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gacked from silviakundera. first lines of 10 favorite books. well anyway, these are my favorite this morning. i'm bad with favorites. there are too many amazing books in the world to decide that 10 are my favorite. and i change my mind all the time and i forget things all the time. so yeah, favorites for today:

"The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all." - A Room With a View, EM Forster

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter." - Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

"Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened." - The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

"It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock." - The Passion, Jeanette Winterson <3<3<3

"The book was thick and black and covered with dust." Possession, AS Byatt

"At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring." Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

"Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways." hahahaha

"Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster?" Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters

"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton." dude, with this book, the question is which first line?

"The beginnings of this story lie far back in time, and its reverberations still sound today." King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild. this is non-fiction and isn't exactly a favorite book, but it's fucking mind-blowing. mmhmm.

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gacked from cimorene111 ( surveylicious )

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ooh, untitled06 is a smart cookie. so, having listed books by first line, if you were going to read one of them and had to choose based on the first line, which would it be?

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me: there's this word you used that i didn't get... it was something like pro-duck-tif. or something. you shouldn't go using weird words if you're not going to explain them.
hominidj: pro-duck-tif: of or relating to fear and/or shame inspired activity necessary to stave off depression and/or panic attacks.

how did i get here?

i did some good things today. some pilates. using a big ball. fun times. and camillafarfalla and i went to lexington. more good times. we ranted about war. and then i also go to rant some more about ron and homophobic stereotypes. we agreed that ron/draco should actually be a fantipulous pairing. (hmm... just made up that word, but i'm enjoying it). i haven't ever looked for much ron/draco... read a few quickies that weren't bad. maybe i will have to go look now. a wee project for the evenin'.

otp's. they just get you when you're least expecting it. i'm a little otp about harry and draco... but i can read other pairings. i just like them most. but then, camilla and i are talking about how it's fine to have an otp but you don't need to go slamming other pairings, it's just not called for. and now i have to ask myself, why would harry/sirius be more wrong than harry/snape?

true answer: because sirius can NEVERNEVERNEVER be with anyone but remus. NEVER. or i would die. a thousand horrible deaths. well ok, he could be with someone else before he's with remus. but then that's it.

i'm pathetic. i'm gone. sirius/remus. that's it. it's over. stick a fork in me. i'm done.

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hey! i can't believe i forgot this. there was mention last night at the talk-to-kids-about-being-gay thing of stereotypes people have about gay people. the example the kids came up with? leather pants. ahahahahaha. yay! wait, what do you mean stereotype?