An Exclamation of Larks

How about some answers to last week’s quiz?

1. 1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
   
2. Sybil Davidson has a genius I.Q. and has been laid by at least six different guys. Forever – Judy Blume
3. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it “and what use is a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
   
4. She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
   
5. Noon. London: my flat. Ugh. Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
6. This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
   
7. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
   
8. The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
   
9. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
   
10. Parsifal is dead. That is the end of the story. The Magician’s Assistant – Ann Patchett
    
11. (Bonus) When he says, “Skins or blankets?” it will take you a moment to realize that he’s asking which you want to sleep under. “How To Talk To a Hunter” by Pam Houston, from the collection Cowboys Are My Weakness