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bliss lane
Xuebing Du
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
noise dept.
sheepfilms
The Stonewall Inn
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Noah Kahan
Color Me Curious
The Bowery Presents
oozey mess
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Andulka
RMH
Mike Driver
ellievsbear
One Nice Bug Per Day
Origami Around
almost home
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For the love of reading
Posting first lines of books every day.
Just the first sentence (not including epigraphs or timestamps/place stamps or salutations or headers). All fiction, all genres - might be popular, might be obscure, might be new, might be a classic.
Enjoy!
We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.
- M.T. Anderson Feed 2002
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
- L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1900
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
- John Green The Fault in Our Stars 2012
The volcano that had reared Tratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.
- Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End 1953
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.
- Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner 2003
In the corner of the first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.
- Agatha Christie And Then There Were None 1939
The coffee shop was open from six A.M. until midnight.
- Caroline B. Cooney Flight #116 is Down 1992
Mr. Dunworthy opened the door to the laboratory and his spectacles promptly steamed up.
- Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992 Oxford Time Travel #1
This is where the dragons went.
- Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards! 1989 Discworld Series #8