First sentence of current book

[Emy Katherine]

In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massachusetts.

The crucible by Arthur Miller

[Gannon]

I remember the cries of Caesar's war-horns chasing us over the darkened fields of Latium - their yearning, keening howls, like animals on heat - and how when they stopped there was only the slither of our shoes on the icy road and the urgent panting of our breath.

DICTATOR by Robert Harris.

[Judyk]

The couple in front of me looked like any other parents who’d lost a child—their hands gripping one another, dark circles under their eyes, skin sallow from not enough food, water or sleep—except for the faintest glimmer of a possibility, a scrap of hope that someone had thrown them, by sending them my way.
Priceless by Shannon Mayer

[ppt4895]

"Hapscomb's Texaco sat on US 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston."

The Stand by Stephen King

[Anusuya Borah]

PhnomPenh city wakes early to take advantage of the coll morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat - First they killed my father by Loung Ung

[Redlegs]

The day broke gray and dull.

Of Human Bondage, W Somerset Maugham

[Heidi M Simone]

"The order to abandon ship was given at 5 P.M."

Endurance: Shackleton's Increibale Voyage by Alfred Lansing.

[Fran]

Those who know me now will be surprised to learn that I was a great talker as a child.
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

[dcg8990]

Here he comes.

If I break by Portia moore

[Redlegs]

So there were kookaburras here.

The Natural Way of Things, Charlotte Wood

(pretty much establishes this an Australian book )

[Lydia]

Smoke rising from the Mystic Isle’s highest peak dimmed the glow of the quarter moon, casting a foreboding shadow over the drooping leaves of the tropical jungle at the mountain’s foot.
Mystic Rider (Mystic Isle #2), Patricia Rice

[Jojowrites4All]

In the eyes of others, we're often not who we imagine ourselves to be. - Gilly Macmillan ( What She Knew)

[KatherineEWall]

The very moment he entered the house of illusions, he felt a very bright and poisonous yellow aura descend upon him, which proclaimed physical ailments.

What We All Have by Ray Dacolias

[lmoses]

From Broken Angel by Alex Apostal:

I sat in the first row of cheap folding chairs and stared forward with squinted eyes.

[Loverockers]

"As soon as the engine began to sputter, I knew that I was in real trouble.." from Kitty Hawk and the Curse of The Yukon Gold by Iain Reading.

The book seems good so far