leah86 Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 "Wars came early to Shanghai,overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund." - Empire of the Sun - J.G Ballard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosegarden Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 To lose a small boy in a world so wide is an easy thing. The Unicorn Road by Martin Davies Carole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueK Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 She was looking for a man named Arch Wilson and she was walking south-westward, alone, towards the middle of the country, with another fifty or sixty miles to go. The Feast of July ~ H E Bates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Now, touching this business of old Jeeves - my man, you know - how do we stand? Carry On, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookBee8 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 It's the last Monday of the month, a brutally gorgeous morning brimming with blur air and the sweet scent of honeysuckle, which grows wild in the woods beyond Front Street, when Ethan Ford fails to show up for work. Blue Diary ~ Alice Hoffman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Dana Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 The first time I heard the name Cacciamani I was five years old. My father said it, and then he spit. Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atticjnr Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at Number four, Privet Drive. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K.Rowling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 When Edward Carney said goodbye to his wife, Percey, he never thought it would be the last time he would see her. ~ The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Dana Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 This thread is a great way to entice readers into books they might not normally pick up. I'm madly adding to my wish list, here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 We came on the wind of the carnival. Chocolat by Joanne Harris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual. No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosegarden Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 "Even now I don't like leaving the house on foggy days, though soldiers are unlikely to jump on me in Richmond". Restitution by Eliza Graham Carole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueK Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I first met him on a black wet night towards the end of the war, in one of those station buffets where the solitary spoon used to be tied to the counter by a piece of string. The Evolution of Saxby ~ H.E. Bates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 The smoke carried uo from the Cahuenga Pass andbflattened beneath a layer of cool crossing air. The Black Ice~Michael Connelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 JOHNATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL (kept in shorthand) 3 May. Bistritz - Left Munich at 8.35p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late. Dracula ~by~ Bram Stoker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I was the youngest of three daughters. Beauty ~ Robin McKinley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlette Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blackmore or Blackmoor - Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 It is a relatively little-known fact that, over the course of a single year, about twenty million letters are delivered to the dead. The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 In the opening pages of Lucky Man, I described a morning in Florida nineteen years ago when I woke up with a hangover and a twitching left pinky finger. ~ Always looking up by Michael J. Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 'The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.' - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlette Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 It is a relatively little-known fact that, over the course of a single year, about twenty million letters are delivered to the dead. The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris That is a very interesting "fact". Could it possibly be actually true, I wonder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 It is a beautiful afternoon in late summer, and there is a man standing on the deck of a house in the woods a fifteen-minute drive from Roslyn - a nice, small town in Washington State. Michael Marshall ~ Bad Things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed. Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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