First sentence of current book

[Ama Idim]

"I have been working on a dream even before I knew it"

[EmunahAn]

They had just been notified that they had to move......nice subtle start

[tamdlyte]

Stargazer lived in a kaleidoscope of colours such that the rainbow looked bland in comparison.
*sigh* LOL
Magical Adventures & Pony Tales
by Angharad Thompson Rees

[Redlegs]

The merry=go-round had a centre post of cast iron, reddened a little by the salt air, and of a certain ornateness : not striking enough to attract a casual eye, but still, to an eye concentrated upon it (to the eye, say, of a lover of the merry-go-round, a child) intriguing in its transitions.

The Merry-Go-Round In the Sea, Randolph Stow

[Charissa C]

"In a single year, my father left us twice."

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

[0719672189]

I knew there was something not quite right about Dumi the very first time i ever laid eyes on him.
The Hairdresser of Harare-Tendai Huchu.

[Nyuu]

“kepler 22b sits in a shiny chair in the center of a black, low-ceilinged room.”

Endgame: Rules of the game by James Frey

[Lydia]

In the beginning... when the world was new, Fae and humans lived peacefully together.
Quest of a Warrior (Legends of the Fenian Warriors #1), Mary Morgan

[Redlegs]

The bruise-coloured steeple of St Augustine's was visible for miles around the hills of South Hobart: a watch=tower over a camp of fear.

The Doubleman, Christopher Koch

-- 13 Sep 2017, 00:35 --

Last summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a travelling companion James Quayle Burden - Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West.

My Antonia, Willa Cather

[Btowntheatregal]

"Reverand, you have a visitor." ~ Raven's Peak by Lincoln Cole

[IanYanny]

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.

-The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

[Marie Kala]

After a year of slavery in the Salt Mines of Endovier, Celaena Sardothien was accustomed to being escorted everywhere in shackles and at sword point.

Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Mass

[Lydia]

Ballencrief Hall crouched upon the crag lika a wary giant, it's arm-like towers thrust up as if to hold off the heavy clouds that threatened its battlements.
Mad for the Marquess (Reluctant Heart #1), Jess Russell

[Redlegs]

On the day he lost his right foot, Walter Van Brunt had been haunted, however haphazardly, by ghosts of the past.

World's End, T C Boyle

[Karen0823]

"I'm here, I'm… sorry I came to you unannounced, my name is Fernando Benzimra, I found your name in the phonebook, I asked your wife whether you are Moshe Benzimra from Tetouan, and then got here by taxi.

Keys to Tetouan by Mois Benarroch