“Gertrude Berg entered a room like the prow of a ship, commanding attention to match her ambition.”
When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today , by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.
In early 1937, when film producer David O. Selznick was putting the finishing touches on his classic Hollywood Cinderella story, A Star is Born , his secretary was writing her own version of the film business.
Allen, Jane. I Lost My Girlish Laughter
“Jack Berman wrapped his arms around his girlfriend, Krista Morales, and watched his breath fog in the cold desert air.”
– Taken, by Robert Crais
“The last glow of the last sunset would linger almost until midwinter.”
The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories, by Poul Anderson. (The above sentence is from the title story.)
“Prince Felix Youssoupov stood at the tall drawing-room windows of the Golovine Mansion, staring out across the thawing ice which choked the Winter Canal in St. Petersburg.”
–The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Felix Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire
by Greg King
“In 1776, when twenty-two-year-old William Bligh joined James Cook’s third voyage to the Pacific as Master of the Resolution, the world was still young.”
Captain Bligh’s Portable Nightmare: From the Bounty to Safety–4,162 Miles across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat , by John Toohey.
“Many and varied are the interpretations dealing with the teachings and the life of Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
“No one noticed the rock. And for a very good reason.”
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
“Well, someone has to marry the man,” the Emperor said.
^ Book and author?
Whoops. Sorry.
“Well, someone has to marry the man,” the Emperor said.
Winter’s Orbit, by Everina Maxwell
Thanks!
“Maggie stared at Pete with rapt, undivided focus.”
– Suspect, by Robert Crais
“The batter flowed in undulating ribbons and melted into a smooth, creamy lake.”
The Quiet Girl by S. F. Kosa
“Standing at the frigate’s taffrail, and indeed leaning upon it, Jack Aubrey considered her wake, stretching away neither very far nor emphatically over the smooth pure green-blue sea: a creditable furrow, however, in these light airs. She had just come about, with her larboard tacks aboard, and as he expected her wake showed that curious nick where, when the sheets were hauled aft, tallied and belayed, she made a little wanton gripe whatever the helmsman might do.”
The Truelove by Patrick O’Brian
“I first found out about the Traveler because I was playing at Nuts with The Runt.”
The Traveler by Stephen R. Wilk, aka @CalMeacham. I’m only about 1/3 of the way through, but I am seriously enjoying it.
“You might as well know that you do not frighten me.”
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: An Informal Autobiography of Lorraine Hansberry
" ‘No one knows how Ezra Pound came to be born in Idaho.’ That’s something an English professor at the giant magnolia-shaded southern university I attended announced one day during my freshman year."
The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart, by Emily Nunn
“Late in May 1984 a group of retired intelligence officers gathered in the drawing room of the Special Forces Club in London to be reunited with a spy reported dead in 1959.”
– Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II, by Juan Pujol Garcia and Nigel West
" On a moonless night in January 1991 a dozen aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. Or rather, didn’t appear."
- Stealth: The Secret Contest To Invent Invisible Aircraft, by Peter Westwick.