[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-fooled-anyone-first-and-last-fake-book-lines":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"At book club today, we played one of my favourite games, called \u003Cb>Ex Libris\u003C/b>. You can play it in any room where there's a bookshelf, but I once bought a \u003Ca href=\"http://oxfordgames.com/ex-libris.html\">pack of cards with rules printed on the box\u003C/a> that make it easier. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ex_libris-efd1c99e40.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBasically, one person reads out a book title, author, years the author lived, and a synopsis. Then we decide if we're going to take the first line or the last line of the book, and everyone writes one they think might fool everyone else into thinking it's the book's real wording. The person with the card also copies out the real first or last line, and then reads them all together and we vote on which one we think is the right one. You get points if you guess the correct line, but also if people vote for the one you've written! It's good fun. See if you can guess the real lines from the ones we came up with today. \\r\n\\r\nLast line of \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Three Men in a Boat\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by Jerome K. Jerome, 1859-2927 (which is the real line from the book?):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/3meninaboat-4d2086e9fe.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nLast line of \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Swallows and Amazons\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by Arthur Ransome, 1884-1967:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/swallowsandamazons-75273939aa.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLast line of \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Jailbird\u003C/b>\u003C/i> by Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/jailbird-84564e916a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nFirst line of \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Flaubert's Parrot\u003C/b>\u003C/i> by Julian Barnes, 1946-: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/flaubertsparrot-455f2b8ae3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks for a cosy, fun time, everyone! Here's my scientist friend \u003Cb>Alice Brewer\u003C/b>, who runs a home business called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.beanpi.co.uk/home\">BeanPi\u003C/a>, for which she makes lovely clothes and accessories for kids. She's with Juniper, one of our youngest book club members.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alice_b-48971a4d5e.jpg\">","2012-01-15T21:21:00.000Z","fooled-anyone-first-and-last-fake-book-lines",[],"fooled anyone? first and last fake book lines",1776628721280]