Remember, remember… November feels like the start of the slow turn to the close of the year. Everything outside gets browner and crunchier. There’s the quiet dying of the light. It happens subtly, then all at once. It also gives us a moment to sit with the quiet, find a small corner, wrap up in a blanket, and read by lamplight.
This month I’m highlighting some titles that were released in the last few months worthy of some attention and notice.
I play this game when I’m reading a book – I try to guess what the first paragraph the author wrote is. As a writer myself, I presume what becomes the opening line isn’t how the first draft began, but I always wonder where the original kernel is buried. These are some of my favorite (published) first sentences of books.
Books and reading are such an important, and joyful, part of my life. I’m grateful for many things literary-related.
Normally I prefer to write about specific books but this topic caught my eye. My reading habits are something I hadn’t really thought about in awhile.