Around The World discussion

For the book(s) you are reading now, tell us the first lines of the book.

Or a line(s) that you liked or not.

Let's hear it to judge if we might like the book

Okay, here are the first lines of the books I've read or am reading this month:

Today I'm five. Room by Emma Donaghue

Winter's toes had become ice cubes. Winter by Marissa Meyer

"What's your first memory?" someone would ask. England, England by Julian Barnes

We blasted out of Bayou country, Bernie behind the wheel, me in the shotgun seat. Paw and Order by Spencer Quinn

"These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.

- I didn’t know much about automobiles at the time – still don’t for that matter – but it was an automobile that took me to Taliesin in the fall of 1932, through a country alternately fortified with trees and rolled out like a carpet to the back wall of its barns, hayricks and farmhouses, through towns with names like Black Earth, Mazomanie, and Coon Rock, where no one in living memory had ever seen a Japanese face.

- In a summer cottage by a lake in a room full of tearful and anxious members of Jimmy Hoffa's family, the FBI found a yellow pad.

Queen Lucia - Though the sun was hot this July morning, Mrs. Lluca preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her.

Many years later, when there was little doubt left, people still marveled how Ana Magdalena as a young girl at least had possessed all the qualities you would expect in a young girl of good but impoverished family.