The first sentence in the book you're reading

[Landslide]

"And by the way" said Mr. Hankin, arresting Miss Rossiter as she rose to go, "there is a new copy-writer coming in today".

Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers

 

[angerball]

Gwenda was eight years old, but she was not afraid of the dark.

- World Without End by Ken Follett

 

[Frozeninside]

"Bah, humbug!"

 

[Violanthe]

"Rausch," said the voice in Hollis Henry's cell. "Node," it said.

It's Spook Country by William Gibson

 

[nickupton]

Something tells me there'll be a good crop of boars today, Asterix!

Asterix and the Falling Sky - Goscinny & Uderzo

 

[BeerWench13]

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Gone with the Wind
-Margaret Mitchell

 

[Fantasy Moon]

"The flash projected the outline of the hanged man onto the wall."
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

 

[Sparky]

In winter Hammerfest is a thirty-hour ride by bus from Oslo, though why anyone would want to go there in winter is a question worth considering.

Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson.

 

[sparkchaser]

The courier presses his forehead against layers of glass, argon, high-impact plastic.

Virtual Light - William Gibson

 

[VTChEwbecca]

"Four days after his own funeral, Albert Wilkes came home for tea."

-Justin Richards The Death Collector

 

[VTChEwbecca]

Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers

Good book. My husband is in advertising (specifically, he writes copy), so I thought the description of copy-writing at that time interesting, as was the mystery.

 

[HermioneWeasley]

"The flash projected the outline of the hanged man onto the wall."
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Tell me what you thought of the book when you're done. I read it and loved all the information about Dumas, who is like a hobby for me, but I felt that he had little to do with the story and was just to keep the reader entertained, kind of like all that extra info in Dan Brown's books.

 

[Landslide]

Good book. My husband is in advertising (specifically, he writes copy), so I thought the description of copy-writing at that time interesting, as was the mystery.

I've just finished the book and it was really good. Everything's related, just the way I like it... Even the stuff you think is not important, in the end matters to the plot!!!

 

[Landslide]

They traveled the roads and byways of the West, unhurriedly and with no set itinerary, changing their route according to the whim of the moment, the premonitory sign of a flock of birds, the lure of an unknown name.

The Infinite Plan, by Isabel Allende

 

[angerball]

"Rausch", said the voice in Hollis Henry's cell. "Node", it said.

- Spook Country by William Gibson

 

[murraymint11]

The amber light came on.

Blindness by Jose Saramago

 

[ewomack]

"Alan Turing dared to ask whether a machine could think."

Rather a giveaway, no?

 

[angerball]

'The play - for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper - was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.'

Atonement - Ian McEwen

 

[dele]

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,--a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.

The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 

[Frozeninside]

The house stood on a slight rise on the edge of the village.