Lists are handy things. They provide a maximum amount of information for little reading effort given. They’re quick and often times fun! Most importantly they are easy for lazy people to write when said lazy person doesn’t feel like going through the process of writing long-winded tales of why they haven’t posted on their live journal in over a ( Read more... )

neonsheep pointed out to me recently that I have never used the first sentence from one of my favorite books in my first sentence game (exercise?experiment?complete and utter waste of time?). So here we go, another first five sentences of books. Randomly chosen from books I've read, partially or in full, but loved since discovered, unlike female babies in ( Read more... )

Another year another new start to Livejournal. Here we go, we'll start out light today.
Time for another installment of First Sentences of Books. This time around I thought I'd tackle the romance genre. These books have been procured from an undisclosed location. God I love these titles. Hilarious.

A Touch of Forgiveness Emma Goldrick
Northport ( Read more... )

Ummmm hey, remember when I was doing those first sentence things? Yeah, I liked that. Well back in the end of April I did the sentences for 6-10 of the top 10 books and never did the top 5.
Time to remedy that. So here (Oh I know you all care SO much about this.) are the top 5.

5
Brave New World Aldus Huxley
A squat grey building of only thirty ( Read more... )

Since I was talking about the random house top 100 books list last post I felt it only fitting to continue the first sentence game with the top ten. So this weeks installment will be 10 through 6. I find it interesting how short these sentences are, for the most part.

10
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
To the red country and part of the gray ( Read more... )

Since yesterdays post was on the subject it was I decided that todays list of first sentences should follow suit. So here it is, a list of first sentences from Hugo award winners.

2002
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Shadow had done three years in prison.

1996
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Neal Stephenson
The bells of St. Mark's ( Read more... )

First Sentences Week 2: The Revenge

War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know it I have a thing for first sentences. First sentences of books, of short stories, of articles, of songs, of a lot of things. Mainly I try to notice the first sentences of novels and stories. I like to see what authors do with them. I don't pretend that there is a certain way a first sentence should look or act, just ( Read more... )