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  1. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"💐
    That's the famous #firstsentence of #MrsDalloway by #VirginiaWoolf
    The modernist novel turns 100 years today!
    You can find different editions & additional literature on Woolf in our collection (see reply for links)

    #ModernistLiterature #OTD

  2. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"💐
    That's the famous #firstsentence of #MrsDalloway by #VirginiaWoolf
    The modernist novel turns 100 years today!
    You can find different editions & additional literature on Woolf in our collection (see reply for links)

    #ModernistLiterature #OTD

  3. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"💐
    That's the famous #firstsentence of #MrsDalloway by #VirginiaWoolf
    The modernist novel turns 100 years today!
    You can find different editions & additional literature on Woolf in our collection (see reply for links)

    #ModernistLiterature #OTD

  4. "A sparse snow was falling."

    #FirstSentence of Han Kang, *We Do Not Part*

    (Starting running thread for any notes here)

    #ReadingNotes #Bookstodon #HanKang

  5. "A sparse snow was falling."

    #FirstSentence of Han Kang, *We Do Not Part*

    (Starting running thread for any notes here)

    #ReadingNotes #Bookstodon #HanKang

  6. "A sparse snow was falling."

    #FirstSentence of Han Kang, *We Do Not Part*

    (Starting running thread for any notes here)

    #ReadingNotes #Bookstodon #HanKang

  7. "A sparse snow was falling."

    #FirstSentence of Han Kang, *We Do Not Part*

    (Starting running thread for any notes here)

    #ReadingNotes #Bookstodon #HanKang

  8. "A sparse snow was falling."

    of Han Kang, *We Do Not Part*

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  9. "That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."

    -- #FirstLines from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk

    meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodne

    (This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)

    #FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #Poetry #Bookstodon

  10. "That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."

    -- #FirstLines from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk

    meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodne

    (This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)

    #FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #Poetry #Bookstodon

  11. "That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."

    -- #FirstLines from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk

    meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodne

    (This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)

    #FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #Poetry #Bookstodon

  12. "That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."

    -- #FirstLines from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk

    meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodne

    (This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)

    #FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #Poetry #Bookstodon

  13. "That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."

    -- from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk

    meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodne

    (This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)

  14. "This is a history of three or four thousand people, who lived in agitated times. It is a story -- or ninety-eight stories -- about a small town, and an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard, who lived there throughout her life. It is the story, too, of an extended family over space, and over the historical time of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Marie Aymard's family, over five generations, and over the course of their unlikely lives, ending with the death of her great-great-granddaughter in 1906. It is an inquiry into the changing possibilities of historical investigation in our own times, and into the infinity of sources or evidence about past lives."

    - Emma Rothschild, *An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries*

    (Started this morning, will keep running notes here)

    #FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #AmReading #EmmaRothschild

  15. "This is a history of three or four thousand people, who lived in agitated times. It is a story -- or ninety-eight stories -- about a small town, and an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard, who lived there throughout her life. It is the story, too, of an extended family over space, and over the historical time of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Marie Aymard's family, over five generations, and over the course of their unlikely lives, ending with the death of her great-great-granddaughter in 1906. It is an inquiry into the changing possibilities of historical investigation in our own times, and into the infinity of sources or evidence about past lives."

    - Emma Rothschild, *An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries*

    (Started this morning, will keep running notes here)

    #FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #AmReading #EmmaRothschild

  16. "This is a history of three or four thousand people, who lived in agitated times. It is a story -- or ninety-eight stories -- about a small town, and an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard, who lived there throughout her life. It is the story, too, of an extended family over space, and over the historical time of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Marie Aymard's family, over five generations, and over the course of their unlikely lives, ending with the death of her great-great-granddaughter in 1906. It is an inquiry into the changing possibilities of historical investigation in our own times, and into the infinity of sources or evidence about past lives."

    - Emma Rothschild, *An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries*

    (Started this morning, will keep running notes here)

    #FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #AmReading #EmmaRothschild

  17. "This is a history of three or four thousand people, who lived in agitated times. It is a story -- or ninety-eight stories -- about a small town, and an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard, who lived there throughout her life. It is the story, too, of an extended family over space, and over the historical time of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Marie Aymard's family, over five generations, and over the course of their unlikely lives, ending with the death of her great-great-granddaughter in 1906. It is an inquiry into the changing possibilities of historical investigation in our own times, and into the infinity of sources or evidence about past lives."

    - Emma Rothschild, *An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries*

    (Started this morning, will keep running notes here)

    #FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #AmReading #EmmaRothschild

  18. "This is a history of three or four thousand people, who lived in agitated times. It is a story -- or ninety-eight stories -- about a small town, and an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard, who lived there throughout her life. It is the story, too, of an extended family over space, and over the historical time of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Marie Aymard's family, over five generations, and over the course of their unlikely lives, ending with the death of her great-great-granddaughter in 1906. It is an inquiry into the changing possibilities of historical investigation in our own times, and into the infinity of sources or evidence about past lives."

    - Emma Rothschild, *An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries*

    (Started this morning, will keep running notes here)

  19. The #FirstSentence

    Shooting Butterflies
    Chapter 4: Carnations

    He was dead.

    Find out where to get your copy at bit.ly/ShootingButterflies

    #comingsoon

  20. The #FirstSentence

    Shooting Butterflies
    Chapter 3: Imbodla’s Race To Survive

    ‘Please, Daddy,’ Tara begged as she batted her blue eyes at her father.

    Find out where to get your copy at bit.ly/ShootingButterflies

    #comingsoon

  21. The #FirstSentence

    Shooting Butterflies
    Chapter 2: The School Yard

    Shilo Jamison Khumalo breathed deeply.

    Find out where to get your copy at bit.ly/ShootingButterflies

    #comingsoon

  22. The #FirstSentence

    Shooting Butterflies
    Chapter 1: The Karoi

    The hunting dogs went ballistic.

    Find out where to get your copy at bit.ly/ShootingButterflies

    #comingsoon

  23. Chapter 29 #firstsentence

    Chrystal looked at the big gates and high electric fence that maCalio had already installed around the property.

    Found out where to buy your copy at bit.ly/SongOfTheStarlings

  24. Chapter 28 #firstsentence
    There were two sides to Dar Es Salaam.

    Found out where to buy your copy at bit.ly/SongOfTheStarlings

    #OUTNOW

  25. When #writing a paper, the #FirstSentence is very important since that is where you need to catch the reader and make them think: "Ok, this might be interesting/relevant to me."

  26. When #writing a paper, the #FirstSentence is very important since that is where you need to catch the reader and make them think: "Ok, this might be interesting/relevant to me."

  27. When #writing a paper, the #FirstSentence is very important since that is where you need to catch the reader and make them think: "Ok, this might be interesting/relevant to me."

  28. When #writing a paper, the #FirstSentence is very important since that is where you need to catch the reader and make them think: "Ok, this might be interesting/relevant to me."

  29. "I kick now in the darkness and see a coming light, molten, veined through the membranes and fluid of the sac, which contains me."

    Giraffe by J. M. Ledgard

    #firstsentence #bookstodon #books #currentlyreading

    @CindySue @bookstodon

  30. "I kick now in the darkness and see a coming light, molten, veined through the membranes and fluid of the sac, which contains me."

    Giraffe by J. M. Ledgard

    #firstsentence #bookstodon #books #currentlyreading

    @CindySue @bookstodon

  31. "I kick now in the darkness and see a coming light, molten, veined through the membranes and fluid of the sac, which contains me."

    Giraffe by J. M. Ledgard

    #firstsentence #bookstodon #books #currentlyreading

    @CindySue @bookstodon

  32. "I kick now in the darkness and see a coming light, molten, veined through the membranes and fluid of the sac, which contains me."

    Giraffe by J. M. Ledgard

    #firstsentence #bookstodon #books #currentlyreading

    @CindySue @bookstodon

  33. This was fun the last time so...

    First sentence of the book you're reading.

    "There is no water in the City of Lies."

    The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

    @bookstodon

    #books #bookstodon #currentlyreading #firstsentence #diversebooks #africandiasporalit

  34. This was fun the last time so...

    First sentence of the book you're reading.

    "There is no water in the City of Lies."

    The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

    @bookstodon

    #books #bookstodon #currentlyreading #firstsentence #diversebooks #africandiasporalit

  35. This was fun the last time so...

    First sentence of the book you're reading.

    "There is no water in the City of Lies."

    The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

    @bookstodon

    #books #bookstodon #currentlyreading #firstsentence #diversebooks #africandiasporalit

  36. This was fun the last time so...

    First sentence of the book you're reading.

    "There is no water in the City of Lies."

    The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

    @bookstodon

    #books #bookstodon #currentlyreading #firstsentence #diversebooks #africandiasporalit

  37. This was fun the last time so...

    First sentence of the book you're reading.

    "There is no water in the City of Lies."

    The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

    @bookstodon

    #books #bookstodon #currentlyreading #firstsentence #diversebooks #africandiasporalit