First sentence of current book

[StephKn24]

"It is an unusually warm night in July, but I'm shivering badly as I stand on the substantial gray stone terrace outside my apartment."

1st to Die by James Patterson

[Redlegs]

This may be hard to believe, coming from a black man, but I've never stolen anything.

The Sellout, Paul Beatty

(Now, that's a sentence that sets the tone for what's to come!)

[SPasciuti]

The fairies flew suspended on wires despite their tendency to get tangled together.

Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev

[Written Legalist]

Book: Irena's Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo
"In Yiddish folk tales, the story of Poland begins at dusk on a still summer night."

[Kiisme]

"Honestly where do I start? " Can you Keep a Secert? by K.C. Atchison

[AnBarb]

They say that Rome can evoke a million memories, and that its sprawling alleys refresh the soul.

My trip to Adele - R. I. Alyaseer, A. I. Alyaseer

[Lincolnshirelass]

'Josie DiSanti was starting over'. The Mill River Redemption, by Darcie Chan.

[uyky]

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

[Redlegs]

It was a dark and stormy night.

A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'Engle

(Did Snoopy write this?)

[jaylperry]

"On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway---Donald Trump's campaign manager and a central, indeed starring, personality of Trumpworld---settled into her glass office at Trump Tower."

This tortured sentence belongs to Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff.

[hartman20]

The monster's name was Izumrud, the great worm, and there were those who claimed he had made the tunnels that ran beneath Ravka.

Ruin and Rising, by Leigh Bardugo

[pink boy]

"If I was as big as her, I'd kill myself," Mum says, pointing at a picture of Marilyn Monroe in her magazine.

Massive by Julia Bell

[K1llarn3y]

"Funny thing is, I never worried about getting older."

How hard can it be by Allison Pearson

[Redlegs]

Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."

The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus-driver.

Snow, Orhan Pamuk

[meglovesreading]

The reason to write this book could not be more obvious.

Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury