# What is the first sentence from the book you are currently reading?
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**Tags:** books-writing-myths
**Created:** [April 20, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858 "2017-04-20T16:51:33Z")
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3491 "2025-10-24T03:04:57Z")
On the first night of October a mighty wind arose and smote the countryside around Fairacre.
_The Fairacre Festival_, by Miss Read
As night fell on 6 August 1942, the officers assembled in the wardroom of the amphibious assault ship USS _Fuller_ for a final briefing by the commander of the 3/5 Marines, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick C. Biebush.
_Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines, from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan_, by Saul David
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3492 "2025-10-24T19:24:05Z")
“I suppose I should have expected an uproar when my mother persuaded the Count of Saint Germain to come to Tarrington and play a concert for our friends and family.”
_Rumbullion_, by Molly Tanzer
“Who spawned Dracula?”
_Who Is Dracula’s Father? and Other Puzzles in Bram Stoker’s Gothic Masterpiece_, by John Sutherland.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3493 "2025-10-27T13:18:37Z")
“On the first weekend in September, Arthur Oakes drove west to see his mother in the House of Correction.”
_King Sorrow_, by Joe Hill
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3494 "2025-10-27T13:23:31Z")
Nobody knows who Tyler was.
_Tyler’s Row_, by Miss Read
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3495 "2025-10-28T21:13:34Z")
If you take the road from the downland village of Fairacre to Beech Green, you will notice three things.
_No Holly for Miss Quinn_, by Miss Read
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3496 "2025-10-28T21:46:57Z")
“Andrew Harlan stepped into the kettle.”
_The End of Eternity_, by Isaac Asimov
“How do you fall in love with the Louvre?”
_Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum_, by Elaine Sciolino
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3497 "2025-10-29T01:02:44Z")
“In the sixteenth century the English historian John Foxe looked over his shoulder at the great sweep of the near, and distant, past.”
– _Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages_, by Dan Jones
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3498 "2025-10-29T10:16:03Z")
“The night I watch Athena Liu die, we’re celebrating her TV deal with Netflix.”
_Yellowface_ by R.F. Kuang.
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3499 "2025-10-29T21:14:46Z")
It is an undisputed fact that people who choose to live in the country must expect to be caught up, willy-nilly, in the cycle of the seasons.
_Village Affairs_, by Miss Read
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3500 "2025-11-01T05:07:50Z")
"The good news, of course, is that someone died today. That came out wrong.”
_I See You’ve Called In Dead_ by John Kenney
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3501 "2025-11-02T18:15:02Z")
Village schools get rarer every year, but there are a small number, up and down the country, which still look much the same as they did some hundred years ago.
_The White Robin_, by Miss Read
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3502 "2025-11-03T00:13:38Z")
“There is no water in the City of Lies.”
_The Lies of the Ajungo_, by Moses Ose Utomi
“You never know what’s going to prompt someone to call a radio show to talk about language.”
_Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland_, by Martha Barnette
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3503 "2025-11-03T13:56:50Z")
It was Miss Clare who first pointed out that Fairacre School was one hundred years old.
_Village Centenary_, by Miss Read
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3504 "2025-11-05T02:07:22Z")
‘What the Hanover d’you make of this, Miss Read?’
_Summer at Fairacre_, by Miss Read
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### Author:  [@DreamsOfACheetah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreamsOfACheetah)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3505 "2025-11-05T02:32:23Z")
“Nothing ever begins” - Clive Barker’s Weaveworld, probably my favorite single volume book.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3506 "2025-11-05T22:35:14Z")
“The Patrol ship, Starfire, Vegan Registry, came into her last port in the early morning.”
_The Last Planet_, by Andre Norton
“I’ve always had a gripe with archaeology.”
_Dinner With King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-Creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations_, by Sam Kean
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3507 "2025-11-06T13:59:14Z")
The finest house at Thrush Green, everyone agreed, was that occupied by Joan and Edward Young.
_Return to Thrush Green_, by Miss Read
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3508 "2025-11-06T13:59:47Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#):
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> _The Last Planet_, by Andre Norton
My favourite book by her.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3509 "2025-11-11T19:53:42Z")
“‘A hundred and fifteen rupees,’ Ensign Richard Sharpe said, counting the money onto the table.”
_Sharpe’s Trafalgar_ by Bernard Cornwell
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3510 "2025-11-11T20:58:04Z")
Spring came early to Fairacre that year.
_Changes at Fairacre_, by Miss Read
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