“When I closed my eyes, the scent of the wind wafted up towards me.”
#34of365 #bookcover #openingline #notpiratesockmonkey #murakamilove
pickI didn't see Gale‘s writing as lyrical or beautiful. If you happen to read this review, Mr Gale, no offense meant! I promise! However, I found Harry Cale beautiful. I could hear the silence of his solitude. My ears were deafened by it. I believe Harry will haunt me for a very long time. I so much want to sit beside him. I want him to know how much I admire his strength and his sense of honor. I want him to know that he is not alone.
“Nicholas was trying to concentrate on the letter to his mother, a letter that was probably the most important document he would ever write.”
#32of365 #bookcover #piratesockmonkey #openingline
“Clare: It‘s hard being left behind.”
#31of365 #openingline #bookcover #piratesockmonkey
“The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.”
#30of365 #bookcover #openingline
“The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.”
#30of365 #bookcover #openingline
“The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself.”
#29of365 #openingline #bookcover #piratesockmonkey
“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
#28of365 #bookcover #openingline #notpiratesockmonkey #harrypotter4life
“When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates.”
#27of365 #openingline #bookcover #piratesockmonkey
“My sister, Greta, and I were having our portrait painted by our uncle Finn that afternoon because he knew he was dying.”
#26of365 #openingline #bookcover #notpiratesockmonkey
“About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of baronet‘s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of a handsome house and large income.”
#25of365 #openingline #bookcover #piratesockmonkey
“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”
#24of365 #bookcover #openingline #piratesockmonkey
“Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills of the Italian province of Foggia.”
#23of365 #bookcover #openingline #piratesockmonkey
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man‘s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiple in a drop of water.”
#22of365 #openingline
“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.”
#21of365 #bookcover #openingline #notpiratesockmonkey
“For days, I‘d been searching Mexico‘s Sierra Madre for the phantom know as Caballo Blanco—the White Horse.”
#18of365 #bookcover #openingline
“The messenger said I was to come at once.”
#17of365 #bookcover #openingline #notpiratesockmonkey
“When the poet‘s mother wondered where the poet had been conceived, there were only three possibilities to consider: a park bench one night, the apartment of a friend of the poet‘s father one afternoon, a romantic spot outside Prague late one morning.”
#16of365 #bookcover #openingline #notpiratesockmonkey
“My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais.”
#15of365 #openingline #bookcover #notpiratesockmonkey
“Forty-five minutes north-east of Cambridge is a landscape I‘ve come to love very much indeed.”
#14of365 #bookcovers #openinglines #piratesockmonkey
“From two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester‘s Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down.”
#13of365 #openingline #bookcover #notpiratesockmonkey
“The monster showed up just after midnight.”
#12of365 #bookcover #openinglines #piratesockmonkey
“There was only one occupant if the coach, a gentleman who sprawled very much at his ease, with his legs stretched out before him, and his hands dug deep in the capacious pockets of his greatcoat.”
#11of365 #openingline #bookcover #notpiratesockmonkey
“Betty was determined to keep the lid on the cauldron for as long as possible, which might just - the way she‘d been feeling lately - mean for ever.”
#10of365 #openingline #bookcover #notpiratesockmonkey
“The candleflame and the image of the the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door.”
#9of365 #bookcover #openingline #piratesockmonkey
“I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother‘s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.”
#8of365 #bookcover #openingline #piratesockmonkey
“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” #7of365 #bookcover #openingline #dumbledwarf
“Dear Morrissey,
I‘m feeling dead depressed and down.”
#6of365 #bookcover #openingline #piratesockmonkey
“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.”
#5of365 #bookcover #openingline #notpiratesockmonkey
“The notice informed them that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at 8 pm.”
#4of365 #openingline #bookcover #piratesockmonkey
“‘You see, Pooh,‘ I said, ‘a lot of people don‘t seem to know what Taoism is...‘
#openingline #bookcover #3of365 #winniethepooh #readmore
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
#openingline #bookcover #2of365 #piratesockmonkey
“Two boys stood in the Prince Consort Gallery, and looked down on a third.”
#openingline #bookcover #1of365 #bookgnome #dumbledwarf
My year in books #yearinbooks2017 #happyreading #readmore
Opening line: “Based in the many times he had ridden in cars driven by women, Kafuku had reached the conclusion that most female drivers fell into one of two categories: either they were a little too aggressive or a little too timid.” #menwothoutwomen #murakami #harukimurakami #harvillsecker #bookgnome #bookcover #firstline #book #instaread
Opening line: “The house comes into view as I steer the car around the perilous potholes - still not filled in from ten years ago, and growing even deeper, I bump along a little further, then pull to a halt and stare at Pandora, thinking that it‘s really not that pretty, unlike the glossy shots of holiday homes you see on upmarket property websites.” #theolovetree #lucindariley #firstline #openingline #bookgnome #bookcover #panmacmillan
Opening line: “In the summer of 2012, I was an unemployed grad-school dropout and relatively new to yoga.” #everybodyyoga #jessamynstanley #bookgnome #bookish #book #bookcover #firstline #workmanpublishing
Wow. Fantastic so far and not at all what I expected!
Post from Royal Mail this morning. Some steals on eBay #yoga #happyhappy #namaste
Opening line: "Hard Times in New York Town" #bobdylan #writingsanddrawings #pantherbooks #firstline #bookcover #book #bookish #bookgnome
Opening line: "The first time Nakajima stayed over, I dreamed of my dead mom." #thelake #bananayoshimoto #melvillehousepublishing #bookgnome #bookish #book #bookcover #firstline
Opening line: "A child wants to see." #julianbarnes #manbookershortlist #arthurandgeorge #vintagebooks #bookgnome #bookish #book #bookcover #firstline
Opening line: "In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages." #perfume #patricksüskind #firstline #bookcover #book #bookish #bookgnome #penguinbooks
Opening line: "Clair: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble." #thetimetravelerswife #audreyniffenegger #vintagebooks #bookgnome #bookish #book #bookcover #firstline
Opening line: "It was the closest kingdom to the queen's, as the crow flies, but not even the crows flew it." #thesleeperandthespindle #neilgaiman #chrisriddell #firstline #bookcover #book #bookish #bookgnome
