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Novelist. I blog about writing, reading and everything to do with books and writing them at http://www.sandradanby.com/. Come and visit me!

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“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Specialized readers may have come across me in Dr Peter Luce’s study, ‘Gender Identity in 5-Alpha-Reductase Pseudohermaphrodites,’ published in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology in 1975. Or maybe you’ve seen my photograph in chapter sixteen of the now sadly outdated ‘Genetics and Heredity.’ That’s me on page 578, standing naked beside a height chart with a black box covering my eyes.”
‘Middlesex’ by Jeffrey Eugenides

Great opening paragraph 1… ‘1984’ #amreading #FirstPara

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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.”
George OrwellFrom ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by George Orwell

Read this #FirstPara from ANIMAL FARM, also by George Orwell.

Try one of these #FirstParas & discover a new author:-
‘Catch-22’ by Joseph Heller
‘Room’ by Emma Donoghue
‘Jack Maggs’ by Peter Carey

And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet:
#Books #FirstPara 1984 by George Orwell via @SandraDanby #amreading http://wp.me/p5gEM4-2d