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Black clouds over Mangold Parva.

Adrian Mole, The Prostrate Years

Getting dressed was always the hardest part of the afternoon.

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

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

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

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.)

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

I'll do that on my next book.

I will join you on that!

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

"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

Call me Ishmael.

New Amsterdam

1664

"So this was freedom."


New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd

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

"Sarah's Key" - Tatiana de Rosnay


~Cat

"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

"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