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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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As I mentioned, I visited a couple of high schools this past Wednesday. Here I am at Casa Grande High School, standing with the other Debs (plus the librarian and bookseller!) under a fantastic sign that the high school book club made for us:
I feel that the fact that we’re surrounded by busy students is [...]
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Greetings! I just returned from visiting two awesome high schools today — Casa Grande High School (home of the Gauchos) and Petaluma High School (home of the Trojans), both in the lovely town of Petaluma, California — as part of Holidaze With the Debs. (Of course, Casa Grande and Petaluma are arch rivals!)
(Apologies to Casa [...]
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