The Next Best Book Club discussion

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

I don't have one at the moment, go on with out me. :)

"Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty."

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle


"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley :)


"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

Hitchhickers Guide To The Galaxy!!

"The man driving the truck is called Cipriano Algor, he is a potter by profession and is sixty four years old, although he certainly does not look his age."

The Cave, by Jose Saramago

"Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash."

Crash - J.G. Ballard


"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

Catcher in the Rye (awesome novel!)

"Once upon a time, there was a martian named Valentine Michael Smith."

Catcher in the Rye was published during the decade of my birth. I had read it HS but read it again as part of the summer challenge. It was even better this time through!!! If it wasn't for this group, I probably would not have read it again. So thanks....

Valentine Michael Smith - Yes! - Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. A cult classic I read in my "youth" and loved and must return to one of these days.

How about this one:

"I've watched through his eyes. I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one."

(Lori, is there one of these for last lines too? What great ideas you come up with!!)

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

"On the morning in mid-April 1687, the brigantine Dolphin left the open sea, sailed briskly across the Sound to the wide mouth of the Connecticut River and into Saybrook harbor."

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Major elementary school flashback....I loved this book.

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since."

Way to go Beth! I didn't know if anyone would get that one.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerld

"High atop the steps of the Great Pyramid of Giza a young woman laughed and called down to him."

Angels & Demons!
one of my favorite books.

"Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine."

Stephen Kings Cujo
(Castle Rock, Maine... home to all things horror!)

Someone post for me, Ive got nuthin at the moment!

yeah, i was worried the Castle Rock mention was too obvious!

Hee hee.....

"Eh, Tree-ear! Have you hungered well today?" Crane-man called out as Tree-ear drew near the bridge.

A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park

"On February 24, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples.

The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas (I'm supposed to be almost 2/3 of the way through this for the Rory Gilmore book club but I'm way way way behind!)

"I am usually up when the Piazza Farnese awakens."

*LOL* So am I, too funny.

Beach Music - Conroy

"All this happened, more or less."

Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut- a book I read in high school..I'm sorry I did not like it.

BTW - I am a huge Gilmore Girls fan...The Rory Gilmore Book Club what a great idea. I am going to check it out.


A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"

The Awakening by Kate Chopin


Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (a childhood favorite).

Okay, don't hate me for this one...

"My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down."

hehe... I just finished reading this... Twilight - Stephanie Mayer


It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin

"I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves."

**Slightly obvious, but it's what I'm currently carrying in my bag :)

Beth, I have to give credit to the Rory Gilmore book club. I googled her reading list and that's how I found goodreads!! Yay!!

Code of the Woosters by P.D. Wodehouse



Oooh I know another one thanks to Rory Gilmore! (Beth the group is great-definitley check it out. I have never watched GG (don't hate me) but I still love the group.

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home"

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

I just posted about how I love teaching this book in the books we read as kids! Oh, and I joined the Rory Gilmore book club last night...i am so excited. I already posted a junk food recipe and nominated a book!

Here is an easy one I'm sure:

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter"

Must be Huck Finn by Mark Twain

"'Barabas came to us by sea' wrote the child Clara in her delicate calligraphy"

I'm so glad you joined Beth!

Joanie....I'm stumped, can you give a hint?

Sorry! I felt like I was picking such obvious ones I wanted to make it tougher!

The author is a woman from Chile.

Another hint it that the book was made into a terrible movie back around 94 (right after I read it for Spanish class in college) starring Jeremy Irons and Wynona Rider.

I'm leaving for New Hampshire for a week later on today so if no one gets it before I leave I'll post the answer so I don't clog the works all week while I have no internet access.

It's The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.

Have a great week all!

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd




"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed."

oops, sorry, I thought I was at the nd of the list, and posted an answer that had already been given.

Can my first line still stay?

yep, you're lucky cuz we needed a new one! :)

Ulysses by Joyce and Gabler

"I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of his story forcible and original enough to catch and rivet the attention of the most blase of editors, penned the following sentence:

"'Hell!' said the Duchess."

No not "A Bed time story".

Need a hint, great British author....

Sorry my computer has been down and it was killing me not to post:
Heather:
"Murder on the Link" by Agitha Christy

Isabella, I think yours was "The Day Watch" by Sergei Lukyanenko

If that is correct here is mine:

"Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."

As I Lay Dying by william Faulkner

Mine: "Twice a year,every year, the sucias show up."

Hey Maddie,
Looks like we need a hint... :)

ooh, ooh! I just read this one!

The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez


"They were supposed to stay at the beach a week, but neither of them had the heart for it and they decided to come back early."

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

"I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster."

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls


"We are at rest five miles behind the front."

All Quiet on the Western Front?

"124 was spiteful."

"Beloved" by Toni Morrison


"Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened."

"The Poisonwood Bible"-Barbara Kingsolver

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien


Once upon a time -- for that is how all stories should begin -- there was a boy who lost his mother.