HEIRESS, ASSOCIATES AMONG VICTIMS OF EAST VILLAGE BLAST: REPORT
Zoey Ashe, 23, is reportedly among the victims of this morning’s explosion in the trendy East Village neighborhood of Tabula Ra$a, along with an unknown number of her associates.
Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia, by Jason Pargin
“It looked set to become even hotter by the afternoon, just when the job was becoming more fiddly and needed extra concentration.”
I have a question. If a book has a short prologue is the first sentence from that, or the main text?
I’ve had this situation a couple of times. I used the main text. I’m not real sure why I did that.
I looked at the prologue again and decided, as it’s not all that short, but thirty pages, to use its first sentence.
The comet’s tail spread across the dawn, a red splash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky.
A Clash of Kings
“James Christopher Harrison peered out the paned living-room window of his family home in the railway town of Junee in New South Wales, Australia.”
Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies, by Julian Guthrie
Now that is a book I want to read!! I have been an admirer of Mr. Harrison for as long as I have known about him. I like what he said, that he never saw the needles in his arm because he was afraid of being stuck. Yet all those years he donated.
Good Blood is an inspiring book, definitely.
On topic:
“Sunday morning, Ordell took Louis to watch the white-power demonstration in downtown Palm Beach.”
Rum Punch, by Elmore Leonard.
“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.”
True Grit by Charles Portis
Love that book.
“Chris Barbic and Donald Kamentz were sitting at a pub in Houston, recuperating from another 14-hour day running their start-up charter school.”
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
“The cop climbed out of his car exactly four minutes before he got shot.”
Persuader by Lee Child
“The school fund-raiser couldn’t have come at a more serendipitous time for Joan Nesbit Mabe.”
Sole Sisters: Stories of Women and Running, by Jennifer Lin and Susan Warner
“It was a bright, unusually mild late-autumn morning when the men known as McNelly’s Rangers rode away from Richard King’s ranch on fresh horses and, for those who needed them, new saddles.”
Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin
“One day, when I was a kid, our house caught fire.”
Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker
“You are she.”
The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
“London.”
– Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
“There’s all sorts of bad advice out there about how to deal with bullies.”
Sal & Gabi Break the Universe, by Carlos Hernandez
“They were standing in a group under the trees tossing up wishes for the future, wishes and predictions, grand and wild and inflated, boys and girls alike, but Nina, lost in her own musings, wasn’t taking it like that.
The Court of the Stone Children, by Eleanor Cameron
“Granma?” Sarah said, running into the cluttered living room.
“Starry, Starry Night”, by John Ringo, first story in Voices of the Fall, edited by Ringo and Gary Poole.
Part of Ringo’s “Black Tide Rising” zombie apocalypse series.
“He didn’t exist.”
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England’s Kings and Queens- David Mitchell