“I half jogged, half walked to catch up with my seventeen-year-old daughter in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, giving myself a pep talk.”
There’s No Coming Back from This, by Ann Garvin
Mea Culpa. I did indeed violate the spirit of the topic. I expect to have many first sentences to post in the future! I’ll look for the “Whatcha Reading” thread. It sounds interesting!
Here’s the link for this month’s thread, which will be active through the end of the month. Then a new thread will begin.
And, yes, the ‘Whatcha Reading’ threads are extremely interesting! There are many and varied likes, dislikes, tastes, and preferences. I look forward to each and every new post.
As do I.
“This is not the beginning. The beginning is darkness and fire, microbes and worms.”
The New Hunger by Isaac Marion
“Walking up Fifth Avenue at midnight, Spofforth begins to whistle.”
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
“Curtis McCoy was early for his ten o’clock meeting so he carried his coffee to a table by the window, where he could feel the watery April sun.”
Pineapple Street, by Jenny Jackson
“Well, old son,” said Mr. Lamplough, “and what can we do for you today?”
“In the Teeth of the Evidence”, first story in In the Teeth of the Evidence, a collection of short stories by Dorothy L Sayers
“Danny Ryan watches the woman come out of the water like a vision emerging from his dreams of the sea.”
City On Fire by Don Winslow
“The insuperable gap between East and West that exists in some eyes is perhaps nothing more than an optical illusion.”
The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
“The first time I put a body in the ground was on a clear June morning before my senior year of college.”
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries, by Greg Melville
Saturday, Day One
In an hour, the infantry of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division would cross the frontier river.
The Battle of the Bulge: Britain’s Untold Story, by Charles Whiting
“Boom.”
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, by T.L. Huchu
“At 3:30am on June 22, 1773, fifteen minutes before sunrise, a royal chaise pulled by four matched horses burst from the gates of Kew Palace, escorted by cavalry outriders in scarlet coats.”
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
“I was one of the girls recruited to attend the once-famous Dewitt Clinton High School in The Bronx to make it co-ed to ‘save’ it from being shut down.”
Our Otherness Is Our Strength: Wisdom from the Boogie Down Bronx, by Andrea Navedo
“The sun was barely up, but the hour didn’t keep folks from scrambling in to sell their blood.”
The Phlebotomist, by Chris Panatier
“Pain I knew first, and pleasure later.”
The Tutor: Being the Reminiscences of Thomasina Wragg by P.N. Dedeaux
“I just had time to close my office door before the room started spinning.”
What It Takes To Save a Life: A Veterinarian’s Quest for Healing and Hope, by Dr. Kwane Stewart
“I’m not going to lie,” Sam Bankman-Fried told me.
This was a lie.
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux.
“Look out!”
For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, by Robert A. Heinlein
“Anna Halsey was about two hundred and forty pounds of middle-aged putty-faced woman in a black tailor-made suit.”
Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler