The First Sentence Reader

Books that grab you right from the start.

Showing posts with label Autobiography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autobiography. Show all posts
Monday, June 9, 2025

The Game

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Kramer, Jack and Deford, Frank .  The Game: My 40 years in Tennis . New York: Putnam 1979 . Print. First Sentences:   While I have spent a g...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

My First Hundred Years

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Murray, Margaret .  My First Hundred Years . London: William Kimber 1963 . Print. First Sentences: I always think that an autobiography shou...
Monday, February 10, 2025

The Racket

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Niland, Conor.  The Racket: On Tour with Tennis's Golden Generation -- and the Other 99% . Dublin, Ireland: Sandycove (Penguin). 2025 . ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Jim Murray: An Autobiography

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Murray, Jim . Jim Murray, An Autobiography . New York: MacMillan 1993 . Print. First Sentences: I was a Depression child. With all that conn...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

The Apprentice

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Pepin, Jacques.  The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen . New York: Houghton Mifflin 2003. Print. First Sentences: My mother ...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Pacific

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Fairfax, John.  Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic . New York: Simon and Schuster. 1971. Print. First Sentences: ...
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Call me Fred. I am a retired librarian from The Ohio State University and an avid, yet selective and highly judgmental reader who is under no illusion a book will get better in its writing style, plot, or characters after a disappointing first few sentences. However, the books profiled in this blog are, in every way, wonderful reads.
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