The First Sentence Reader

Books that grab you right from the start.

Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

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Siegfried Sassoon . Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George Sherston . New York: Coward, McCann. 1930 . Print. First Sentences...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Rogue Male

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Household, Geoffrey. Rogue Male . New York: New York Review of Books 1939 . Print. First Sentences:   I cannot blame them. After all, one do...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Memory

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Westlake, Donald.  Memory . New York: Dorchester 2010 . Print. First Sentences:   After the show, they went back to the hotel room, and to b...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Beautiful Ugly

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Feeney, Alice. Beautiful Ugly . New York: Flatiron. 2025 . Print. First Sentences:   If all we need is love, why do we always want more? I d...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Cross My Heart

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Collins, Megan .  Cross My Heart . New York: Atria 2025 . Print. First Sentences:   Hi, I've decided there's no way to begin this me...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Hotel Lucky Seven

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Isaka, Kotaro . H otel Lucky Seven . New York: Overlook 2024 . Print. First Sentences:   It's Room 415 right?  Description: Ever since I...
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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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