Saturday, November 28, 2009

Opening Sentence of the Day: Good for the Jews




"Smoke at the horizon."

-- Good for the Jews by Debra Spark
Does an incomplete sentence count as an opening sentence? Oh well. It gets much better very fast. I was immediately plunged into the connected lives of two families in the high school academic circle of Madison, Wisconsin.

2 comments:

  1. Okay, now I'm dying to know how the title meshes into the plot as you've described it. Do tell!

    P.S. I signed up for a LOTR read-along, January through April 2010. Interested? It's at http://shelflove.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/lord-of-the-rings-readalong/#comment-3767.

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