From the category archives:
The First Sentence Tour starring the 2009 Debutantes continues this week with Stacey Jay, whose novel Undead Much? (the sequel to You Are So Undead to Me) came out in January.
What’s one of your favorite first sentences from one of your favorite books?
SJ: From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
A throng of bearded men, in [...]
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This week, my First Sentence Tour starring the 2009 Debutantes continues with Erin Dionne, whose second novel, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, came out in January.
What’s one of your favorite first sentences from one of your favorite books?
ED: First sentence of Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White:
Where’s Papa going with that axe?
Why do [...]
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As many of you know, I’m a member of the 2009 Debutantes. Well, our debut year may be over, but our books keep coming! So this year I’m happy to be hosting a number of Debs on the occasion of their second and even third books. All year long, we’ll be talking about first sentences [...]
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Lots of people love making new year’s resolutions. I have mixed feelings about them, but I do believe that Maggie Stiefvater’s advice, if you’re inclined to make resolutions, is very sound.
This year, I’ve decided to make some sorta loose resolutions in my head about boring things like getting new light fixtures in the kitchen. But [...]
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We’re deep in the middle of List Season, which means that practically every day, there’s another “best books of 2009″ list coming out. I like lists as much as the next person, and I don’t deny they’re very helpful for gift-giving ideas, but perusing all these lists made me realize that I was missing something. [...]
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