The first sentence in the book you're reading

[Will]

"Linnet Ridgeway!"

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

 

[Peder]

"Daddy's typewriter was tapping out tac-tac ... tac-tac-tac ... The clock chimed brightly ting-ting ... ting-ting ... The silence dragged out zzzzzzz."

Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector​

 

[shadforth]

The infant woke her crying to be fed and she lay him naked against her breast in the shadowed river-bottom light of early morning.


River Thieves by Michael Crummey

 

[pontalba]

"Choosing your own name is the supreme act of self-creation. Wallis, the androgynous and unusual name she insisted on for herself, is a bold statement of identity."
That Woman by Anne Sebba

 

[bookworm323]

In what we may term “pre-scientific days” people were in no uncertainty about the interpretation of dreams ~ Dream Psycholoyg by Sigmund Freud