
Nina's challenge
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." *
10 points
Thomas' challenge
"I fling open my bedroom curtains, and there's the thirtsy sky and the wide river full of ships and boats and stuff, but I'm already thinking of Vinny's chocolaty eyes, shampoo down Vinny's back, beads of sweat on Vinny's shoulders, and Vinny's sly laugh, and by now my heart's going mental and, God, I wish I was waking up at Vinny's place in Peacock Street and not in my own stupid bedroom." *
10 points
Laura's challenge
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." *
10 points
Chelsea's challenge
"One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family’s maid — who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet — standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even the things he’d hidden at the back that belonged to him and were nobody else’s business." *
10 points
Shari's challenge
"The winter snows were melting in the forests of the Kaibab, and the red-orange vermilion cliffs were streaked with melting frost." *
10 points
Another challenge from Aileen
"To imagine is to see possibilities to envision realities, that do not yet exist and to map out paths not yet charted." *
10 points
Another challenge from Lynn
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board." *
10 points
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