Guess the book

I'm bored /book/ so I suggest a little game.
Take a book you're currently reading and pick a sentence or two from the page you were about to read next. Don't pick anything too obvious so the other person can guess, I'll start:


"Her long yellow hair rippled down her shoulders; her gown was green, green as young reeds, shot with silver like beads of dew; and her belt wad of gold, shaped like a chain of flag-lilies set with the pale-blue eyes of forget-me-nots."

A few miles south of Soledad, the salinas river drops close to the hill side bank and runs deep and green