Booking

Three days ago, I joined a conference chat with K, G, and fB. We talked about books (with boy booking chisms sa sides. Chos!) Today, K and fB posted about books on their blogs. (K chose The Great Gatsby as no. 1 sa list nya while fB's... gosh! The Holy Bible!).

Affixed were the first lines of their chosen favorite books. I should do this one too dahil wala akong booking today. Kabangas! In no particular order....

Cry To Heaven

Anne Rice

Guido Maffeo was castrated when he was six years old and sent to study with the finest singing masters in Naples. He had known only hunger and cruelty among the large peasant brood to which he was born the eleventh child.

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church.

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.

Who Moved My Cheese?

Dr. Spencer Johnson

One sunny Sunday in Chicago, several former classmates, who were good friends in school, gathered for lunch, having attended their high school reunion the night before. They wanted to hear more about what was happening in each other's lives.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Mitch Albom

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might been strange to start with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings.

Specimen Days

Michael Cunningham

Walt said that the dead turned into grass, but there was no grass where they'd buried Simon. He was with the other Irish on the far side of the river, where it was only dirt and gravel, and names on stones.

The Tesseract

Alex Garland

There was no bright color in the room. Outside, there was plenty.

The Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty

A.N. Roquelaure

The Prince had all his young life known the story of Sleeping Beauty cursed to sleep for a hundred years, with her parents, the King and Queen, and all of the Court, after pricking her finger on a spindle. But he didnt believe it until he was inside the castle.

At ang choices ng mga Step-sisters kow.......

The Richest Man In Babylon

George S. Clason

(Mama O's Choice)

Bansir, the chariot builder of Babylon, was thoroughly discouraged. From his seat upon the low wall surrounding his property, he gazed sadly at his simple home and an open workshop in which stood a partially completed chariot.

Sabriel

Garth Nix

(Jezebel's Choice)

The rabbit had been run over minutes before. Its pink eyes were glazed and blood stained its clean white fur.

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

(Ekra Tan's Choice)

In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree, Siddhartha, the handsome Brahmin's son, grew up with his friend, Govinda.

(But wait! Si sister Kelly from the Philippines, ayaw din mag-paawat. Her favorite book raw should be included din sa list. Eto sya:)

The Prince's Angel:

And The Two Shall Become One

Mychael Black

(Kelly's Choice)

"I summon thee, Zalael, to this place and offer thee this body as your vessel."

Very Inspiring yung kay Kelly ha! Pero chariiit lang po yun! Dahil wala raw syang favorite book. Leche sya! Kahit si Kate Winslet na di marunong magbasa sa The Reader eh meron. Tse nya!

Well girls naniniwala kami na: Kapag may Aklat......... Sosyal!