First sentence of current book

Pinkpaper · Post by **Pinkpaper** » 06 Jan 2010, 18:08

Black clouds over Mangold Parva.

Adrian Mole, The Prostrate Years

i_love_reading09 · Post by **i_love_reading09** » 06 Jan 2010, 18:34

Getting dressed was always the hardest part of the afternoon.

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

Bennay · Post by **Bennay** » 06 Jan 2010, 21:04

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there".

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

poomlie · Post by **poomlie** » 07 Jan 2010, 00:08

From two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester's Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down.

Under the Dome - Stephen King

Briar · Post by **Briar** » 07 Jan 2010, 00:15

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.

The Hundred Secret Senses

Amy Tan

(It would be fun to give the sentence then see if anyone can guess the book.)

poomlie · Post by **poomlie** » 07 Jan 2010, 00:21

I was thinking that very thing. Sort of like "name that book".

Briar · Post by **Briar** » 07 Jan 2010, 00:22

I'll do that on my next book.

poomlie · Post by **poomlie** » 07 Jan 2010, 00:25

I will join you on that!

whatthedeuce · Post by **whatthedeuce** » 07 Jan 2010, 09:34

Alexey Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us because of his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I will describe in its proper place.

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

cs4jws · Post by **cs4jws** » 11 Jan 2010, 18:04

"At seven o'clock on a dreary evening in the Left Bank, Julia began roasting pigeons for the second time in her life"

Julie & Julia: My Year Of Cooking Dangerously - Julie Powell

~Cat

wiggicc · Post by **wiggicc** » 12 Jan 2010, 14:43

Call me Ishmael.

CuppaTea · Post by **CuppaTea** » 16 Jan 2010, 22:39

New Amsterdam

1664

"So this was freedom."

New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd

cs4jws · Post by **cs4jws** » 16 Jan 2010, 22:49

The girl was the first to hear the pounding on the door.

"Sarah's Key" - Tatiana de Rosnay

~Cat

victorian.noire · Post by **victorian.noire** » 16 Jan 2010, 23:47

"it was thus, with libels and ill-natured ballads, that the enemies of Marie Antointette hailed the first days of her reign"

The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, A confidante's account