helenkellerandtheholybraille asked:
Can we suggest books or bikinis to find matches for? Also this blog makes my day
I answered:
Why yes you can! Send submissions to matchbooknu@gmail.com.
The book: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
The first sentence: At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.
The bikini: Antonio Marras il Mare Bikini
The book: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The first sentence: “The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village.”
The book: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The first sentence: “If you really want to hear about it, the first think you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
The bikini: Tori Praver Shyla Bikini
The book: Incendiary by Chris Cleeve
The first sentence: “Dear Osama they want you dead or alive so the terror will stop.”
The bikini: Rag & Bone Ibiza Bikini
The book: Mercy by Jodi Picoult
The first sentence: “When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became a strictly feminine place.”
The bathing suit: We Are Handsome Lover Swimsuit
The book: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
The first sentence: “I used to think that Red Bull was the most destructive invention of the past 50 years.”
The swimsuit: O’Neill Men’s Murca Boardshort
The book: Across the Universe.
The first sentence: “Daddy said, “Let Mom go first.”
The bikini: Glamour Kills Intergalactic Bikini
The book: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The first sentence: “Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to talking about death.”
The bathing suit: Miraclesuit Roswell Tankini, available here.
The book: Pet Semetary by Steven King
The first sentence: “Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered middle age, but that is exactly what happened.”
The bathing suit: Wildfox Couture Cat Swimsuit.
The book: The Whore of Akron by Scott Raab.
The first sentence: “I no more chose to be a Clevelander and a Cleveland fan than I chose to be a Jew transfixed by leggy shikas.”
The bathing suit: Sabz Shining Dawn One Piece.
The book: Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
The first sentence: “Someday my children will ask me where I was and what I was doing when the United States elected its first black President.”
The bikini: Nina Swimwear Barberella Bikini in Polka Dots
The book: A Million Heavens by John Brandon
The first sentence: “The nighttime clouds were slipping across the sky as if summoned.”
The cover illustrator: Keith Shore.
The bathing suit: Fracture Swimsuit by VPL. $87.50
The book: 1776 by David McCullough
The first sentence: “On the afternoon of Thursday, October 26, 1775, His Royal Magesty George III, King of England, rode in royal splendor from St. Jame’s Palace to the Palace of Westminster, there to address the opening of Parliament on the increasingly distressing issue of war in America.
The bikini: Maren Stripe by DKNY. $68.99.
The book: Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
The first sentence: “One way of looking at it is that it was just an unfortunate by-product of Hurricane Edna.”
The bikini: Ella Moss Moon Shadow Bikini. Top $57.
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