"Michelle had to get up with her now when she had to go."
first sentence of "The Lucky Ones" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-00-716312-4-first-sentence.php
"An astrologer emailed me to say she had important news for me concerning events in my immediate future."
first sentence of "Transit" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-1-910-70262-8-first-sentence.php
"There was no romance in it, no place that was covered up and that you weren't allowed to see."
middle sentence of "Outline" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-1-784-70244-1-middle-sentence.php
"It was while in this state that she had walked past the gallery and seen the reproduction of Marsden Hartley's painting on the poster."
middle sentence of "Transit" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-1-910-70262-8-middle-sentence.php
"To her surprise he suddenly leaned forward and hugged her, his body stiff and awkward against hers."
middle sentence of "The temporary" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-330-33887-5-middle-sentence.php
"Before the flight I was invited for lunch at a London club with a billionaire I'd been promised had liberal credentials."
first sentence of "Outline" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-1-784-70244-1-first-sentence.php
"But he tried to.""
middle sentence of "The country life" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-330-34923-9-middle-sentence.php
Loved reading your five favorite writers, so I'm joining in.
Current favorites:
#RachelCusk
#KieseLaymon
#SheilaHeti
#AnnieBaker
#Aeschylus
(Re-drafted because I am still learning the ways over here)
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Loved reading your five favorite writers, so I'm joining in.
Current favorites:
#RachelCusk
#KeiseLaymon
#SheilaHeti
#AnnieBaker
#Aeschylus
(Re-drafted because I am still learning the ways over here)
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#RachelCusk #keiselaymon #sheilaheti #anniebaker #Aeschylus #bookstodon #writers #Books #reading #fiction #drama
Loved reading your five favorite writers, so I'm joining in.
Current favorites:
#RachelCusk
#KeiseLaymon
#SheilaHeti
#AnnieBaker
#Aeschylus
(Re-drafted because I am still learning the ways over here)
#bookstodon #writers #books #reading #fiction #drama
#RachelCusk #keiselaymon #sheilaheti #anniebaker #Aeschylus #bookstodon #writers #Books #reading #fiction #drama
Love reading your five favorite writers, so I'm going to join the fray. Current favorites:
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"In a call-box on Fortune Green Road, where Hammonds ends and Kilburn begins, a telephone was ringing."
first sentence of "The temporary" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-330-33887-5-first-sentence.php
Just look at this absolute beauty which appeared in the post the other day from the Iris Murdoch Society 💕
It includes the following and more!
Anthony Quinton, Stuart Hampshire, Iris Murdoch and Isaiah Berlin, ‘Philosophy and Beliefs: A Discussion between four Oxford Philosophers’, with an introduction by Hannah Marije Altorf
Rachel Cusk, 'On Iris Murdoch as a Woman Writer'
Fleur Jongepier, 'Iris Murdoch and Transgressive Love: On Loving and Unloving Philosophers'
Rebecca Moden, 'Blurred Lines: Iris Murdoch’s Pedagogical Relationships'
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"He began to run."
last sentence of "The temporary" by #RachelCusk on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-330-33887-5-last-sentence.php