First sentence of current book

[Pinkpaper]

Black clouds over Mangold Parva.

Adrian Mole, The Prostrate Years

[i_love_reading09]

Getting dressed was always the hardest part of the afternoon.

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

[Bennay]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Briar]

I'll do that on my next book.

[poomlie]

I will join you on that!

[whatthedeuce]

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]

"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]

Call me Ishmael.

[CuppaTea]

New Amsterdam

1664

"So this was freedom."


New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd

[cs4jws]

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

"Sarah's Key" - Tatiana de Rosnay


~Cat

[victorian.noire]

"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

[Fran]

"She lay on her back fastened by leather straps to a narrow bed with a steel frame"
The Girl Who Played with Fire ... Stieg Larsson