Book Openings

Today I had fun looking up the first sentences in a few books I’ve enjoyed. Each one was the beginning of a new universe.

·      “Daddy said, ‘Let Mom go first.’”  - Across the Universe by Beth Revis

·      “Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache.” – Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

·      “Hassan was deep in prayer.”  - The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

 ·      “The people came to Samuel and said: Place a King over us, to guide us.” - The Power by Naomi Alderman

·      “Today he would become a god.” – Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

 ·      “The story is one I never intended to commit to paper.” – The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

 ·      “Mabel had known there would be no silence.” – The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

 ·      “Ella May knew she wasn’t pretty, had always known it.” – The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

 ·      “At half past six on the twenty-first of June 1922, when Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was escorted through the gates of the Kremlin onto Red Square, it was glorious and cool.” – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

 ·      “Quintus stood on the wall watching the steady stream of refugees fleeing through the gate.” – Beneath the Ash by Jim Goode

 ·      “It was late winter in Northern Rus’, the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow.” – The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

 ·      “If he is the boy in the Blue Book, where to start?” – Varina by Charles Frazier

 ·      “A girl is running for her life.” – The invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

 ·      “There is a pirate in the basement.” – The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

 ·      “By the time Alex managed to get the blood out of her good wool coat, it was too warm to wear it.” – Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo