First sentence of current book

[Connie_88]

Dysfunctional families are all alike. - My Sister, My Love by JCO

[Bighuey]

As many of the stories in this book are about man-eating tigers, it is perhaps desireable to explain why these animals develop man-eating tendencies. - Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett

[Laura_Timmins]

"Sir, neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. "

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

[RuqeeD]

'You slot the capsule into the machine like so,' the shop assistant demonstrates, positioned in front of a deluxe coffee machine.

Monday to Friday Man by Alice Peterson

[StephenKingman]

14 East 95th Street:

84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff.

[Fran]

"A high voice called through the dark rooms"
.......... The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

It is wrong to boast, but in the beginning, my plan was perfect.

Pulphead Esssays
J.J.Sullivan

[Ant]

In winter Hammerfest is a thirty-hour ride by bus from Oslo, though why would anyone want to go there in winter is a question worth considering.

Neither here Nor there
by
Bill Bryson

[Bighuey]

Three miles from our winter home, and in the heart of the forest, there is an open glade some four hundred yards long and half as wide, grassed with emerald-greenand surrounded with big trees interlaced with cane creepers.
The Bachelor of Powalgarh by Jim Corbett.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

Truth is beautiful, without doubt, but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- 18 Apr 2012, 09:40 --

Life is full of problems.

The 3rd Alternative.

Stephen R. Covey.

[Gannon]

"That morning a Norman cavalry patrol had captured a young Englishman foraging in the wood south of the river Tyne."

"Hawk Quest" by Robert Lyndon.

[Fran]

"In the part of the world where Helene Karol was born, dusk began with a thick cloud of dust that swirled slowly in the air before drifting to the ground, bringing the damp night with it."
........ The Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky

[Maud Fitch]

"I remember, in no particular order: . . ." and possibly the longest first sentence I've ever read.

The Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes.

[primrose777]

In the end is my beginning, Thats a quotation I've often heard people say. Endless Night by Agatha Christie.