First sentence of current book

[smmi1006]

ZO.
From The Shadow of Oz by Nick Damon. Only one chapter in, so no opinion formed as of now.

[[Valerie Allen]]

Guess I'll state it again, more great titles.

[6912dirtyfeet]

Some would spend the time getting their legal affairs in order, revising wills,and writing out detailed instructions.

[KatrinaP]

"It was at times like this that I wished Hallmark made a line of, "So your supernatural daughter is going off to fight a supernatural war" cards, because I certainly didn't know how to say that to my father."

Tempest's Fury by Nicole Peeler

[gaygothcousin]

Dear Theresa,
I’m lying on my bed tonight missing you, my eyes all swollen, hot tears running down my face.

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

[Eileen R]

"Temptation, hidden in the shadows, wields the power of the forbidden" Heartaches by H.M Irwing.

[Redlegs]

I am writing this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because i believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

Regeneration, Pat Barker

[Kibet Hillary]

Victory had never tasted so shallow.

In the book 'Heartaches 2' by H M Irwing

[sisterkate]

The horses knew.

The Prisoner by Alex Berenson

[Elizabeth Pass]

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.

-Anne of Green Gables

[Cate Mbevi]

It was almost impossible to get to Lexington and Sixty-third Street.
Fine Things by Danielle Steel

[Redlegs]

My father's father was a Methodist minister.

The Last Samurai, Helen De Witt

[Raya raymond]

Anna Walters-Simmons Wrinkled her nose in distaste as the strong scent of freshly brewing storm mingled with the smell of damp earth, freshly tossed.

[[Valerie Allen]]

Hmm...more great titles!

[gen_g]

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed"

Telemachus, Ulysses James Joyce