Great opening paragraph 19… ‘Catch-22’ #amreading #FirstPara

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“It was love at first sight.
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.”
Joseph Heller From ‘Catch-22’ by Joseph Heller 

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Catch-22 - OP
It was love at first sight.
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
‘Catch-22’ by Joseph Heller

Great opening paragraph 18… ‘The Ghost Road’ #amreading #FirstPara

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“In deck-chairs all along the front the bald pink knees of Bradford businessmen nuzzled the sun.”
Pat BarkerFrom ‘The Ghost Road’ by Pat Barker #1RegenerationTrilogy

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The Ghost Road - OP
“In deck-chairs all along the front the bald pink knees of Bradford businessmen nuzzled the sun.”
‘The Ghost Road’, Pat Barker

Great opening paragraph 17… ‘The Hobbit’ #amreading #FirstPara

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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.”
JRR Tolkien From ‘The Hobbit’ by JRR Tolkien 

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The hobbit - JRR Tolkein 4-5-13
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.”
‘The Hobbit’ by JRR Tolkein

Great opening paragraph 16… ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ #amreading #FirstPara

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“Spring 1521. I could hear a roll of muffled drums. But I could see nothing but the lacing on the bodice of the lady standing in front of me, blocking my view of the scaffold. I had been at this court for more than a year and attended hundreds of festivities; but never before one like this.”
Philippa GregoryFrom ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ by Philippa Gregory

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The Other Boleyn Girl - OP
“Spring 1521. I could hear a roll of muffled drums. But I could see nothing but the lacing on the bodice of the lady standing in front of me, blocking my view of the scaffold. I had been at this court for more than a year and attended hundreds of festivities; but never before one like this.”
‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ by Philippa Gregory

Great opening paragraph 15 ‘Spies’ #amreading #FirstPara

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“The third week of June, and there it is again: the same almost embarrassingly familiar breath of sweetness that comes every year about this time. I catch it on the warm evening air as I walk past the well-ordered gardens in my quiet street, and for a moment I’m a child again and everything’s before me – all the frightening, half-understood promise of life.”
Michael FraynFrom ‘Spies’ by Michael Frayn 

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Great opening paragraph 14… ‘Rebecca’ #amreading #FirstPara

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“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited.”
Daphne du Maurier From ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier 

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