A new first line of current book

[Charm]

March 20, 1888

Dearest Margaret,

I thank you for your kind condolences, so sincerely offered, for the loss of my darling Amelia.

The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen

[Ceinwenn]

As a child there are things you learn not to talk about; that the very utterance of certain words sends some people into a flat spin.

 

Unspoken - Sam Hayes

[Janet]

For some reason, I recall it as just me and Bunce.

 

Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry.

[Inver]

'Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-8pm, no exceptions'

 

'The Friday Night Knitting Club' by Kate Jacobs

(part of bookring on bookcrossing)

[bookwormmum]

'Mum's marrying some prick she met down the bingo.'

 

By The Time You Read This - Lola Jaye

 

(Please excuse the language. )

[JudyB]

I'm hooked already - lol

[Stephanie2008]

Me too. Nothing like a bit of language to get you enticed in a book

[Simonsays]

You want to know about fashion? Let me tell you about fashion..

 

The Sewerside Chronicles - Tim Lay

[bev]

Even though he was wearing sunglasses, you could see Kanye West was thinking "What the hell ?"

 

Look Who It Is ! - Alan Carr

[Kylie]

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

 

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

[Jo-Bridge]

"The Cell at leavenworth was four feet by eight, barley large enough for Joe to sit at one end of an upended pail, but there was room in the dark for a circle of figures." Stallion Gate- Martin Cruz Smith

 

"In the Early days of 1904, the wealth American lawyerand ameuteur egyptologist, Theodore Davis,was leading an archeological expedition in Egypts valley of the kings, just across the nile from the ancient city of Thebes." Act Of God:Moses, Tutamkhamun and the myth of atlantis- Graham Phillips

[Charm]

Sara Linton stood at the front door of her parents' house holding so many plastic grocery bags in her hands that she couldn't feel her fingers.

Faithless by Karin Slaughter

[bev]

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

 

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

[Severnlad]

I thought I'd been to Africa. Told all my class I had.

 

Small Island - Andrea Levy

[Guest Vince]

I sat well back in my seat & listened as Colonel Gaddafi's latest day long rant burst from the radio like an Arab Fidel Castro on speed.

 

Brute Force - Andy McNab

[bev]

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

 

Life of Pi ~ Yann Mantel

[Nici]

'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents', grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

 

Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott

[Ceinwenn]

It was a strange city, and seemed to have been cast up in the valley one winter's night like some prehistoric creature that was now clawing its way up the mountainside. - Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare

[rach.at.the.disco]

She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather.

 

The Hours - Michael Cunningham.

[lexi]

Jumping to your death was a crappy way to spend St. Patrick's Day.

 

High noon - Nora Roberts

[Jo-Bridge]

"He stood on the edge of the abyss, staring down."

 

Blood Hunt- Ian Rankin

[pipread]

Eddie Elkins ambled down Fantasy Avenue. A light breeze penetrated his costume...............

 

The Rabbit Factory - Marshall Karp

[Ben Mines]

"To the Reader—I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life; according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove, not merely an interesting record, but, in a considerable degree, useful and instructive."

 

—Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey

[bev]

Chomp chomp chomp! Slurp,there's something devilsh about that sound

 

Rude Awakenings ~ Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott

[Ben Mines]

EUTHYPHRO: What on earth can have happened, Socrates, to make you leave your usual haunts in the Lyceum, and come and spend time here in the king's colonnade?

 

Euthyphro, Plato (translation by Tom Griffith).