Sunday, October 22, 2006

Interactive Chick-Lit!

Brand-spanking new Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233, is an interactive, multi-media wonder! It's in the form of a journal/art notebook and is written from 17-year-old Cathy's perspective on the strange circumstances following her break-up with her older, enigmatic boyfriend. If you like The Gossip Girls books, you'll be sure to appreciate the saucy, chick-lit nature of this innovative book.
But the best part of all is that you can follow Cathy's journey through the phone numbers that dial to real answering machines, and the websites that give clues to the story. Go ahead, give it a try: call 650-266-8233!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Name that First Sentence!

Hello and welcome to NAME THAT FIRST SENTENCE!The game show that asks the critical questions and tests your literary I.Q. See how many of these opening lines you can identify:


Catagory 1: The easy stuff
1. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want for a wife."
2. "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."
3. "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
4. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
5. "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."
Catagory 2: The Middle Road
1. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
2. "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning."
3. "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."
4. "A Spectre is haunting Europe--the spectre of communism."
5. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Catagory 3: The Doozies!
1. "Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me."
2."In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost."
3."riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle ans Environs."
4. "At this point I interrupted my sister as usual to say, 'You have a way with words, Scheherazade.'"
5. "To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothing: Watch out for life."