First sentence of current book

[biscuits]

“Who needs a shrink when you have a cat?”

Yesterday by Saymann

[gali]

"Jen sits in the bath, examining her face through the forward-mounted camera on a tablet computer".

"Happiness for Humans" by P.Z. Reizin

[alisonedgee]

my first encounter with light as more that illumination from a flashlight was on our homestead in alaska at age five.

[Book O-Rama]

"The Last Girls" by Lee Smith

"Harriet thinks it was William Faulkner who said that Mississippi begins in the lobby of the Peabody hotel."

[dtb]

"Felicia Miller was crying in the bathroom again."

Hex Hall

By Rachel Hawkins

[Fuzzy456]

The girl was found seventy-six hours after she was reported missing.

The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd

[[Valerie Allen]]

More, more more! Awesome!

[OneHippieChick]

By the time Eustace Conway was seven years old, he could throw a knife accurately enough to nail a chipmunk to a tree.

[Gravy]

People would say she came to Qaanaaq in a skiff towed by a killer whale harnessed to the front like a horse.

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

[gkgurley]

"We arrived in an undignified heap of witch and vampire."
-Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

[Redlegs]

The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.

2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C Clarke

[Rebecca AR]

Along the clay road, Mike's red truck cuts slowly between tall rows of sugarcane, sassy, silvery tassels waving in the October sun, extending across an alluvial plain as far as the eye can see.

Strangers in their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

[strawberrysab]

"Moving at the speed of light through the darkness of a vast fiber optic spider web always evoked a hypnotic state of peace."

Superhighway - Alex Fayman

[Okafor Prosper]

We all strive for success, but life often gets in the way and interferes with our
grand plan.

From drift to shift by Jody B. Miller

[mrswoodlee]

"Except for the Marabar Caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."
-- A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster