Love this 21st century novel (&Mann Booker prizer) that became a movie, which I also loved.
"My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
"Academic study and the steady, mindful practice of religion slowly brought me back to life." #booksky #Openingwords 📚💙 #Author #Novel

One of my favorite 20th-Century novels begins like this:
"My name is Simon Morley. I am an illustrator, which means I am one of the people who live, sometimes, not very well, in a world that has become more and more a world of photographs." #booksky #Openingwords 📚💙 #Author

It's a 19th Century Epic Novel.

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world."

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‪Janet Faller Sassi‬ ‪@fallersassi.bsky.social‬

Sharing some first words of a classic 19th century novel. Know it?
"I am a sick man . . . I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my liver."

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Sharing some first words of a prize-winning novel, Know it?

"In a corner of the city, inside a tall, narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel, on the sixth and highest floor, a sightless sixteen-year-old named Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over a low table."

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Sharing the first sentence of a popular novel, published recently. Know it?

"When we were new, Rosa and I were mid-store, on the magazines table side, and could see through more than half of the window."

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Sharing the first sentence of a classic novel, published (several hundred years ago). Know it?

"In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost."

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Graphic photomontage type picturebook cover illustration of a table in foreground and an open window with a moon in background. Illustration by Franciszka Themerson written by Stefan Themerson

“Once upon a time the table where I write grabbed two pairs of shoes, ran downstairs and took flight, “ …

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Thinking about opening words of picture books this morning.

Immediately “The night Max wore his wolf suit…” came to mind but then I had a rummage on my bookshelf and found …

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