First line of current book - 2017

[frankie]

"He would never have believed it if you'd told him a year ago." 

 

How to Find Love in a Book Shop by Veronica Henry

[Onion Budgie]

"You could say it all started in Arizona, twenty-five years ago, on a farm."

 

Enigma by Peter Milligan

[RadRobin]

The fox felt the car slow before the boy did,as he felt everything first.- Pax By Sara Pennypacker

[chaliepud]

There were many things that might have changed the eventual outcome of that night.

 

Our Song ~ Dani Atkins

[chesilbeach]

My dad died twice.

 

Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford

[bobblybear]

"I had lived with the stench of death for years but had never experienced anything like this."

 

 - A Life In Death - Richard Venables

[chesilbeach]

It was late in the evening and I was soaring majestically through the air, whizzing around like an acrobatic bumblebee.

 

Poppy Pym and the Double Jinx by Laura Wood.

[frankie]

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

 

Curtis Sittenfeld: Eligible 

[chesilbeach]

It began on a Friday, as strange things often do.

 

Who Let The Gods Out? by Maz Evans

[Athena]

"The air conditioner in her aging car was giving out, blowing warm, breath-stealing air into Gina's face."

 

Diane Chamberlain - Keeper of the Light / Kiss River 2: Kiss River.

[chesilbeach]

Purple skirt no.

 

Class by Jenny Colgan

[poppy]

'Yes,' said Tom bluntly, on opening the front door. 'What d'you want?'

 

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Edited February 6, 2017 by poppy

[shirley]

And remember to tell people about the step down into the lounge  - Dazzling James Patterson

 

I stared at Dr Bairstow.  I'm sorry sir, could you say that again.  What Could possibly go Wrong - Jodi Taylor

[chesilbeach]

I can't stop remembering the way things were back then.

 

The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock.

[Lau_Lou]

Later x

 

The Last Letter From Your Lover by JoJo Moyes

[frankie]

"It was still dark, in the early morning hours of the twenty-second of December 1946, on the second floor of the house at Schilderskade 66 in our town, when the hero of this story, Frits van Egters, awoke."

 

The Evenings by Gerard Reve 

[Kylie]

On February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1º S and longitude 107º W.

 

The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells

[chesilbeach]

The year I turned twelve, I learned how to lie.

 

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

[Athena]

It seems like there should be some sort of introduction to this. Here's a re-creation of a drawing I did when I was five:

(and then an image)

 

Allie Brosh - Hyperbole and a Half

[chesilbeach]

How on earth could I have let them talk me into it?

 

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

[dragonmyst]

H ave you ever wanted to be someone else so desperately that you wished for it with everything you had? ~The wilds, by Donna Augustine

[shirley]

Of the hundreds of cookbooks in Kittys collection an extraordinary number were dedicated to cooking under difficult circumstances. 

 

The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane - Ellen Berry

[Athena]

"Nicholas won't let me into my own house, but I have been watching my family from a distance."

 

Jodi Picoult - Harvesting the Heart.

[chesilbeach]

One Sunday afternoon in the July of 1920 Mrs. Fowler was sitting in her wicker chair under the lime tree at the end of the terrace.

 

Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton

[chesilbeach]

Children are unaccountable little creatures.

 

The Montana Stories by Katherine Mansfield