MadLib Monday 12: 2/22/10

Welcome once again to MadLib Monday, the day of playing with words and recognizing books from a MadLibbed passage and cropped photo.  What better way to start off your week could there be?  Here is the word list for this week's MadLib passage:

1. place name
2. adjective
3. number
4. verb - past tense
5. verb - present participle (-ing)
6. noun - singular
7. adverb
8. noun
9. noun - plural
10. noun
11. verb
12. noun
13. noun
14. year
15. noun - singular
16. noun
17. adjective
18. noun - singular
19. verb - present participle
20. adjective
21. noun - singular
22. adjective
23. verb - past tense
24. noun
25. verb - present participle
26. noun
27. noun - plural
28. adjective
29. noun - plural
30. adjective
31. verb - past tense
32. noun - singular
33. noun - singular
34. noun - singular
35. adjective
36. adjective
37. noun - singular

As a reminder for getting ready for Wednesday's Weekly Poll post, the poll is open and waiting for you to vote in the left-hand sidebar.  This week's question asks you to identify what kind of reader you consider yourself to be--literary, "pop culture", or nonfiction.  I'd like to hit 5 votes this week, so please help me reach that goal by voting!

The image that goes along with the passage this week is here:

They used to be called the ___(1)___ girls.  That was a(n) ___(2)___ time ago—more than ___(3)___ decades—but just now, as she ___(4)___ in bed ___(5)___ a winter ___(6)___ raging ___(7)___, it seemed like yesterday.

In the past ___(8)___ (unquestionably the worst seven ___(9)___ of her life), she’d lost the ___(10)___ to ___(11)___ herself from the ___(12)___.  Too often lately in her ___(13)___ it was ___(14)___; she was a(n) ___(15)___ again, coming of age in the ___(16)___ of a(n) ___(17)___ ___(18)___, ___(19)___ her bike beside her ___(20)___ friend in a(n) ___(21)___ so complete it was like being ___(22)___ .… she ___(23)___ it in vivid ___(24)___: a(n) ___(25)___ ribbon of ___(26)___ bordered on either side by ___(27)___ of ___(28)___ water and ___(29)___ of ___(30)___ grass.  Before they ___(31)___, that ___(32)___ seemed to go nowhere at all; it was just a country ___(33)___ named after a(n) ___(34)___ no one had ever seen in this rugged ___(35)___ and ___(36)___ corner of the ___(37)___.

Can you guess which book the image and passage were taken from?

Answer to last week's MadLib Monday: Congrats to Angie, who correctly guessed that last week's book was Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes.  The full book cover looks like this:

There are at least two different book covers for this book--this is just the one I have sitting on my shelf.

Happy reading and MadLibbing!