#covertocover

[bookish-thinking]

My father was a king and the son of kings.  ...... Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun.

first and last sentences of “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller

[ashmarie1687]

I started reading Outlander sometime in June and have become obsessed. My goal was to get to The Fiery Cross before season 5 premiers and here I am, way ahead of schedule. I have never read a series of novels cover to cover and that says a lot since I am a huge book worm and my go-to series when I was younger was first the Baby-Sitters Club and then the Dear America books. I now enter unknow territory as I knew kind of what to expect from the show. I eagerly await the suspense.

[bookish-thinking]

I forget everything between footsteps. ...... I just have to keep walking until I get there.

first and last sentence of “The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” by Stuart Turton

[bookish-thinking]

Irene passed the mop across the stone floor in smooth, careful strokes, idly admiring the gleam of wet flagstones in the lantern-light. ...... She just hoped she lived long enough to enjoy it.

first and last sentences of “The Invisible Library” by Genevieve Cogman

[bookish-thinking]

By the time Alex managed to get the blood out of her good wool coat, it was too warm to wear it. ...... 'Who is ready to go to hell?'

first and last sentences of “Ninth House” by Leigh Bardugo

[bookish-thinking]

At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time - between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m. - by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn't even begin to identify them.  ...... You stare up at the same sky together, and after a while he says, I have to go, and you say, Good-bye, and he says, Good-bye, Aza, and no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.

first and last sentences of “Turtles all the Way Down” by John Green

[bookish-thinking]

The child is dead. ...... Tell me.

first and last sentences of “Black Leopard Red Wolf” by Marlon James

[bookish-thinking]

It was a nice day.  ...... Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield ... forever.

first and last sentences of “Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman