Ihr kennt das schon, wenn ich an #NIEMAND arbeite, brauche ich euch. #Schimpfwörter und #Phrasen oder #Kinderlieder - davon habe ich momentan erst mal genug gesammelt. Ja, ich könnte ein eigenes Buch darüber machen. Jetzt suche ich erste Sätze bekannter Romane. Ein paar habe ich schon, aber verrate mir doch, was dein persönlicher perfekter erster Satz ist und aus welchem Buch er stammt. Ich bin gespannt und freue mich darauf.

#erstersatz #firstsentence

I was living in England when post #134 of my #bookcovers and #firstsentence homage on #Instagram, #Spycatcher by #PeterWright, was published in 1987. And I recall the Thatcher government's ban on its sale in the UK and strident their attempts to do likewise in Australia, with Wright's publishers defended by a brash young #MalcolmTurnbull.

Turnbull won the case in Australia, and the Law Lords overturned the UK ban in 1988. Sometime after that, I bought my secondhand copy of Spycatcher for £1.50. And although I'm no expert on the spy business, after reading it, I couldn't understand the fuss over the book, other than further embarrassing the UK spy agencies over George Blake and the Cambridge Five!

As for Wright's opening sentences, I could imagine James Bond's Daniel Craig speaking them:

For years I had wondered what the last day would be like. In January 1976 after two decades in the top echelons of the British Security Service, MI5, it was time to rejoin the real world.

TallAndTrueBooks post on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BpWHbpYFGOw/

An diesem einen Morgen, in unserem billigen römischen Hotelzimmer, verstand ich, dass Margarita Pearl nicht die war, für die ich sie gehalten hatte.
Sie stand vor dem Spiegel, aber sah nicht hinein. Sie neigte den Kopf, zum Fenster hin.
Das Sonnenlicht fiel auf Ihr Gesicht.
„Gleich wirst du den Fernseher einschalten“, sagte sie. „Es werden die Nachrichten von morgen laufen. Du wirst sie nicht glauben, aber sie sind wahr.“
Ich schaltete ein.

Sätze aus verlorenen Romanen, Fundstück drei

That one morning, in our cheap roman hotel room, I understood that Margarita Pearl wasn’t who I thought she was. She stood in front of the mirror but didn’t look in it. She bowed her head towards the window. The sunlight fell on your face.
„You’re about to turn on the TV,“ she said. „It will be tomorrow’s news. You won’t believe them, but they are true.“
I tuned in.

Sentences from lost novels, finding three

#zweifel #kunst #glaube #doubt #art #faith #comic #novel #comicart #woman #firstsentence #literatur #literature #graphicnovel #hotel #rome

https://zweifelkunstundglaube.blog/2023/01/27/01-01-2022/

"I kick now in the darkness and see a coming light, molten, veined through the membranes and fluid of the sac, which contains me."

Giraffe by J. M. Ledgard

#firstsentence #bookstodon #books #currentlyreading

@CindySue @bookstodon

@CindySue @bookstodon

“Dima heard the barn doors slam before anyone else did.”

KING OF SCARS by Leigh Bardugo.

#books #bookstodon #firstsentence #amreading

This was fun the last time so...

First sentence of the book you're reading.

"There is no water in the City of Lies."

The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

@bookstodon

#books #bookstodon #currentlyreading #firstsentence #diversebooks #africandiasporalit

"Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed" #firstsentence #cromeyellow #huxley

"Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed" #firstsentence #cromeyellow #huxley