Writer's Block: Once upon a time…
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Oh Gosh. I can't list just one sentence! I have multiple favourite books. Well. Here are favourite books with favourite first sentences to try and narrow things down...
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." J.R.R Tolkien The Hobbit
"On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver." Sally Lockhart Quartet by Philip Pullman, Book One, The Ruby in the Smoke
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book." ASOUE, The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
"Three children lay on the rocks at the waters edge." Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier, Book One of The Sevenwaters Trilogy
I love fantasy and fantasy authors so all of my favourite books are in series.
Oh Gosh. I can't list just one sentence! I have multiple favourite books. Well. Here are favourite books with favourite first sentences to try and narrow things down...
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." J.R.R Tolkien The Hobbit
"On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver." Sally Lockhart Quartet by Philip Pullman, Book One, The Ruby in the Smoke
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book." ASOUE, The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
"Three children lay on the rocks at the waters edge." Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier, Book One of The Sevenwaters Trilogy
I love fantasy and fantasy authors so all of my favourite books are in series.
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Date: 2011-08-25 07:26 am (UTC)I need to read the Sibeal one before I can judge. It's on my to read list which is ever long and mounting ;)
I think Daughter of the Forest is near to being one of the most perfect novels I have ever read. I keep trying to force my Mum to read it ;)
OMG THAT BIT WAS SO SAD. I even cried in TRITS though, at the very end when Lockhart writes saying "now you will know what it means when I sign myself, your loving father." and also, something along the lines of, "One of the best choices I ever made was exchanging a ruby for you, my dear." I cried so bad. Damn you Pullman.
Also in Shadow in the North when she confronts that evil guy and he doesn't care and she keeps repeating "You killed Frederick Garland." THE DEATH OF ME.
As do you my dear.