Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name.
EARLY BIRDS & SLOWPOKES: This weekly post goes up Thursday evening for those who like to get their posts up and linked early on. But feel free to add a link all week.
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MR. LINKY
MY BOOK BEGINNING
“Five hundred guineas!” said Mor’s wife. “Well I never!”
-- The Sandcastle (1957) by Iris Murdoch. This is Murdoch's third novel. It is the story of an unhappily married schoolteacher whose life is disrupted when a young artist comes to paint a portrait of the former headmaster. It doesn't really matter what the story is, I always love Murdoch' s novels.
