The First Sentence Reader

Books that grab you right from the start.

Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Special Post - Sources for Books

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Situation:   I was asked by friends recently where I find my eclectic assortment of interesting books. They, too, want to identify  not just...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Browsings

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Dirda, Michael. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books . New York: Pegasus 2015 . Print First Se...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Special Post - 100 Best Books of All Time

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Beabout , Leandra . 100 Best Books of All Time . Reader's Digest, (November 15, 2023): ( https://www.rd.com/list/books- read-before-die/...
Monday, August 21, 2023

The Librarianist

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DeWitt, Patrick. The Librarianist . New York: HarperCollins. 2023 . Print. First Sentences: The morning of the day Bob Comet first came to t...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

The Diary of a Bookseller

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Bythell, Shaun. The Diary of a Bookseller . New York: Knopf 2021 . Print First Sentences: [George] Orwell's reluctan...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Special Post - Free Email Newletters to Find Great Books

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  Situation:   I get asked by friends where they can find interesting books, not just  not just something popular from the list of  New York...
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The First Sentence Reader
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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