First lines meme: the answers

1. On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turned back time: Al Stewart, Year of the Cat
2. Is this the real life, is this just fantasy: Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
3. You get a shiver in the dark, its been raining in the park but meantime: Dire Straits, Tunnel of Love
4. A lovestruck Romeo, sings a streetsuss serenade: Dire Straits, Romeo and Juliet
5. Now I'm a little shy, I like to stay home: BA Robertson, To Be Or Not To Be
6. Now is the solstice of the year, winter is the glad song that you hear: Jethro Tull, Solstice Bells
7. Hey Mr Dreamseller, where have you been: Lindisfarne, Meet Me On The Corner
8. Well I've been waiting, waiting here so long: Genesis, Invisible Touch
9. The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload: Boomtown Rats, Don't Like Mondays
10. Turn around, every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming round: Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart

Book meme: the answers

1. "Put down that wrench!" Robert A Heinlein, Blowups Happen
2. The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood, heaving in the choppy sea; a stroke might as easily bring down the man making it as the intended target. Naomi Novik, Temeraire
3. My attention was drawn to the spots on my chest when I was in my bath, singing, if I remember rightly, the Toreador song from the opera Carmen. PG Wodehouse, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
4. As a teenager, I was a great fan of science fiction and fantasy. Colin Bruce, Schrodinger's Rabbits
5. The tall and dour non-com wore Imperial dress greens and carried his communications panel like a field-marshall's baton. Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice
6. It was January in northern New York State, sixty-five years ago. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
7. A January gale was bearing up the Channel, blustering loudly, and bearing in its bosom rain squalls whose big drops rattled loudly on the tarpaulin clothing of those among the officers and med whose duty kept them on deck. CS Forester, Mr Midshipman Hornblower
8. It all began with William's aunt, who was in a good temper that morning and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her and carrying her parcels from the grocer's. Richmal Compton, Just William
9. Slowly, deliberately, Starr crushed out the butt of his cigarette. Alistair Maclean, HMS Ulysses
10. "But if he thought the woman was being murdered - " Dorothy L Sayers, Unnatural Death
11. Watson had been watching his companion intently ever since he had sat down to the breakfast table. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson Learns The Trick
12. One high horn shriled and ceased. Ursula K le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
13. There was a village once, not very long ago for those with long memories, nor very far away for those with long legs. JRR Tolkien, Smith of Wootton Major
14. Down by the corner of the street, AA Milne, When We Were Very Young
15. There was a king called Fornjot who ruled over Finland and Kvenland, the countries stretching to the east of what we call the Gulf of Bothnia, which lies opposite the White Sea. The Orkneyinga Saga