The first sentence in the book you're reading

[FourTonMantis]

"Not since Sandino", the Nation exclaimed, "has any Latin American figure so caught the imagination of the world as Fidel Castro".

One Hell of a Gamble by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali.

 

[Rach]

My name is Perry L. Crandall and I am not retarded.

Lottery - Patricia Wood

 

[bren]

"He was swimming, rotating from front to back, thrashing his arms and legs and puffing out his cheeks, and it seemed as if he'd been swimming forever...."

From East is East by T. C. Boyle.

 

[Polly Parrot]

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

Ulysses

 

[Enya]

"Selden paused in surprise." A very strong and intriguing beginning in my opinion.Edith Wharton- The House of Mirth

 

[Robert]

There was a faint smell of oil, turpentine and beeswax in the shop, and while an assistant scuried off to fetch the owner Ramage glanced first at the sporting guns in the racks round the walls and then at the pairs of pistols nestling in their mahogany cases which almost covered one end of the counter.

Ramage's Diamond by Dudley Pope

 

[sparkchaser]

For those few who lived to look back, the most fearsome deaths were the quickest.

The Killing Star, George Pellegrino

 

[angerball]

'When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.'

- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold.

 

[Robert]

The Little dockyard at English Harbour was already bustling, although the sun was only just lifting over the rounded hills to the east.

Ramage's Mutiny by Dudley Pope

 

[BeerWench13]

A month before his deadline, Eddie Carroll ripped open a manila envelope, and a magazine called The True North Literary Review slipped out into his hands.

20th Century Ghosts -Joe Hill

 

[Wells83]

"If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea." Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey.

 

[Peder]

Fog.

- The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell

 

[Migey]

First post....

A drop of sweat trickled slowly down Hem's temple.

The crow,by alison croggon

 

[BeerWench13]

That's on my to be read list, Migey. How is it so far?
P.S. Welcome to the forum

 

[Doris Day]

So why is a good girl like me writing a book about porn? - Good Vibrations by Ayn Carrillo

 

[Robert]

Once about a time, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened.

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell

 

[Migey]

That's on my to be read list, Migey. How is it so far?
P.S. Welcome to the forum

its great,ive finished it now,are you reading the gift or the riddle at the moment?

 

[BeerWench13]

I've not started the trilogy yet. Still working my way through the books that I have already purchased before I buy more (the hubby insists on it).

 

[Migey]

well the pellinor books rock!do you know what they are about or have you just read the back?

 

[steelclaw32]

Prologue: The Wrath Of God​

He would have to go back to the village soon. He had been swimming for almost an hour.

On The Fifth Day by A.J. Hartley