First Line of Current Book - 2016

[chesilbeach]

We were all looking up, and so we missed the murder.

 

Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

[chaliepud]

"I died for eight minutes on January 26th. And I've been having really weird dreams ever since."

 

Humans of New York Stories - Brandon Stanton

[frankie]

"I hate this town."

 

Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay

[shirley]

Zachery Flynn should never have been born

 

Some Kind of Wonderful - Sarah Morgan

[chesilbeach]

From their windows - their high, generous Georgian windows - the view was, they all agreed, spectacular.

 

Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope

[bobblybear]

Henry's second novel, written, like his first, under a pen name, had done well.

 

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

[JudyM]

It was a bright cold day inApril, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

 

1984 by George Orwell

[DauntlessTribute]

"The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power." - The World Set Free by H.G Wells

[frankie]

"Lyle Bowman was an old man with a sweet tooth, though which of his twelve remaining teeth the adage referred to is unknown."

 

The Last of the Bowmans by J. Paul Henderson 

[chaliepud]

"I stepped inside the railroad car, and three dozen pairs of eyes peered my way."

 

In The Shadow of Blackbirds ~ Cat Winters

[Anna Begins]

It was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man.

 

Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

[Kylie]

One of the things that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself.

 

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

[bobblybear]

West of Pearl Harbor, he drove along the Farrington Highway past fields of sugar cane, dark green in the moonlight.

 

 Micro by Michael Crichton

[chesilbeach]

Well before his arrival in Cincinnati, everyone knew that Chip Bingley was looking for a wife.

 

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

[sadya]

Literary critics used to be no less than art-popes. 

 

 

Rough translation from a booklet by Dutch author and teacher Elsbeth Etty called 'ABC van de literaire kritiek' (ABC of literary criticism).

Edited April 22, 2016 by sadya

[shirley]

The beginning of march had been glorious

 

The Summer House by Santa Montefiore

[DauntlessTribute]

"I walk to the bus station by myself"- Carry on by Rainbow Rowell

[Athena]

Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Winsconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.

 

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House On The Prairie 1: Little House In The Big Woods

 

* note - I'm reading the Dutch translation, but this line comes from the original English version from the sample on Amazon

[dtrpath27]

Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Winsconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House On The Prairie 1: Little House In The Big Woods

I love that series.

[shirley]

Some things just don't work together. 

 

Jane Costello - Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel

[Athena]

I love that series.

I really like the series so far .

[chesilbeach]

I realised we were different, really different on a rainy morning in 1987

 

The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks

[ian]

From the depths of phenobarbital slumber, Silvia Bohlen heard something that called.

 

Martian Time-slip - Phillip K Dick

[frankie]

"I am disturbed at about twenty past two, in the early hours of Saturday morning."

 

- You Sent Me a Letter by Lucy Dawson

[Anna Begins]

Joe Dobbs was fourteen when Congress discovered Earth.

~Forging Zero (The Legend of Zero, book 1) by Sara King