A new first line of current book

[leah86]

"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

[rosegarden]

To lose a small boy in a world so wide is an easy thing.

 

The Unicorn Road by Martin Davies

 

Carole

[SueK]

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

[Kylie]

Now, touching this business of old Jeeves - my man, you know - how do we stand?

 

Carry On, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

[BookBee8]

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

[Maggie Dana]

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

[atticjnr]

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

[Ceinwenn]

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

[Maggie Dana]

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.

[lexiepiper]

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

[chesilbeach]

We came on the wind of the carnival.

 

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

[joe]

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

[rosegarden]

"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

[SueK]

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

[Heather]

The smoke carried uo from the Cahuenga Pass andbflattened beneath a layer of cool crossing air.

 

The Black Ice~Michael Connelly

[Charm]

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

[Nollaig]

"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.

[lexiepiper]

I was the youngest of three daughters.

 

Beauty ~ Robin McKinley

[Scarlette]

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.

[chesilbeach]

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

[Ceinwenn]

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

[Rawr]

'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

[Scarlette]

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...

[lexiepiper]

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

[Kylie]

This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.

 

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta