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The month of April is sliding by. Taxes are done. Essays to mark are decidedly not.

For lack of anything more interesting to post, this is gakked from kerravonsen:

1. Choose ten of your favorite books.
2. Take the last sentence of the last chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess.


Modifications for the sake of making the game interesting: #4 and 6 are shortened because the full sentence gave away too much information. #7 is the second to last, not the last line, because the real last line gave everything away.

1. He looked a long time.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Guessed by sage_theory.

2. The wizard threw a pillow at her sister, got up, and went to breakfast.

So You Want to Be A Wizard by Diane Duane. Guessed by estirose.

3. We are all singers, in this family, and we are also songs.

4. . . . and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Guessed by drednort.

5. He looked relieved.

6. . . . Laura dreamed of many things, and Jacko, pleased and puzzled by other people's lives, feel alseep on her knee while the strands of wool along the edge of his Ruggie swayed backwards and forwards on the small tide of his even breath.

The Changeover by Margaret Mahey. Guessed by drednort.

7. "White lies don't count at all," he told himself.

8. And by his side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire-- Master Colin!

The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett. Guessed by tptigger.

9. The Priest who comes after me has it in charge to give up the book to any stranger who will take an oath to bring it into Greece.)

Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. Guessed by sage_theory and drednort.

10. "Welcome to Hi-Tek," I said, and would have shaken her hand except that she was wearing a barbed-wire ring. Great things.