My annual “first lines” challenge is here: [link]
I have faith you all will be able to guess a few of these.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
megan walker - Nov 27, 2025 10:26:18 am PST #28477 of 28659
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
aurelia - Nov 27, 2025 12:19:55 pm PST #28478 of 28659
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Ooooh, I think I'm stumped this year.
Kate P. - Nov 27, 2025 2:45:38 pm PST #28479 of 28659
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I got three! Although someone else had already guessed one of mine. I love this tradition and every year I wonder if there's some way to do some variation on it myself.
Dana - Nov 27, 2025 2:59:35 pm PST #28480 of 28659
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Yeah, first time in a while I didn't know any.
-t - Nov 27, 2025 3:29:19 pm PST #28481 of 28659
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don’t know any, but I feel like I may kick myself when some are revealed…
megan walker - Nov 27, 2025 11:50:49 pm PST #28482 of 28659
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don’t know any, but I feel like I may kick myself when some are revealed…
Yes, probably. There’s definitely a couple more I think are getable. But a few I think aren’t getable at all, including one I know some here have read.
aurelia - Nov 28, 2025 5:24:00 pm PST #28483 of 28659
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I do enjoy going through the previous years and discovering the ones I know now that I didn't know then. For instance, I just finished reading Bel Canto.
megan walker - Dec 01, 2025 12:25:13 pm PST #28484 of 28659
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
And, here are the answers: [link]
Really surprised no one came up with #10. I thought I made it easier by using the preface but maybe not.
dcp - Dec 01, 2025 12:54:27 pm PST #28485 of 28659
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
The only one of those I've read was True Grit, and that was a very long time ago.
-t - Dec 01, 2025 1:39:57 pm PST #28486 of 28659
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The only one I'm sure I read is We Solve Murders and I guess I forgot all about the bits that were how-to-be-an-international-criminal-mastermind although I enjoyed them when I was reading. Frankenstein makes sense now that I know it, but I was not making the connection (I have thought for years that I read it but what I actually remember of it is the cover of the paperback I found in a used book store which I am pretty sure I bought but not completely certain I read)