The first sentence in the book you're reading

[Libra]

Mary Roach-Bonk

"Albert R. Shadle was the world's foremost expert on the sexuality of small woodland creatures."

 

[buckskis]

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China.

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

 

[angerball]

'I have two friends.'

- Naive. Super by Erlend Loe

 

[SFG75]

The face of Nicholas Easter was slightly hidden by a display rack filled with slim cordless phones, and he was looking not directly at the hidden camera but somehere off to the left, perhaps at a customer, or perhaps at a counter where a group of kids hovered over hte latest electronic games from Asia.

-John Grisham, The Runaway Jury

 

[Libra]

Shipwrecks-Akira Yoshimura


Old Conical hats made of sedge moved in the line of surf.

 

[Landslide]

Marley was dead, to begin with.

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.

 

[Mattyj]

Takezo lay among the corpses.

Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa

 

[Occlith]

The scarlet macaw looks like a creature dreamed up by Dr. Suess.

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott​

 

[steelclaw32]

Medicine Creek, Kansas. Early August. Sunset. The great sea of yellow corn stretches from horizon to horizon under an angry sky.

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's Still Life Of Crows Chapter:1....

 

[Libra]

Fire inthe Blood-Irène Némirovsky


"We were drinking a light punch,the kind we had when I was young ,and all sitting around the fire,My Erard cousins ,their children and I."

 

[Solace]

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

The Golden Compass by P. Pullman

 

[shadforth]

My father is dying. He's in the oncology ward at Toronto's Wellesly Hospital,cancer eating away at his colon,his rectum-parts of the body people think it's funny to talk about.

End Of An Era by Robert J Sawyer

 

[Kareem]

The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor as the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus.

~Joseph Glanvill.

A Descent into the Maelstrom, by Edgar Allan Poe.

 

[Leeny]

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.


Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

God is a delusion - a 'psychotic delinquent' invented by mad, deluded people.

The Dawkins Delusion -- Alister McGrath

 

[Libra]

Only Call Us Faithful-Marie Jakober(A Novel of the Union Underground)



The past is always with me now.

 

[BeerWench13]

I'd been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

 

[saliotthomas]

"Doctor or lawyer–my only two options. These would be your only two options if you had Asian parents." from Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed by Anson Chi. It's technically two sentences but they pretty much sum up Asian parents! haha :lol::lol:

So it seem Asian parents are like most parents?
BTW If you want to promote a book you might as well show a bit of subtility..

 

[scarlettpikachu]

So it seem Asian parents are like most parents?
BTW If you want to promote a book you might as well show a bit of subtility..

Isn't is subtlety not "subtility?" I just really like the book, no harm, no foul in talking about it.

 

[saliotthomas]

Sure go on.
Just the title is....fascinating in its subtlety(thanks)!