Can you guess these book titles? UPDATED with answers on 12/20/08
Loraena at Unmeasured Grace tagged me for this fun book meme.
Here are the instructions:
- Take ten books; transcribe the 5th sentence from page 56.
- Five of the books must be fiction.
- Provide five hints.
- Invite six other bloggers to participate.
Here are my quotes:
1. OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET by C.S. Lewis
“The creature, which was still steaming and shaking itself on the back and had obviously not seen him, opened its mouth and began making noises.”
2. WHEN SINNERS SAY “I DO” by Dave Harvey
*speaking in the persona of the serpent in Eden
“In fact, God trembles before the potential of a self-actualized, godlike human being.”
3. CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY by Alan Paton
“But I have been two years on the list.”
4. THE TENTH MAN by Graham Greene
*first read to me by my novel-writing prof, Dawn Watkins
“He never really expected an offer: hysteria and not hope had dictated his behavior, and now it took him a long moment to realize that he was not being mocked.”
5. WORLDLINESS—Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World
edited by C.J. Mahaney
“This is nowhere more obvious than in sitcoms, stand-up routines, late-night talk shows, and comedy movies.”
6. BLACK PROTEST THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
edited by Meier, Rudwick, and Broderick
“In any case, the modern world must remember that in this age when the ends of the world are being brought so near together, the millions of black men in Africa, America, and the Islands of the Sea, not to speak of the brown and yellow myriads elsewhere, are bound to have a great influence upon the world in the future, by reason of sheer numbers and physical contact.”
7. THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP by Deitrich Bonhoeffer
“For them, the word of grace has proved a fount of mercy.”
8. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver
“ELAPSED OR ESTEEMED, ALL ADE MEETS ERODES PALE!”
9. CULTURE IN CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
by Leland Ryken
“What are we to make of this exuberance over the forms of nature in the most holy places of Old Testament worship?”
10. ZENZELE—A Letter for my Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire
“She was nervous and wore long flowery dresses that matched her complexion and hung on her in a flimsy, shapeless way, like clothes pinned on a line to dry.”
Here are my hints:
1. The 7th statement was originally penned in German and originally published in 1937.
2. The 2nd statement will be easier to guess if you focus on who (besides Shirley MacLaine) may’ve said it, and why, rather than focusing on how blasphemous it is.
3. Statements 3, 8, and 10 are all cited from books set on the continent of Africa. (Sorry — can’t help it!)
4. The author of the 9th excerpt actually came up and introduced himself to me at a C.S. Lewis conference once. We ran out of things to say after I told him where I went to college.
5. The antecedent of the “this” in #5 is our surrounding culture’s cheapening and trivializing of God’s invention/gift of sex.
Here are the other bloggers I’m inviting, although anyone is welcome to give this a try — you don’t need an invitation from me:
I’ll update this entry with the answers next Saturday. You can leave your guesses in the comments, but I’m not going to verify them one way or the other till Saturday. =} If you other bloggers or facebookers want to participate, please leave a link to yours in the comments thread here! Thanks.
