“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.” – Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior This is the very first sentence in this beautiful novel. One of the best first lines ever. I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on … Read More
Sunday Sentence: Leaving Tinkertown by Tanya Ward Goodman
“I feel my own place in the world dissolving in the tide of Dad’s forgetting.” – Tanya Ward Goodman, Leaving Tinkertown Her father was a an artist, a collector, a carnival man who was “with it.” She was his “best kid.” When he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she and all who loved him began to lose him memory by memory. … Read More
Sunday Sentence: Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
“Maybe hope is the same as breath – part of what it means to be human and alive.” Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely I’ve been reading this book slowly for a long time. It is meant to be absorbed word by word, image by image. Today, this is the sentence that claimed my attention and my heart. I … Read More
Sunday Sentence: Between The World And Me
” ‘Good intention’ is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World And Me I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review. It’s not a story. It’s just one sentence I read … Read More
Sunday Sentence: A Hard and Heavy Thing, Matthew Hefti
I love reading them, so I’ve joined the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review. It’s not a story. It’s just one sentence I read this week, presented “out of context and without commentary.” This week, I had to grab more than one sentence from Matthew Hefti’s A Hard … Read More
Sunday Sentence: “Discovery” by Andrew Merton
I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review. It’s not a story. It’s just one sentence I read this week, presented “out of context and without commentary. This week’s Sunday Sentence is from Andrew Merton’s collection of poetry, “Lost and Found.” The sentence here is … Read More
Sunday Sentence: Lucy Corin’s The Entire Predicament
I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review. It’s not a story. It’s just one sentence I read this week, presented “out of context and without commentary. This week’s Sunday Sentence is the very first line in the very first story in her collection, The … Read More
Sunday Sentence: Jason Brown’s Why The Devil Chose New England for His Work
I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review. It’s not a story. It’s just one sentence I read this week, presented “out of context and without commentary.” This week’s Sunday Sentences (could not pick just one) are from Jason Brown’s collection, Why The Devil Chose … Read More
Sunday Sentence: God Bless America by Steve Almond
I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review. It’s not a story. It’s just one sentence I read this week, presented “out of context and without commentary.” This week’s Sunday Sentence: “It was true, like most things his father said, which made … Read More
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